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Ancient Aliens - S03E15 - Aliens, Gods and Heroes [2011]
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00:00Superhuman strength, supernatural powers, and the awesome ability to fly.
00:18Throughout history, mankind has told incredible tales of gods and superheroes.
00:24But do we yearn to possess these extraordinary powers for another more profound reason?
00:31Implanted within our DNA is this desire to become godlike, to fly in the air or swim through the ocean, or especially to ascend into the stars.
00:43Humans were created according to the image of God, so we are part of them.
00:49If the so-called gods had incredible powers, we have them in us too.
00:56Could ancient stories of godlike kings and heroes really have otherworldly origins?
01:03Many of the sacred powers given to kings of the past, we know today were more than likely technology.
01:09That ancient man was given from the actual gods, which we know were probably extraterrestrials.
01:15Millions of people around the world believe we have been visited in the past by extraterrestrial beings.
01:23What if it were true?
01:26Did ancient aliens really help to shape our history?
01:30And does it help to explain our continuing fascination with stories of gods and heroes?
01:38And are educational, her no qualms, and heroes.
01:45Now, how has it been learntнятьieren ogreaktes?
01:48Yeah, this is the case, Henrietta.
01:49Greece, the island of Crete.
02:19On the Lasithi Plateau, over half a mile above sea level, lies the Dictyon Cave.
02:27This sprawling complex of caverns stretches nearly one and a half square miles.
02:34And archaeological finds have shown a human presence dating as far back as 6,000 years ago.
02:43Historians believe the first inhabitants of the area actually lived inside the cave.
02:49And according to legend, its many chambers were once home to an otherworldly being.
02:57Zeus, the Greek god of thunder.
03:00In Greek mythology, Zeus is the son of Cronus, the king of the first generation of gods known as the Titans.
03:15Zeus' father Cronus is not particularly excited about giving birth to a child because he's heard a prophecy that one of his children is going to overthrow him.
03:24So just as soon as his children are born, he just swallows them all down.
03:31Now his mother, Rhea, who is Cronus' wife, is distraught about this.
03:35So what she does is substitute a rock that she's wrapped up in swaddling clothes, gives it to Cronus, which he swallows down.
03:41And what she does is hide Zeus' away in a cave, so he grows up there.
03:46In Theogony, the 8th century B.C. poet Hesiod describes the cave Zeus was hidden in as lying in these very mountains.
03:55And specifically, near the city of Lyktos, the location of the Dictyon cave.
04:03But the similarities between this cave and the cave of Zeus described in Greek mythology go much further.
04:12The ancients say that when they are talking about mythology, it is about unrecorded events of their past.
04:19According to the Greek myths, the child Zeus was nourished on a mixture of honey and milk at the udder of the goat.
04:29Now around 1900 AD, a chamber in the Dictyon cave was identified by locals as the birthplace of Zeus.
04:37And when archaeologists went in there, they discovered an altar with remains of numerous religious offerings,
04:43amongst them honey and goat milk.
04:45These remains date back 4,000 years, to the exact period in which the ancient Greek stories took place.
04:52The question is, is this once again a coincidence that modern excavations find remains in this cave
04:57that match up with what's written in Greek mythology?
05:01Also found in the Dictyon cave were numerous artifacts dating back to what would have been the time of Zeus' childhood,
05:10according to the Greek stories.
05:11Among them was a fragmentary inscription bearing a hymn, a hymn dedicated specifically to Zeus.
05:22Could the Dictyon cave really be the cave described in Theogony?
05:28And if actual locations from Greek mythology really do exist,
05:34could legendary characters and events also be based on historical fact?
05:39We think of mythology as something which has been invented.
05:46But really when we look at the ancient Greeks,
05:48they believed that the War of the Titans physically happened,
05:52that this was a war which was fought in heavens by the deities.
05:56In Greek mythology, the War of the Titans is a celestial battle waged by Zeus and his siblings,
06:08known as the Olympians, against their father Cronus and the Titans.
06:14The Olympians, who are the victors in this battle, were the gods worshipped by the ancient Greeks.
06:20But according to ancient astronaut theorists,
06:25these human-like beings may have been something other than divine,
06:29and this mythical war may have been an actual historical event.
06:34To support this claim, they point to the existence of similar myths and stories
06:43told by different cultures throughout the world.
06:47When it comes to warring parties of gods, Greece is not a standalone issue.
06:52We have the same thing in Ragnornak.
06:54In Norwegian mythology, we have this idea that the gods fought amongst themselves as well.
06:59We also have stories from Sumerian, Babylonian, Hittite accounts,
07:06where it says that the wars were fought between gods.
07:13We see the same story of Titans being overthrown by a new set of gods
07:18in the Sumerian epics of the Anunnaki coming here as the original culture in ancient Iraq.
07:23So these similarities tell of a warring race of beings
07:28that squabbled amongst themselves about the rights of various areas on the Earth.
07:32What can explain the similarities of these ancient war stories
07:39that emerged from all over the world?
07:42Could they all be describing the same historical events?
07:46And if there is an historical basis for the legends and stories,
07:50what does that suggest about the incredible powers and weaponry
07:54supposedly possessed by the gods?
07:57It's very possible that the clash of the titans known from the Greek times
08:02is actually speaking of a much earlier epoch of extraterrestrials having a type of battle.
08:10The ancient Greek gods had helmets that made them invisible.
08:14They had breastplates that made them impervious to their enemies' weapons.
08:19They had tridents that shot thunderbolts.
08:23They had winged sandals that gave them the power of flight.
08:27These are all profound examples of an ancient alien technology
08:31that the Greek gods possessed.
08:34If mythical gods and monsters really did exist,
08:38were they, as ancient astronaut theorists believe, extraterrestrial beings?
08:44And could this help to explain the enormous and enduring popularity of gods,
08:51titans, and other so-called superheroes in today's popular culture?
08:55There are so many different places where the characters and superheroes come from.
09:00But naturally, so much of it is drawn from mythology and from literature
09:03because those are such strong bodies of work and so familiar,
09:07and they become the archetypes for all types of heroes.
09:10The stories exist partly because we want to dream of such powers.
09:14We want to imagine what might be possible if we had unlimited dominance.
09:19We watch endless amounts of television and movies which says that amongst us
09:25are a group of people who are more than just human, superhumans,
09:30and that somehow these people are born that way
09:32or that something happens to them which triggers this.
09:36But basically, the underlying subconscious message, really,
09:40is that we are capable of becoming gods.
09:43Implanted within our DNA is this desire to become godlike,
09:50be it to fly in the air or swim through the ocean or run super fast,
09:54or especially to ascend into the stars.
09:57Why are human beings so drawn to stories
10:01about beings with superior abilities and technologies?
10:04Are they looking for something larger and more powerful outside of themselves?
10:10Or perhaps, within?
10:14In Greek mythology, the titan Prometheus is often credited with creating human beings
10:20out of basic materials found on Earth.
10:24Prometheus was playing with mud and made little figurines out of it,
10:29and Athena was fascinated with this and breathed life into them.
10:33The cynical read is to say,
10:35well, what he wants is somebody to worship him like people worship Zeus.
10:38He created us in his image, and he gave us all these skills,
10:41culture and technology and medicines,
10:45and makes us what it means to be a human being.
10:48Zeus realized he couldn't uncreate these beings,
10:51but what he could do is limit them in their capabilities
10:54and restrict them in their capacity
10:56and prevent them from becoming godlike.
10:58It's as if the extraterrestrials wanted to keep us
11:04from having all the same technology that they had.
11:08In another version of the story,
11:10Prometheus is said to have stolen a spark from Zeus' lightning bolt
11:14in order to give humans the gift of fire.
11:17When we are talking about a god who gives fire to man,
11:21we realize that this is not the god,
11:24as in the supreme being, the one,
11:26but clearly somebody else, an ancient alien.
11:29We pursued throughout history to master the powers of the gods,
11:34but the question is, where did all those ideas originate?
11:38And the answer is very simple,
11:40due to extraterrestrial contacts in our remote past.
11:43Could humans really be the creation of alien beings
11:51with extraordinary powers?
11:54Do we have a subconscious desire
11:56to reconnect with the so-called gods of our past
12:00by becoming more like them through advancements in technology?
12:05And could this explain the origins of ancient tales of gods and heroes
12:11who were thought to possess extraordinary powers?
12:16Perhaps the answer can be found near the Greek valley of Phocis
12:20and by examining the legend of the oracle at Delphi.
12:30Lydia, 716 BC.
12:33Gyges, a shepherd in the service of King Candalus,
12:39becomes the unlikely successor to the throne
12:41of this ancient kingdom in modern-day Turkey.
12:45But the story of how this modest servant
12:48rose from a shepherd to a king
12:50is so fantastic
12:52that many scholars and historians
12:54have dismissed it as mere myth.
12:57Gyges is out in the field
13:01and there is a terrible earthquake.
13:07He sees a cave open,
13:10goes into that cave and sees a gold ring.
13:14He just kind of walks into, like, this chamber,
13:16which is like a tomb,
13:17where he sees a dead body
13:19that's got some jewelry on it.
13:20So he grabs this ring off of it
13:22because he's a poor man.
13:23He puts the ring on it,
13:24discovers that it gives him the power to be invisible.
13:27Here he has the kind of power a god would have.
13:31And does he use it well?
13:32Well, actually,
13:33it's a little questionable how he uses it.
13:36He comes up with a plan.
13:37The next time he goes to visit the king,
13:39he brings that ring with him,
13:42turns himself invisible,
13:45seduces the queen,
13:47kills the king,
13:49takes over the palace.
13:52What we have here
13:53is really a multilayered legend.
13:57We have not only the story
13:58of the fact that somebody in the past
14:00had the cloak of invisibility,
14:02but actually that he did not invent this,
14:05but that this was a legacy
14:06from a race who had buried dead dead,
14:09and that alongside these dead
14:11were artifacts which were technological.
14:13What kind of a magical amulet or technology
14:18are we talking about here?
14:21Is this the ring of the gods
14:23that's described by the ancient Sumerians
14:25as the ring of cosmic sovereignty?
14:27According to legend,
14:32a bloody civil war erupted
14:34following the death of King Candalus.
14:37It ended when Gyges obtained approval
14:40for overthrowing the throne
14:41from the Oracle of Delphi,
14:44a mysterious priestess
14:46whose eerily correct prophecies
14:48were said to come directly
14:50from the Greek god Apollo.
14:51The oracle of Delphi,
14:54whether it's a prophet or a soothsayer,
14:57had a direct relationship
14:59to the extraterrestrial being.
15:01The extraterrestrial being
15:03communicated through the priest
15:05who would then interpret that
15:07into a language
15:09that the listeners could understand.
15:12But was it really a god
15:18who endorsed Gyges' reign?
15:20Or was Apollo,
15:21the son of Zeus,
15:23an extraterrestrial,
15:25as ancient astronaut theorists contend?
15:28Was it perhaps the same extraterrestrial
15:31who led Gyges to find the ring
15:33that enabled him to seize power
15:35in the first place?
15:37And if so,
15:39could this be an example
15:40of aliens endowing a human
15:42with godlike powers
15:43to carry out some earthly agenda?
15:47When I read stories
15:48like Gyges of Lydia,
15:50who has found this ring
15:52which gave him the capability
15:54of becoming invisible,
15:56then there are two things
15:58that I think of.
15:59One, is it just fantasy?
16:01Or do we have another reference here
16:04that describes misunderstood technology?
16:08Because today,
16:10researchers at Duke University
16:12are trying to develop
16:14an invisibility cloak.
16:18Duke University engineering professor
16:20David R. Smith
16:21is the director of the Center
16:23for Metamaterial
16:24and Integrated Plasmonics.
16:27For the past decade,
16:28Smith and his team
16:30have been working
16:30to create metamaterials,
16:32or artificial materials
16:34that are not found in nature.
16:35Just as a piece of glass
16:38can control the way light bends,
16:41Smith has set out to prove
16:42that certain man-made materials
16:44can actually be constructed
16:46to render objects invisible.
16:48This is actually an example
16:50of a metamaterial.
16:52This is a bunch of pieces
16:54of circuit board,
16:55all cut out and assembled together.
16:57And on the circuit boards
16:59are little pieces of copper
17:00that are tiny circuits,
17:02and each circuit has a certain response
17:04to electromagnetic radiation.
17:05And the combination
17:06of these patterns plus the shape
17:08gives us something
17:10that we can call
17:10an invisibility cloak.
17:12The idea behind the cloak
17:13is that it renders something
17:15inside of it invisible
17:16and itself invisible as well.
17:19At present,
17:20the device only makes objects disappear
17:22at microwave frequencies.
17:25But Dr. Smith believes
17:27that soon this technology
17:28will also be able
17:30to make objects invisible
17:31to even the human eye.
17:34Just in the last year or two,
17:36there have actually been experiments
17:37showing certain of the cloaking ideas
17:40transitioning to the visible spectrum,
17:42red, green, blue.
17:43Those experiments
17:44are actually being done now.
17:46We will have invisibility cloaks
17:48at some point
17:49that we could wear as humans.
17:51I definitely think
17:51we're going to get there
17:52because science
17:53and speculative science
17:54go hand in hand.
17:56Science creates a base point,
17:58speculative science pushes it
18:00farther into the future
18:01and that's how technology advances.
18:05An actual cloak of invisibility.
18:09Though still in development,
18:11researchers in Japan
18:12have designed
18:13an optical camouflage system
18:15that makes special reflective material
18:17seemingly disappear,
18:20including the person wearing it.
18:22Thus, bringing us closer
18:24to achieving
18:25a fully functional invisibility cloak
18:27like the one described
18:29in the story of Gyges.
18:33Could this mean that other
18:35seemingly far-fetched devices
18:37of fantasy
18:38like flying carpets
18:40and magic wands
18:42are also based on science?
18:47And if so,
18:48might they have been used
18:49in the ancient past,
18:51perhaps in the hands
18:52of extraterrestrial visitors?
18:54Just because we are working
18:58on these technologies today
19:00does not mean
19:02that we are the first.
19:06Because we find
19:08multiple references
19:10in ancient texts
19:12that describe devices
19:14with which you were able
19:16to go invisible.
19:18So much of our storytelling
19:22deals with the fact
19:23that what we deem
19:24to be magic
19:25can really be science
19:27at a different time.
19:29If legendary tales
19:31like the story
19:31of King Gyges
19:32could be proven
19:33to be real,
19:35what does it suggest
19:36about other fantastic stories
19:38of gods and titans?
19:44Hisserlich, Turkey.
19:47Within this archaeological site
19:49lie the ruins of Troy,
19:52a place once thought
19:53by mainstream scientists
19:55to be no more than myth
19:57until Heinrich Schliemann
19:59unearthed its remains
20:00in 1871.
20:04Here...
20:08In the 12th century B.C.
20:12The ancient Greek city
20:14was the center
20:15of the Trojan War,
20:17a Greek battle
20:17described in Homer's Iliad.
20:21According to the epic poem,
20:23the goddess Athena
20:24gives King Diomedes
20:26the power of divine vision
20:28during the war
20:29so that he could see
20:31like the gods.
20:33Athena comes down
20:34and she wants to help the Greeks
20:35so she finds Diomedes.
20:36She says,
20:37I'm going to help you out here.
20:38So what I'm going to do
20:39is strip away this mist
20:41that's over your eyes.
20:42You as a human being,
20:43you don't really know
20:44what's going on.
20:45You just see battle.
20:46But once I strip away this mist,
20:47you're going to be able
20:48to see what's really going on,
20:49which is that in addition
20:50to a battle going on,
20:51there are gods fighting.
20:54King Diomedes sees
20:56that Ares, the god of war,
20:57is fighting alongside
20:58his enemy Hector.
21:00And he was not to use
21:02this site to attack the gods,
21:04but that is exactly
21:05what he uses it for.
21:07The side aspect of this
21:09is this.
21:10It's a question,
21:11did the gods really have this?
21:13Were they superhuman,
21:15like we want to become?
21:16Or did they have technology
21:18which enabled them
21:19to do these kind of things?
21:23Diomedes and the gods' power
21:25of super eyesight
21:26may seem like pure fantasy,
21:29but enhanced vision
21:30is also becoming a reality
21:32thanks to advancements
21:34in spectrometer technology.
21:38Spectrometers are devices
21:40used to measure properties
21:41of light over a wider range
21:43of the electromagnetic spectrum
21:44than is visible
21:45with the human eye.
21:47And today,
21:48just as we are developing
21:50cloaking devices,
21:51we are also developing technology
21:53to see through those devices.
21:58Technology is driven
21:59by society's needs
22:01more than anything else.
22:03But myths have a way
22:05of inspiring us
22:06and they represent
22:07a part of the imagination
22:09which we need
22:09to even envision
22:10the next generation
22:11of technologies.
22:12If I dream
22:15I could go
22:17to another galaxy,
22:19I will sooner or later
22:21go to another galaxy.
22:22We are the offsprings
22:24of the gods
22:25and all these things
22:26are in our brains.
22:28We think we are
22:29very powerful.
22:30In practice,
22:31we are not,
22:32but we have technology
22:33to develop the power
22:35because we are
22:36the sons of the gods.
22:39Might technology
22:40be our way
22:41of reconnecting
22:43with the gods?
22:44Or did the so-called gods
22:46deliberately deny us
22:48their superpowers
22:49as a way of motivating
22:50our imaginations
22:52and technological achievements?
22:55Perhaps further evidence
22:57can be found
22:58in the heavens
22:59at a Mexican ceremony
23:01that commemorates
23:02real-life close encounters
23:04with alien visitors.
23:11five men in ceremonial dress
23:19ascend a 100-foot pole.
23:23Once at the top,
23:24one of the men
23:25performs a sacred dance
23:27while playing a flute
23:28and drum
23:28atop a platform.
23:30The other four men
23:31launch themselves off.
23:33it is a ritual known as la danza de los voladores or the dance of the flyers the ritual has the
23:44leader stand on the top of the pole tiny little platform and the four flyers wrap a cable around
23:50that pole and then branch out and fly around in a pyramid shape in perfect synchronous order
23:56is a stunning and daring thing to do and they are representing the birds they are representing the
24:02four cardinal directions they are representing the elements heavily symbolic and mythic as a
24:07powerful ritual the teutonic people who practice this ceremony today claim it is a dance that was
24:18invented 500 years ago as a plea to the gods to end a severe drought but could this ancient ritual
24:26have different perhaps otherworldly origins what we have here with the voladores is 100 percent
24:36living mythology something that describes and illustrates in front of our living eye
24:44the descent of the gods from a long time ago
24:48the motif of the gods descending from the sky is one of the most ancient stories if you go back to
24:58the old testament you have the story of the sons of gods descending from the sky and they see the
25:04daughters of men and they create a race of giants in the book of genesis jacob sees a ladder ascending
25:11into the heavens with angels ascending and descending upon this ladder jesus in the book of john describes the
25:19heavens opening and beings descending upon the son of man
25:29according to ancient astronaut theorists the voladores ritual is a reenactment of a close encounter
25:36with alien visitors in the distant past they believe extraterrestrials descended upon the flat
25:44mountain tops of the palpa region in peru around 500 a.d dropping from their aircraft and gliding down to
25:52earth in spiraling circles the voladores ritual was very technological as in you know these beings descending
26:04from the sky in the circle signifying arrival of the gods where does that flying or descending gods motif originate
26:19our ancestors saw something because why would you hurl yourself from a hundred foot pole
26:30out of nothing to imitate a bird birds are not that important
26:34something very significant happened could an alien encounter really be the inspiration for the voladores
26:43ritual and could the teutonic people who created the ceremony really have been trying to mimic the ancient
26:50god's power of flight
26:56as further evidence that early humans may have encountered alien visitors equipped with the power of flight
27:04ancient astronaut theorists point to various artifacts and statues depicting ancient gods
27:11one such example is the mayan god a muzan cob also known as the flying bee god
27:17another is the most prominent god of early mesoamerican culture the winged deity quetzalcoatl
27:29the mesoamericans believed in the plume serpent or quetzalcoatl which came from the sky bringing wisdom
27:36powered the wind and also influenced everything that happened in the daily life of the mayans in fact they looked at the sky for
27:44all their answers from everything as simple as when to plant corn to when to go to war
27:49they believed all answers in the universe came from the sky and trying to relate that to their daily lives
27:55the ancient record are loaded with fantastic examples of the gods flying around these are the ancient aliens and humans are being shown the ultimate capability of these gods
28:06in my eyes because we are the sons of the gods we are the offspring of the gods whatever humans can dream
28:17whatever humans think was once reality in the past or will be reality in the future
28:25july 31st 2003 the english channel felix bombgardner becomes the first person to cross this 22 mile wide
28:39body of water in free fall using a specially made fiber wing but the austrian daredevil is just one of many who
28:48who have used wingsuits to simulate flying by means of a free fall
28:58a wingsuit is basically a jumpsuit that you put on under your rig and it's designed to actually make
29:07you fly when you exit the plane the material inflates underneath your arms in between your legs
29:13and creates basically an airfoil that you glide on through the air it's an amazing feeling because
29:22you're actually the pilot and the plane it is total freedom you feel as though you're flying
29:32though you are falling you're using the air to maneuver your body and the wingsuit helps you
29:39cover a lot of ground as you're descending some people have been exceeding two to one glide ratio
29:47for example three to one would mean for every foot you descend you're traveling three feet forward
29:57we got these flying guys that have these wings attached to their backs and they hurl themselves out
30:03of planes and some even have rocket engines attached to them and so they essentially themselves become
30:12airplanes now imagine showing that to someone from a hundred years ago that person would be in complete
30:21awe of what they're witnessing not understanding that there is technology involved with this
30:28just using our own body we cannot fly we have no wings but of course we have the fantasy and we have the
30:37technology to develop wings that we can fly the pursuit of flight has been one of the most sought after
30:46quests in all of mankind's history why because with flight you could reach conceivably the realm of the gods
30:58of the gods from the ancient greek myth of icarus fashioning wings of feathers and wax to modern daredevils
31:11like felix bombgardner human beings have been fascinated with and often frustrated by their desire to fly
31:19but have birds really serve as mankind's inspiration or something else something extraterrestrial
31:30and if ancient visitors could fly what other powers might they have possessed and what abilities might early
31:38man have had and lost perhaps the answer can be found not in the skies but deep beneath the sea
31:49of the sea
31:54cape sunyon greece perched on the headland surrounded on three sides by the sea
32:00lies the ruins of the temple of poseidon built in 440 bc the second son of the titan king cronus
32:09poseidon was worshipped throughout greece almost as much as his younger brother zeus
32:14poseidon was the god of the sea he was also the god of earthquakes and strangely horses
32:23when poseidon was in a good mood he created new lands out of the sea he gave calm waters for good
32:29voyages when he was in a bad mood he destroyed ships and brought storms
32:39poseidon does rule over the kingdom of the sea it is envisioned as a kind of a place where people live
32:45and when he comes out of that place yes he rides the spectacular kind of like water chariot that is
32:51driven by dolphins and he holds on to a really big trident in greek mythology cronus eats all of his
32:57children except for zeus who eventually rescues his siblings including poseidon from the belly of his
33:04father a potion is prepared that makes him heave up all the other siblings of zeus and they become the
33:10gods of oliphus but ancient astronaut theorists believe this greek myth is actually a metaphor for
33:19an extraterrestrial event they believe the notion of gods being vomited up from the belly of their father
33:27actually describes mutinous aliens being expelled from the mother ship
33:32any being which is swallowed up into a living creature will not be able to survive for three days
33:42it will die from suffocation and will begin to decay but what we have here is not a creature but
33:49something else it could have been an object which was clearly of a man-made or extraterrestrial origin
33:55a mutiny took place some of the extraterrestrials they had sex with wonderful earthly females women
34:05they were not allowed to do this so one of these extraterrestrials who were not allowed to go back with
34:12the mother stateship had the name of poseidon poseidon felt in love with the beautiful human girl
34:21and he made her pregnant poseidon is married right he's got a child he's got some grandchildren right
34:32there's a whole cast of sea nymphs as well all of them presumably like live in this place poseidon has
34:38the power of the deep the the unseen place if you look out at the sea you see a surface and you're aware
34:44there's a whole world below that suggesting powers beyond that which meet the eye
34:51of poseidon among the mythical creatures associated with poseidon are the telkinese a race of advanced
35:00fish children these human-like beings could live both in and out of water there are masters of
35:07technology and seem to match up with the fish gods of ancient samaria who worked for enki the great god
35:15of alchemy and technology and smithcraft the telkinese are also kind of
35:20in the shadowy territory of god human monster things they're just these kind of figures who
35:28are not gods but were like human beings there's one story about the roman version of zeus jupiter
35:35trying to destroy them now we don't know whether they are actually all destroyed but
35:39it's possibly because of their relationship to the magic
35:49in greek legend the telkinese were also metallurgists
35:53they were said to have created poseidon's magical trident
35:57and to have cast the first bronze statues of the gods of olympus
36:01and according to some historians the telkinese may not have been creatures of myth but were beings who
36:11actually existed
36:17there were people called telkinese we do actually have evidence of these beings they were actual
36:23ancient greeks who had specific tasks and trades like metallurgy like smithing and so on and so you
36:30could see how it is that a being like telkinese that these things could in fact not just be these
36:36mythological beings but like actual people so the way that we look at the ancient greeks and romans
36:42would have been the way that they would have looked at the stories that are being told about the iliad
36:49we've got the stories of the telkinese and they were able to survive underwater for unlimited amounts
36:57of time now how is such a thing possible unless you have access to some type of technology
37:08an israeli company is currently developing a human artificial gill system that allows humans to take
37:17oxygen from surrounding water without the need of oxygen tanks
37:23you potentially can remain underwater for unlimited amounts of time
37:34all the technology that we are discovering today is in fact old news it's been around before
37:44could the ancient greek myths really be based on actual events
37:49were the telkinese early humans enabled with godlike abilities and were these powers really misunderstood
37:57alien technology perhaps the answers can be found not in the past but in the present
38:06as modern day advances in science and technology give us perhaps our greatest evidence
38:13that we are not alone
38:18the ability to fly to thrive underwater and to travel through space and explore the universe
38:30at one time these were all believed to be impossible notions
38:34the world's dismissed as mere science fiction or myth but mankind's continued advances in technology
38:44have made the word impossible almost obsolete in our modern world steroids can help generate herculean muscles
38:55titanium joints can replace and even improve upon our own natural ones
39:00and even prosthetic gills are being developed so human beings can breathe underwater without the use of air tanks
39:14today government contractors like raytheon sarkos and lockheed martin develop exoskeleton machines for the u.s military
39:22when warned they can allow soldiers to walk run and lift hundreds of pounds with virtually no effort
39:37what makes exoskeleton so cool is that it's an everyman thing anybody can put one put one on anybody can be the hero
39:44you can take a person with any sort of physical weaknesses and make them greater than the person they're fighting
39:49exoskeletons would be a prime example of something coming out of comic books into mainstream reality
39:59and in reality exoskeletons are becoming very popular with the military
40:06a soldier can wear the raytheon exoskeleton for example and lift 200 pounds while these modern day supermen
40:14may be limited in their mobility the development of exoskeletons represents an incredible evolution
40:21in the relationship between man and machine
40:27but did such incredible technology exist before perhaps in mankind's ancient past
40:35now is it possible that some type of exoskeleton technology was used in the remote past for example
40:44on the giza plateau imagine the operator of one of those exoskeleton machines coming out of that machine
40:54that person has superpowers even though the person doesn't have any powers at all
41:02the person is only operating sophisticated technology one could argue that with all the advancements
41:12we are making today in science and all the other academic fields we are becoming more godlike
41:21we are not becoming gods we are not turning into real superheroes
41:26we are only becoming godlike because of our technology i think we have an innate need to
41:36uh push our bodies and our minds to the utmost limits and strive for super intelligence super strength
41:44and other superpowers the reason is that people have long been fascinated with
41:51what could be stronger than humanity itself and if it's not human then it must come from somewhere else
41:58either a god or an extraterrestrial
42:03but with all of his scientific achievements is mankind perhaps making himself more and more vulnerable
42:10to what could be terrible consequences
42:13there are many tales of ordinary mortals ascending to become rulers to become gods various positions of
42:22enormous power
42:25often these characters then become corrupt and and the stories stick around and are retold over a long
42:33period of time long after their sources have withered away to teach us that power corrupts to be careful
42:40what you wish for and to be very cautious if ever holding great power because of its ability to harm
42:51almost 50 of our stories are about technology run amok or the dark side of technology
42:57because when you talk about superpowers when you talk about all this transformation
43:01everything comes at a price and you always have to weigh whether or not price is worthy or necessary to make
43:07for the greater good and sometimes it's not sometimes the price you pay is just too great when you lose
43:13your own self are all of mankind's scientific achievements really examples of emerging technology
43:22or is the yearning for superpowers and heroic feats embedded in our collective dna
43:29are human beings finally catching up to the abilities of beings who have been here before
43:38and were they gods or as some believe alien ancestors living thousands of years ago but possessing powers and
43:48abilities thousands of years more advanced perhaps only time and further advancements in technology will tell
43:59or perhaps it will all be revealed when they return
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