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NARRATOR:
For centuries,
Native Americans have kept alive
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some of the oldest traditions
on Earth.
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Through oral history
and sacred sites,
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the story is told to Indigenous
people for thousands of years.
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NARRATOR:
Their incredible history
is carved into the landscape.
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This is sensational.
Look at that guy right there.
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They represent those gods
that came to Earth.
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NARRATOR:
And their sacred rituals display
a reverence for the land
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and for the ancestors
from the stars.
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They're the keepers of the upper
world, which means space.
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ALFREDO FIGUEROA:
We don't use the word "gods."
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We use the word "creator."
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(speaks Native language)
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NARRATOR:
Do the stories
of America's Indigenous people
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reveal a long history of contact
with otherworldly visitors?
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JON DOVER:
All Native American tribes have
oral histories
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that people came from the stars
to visit them.
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I know they're out there.
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NARRATOR:
There is a doorway
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in the universe.
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Beyond it is
the promise of truth.
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It demands
we question everything
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we have ever been taught.
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The evidence is all around us.
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The future is
right before our eyes.
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We are not alone.
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We have never been alone.
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Collinsville, Illinois.
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15 miles east of St. Louis.
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Towering over the flat
local terrain is Monks Mound,
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the remains
of a massive earthen pyramid.
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Built more than 1,000 years ago,
it was the centerpiece
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of the ancient Native American
city of Cahokia.
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Monks Mound
is the largest building
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of the ancient North America
north of Mexico.
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It was called that
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because Trappist French monks
lived nearby it.
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It stands 100 feet tall today.
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It was probably taller
in its heyday.
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It comprises of about 22 million
cubic feet of dirt,
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which was millions and millions
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of buckets of dirt
brought one at a time.
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Its circumference
on the bottom is larger
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than the Temple of the Sun
just north of Mexico City.
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NARRATOR:
Monks Mound and other ancient
ruins across the Americas
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offer clues about
how Native people once lived
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in vast, thriving communities.
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Yet very little is known
about the inhabitants of Cahokia
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and many Native cultures
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since most of their history
and traditions
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were passed down orally rather
than through written records.
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The Native Americans
traditionally use
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a oral tradition.
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Everything is spoken.
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The oral traditions actually
go back thousands of years.
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It's just the way it was.
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And we've maintained
that tradition even to this day.
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(jangling)
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NARRATOR:
It is unknown
what the Native Americans
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who inhabited Cahokia
called themselves.
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Anthropologists refer to them
as the Mississippians,
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a name used to describe
a wide variety of Native peoples
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that lived east of the
Mississippi in North America.
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And although much about Cahokia
remains a mystery,
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what is known is that it thrived
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centuries before Europeans ever
stepped foot in the Americas,
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as did countless other cities.
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BARNHART:
Around 1050,
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the city swells
to a population of 15,000,
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and including the satellite
communities around it,
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almost 30,000.
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There were a number
of these cities
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all around the eastern part
of what's now the United States.
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The general picture of Native
America before European contact
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is that it's some sort
of just nomadic life,
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that they were living
in small bands and camps.
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The truth is that there were
thousands of people
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living in the same place,
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very much the way
the Europeans were.
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NARRATOR:
Across North America,
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vast differences existed
between the Native peoples
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in terms of language, customs
and cultural practices.
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Yet many tribes
shared the tradition
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of worshipping a powerful being
known as the Bird Man.
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(hawk cries)
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When excavations were performed
at Cahokia in the 20th century,
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this motif was found
to be abundant.
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The most remarkable example
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was connected to the burial
of a man believed to have been
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an early Cahokian ruler.
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His body had been placed
on an elevated platform
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covered by a bed of more than
20,000 marine shell disc beads
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arranged in the shape
of a falcon,
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with the bird's head
appearing beneath
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and beside the man's head
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and its wings and tail
beneath his arms and legs.
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The Bird Man of Cahokia
is a burial
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that was found under a mound
in the center of the city.
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And it's called the Bird Man
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because there's
this arrangement of shells
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that appear to be
in the shape of a bird.
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And it makes sense because
we know that the Mississippians
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had a supernatural being
who may or may not be a god.
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But he's
a very powerful creature
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that lives up in the sky.
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We see depictions
on also stone tablets.
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JONATHAN YOUNG:
Native people believed in the
power deity called the Bird Man.
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There are a number
of depictions in the remains
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of these cultures
of this powerful creature
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who could fly and could move
among the different realms
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and was essentially the ruling,
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-(hawk cries)
-NARRATOR: Various descriptions
of the Bird Man
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can be found
from one tradition to the next,
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and some also feature
a similar celestial being
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called the thunderbird.
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The thunderbird, uh, in Zuni
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is described as a being
that came from the sky
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that could create lightning.
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It could create a lot of noise.
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And it was represented
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as a being with wings
made out of knives.
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Now, the thunderbird
could have been a vehicle.
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But way back then, the Indians
had no other reference.
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So they just said...
(stammers) it is a bird.
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(bird cries)
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One could argue
that this is a representation
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of misunderstood technology
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that could illustrate
some type of a flying craft.
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Because if you don't have
the terminology for a plane,
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well, of course
you're gonna call it a bird.
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I mean, pilots even today
call their planes birds.
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MAHOOTY:
The Mound Builders, I believe,
were those Indian tribes
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that had contact
with the extraterrestrials,
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the teachers.
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The star ancestors taught
the American Indians
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about where they came from,
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their different star system,
constellations,
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and how they're supposed
to carry out their rituals,
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by referring
to their star system,
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whether it be Pleiades,
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whether it be the Milky Way,
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whether it be the Big Dipper.
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We don't use the word "gods."
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We use the word "creator."
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(speaks Native language)
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He who has no name
and has all the names.
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He's the eye
that oversees everybody.
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PATTI ROBLES:
The creation story,
if you understand it correctly,
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we are all from the cosmos.
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Our ancestors
were extraterrestrial.
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The story is told
to Indigenous people
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for thousands of years
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through oral history
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and through
the petroglyphs and pictographs
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and the sacred sites
that continue to be part
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of our Native
cultural traditions.
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DOVER:
In talking about star people,
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all Native American tribes
have these, uh, traditional
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oral histories that people came
from the stars to visit them.
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And it's universal,
all across the United States,
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that these gods,
as we call them today,
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came to Earth and visited
to provide knowledge.
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The Cherokee talked about,
uh, the star seeds
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and the people coming
from the sky.
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The Zunis and the Hopis talk
about the star people coming,
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and the Mississippi mound people
had the Bird Man culture.
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So, here we have these cultures,
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and their legends
and lores are about
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star ancestors coming down,
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giving them information, showing
them science and medicine.
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TSOUKALOS:
Native American people
have been very clear
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when they speak of celestial
beings that imparted knowledge.
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And if you compare that
to the ancient astronaut theory,
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that's exactly what
it talks about,
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that the knowledge was imparted
by beings who visited us.
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NARRATOR:
Could the stories
of the Bird Men and star people
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provide an oral history
of alien visitation
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among early
Native American tribes?
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Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes,
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and propose that, while
the Indigenous communities
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kept no written records,
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a historical account
of exactly what they encountered
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can be found
carved into the landscape
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at an ancient petroglyph site
in Arizona.
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NARRATOR:
In the American Southwest
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is a region
known as the Four Corners,
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where the boundaries
of Arizona, New Mexico,
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Colorado and Utah meet.
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Most of this region belongs
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to semiautonomous
Native American nations,
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including the Navajo,
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Hopi, Zuni,
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Ute and dozens of other
Native American peoples.
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They are all thought
to be descendants
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of people frequently called the
Ancestral Pueblo, or Anasazi.
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DOVER:
The Anasazi, or the old ones,
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as we like to refer to them,
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were here
in the Four Corners region,
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uh, for thousands of years.
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And they suddenly, around
1070 AD, just up and disappear.
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Their cities are abandoned,
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their structures, everything.
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Pottery is left.
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They don't know what
happened to them.
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NARRATOR:
Archaeological evidence shows
that, between 1275 and 1300 AD,
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the Pueblo people
stopped building entirely
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and the land was left empty.
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DOVER:
They were a people
that inhabited
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this Four Corners region
for thousands of years.
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It's still a mystery today,
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and it's one
of the big mysteries
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in the American Southwest.
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NARRATOR:
Similar to the Mississippian
tribes to the east,
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the Pueblo nations
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also described contact
with visitors from the stars
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and performed rituals
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to connect with sky beings
called the kachina.
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There were objects--
we call them dolls--
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but they were sacred objects
that would be similar
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to the costumes worn by
the dancers and imagined to be
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the appearance
of these celestial beings.
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DOVER:
If you look at the kachinas,
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there are
so many different types--
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different headdresses,
different feathers on them,
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different ways of painting them
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to distinguish them
one from another.
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And that tells me
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that there were a lot
of different types of beings
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that were interacting
with early Natives,
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much more than we even,
uh, think.
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TSOUKALOS:
The kachinas
were their first teachers,
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the ones
that imparted the knowledge.
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The Hopi are very clear
in suggesting
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that the kachinas
were physical beings.
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MAHOOTY:
The kachina is a representation
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of the actual gods that used to
come into the villages eons ago.
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Some of them are warriors.
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Most of them
are priesthood-type kachinas,
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and they come
from different parts--
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in my opinion,
different parts of the universe.
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But they actually have
certain places on this planet
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that they call it home.
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Ours is west of here,
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and of course
a lot of other pueblos
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have their own specific place.
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And even to this day,
some of them are here.
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NARRATOR:
The story of strange humanoid
beings assisting Native peoples
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has been recounted for centuries
among the Pueblo nations.
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Not only is it a central part
of their oral traditions,
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these encounters
were so significant
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they were carved in stone.
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DOVER:
I believe that these visitations
have been documented
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in pictographs and petroglyphs.
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They're not art, actually,
for art's sake.
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The petroglyphs
have been done this way
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for basically thousands
of years.
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NARRATOR:
Do petroglyphs found
throughout North America
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tell a story of ancient
extraterrestrial contact?
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In July 2021,
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ancient astronaut theorists
Giorgio Tsoukalos
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and William Henry traveled
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to Rock Art Ranch
in Winslow, Arizona,
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to investigate one
of North America's
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most extensive collections
of petroglyphs.
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Joining them is esteemed
Navajo Tribal Ranger Jon Dover.
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It's so great to meet you
because 31 years,
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you've been a Tribal Navajo
Ranger, is that correct?
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Yes, uh, I started in 1980,
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uh, to 2011.
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And, uh, worked,
uh, most of, uh,
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-the reservation up there,
27,000 square miles.
-Wow.
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This ranch is very unique
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because there is
so much archaeology here.
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Well, we're sure excited to be
here to get eyes on it with you.
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-Okay, well,
let's go take a look.
-All right.
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NARRATOR:
Rock Art Ranch's 5,000 acres
are home to nearly
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3,000 ancient petroglyphs,
and on nearly every panel
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are figures that the Navajo
identify as star people.
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This is sensational.
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Look at that guy right there.
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-They call that
the birthing mother, right?
-That's right.
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Very fascinating
because I'm looking at that
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and immediately
my mind goes around the world.
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Absolutely.
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-TSOUKALOS: This is
a depiction of a mother goddess.
-Yep.
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TSOUKALOS:
It's like
those big giant statues
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-that were found over
in Europe...
-Right.
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...but it also reminds me
of Dogu statues of Japan.
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-HENRY: Yeah.
-And also, the Wandjinas.
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-HENRY: Right.
-Very similar.
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NARRATOR:
In the Northwest Kimberly
region of Australia,
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ancient cave art depicts
beings called the Wandjina,
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the sky heroes of one
of Australia's Indigenous clans.
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The stories behind
the Wandjinas goes
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that they descended from the sky
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and gave knowledge
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and jumpstarted civilization
in Australia
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thousands and thousands
of years ago.
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And the Wandjinas are incredible
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because they have
these gigantic heads
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and these long bodies
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and these arms.
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It seems as if they're inside
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some sort of a pressurized suit.
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There are similar figures
all around the world--
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big bulbous heads, big bodies
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floating up in the sky.
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In Japan we have
the same things,
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in Africa...
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in Europe...
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in North and South America.
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So my suggestion is
that the extraterrestrials
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that came to Earth thousands
and thousands of years ago
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didn't just visit Australia.
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They visited each
and every continent on Earth.
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And that is why we have
the similar motifs.
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Look at the concentric rings
up there.
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That's the portal symbol.
There's two of them.
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And there's guys
around the portal,
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-on the lower one. Yeah.
-Interesting, yeah.
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Tell me, Jon,
petroglyphs are regarded
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as picture books
that tell a story all at once.
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That's right, and also en-en...
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-enmeshed in all this
are religious symbols.
-Mm-hmm.
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Things that tell you something
about how they worshipped.
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-Pictures of gods.
-Mm-hmm.
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TSOUKALOS:
And when you say
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-"gods..."
-Gods, right.
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...what, in your culture...
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-what does that mean?
-It could be anything from
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somebody coming to them
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and meeting with them
and imparting knowledge.
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And in the case of the Navajo,
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that's what
the Yeibichai represent.
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In the case of the Hopis, the
kachinas represent those gods...
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-HENRY: Right.
-...that came to Earth
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to give them knowledge.
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And could one make the argument
that these may have been
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visitations by flesh-and-blood
extraterrestrials
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-in ancient times?
-Oh, definitely.
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From what we understand,
there's many different
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races of alien
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that are coming
to-to this world.
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-That's amazing.
-In the case of some tribes
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down in Southern Arizona,
you even have
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a mountain range called
the Estrella Mountains.
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In the language of the people
in that area, "Estrella"
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means "stargate."
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HENRY:
Absolutely.
Estrella-- star people.
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Am I correct to assume that this
is only the tip of the iceberg,
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and that there are so many more
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panels like this that the world
doesn't even know about?
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On the Navajo reservation alone,
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there are 300,000 sites
that are recorded.
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I mean, we're talking
at least 4000 BC,
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-right?
-That's right.
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Well, this is great, but I'm
just looking on the other side,
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and there is more.
I mean, there's more everywhere.
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So let's go check out
the other ones,
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-as well.
-Sure thing.
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NARRATOR: Giorgio Tsoukalos
and William Henry
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have been granted special access
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to Rock Art Ranch
in Winslow, Arizona,
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where Navajo Tribal elder
Jon Dover is guiding them
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through the ancient
petroglyph panels.
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-Wow.
-Look at this.
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I mean, look at the hollow
body with the star inside.
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-HENRY: Mm-hmm.
-One hand pointing to the sky,
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the other down to Earth.
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And just beneath that,
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look at-- that is a Grey alien.
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TSOUKALOS:
That triangular head,
very strange.
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HENRY:
That is a-- Yeah, it is.
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DOVER:
You have all kinds
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of different types of figures,
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-different representations
of gods.
-Right.
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I mean, what we have to fill in
with our imagination
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is that these beings
off the wall, 3D,
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-walking amongst the people.
-(laughs) Yeah.
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-They're interacting
with these beings.
-Right.
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We don't know
if it's the same time.
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-Right.
-Or could be different times.
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HENRY:
That's mind-blowing.
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I'm so intrigued by
that double helix up there, too,
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beside the trapezoidal figure.
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-I mean...
-TSOUKALOS: Mm-hmm,
as if to indicate,
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because of the creature
on the left, DNA,
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-you know, had something
to do with this.
-Right.
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-That's right.
-Giorgio, uh, when you see
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-the guy
with the trapezoidal body...
-Mm-hmm.
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...and you see
the curvy lines on the body,
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-that always symbolizes,
like, vibration.
-Okay.
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The-the Anunnaki wore cloaks
that had those kind of
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-curvy lines all over.
-Right.
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And so here we have a clear,
clear symbolic connection
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with-with the Anunnaki
on this figure.
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The Anunnaki were powerful
deities worshipped more than
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5,000 years ago by the ancient
Sumerians who inhabited
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Mesopotamia, an area
that is now modern-day Iraq.
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According to the Sumerian
writings, the Anunnaki
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descended upon a mountain,
shining like the sun,
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and shared profound wisdom
with the human race.
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Look at all the different types
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of beings here, and then
all the way across there,
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y-you've still got
even more variety.
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I mean, this is almost
like a meeting place
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of all these different worlds
and different beings.
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So, you know, you have giants,
you have little people.
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And the giants and the little
people are talked about
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in the other world
that they came from
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before they came to this world.
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So, and this is the same
with Sego Canyon up in Utah.
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You have these massive,
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massive carvings
and petroglyphs.
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So the fact that we have these
virtually identical motifs,
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to me, suggests they were all
taught by the same teachers.
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And the guy here with
the horns,
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which could be rays,
right next to the Grey alien.
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He's got horns or rays
coming off of his head.
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-We see that
at Valcamonica in Italy.
-TSOUKALOS: Yes, you do.
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HENRY:
You see it all kinds of
different places, but then
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pointing to the idea
these could be luminous
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or radiant beings
that they're portraying.
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TSOUKALOS:
And seeing creatures here
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-having, for example,
three fingers...
-HENRY: Mm-hmm.
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You know, as far as I know, uh,
except for a couple of reptiles,
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there aren't
any three-fingered creatures.
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-Yeah.
-You know? So, and especially
nothing humanoid.
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-Right.
-So, again, our ancestors
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had impeccable powers
of observation.
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That's all they did all day.
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They, they observed.
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And so your estimation then,
too,
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is that this was not
a bunch of kids,
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you know, on a Saturday night
not knowing what to do.
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Absolutely not.
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These were people that came
here with a purpose...
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-HENRY: Mm-hmm.
-...and the purpose was to put
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their history on the wall
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showing where they came from,
where they were going.
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Jon, this is incredible,
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and what I love the most
is the access.
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I mean, I've never been
face-to-face like this.
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There's a lot of places
nobody's allowed to go
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except for archaeologists,
medicine men,
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-and Rangers.
-HENRY: It's spectacular.
It's one thing to see
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images in a book
or on a... online,
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but to-to come face-to-face
with it, feel the energy,
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see it, spectacular.
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I came away with this deep sense
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that this is meant for us
to discover
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throughout the ages, that it was
super important to the ancients
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to record this information,
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to tell us
that these beings were here.
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They had a hand in our evolution
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and they're probably
still visiting us today.
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TSOUKALOS:
What I think is important
in this whole thing is that
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Jon said these are our stories
of the star people.
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And when First Nation
cultures say
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that someone visited from
the sky and imparted knowledge,
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I think it's time
that we start to listen.
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NARRATOR:
Do the petroglyphs
at Rock Art Ranch provide
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an historical record
of extraterrestrial visitation
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in North America?
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And if so, why does there
seem to be such a strong
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connection
between Native Americans
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and otherworldly beings?
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Perhaps further clues can
be found within oral traditions
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that describe strange beings
known as...
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the ant men.
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NARRATOR: In the desolate high
desert of the American Southwest
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stand the ruins of the most
important ceremonial site
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of the ancient Pueblo people.
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Constructed around 900 AD,
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the central feature
of this vast complex
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is the Great Kiva.
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A kiva is basically,
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um, a Native American version
of a church.
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It is a circular structure.
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Chaco Canyon has
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an absolutely giant one
that's located there.
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When you enter one you're
literally entering another world
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to commune
with the gods from before.
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In ancient Pueblo culture,
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every place you went had
a small kiva of some kind.
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But they would get together
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maybe eight or nine
different kivas,
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small ones,
into a larger great kiva,
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and the great kivas were huge.
490
00:26:45,458 --> 00:26:49,083
When the Spanish came in
in the 1600s,
491
00:26:49,208 --> 00:26:51,667
they took their church
and interposed it
492
00:26:51,792 --> 00:26:53,333
on top of the kiva.
493
00:26:53,500 --> 00:26:55,583
So everywhere
in these Hopi villages,
494
00:26:55,708 --> 00:27:00,000
in the Pueblo villages
that you see a Catholic church,
495
00:27:00,083 --> 00:27:03,167
it's usually
on the high point of land
496
00:27:03,292 --> 00:27:05,833
where the kiva was destroyed
and the church
497
00:27:05,958 --> 00:27:08,583
was built over the top of it.
498
00:27:10,083 --> 00:27:13,625
NARRATOR:
Every kiva includes
a feature called a sipapu.
499
00:27:13,708 --> 00:27:18,042
In some kivas,
the sipapu is a small hole
500
00:27:18,208 --> 00:27:19,833
in the subterranean wall.
501
00:27:19,917 --> 00:27:21,917
In kivas that are enclosed,
502
00:27:22,042 --> 00:27:25,208
it is often represented
by a hole in the roof.
503
00:27:25,333 --> 00:27:29,792
In both cases, it is the most
important part of the structure,
504
00:27:29,875 --> 00:27:33,958
symbolizing the entrance
to a subterranean world.
505
00:27:34,042 --> 00:27:37,792
All of the Pueblos
share a story
506
00:27:37,917 --> 00:27:41,542
in which humankind
began under the earth.
507
00:27:41,708 --> 00:27:45,208
And we slowly,
over generations, crawled up
508
00:27:45,375 --> 00:27:47,833
and out of a hole
called sipapu.
509
00:27:47,958 --> 00:27:53,208
And the kivas have this little
hole in it symbolizing that.
510
00:27:53,333 --> 00:27:56,500
NARRATOR:
The descendants
of the Ancestral Pueblo
511
00:27:56,625 --> 00:27:59,083
share the belief
that Earth was populated
512
00:27:59,208 --> 00:28:03,333
three separate times
before the era of modern humans,
513
00:28:03,458 --> 00:28:05,875
with each previous age
514
00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:08,667
ending
in a devastating cataclysm.
515
00:28:08,750 --> 00:28:11,000
HENRY: The Pueblo Indians
believe that
516
00:28:11,125 --> 00:28:14,208
there in fact were three worlds,
or epochs, before ours.
517
00:28:14,333 --> 00:28:15,875
And they were all destroyed.
518
00:28:16,042 --> 00:28:19,875
The first by fire,
the second by ice,
519
00:28:20,000 --> 00:28:22,583
and the third by water.
520
00:28:22,708 --> 00:28:25,917
In each instance,
they tell us that it was due
521
00:28:26,042 --> 00:28:28,875
to mistreatment of the Earth,
and so that tells us
522
00:28:29,000 --> 00:28:33,208
that there could have been
previous examples of humanity
523
00:28:33,333 --> 00:28:36,292
that were destroyed
who knows how long ago.
524
00:28:37,750 --> 00:28:40,667
CHILDRESS:
We're living now
in the fourth world.
525
00:28:40,833 --> 00:28:43,250
And the Zunis and Hopis believe
526
00:28:43,375 --> 00:28:47,333
our fourth world will also end
in a cataclysm.
527
00:28:48,500 --> 00:28:52,000
HENRY:
Their prophecy says
that there would be a,
528
00:28:52,083 --> 00:28:54,667
a gourd of ashes
that would come from the sky.
529
00:28:54,792 --> 00:28:57,333
That's interpreted
as nuclear warfare.
530
00:28:57,417 --> 00:29:01,250
TSOUKALOS: The Hopi suggest
that there were previous worlds
531
00:29:01,375 --> 00:29:05,750
or civilizations before,
and this is interesting because
532
00:29:05,875 --> 00:29:08,042
there are other cultures,
ancient cultures,
533
00:29:08,167 --> 00:29:11,250
around the world,
who speak of similar stories.
534
00:29:12,792 --> 00:29:14,375
HENRY:
The Kabbalah teaches
that there were previous
535
00:29:14,542 --> 00:29:16,167
advanced human civilizations.
536
00:29:16,292 --> 00:29:18,125
A number of them.
537
00:29:18,208 --> 00:29:21,292
The Hindus teach
about the Yugas,
538
00:29:21,375 --> 00:29:23,292
where civilization advances
539
00:29:23,375 --> 00:29:28,042
to a very high place and then
descends and then re-ascends.
540
00:29:28,208 --> 00:29:30,833
It, too, is divided
into four different ages.
541
00:29:30,917 --> 00:29:34,833
So all of these traditions
corresponds directly
542
00:29:34,958 --> 00:29:38,333
with what the Native American
tradition is teaching.
543
00:29:38,417 --> 00:29:41,250
NARRATOR:
Could the Native American
tradition
544
00:29:41,375 --> 00:29:45,667
describing previous ages
of humankind be true?
545
00:29:45,750 --> 00:29:49,000
Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes,
546
00:29:49,125 --> 00:29:51,333
and suggest that these stories
547
00:29:51,458 --> 00:29:55,375
also contain evidence of
extraterrestrial intervention.
548
00:29:57,000 --> 00:30:01,792
The Hopis of Northern Arizona
have a very curious myth
549
00:30:01,875 --> 00:30:05,583
of surviving
the third of the cataclysms
550
00:30:05,708 --> 00:30:10,333
by going underground and living
with what they call the ant men.
551
00:30:10,417 --> 00:30:15,125
HENRY:
The stories the Hopi tell us
that the ant people rescued them
552
00:30:15,208 --> 00:30:19,167
from cataclysm by taking them
underground, literally,
553
00:30:19,292 --> 00:30:22,208
and helping the Hopi
to survive underground,
554
00:30:22,333 --> 00:30:25,375
and then once it was safe
to return to the surface
555
00:30:25,542 --> 00:30:28,875
of the Earth, the Hopi were
taken up through the sipapu
556
00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:32,917
by the ant people
and repopulated the Earth.
557
00:30:33,042 --> 00:30:35,250
But in all instances,
the ant people are described
558
00:30:35,375 --> 00:30:37,917
as having a special
relationship with the Hopi,
559
00:30:38,042 --> 00:30:41,208
and also of having a connection
with the star realms.
560
00:30:41,375 --> 00:30:45,917
NARRATOR:
Despite their name, ant men
are described not as insects
561
00:30:46,042 --> 00:30:49,292
but rather
as small humanoid figures.
562
00:30:49,417 --> 00:30:52,500
The reason they call
these creatures "ant men"
563
00:30:52,625 --> 00:30:55,167
is that they lived
under the earth,
564
00:30:55,292 --> 00:30:58,417
and they would emerge much like
ants crawling out of a hive.
565
00:30:58,542 --> 00:31:01,708
So they called them ant men,
but what they were,
566
00:31:01,833 --> 00:31:03,417
were extraterrestrials.
567
00:31:03,542 --> 00:31:06,833
They were entering
our world through the portal.
568
00:31:06,958 --> 00:31:11,167
CHILDRESS:
The ant men were
underground dwellers who
569
00:31:11,250 --> 00:31:14,000
had a high technology
and looked very similar
570
00:31:14,083 --> 00:31:17,000
apparently to what
we would call Grey aliens.
571
00:31:17,083 --> 00:31:20,083
So this is something
of a mystery,
572
00:31:20,208 --> 00:31:22,708
of-of who these ant men were.
573
00:31:22,875 --> 00:31:26,917
Many Hopis and the Zunis
have similar belief that,
574
00:31:27,042 --> 00:31:29,333
yes, the ant men
were extraterrestrials.
575
00:31:31,208 --> 00:31:33,000
MAHOOTY:
There were beings that are
576
00:31:33,125 --> 00:31:35,208
of extraterrestrial origin
577
00:31:35,375 --> 00:31:39,333
that were...
were part of that whole
578
00:31:39,417 --> 00:31:41,292
emergence mythology.
579
00:31:41,417 --> 00:31:43,875
The entrance
to the fourth world.
580
00:31:45,042 --> 00:31:47,500
Could it be
that the story of the ant men
581
00:31:47,667 --> 00:31:49,375
is a genuine account
582
00:31:49,500 --> 00:31:52,417
of extraterrestrials
helping humanity survive
583
00:31:52,542 --> 00:31:54,875
a global cataclysm?
584
00:31:55,000 --> 00:31:58,000
Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes,
585
00:31:58,125 --> 00:32:00,833
and suggest further clues
can be found
586
00:32:00,958 --> 00:32:03,083
by comparing
the Native American traditions
587
00:32:03,208 --> 00:32:06,208
to accounts
of a legendary lost continent
588
00:32:06,333 --> 00:32:09,250
called Atlantis.
589
00:32:17,208 --> 00:32:20,958
NARRATOR:
In his famous dialogues,
Timaeus and Critias,
590
00:32:21,083 --> 00:32:23,083
the Greek philosopher
Plato writes
591
00:32:23,208 --> 00:32:25,208
about a lost continent
592
00:32:25,375 --> 00:32:28,375
that existed 9,000 years
before his time
593
00:32:28,500 --> 00:32:32,667
and was home to
a highly advanced civilization.
594
00:32:32,792 --> 00:32:37,167
Called Atlantis, it was founded
by the Greek god Poseidon,
595
00:32:37,333 --> 00:32:41,333
and the inhabitants possessed
sophisticated technology.
596
00:32:41,500 --> 00:32:45,167
But Atlantis was ultimately
destroyed
597
00:32:45,292 --> 00:32:49,542
by a terrible cataclysm, and
according to some researchers,
598
00:32:49,708 --> 00:32:53,083
the story of its destruction
is strikingly similar
599
00:32:53,208 --> 00:32:55,875
to Native American traditions
detailing the end
600
00:32:56,000 --> 00:32:58,458
of the third world.
601
00:32:58,542 --> 00:33:01,667
HENRY: The Hopi and other
Pueblo Indians tell us
602
00:33:01,750 --> 00:33:04,000
that their devastating cataclysm
603
00:33:04,167 --> 00:33:07,000
was due to human greed
and wandering away
604
00:33:07,167 --> 00:33:09,542
from the-the spiritual truths
of our creator.
605
00:33:09,708 --> 00:33:13,333
What's interesting
about this is that this idea
606
00:33:13,500 --> 00:33:16,500
is echoed in Plato's story
of the destruction of Atlantis.
607
00:33:16,583 --> 00:33:19,958
The Atlanteans were
also created by gods.
608
00:33:20,042 --> 00:33:23,292
As soon as humanity
wandered off into materialism,
609
00:33:23,417 --> 00:33:27,500
that's when Atlantis was
destroyed by water.
610
00:33:27,625 --> 00:33:30,333
A perfect correspondence
with what the Hopi said
611
00:33:30,417 --> 00:33:32,375
happened at the end
of the third world.
612
00:33:32,500 --> 00:33:34,625
NARRATOR:
Could there be a connection
613
00:33:34,708 --> 00:33:37,333
between the ancient Greek tale
of Atlantis
614
00:33:37,458 --> 00:33:40,167
and Native American
origin stories?
615
00:33:40,333 --> 00:33:43,125
Ancient astronaut theorists
suggest
616
00:33:43,208 --> 00:33:46,500
another story told
by early Native Americans
617
00:33:46,583 --> 00:33:49,500
bears striking similarities
to Atlantis--
618
00:33:49,625 --> 00:33:54,167
the legend of the lost city
of Aztlán, which appears
619
00:33:54,292 --> 00:33:56,292
in the traditions of the Aztecs
620
00:33:56,375 --> 00:33:58,083
and numerous
Native American groups
621
00:33:58,208 --> 00:34:00,250
throughout the Southwest.
622
00:34:13,958 --> 00:34:18,292
...of the Hopis, so we have
all these oral histories also...
623
00:34:24,333 --> 00:34:27,208
There's debate among scholars
as to exactly
624
00:34:27,333 --> 00:34:29,667
what Aztlán looked like.
625
00:34:29,792 --> 00:34:34,000
And we know that the Aztecs say
626
00:34:34,125 --> 00:34:37,167
that their capital
of Tenochtitlán
627
00:34:37,292 --> 00:34:41,167
was made in the image of Aztlán.
628
00:34:41,292 --> 00:34:43,792
And from that capital,
629
00:34:43,875 --> 00:34:47,333
we get a backwards projection
that their origin place
630
00:34:47,458 --> 00:34:51,583
is an island
surrounded by water.
631
00:34:53,167 --> 00:34:56,125
They actually built
Tenochtitlán up
632
00:34:56,250 --> 00:34:58,833
into the lake
and put causeways out
633
00:34:59,000 --> 00:35:01,958
so that it looks
very much like Atlantis.
634
00:35:02,083 --> 00:35:04,833
NARRATOR:
According to the Aztecs,
635
00:35:04,958 --> 00:35:09,125
the god Huitzilopochtli
was the founder of Tenochtitlán,
636
00:35:09,250 --> 00:35:11,875
which as far
as ancient astronaut theorists
637
00:35:12,000 --> 00:35:15,000
are concerned, provides yet
another intriguing connection
638
00:35:15,083 --> 00:35:18,958
to Plato's
description of Atlantis.
639
00:35:19,042 --> 00:35:22,667
Tenochtitlán was
a place made artificially.
640
00:35:22,833 --> 00:35:26,250
Compare it to Atlantis.
641
00:35:26,375 --> 00:35:29,667
In both cases,
a god was the ruler of it.
642
00:35:29,792 --> 00:35:32,333
In Atlantis, we have Poseidon.
643
00:35:32,458 --> 00:35:35,167
Now, Poseidon was
an extraterrestrial.
644
00:35:35,333 --> 00:35:39,875
Not everyone should
have access to Atlantis.
645
00:35:40,042 --> 00:35:43,708
The same thing
in Aztlán or Tenochtitlán.
646
00:35:43,833 --> 00:35:45,542
They wanted to be separated.
647
00:35:45,667 --> 00:35:48,500
They had a certain technology
there which was
648
00:35:48,625 --> 00:35:52,333
a hidden technology, and it was
not for the general public.
649
00:35:52,417 --> 00:35:54,042
See, it's the same thing.
650
00:35:54,208 --> 00:35:56,333
TSOUKALOS:
The fact that we have stories
651
00:35:56,458 --> 00:35:58,708
that are not just similar
but identical
652
00:35:58,833 --> 00:36:02,167
leads me to think that perhaps
653
00:36:02,292 --> 00:36:04,083
these ancient cultures
were visited
654
00:36:04,208 --> 00:36:07,167
by the same extraterrestrials.
655
00:36:07,250 --> 00:36:10,292
NARRATOR:
While mainstream academics
656
00:36:10,375 --> 00:36:13,750
consider the stories
of these lost civilizations
657
00:36:13,875 --> 00:36:17,000
and their destruction
to be mythological,
658
00:36:17,083 --> 00:36:20,000
the recent discovery
of vast sunken landmasses
659
00:36:20,083 --> 00:36:22,167
such as Doggerland,
660
00:36:22,292 --> 00:36:26,500
located just east
of the British Isles in 2012,
661
00:36:26,625 --> 00:36:31,208
and Zealandia,
found near New Zealand in 2017,
662
00:36:31,333 --> 00:36:34,792
may offer proof
that a catastrophic water event
663
00:36:34,875 --> 00:36:38,333
did, in fact,
change the face of the Earth.
664
00:36:38,500 --> 00:36:41,708
CHILDRESS: So here
we have authentic legends
665
00:36:41,833 --> 00:36:46,083
of lost lands that were
destroyed in cataclysms.
666
00:36:46,208 --> 00:36:49,667
Mainstream historians,
you know, still
667
00:36:49,750 --> 00:36:52,417
pretty much reject this,
feel that it's all myths.
668
00:36:52,542 --> 00:36:55,667
But it would seem
really that all kinds
669
00:36:55,750 --> 00:36:59,125
of civilizations could have
come and gone on our planet.
670
00:36:59,208 --> 00:37:01,500
We know that there are over 200
671
00:37:01,625 --> 00:37:04,500
known submerged cities
in the Mediterranean.
672
00:37:04,625 --> 00:37:07,042
There's just so much
on our planet
673
00:37:07,167 --> 00:37:09,333
that we have yet to find out.
674
00:37:10,708 --> 00:37:12,792
YOUNG:
In the Native American
Indigenous teaching,
675
00:37:12,875 --> 00:37:15,292
there are cycles
of destruction and rebirth.
676
00:37:15,375 --> 00:37:18,000
The interesting part is that
this is parallel
677
00:37:18,125 --> 00:37:19,833
to other great world teachings.
678
00:37:19,958 --> 00:37:22,458
In the story of Noah,
679
00:37:22,542 --> 00:37:24,583
the sons of God came down
to Earth.
680
00:37:24,708 --> 00:37:27,125
And they were teaching
the humans evil ways,
681
00:37:27,250 --> 00:37:29,917
and God decided to intervene
682
00:37:30,042 --> 00:37:32,542
and brought this great flood.
683
00:37:32,708 --> 00:37:36,083
In the story of Gilgamesh,
the Sumerian legend,
684
00:37:36,208 --> 00:37:39,542
the council of gods
brought the flood.
685
00:37:39,708 --> 00:37:44,167
The Inca god Viracocha created
the great flood.
686
00:37:44,292 --> 00:37:46,875
HENRY:
So all of these traditions
687
00:37:47,000 --> 00:37:50,375
correspond directly with
the Hopi four worlds tradition
688
00:37:50,500 --> 00:37:52,917
about previous civilizations
689
00:37:53,042 --> 00:37:55,292
destroyed by the gods.
690
00:37:55,417 --> 00:37:57,000
The story is always the same.
691
00:37:57,083 --> 00:37:58,542
This speaks to the idea
692
00:37:58,667 --> 00:38:01,500
of extraterrestrial intervention
in human affairs.
693
00:38:01,583 --> 00:38:04,625
ROBLES:
I believe there are
ancient civilizations
694
00:38:04,708 --> 00:38:09,167
that some people
refuse to write about.
695
00:38:09,292 --> 00:38:12,083
But ancient civilizations are
696
00:38:12,208 --> 00:38:15,125
coming to surface
because the time has come
697
00:38:15,208 --> 00:38:19,375
to tell the truth
about human origin.
698
00:38:19,500 --> 00:38:22,333
NARRATOR:
Could it be
that Native American stories
699
00:38:22,458 --> 00:38:25,542
of star people
and of lost civilizations
700
00:38:25,667 --> 00:38:28,542
so closely resembles
other ancient traditions
701
00:38:28,667 --> 00:38:31,250
from around the globe
because they all encountered
702
00:38:31,375 --> 00:38:34,500
the same otherworldly visitors?
703
00:38:34,625 --> 00:38:37,833
Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes, and suggest
704
00:38:37,917 --> 00:38:41,500
the Native Americans'
knowledge of star people
705
00:38:41,625 --> 00:38:43,708
comes not only
from the distant past
706
00:38:43,875 --> 00:38:46,708
but from
the extraterrestrial activity
707
00:38:46,875 --> 00:38:50,667
that occurs over
Native lands even today.
708
00:39:00,750 --> 00:39:02,958
NARRATOR:
According to Zuni elder
Clifford Mahooty,
709
00:39:03,042 --> 00:39:06,333
above this steep mesa
on the Zuni Reservation,
710
00:39:06,458 --> 00:39:10,208
strange lights are seen
in the sky nearly every night.
711
00:39:10,333 --> 00:39:14,750
The UFO activity here
is very, very,
712
00:39:14,875 --> 00:39:17,208
uh, prevalent because
713
00:39:17,333 --> 00:39:19,375
of the religious system
714
00:39:19,500 --> 00:39:22,292
that we practice every day.
715
00:39:22,375 --> 00:39:26,208
So all around
the whole Zuni reservation
716
00:39:26,333 --> 00:39:29,833
you can look up
in the sky and they're up there.
717
00:39:29,958 --> 00:39:34,000
And they're not stars.
They're not planets.
718
00:39:34,125 --> 00:39:35,750
There's a lot of our people
719
00:39:35,875 --> 00:39:37,917
that, here in Zuni,
have seen them.
720
00:39:39,375 --> 00:39:41,375
TSOUKALOS: When you talk
to many Native Americans,
721
00:39:41,500 --> 00:39:44,292
they'll tell you
that UFO sightings are common
722
00:39:44,375 --> 00:39:45,667
on their Native lands.
723
00:39:45,792 --> 00:39:48,333
And you have to ask,
why is that?
724
00:39:48,458 --> 00:39:50,625
Is it because they have had
these traditions
725
00:39:50,708 --> 00:39:53,958
of the star people
and the star ancestors?
726
00:39:54,083 --> 00:39:57,833
Maybe places like the Zuni
territory and Hopi mesas
727
00:39:57,958 --> 00:40:00,875
have been visited
for thousands of years.
728
00:40:02,417 --> 00:40:04,958
NARRATOR:
Today, more UFO incidents
729
00:40:05,083 --> 00:40:09,208
are being reported and captured
on camera than ever before.
730
00:40:09,333 --> 00:40:11,625
But while this recent activity
731
00:40:11,708 --> 00:40:13,583
has captured
the public's imagination
732
00:40:13,708 --> 00:40:17,042
and inspired
sensational headlines,
733
00:40:17,167 --> 00:40:21,583
for many Native Americans, it
is nothing out of the ordinary.
734
00:40:21,708 --> 00:40:26,375
In my time working
as a Navajo Ranger,
735
00:40:26,500 --> 00:40:30,042
we had incidences of, uh, UFOs
736
00:40:30,208 --> 00:40:32,167
coming and going all the time.
737
00:40:32,292 --> 00:40:35,292
When we talk to people,
they tell us,
738
00:40:35,375 --> 00:40:37,000
"Oh, yeah,
they're here all the time."
739
00:40:37,167 --> 00:40:39,375
So they just accept it.
740
00:40:39,500 --> 00:40:41,625
And as such, with the knowledge
741
00:40:41,708 --> 00:40:45,458
that I have
and the experiences I've had,
742
00:40:45,583 --> 00:40:47,250
I know they're out there--
I've seen them
743
00:40:47,375 --> 00:40:48,833
numerous, numerous times.
744
00:40:49,000 --> 00:40:52,417
And, uh, it's
just a fact of life.
745
00:40:52,542 --> 00:40:55,208
ROBLES:
We must reestablish
746
00:40:55,375 --> 00:40:58,333
the connection
between our star ancestors
747
00:40:58,458 --> 00:41:01,833
by educating and creating
an awareness among the,
748
00:41:01,958 --> 00:41:03,375
the humans on Earth.
749
00:41:03,500 --> 00:41:05,625
We have to establish
750
00:41:05,708 --> 00:41:08,333
an urgency
protecting the sacred sites
751
00:41:08,500 --> 00:41:10,542
and telling the story
of what they mean.
752
00:41:10,667 --> 00:41:12,375
This is the history
of the world.
753
00:41:12,500 --> 00:41:14,417
We are star beings.
754
00:41:15,667 --> 00:41:18,292
MAHOOTY:
As far as being connected
with the star elders,
755
00:41:18,375 --> 00:41:20,792
they gave us
this knowledge, and ours
756
00:41:20,875 --> 00:41:24,458
is a direct relationship
with the...
757
00:41:24,542 --> 00:41:27,458
entities
throughout the universe.
758
00:41:28,750 --> 00:41:31,542
NARRATOR:
Could contact with star people
759
00:41:31,667 --> 00:41:34,792
as described
in the ancient sacred traditions
760
00:41:34,917 --> 00:41:38,500
still be happening in Native
American communities today?
761
00:41:38,625 --> 00:41:41,333
And if so,
might it be the beginning
762
00:41:41,458 --> 00:41:43,625
of the next Earth cycle?
763
00:41:43,750 --> 00:41:48,167
And a profound new chapter
in the human story?
764
00:41:48,292 --> 00:41:50,958
Perhaps as we learn the truth
765
00:41:51,042 --> 00:41:53,375
about the mysterious objects
in the sky,
766
00:41:53,542 --> 00:41:56,375
we will discover
that the star ancestors
767
00:41:56,500 --> 00:41:59,500
are not merely ancient
figures carved on rocks
768
00:41:59,583 --> 00:42:02,500
but an extraterrestrial presence
769
00:42:02,583 --> 00:42:04,875
that has
been guiding us all along.
770
00:42:05,000 --> 00:42:08,583
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