All language subtitles for Ancient Aliens S03E15 Aliens Gods And Heroes

Superhuman strength...
Supernatural powers...

And the awesome ability to fly.

Throughout history,
mankind has

told incredible tales of
gods and superheroes.

But do we yearn to possess
these extraordinary powers for

another, more profound, reason?

Implanted within our
DNA is this desire to

become god-like, to fly in the

air, or swim through the ocean

or especially to ascend
into the stars.

Humans were created according
to the image of God.

So we are part of them.

If the so-called gods had

incredible powers, we
have them in us, too.

Could ancient stories
of god-like kings and

heroes really have
otherworldly origins?

Many of the sacred powers
given to kings of the past

we know today were more
than likely technology

that ancient man was given
from the actual gods,

which we know were probably
extraterrestrials.

Millions of people around
the world believe we have

been visited in the past by
extraterrestrial beings.

What if it were true?

Did ancient aliens really
help to shape our history?

Does it help to explain our

continuing fascination with
stories of gods and heroes?

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Greece.
The Island of Crete.

On the Lassithi Plateau, over
half a mile above sea level,

lies the Dikteon Cave.

This sprawling complex of caverns
stretches nearly one and

a half square miles, and
archeological finds have shown a

human presence dating as far
back as 6,000 years ago.

Historians believe the first
inhabitants of the area actually

lived inside the cave, and
according to legend, its many

chambers were once home
to an otherworldly being,

Zeus, the Greek
god of thunder.

In Greek mythology, Zeus is the
son of Cronus, the king of the

first generation of gods
known as the Titans.

Zeus's father, Cronus, is
not particularly excited

about giving birth to a child
because he's heard a prophecy

he just swallows them all down.

Now his mother Rhea,
who's Cronus's wife,

is distraught about this.

So what she does
is substitute a rock

that she's wrapped up
in swaddling clothes.

Gives it to Cronus,
which he swallows down.

And what she does is
hides Zeus away in a cave.

So he grows up there.

In Theogony, the
8th-century BC poet Hesiod

describes the cave Zeus was
hidden in as lying in these very

mountains,
and specifically near

the city of Lyktos, the
location of the Dikteon Cave.

But the similarities between
this cave and the cave of Zeus

described in Greek
mythology go much further.

The ancients say that when they
are talking about mythology,

it is about own recorded
events of their past.

According to the Greek myths,

the child Zeus was nourished
on a mixture of honey and

milk at the udder of the goat.

Now around 1900 AD, a chamber
of the Dikteon Cave was

identified by locals as
the birthplace of Zeus,

and when archeologists went in
there, they discovered an alter

with the remains of numerous
religious offerings,

amongst them honey
and goat milk.

These remains date back 4,000
years, to the exact period in

which the ancient Greek
stories took place.

The question is, is this once

again a coincidence that modern
excavations find remains in

this cave that match up with

what's written in
Greek mythology?

Also found in
the Dikteon Cave were

numerous artifacts dating back
to what would have been the time

of Zeus's childhood according
to the Greek stories.

Among them was a fragmentary
inscription bearing a hymn...

a hymn dedicated
specifically to Zeus.

Could the Dikteon Cave really be

the cave described in Theogony?

And if actual locations from

Greek mythology really do exist,

could legendary characters and

events also be based
on historical fact?

We think of mythology

as something which
has been invented.

But really, when we look at the
ancient Greeks, they believe

that the War of the Titans
physically happened.

That this was a war,
which was

fought in heaven,
by the deities.

In Greek mythology,
the War of the Titans is a

celestial battle waged by Zeus

and his siblings,
known as the

Olympians, against their
father Cronus and the Titans.

The Olympians, who are the
victors in this battle, were the

gods worshiped by
the ancient Greeks.

But according to ancient
astronaut theorists, these

human-like beings
may have been

something other
than divine, and

this mythical war may have been
an actual historical event.

To support this claim, they
point to the existence of

similar myths and stories told

by different cultures
throughout the world.

When it comes to warring
parties of gods, Greece

is not a stand-alone issue.

We have the same
thing in Ragnarök.

In Norwegian mythology,
we have

this idea that the gods fought
amongst themselves as well.

We also have stories from
Sumerian, Babylonian, Hittite

accounts where it says that the
wars were fought between gods.

We see the same story of Titans

being over throned
by a new set of gods.

In the sumerian epics,
the Annunaki coming here

as the original culture
in ancient Iraq.

So these similarities tell of
a warring race of beings that

squabbled amongst themselves
about the rights of various

areas on the Earth.

What can explain
the similarities of these

ancient war stories that emerged
from all over the world?

Could they all be describing
the same historical events?

And if there is an historical
basis for the legends and

stories, what does
that suggest

about the incredible powers and

weaponry supposedly
possessed by the gods?

It's very possible that
the Clash of the Titans

known from the Greek times is
actually speaking of a much

earlier epoch of extraterrestrials
having a type of battle.

The ancient Greek gods had
helmets that made them invisible.

They had breastplates that
made them impervious to their

enemies' weapons.

They had tridents that
shot thunderbolts;

they had winged sandals that
gave them the power of flight.

These are all profound examples

of an ancient alien technology
that the Greek gods possessed.

If mythical gods and
monsters really did exist,

were they, as ancient
astronaut theorists believe,

extraterrestrial beings?

And could this help to explain
the enormous and enduring

popularity of gods, Titans and
other so-called "superheroes"

in today's popular culture?

There's so many different places

where the characters of
the superheroes come from

but naturally so much of these come
from mythology and from literature.

Because those are such
strong bodies of work

they're so familiar,
and they become

the architecture of
all types of heroes.

The stories exists partly

because we want to
dream of such powers,

We want to imagine
what might be possible

if we had unlimited dominance.

We watch endless
amounts of television

and movies which
says that amongst us

are a group of people who
are more than just human

super humans, and that
somehow these people

are born that way or that
something happens to them

which triggers this.

But basically the underlying
subconscious message

revealed is that we are
capable of becoming gods.

Implanted within our DNA
is this desire to become

god-like, either to fly in the air
or to swim through the ocean

or run super fast or especially
to ascend into the stars.

Why are human beings
so drawn to stories

about beings with superior
abilities and technologies.

Are they looking
for something larger?

and more powerful
outside of themselves?

or perhaps, within?

In Greek mythology,
the Titan Prometheus

is often credited with
creating human beings

out of basic materials
found on Earth.

Prometheus was playing with mud

and made little figurines of it and
Athenea was fascinated with this and

breathed life into them.

The cynical read is to say

what he wants is somebody
who to worship him

like people worship Zeus.

He created us in his image
and he gave us all these skills

culture and technology
and medicines,

and makes us what it means
to be a human being.

Zeus realised he couldn't
uncreate these beings

but what he could do is limit
them in their capabilities

and restrict them their capacity and
prevent them from becoming god-like.

It's as if the extraterrestrials

wanted to keep us from having all
the same technology that they had

In another
version of the story,

Prometheus is said to have stolen
a spark of Zeus's lightning bolt

in order to give humans
the gift of fire.

When we are talking about a
god who gives fire to man,

we realise that this is not the
god as in the supreme being

the one, but clearly somebody
else, an ancient alien

We pursued throughout
history to master

the powers of the gods

but the question is where
did all those ideas originate,

and the answer is very simple.

Due to extraterrestrial
contact, in our remote past.

Could humans really

be the creation of alien beings
with extraordinary powers?

Do we have a
subconscious desire

to reconnect with the so-called
gods of our past by becoming

more like them through
advancements in technology?

Could this explain the origins
of ancient tales of gods and

heroes who were thought to
possess extraordinary powers?

Perhaps the answer can be found

near the Greek valley of Phocis,

and by examining the legend of
The Oracle at Delphi.

Lydia, 716 B.C.

Gyges, a shepherd in the service
of King Candaules, becomes the

unlikely successor to the throne
of this ancient kingdom in

modern day Turkey.

But the story of how this modest

servant rose from a shepherd
to a king is so fantastic that

many scholars and historians
have dismissed it as mere myth.

Gyges is out in the field and
there's a terrible earthquake

He sees a cave open, goes in
the cave and sees a gold ring

He just kind of walks
in this chamber, which is like

a tomb where he sees a dead
body that has some jewelry on it

so he grabs this ring off
because he's a poor man

He puts the ring on
and discovers that

it gives him the power
to be invisible.

Here, he has the kind
of power a god would have

and does it use it well?

Well, actually it's a little
questionable how he uses it.

He comes up with a plan.

The next time he goes
to visit the king

he brings that ring with him,
turns himself invisible,

seduces the queen,

kills the king,

takes over the palace.

What we have here is really
a multi-layered legend

We have not only the
story of the fact that

somebody in the past had
the cloak of invisibility

but actually that he
did not invent this

that it was a legacy from a
race who had buried their dead

and that alongside these
deaths were artifacts,

which were technological

What kind of a magical amulet or
technology are we talking about here?

Was this the ring of the gods that's
described by the ancient sumerians

and is the ring of cosmic sovereignty

According to legend,
a bloody civil war

irrupted following the
death of King Candaules

It ended when Gyges obtained
approval for overthrowing the throne

from the oracle of Delphi.

A mysterious priestess whose
eerily correct prophecies

The oracle of Delphi,
whether it's a prophet

or a soothsayer had
a direct relationship

to the extraterrestrial being.

The extraterrestrial being
communicated through the priest

who then interpret that
into a language that

the listeners could understand.

But was it really a god
who endorsed Gyges reign,

or was Apollo, the son of Zeus,
an extraterrestrial,

as astronaut theorists contend.

Was it perhaps the
same extraterrestrial

who let Gyges to find the
ring that enabled him

to see his power,
in the first place.

And if so,
could this be an example

of aliens endowing a human
with god-like powers,

to carry out some earthly agenda?

When I read stories
like Gyges of Lidia

who has found this ring

which gave him the capability
of becoming invisible

then there are two
things that I think of:

one, is it just fantasy or do
we have another reference here

that describes
misunderstood technology.

Because today, researchers at

Duke University are trying to
develop an invisibility cloak.

Duke University engineer
professor David R Smith

is the director for the center for
meta-material and integrated plasmatics

For the past decade,
Smith and his team

have been working to
create meta-materials

or artificial materials
that are not found in nature.

Just like a piece of glass can
control the way light bends

Smith is set out to prove
that certain man made

materials can actually
be constructed to

render objects invisible.

This is actually an example
of a meta-material

this is a bunch of
pieces of circuit board

all cut out and
assembled together

and on the circuit boards
are little pieces of copper

that are tied in circuits,
and each circuit has

a certain response to
electromagnetic radiation

and the combination of these
patterns plus the shape

gives us something that we
can call an invisibility cloak

The idea behind the
cloak is that when

renders something inside of it invisible,
and it's self invisible as well

At present, the device only
makes objects disappear

at microwave frequencies

But Dr. Smith believes
that soon this technology

will also be able to make objects
invisible to even the human eye.

Just in the last year or two, there
actually have been experiments

showing certain of the
cloaking idea is transitioning

to the visible spectrum,
red, green, blue.

Those experiments are
actually being done now

We will have invisibility
cloaks at some point that

we could wear as humans.

I definitely think
we're gonna get there

because science and speculative
science go hand in hand.

Science creates a base point,
speculative science pushes it

farther into the future, and
that's how technology advances.

An actual cloak of invisibility?

Though still in development,
researchers in Japan have

designed an optical camouflage
system that makes special

reflective material seemingly

disappear, including the person
wearing it, thus bringing us

closer to achieving a fully
functional invisibility cloak

like the one described
in the story of Gyges.

Could this mean that other
seemingly far-fetched devices of

fantasy, like flying carpets

and magic wands, are
also based on science,

and if so, might they have
been used in the ancient

past, perhaps in the hands of
extraterrestrial visitors?

Just because
we are working on these

technologies today does not
mean that we are the first.

Because we find
multiple references in

ancient texts that describe
devices with which you were able

to go invisible.

So much of our storytelling

deals with the fact that
what we deem to be magic

can really be science
at a different time.

If legendary tales like
the story of King Gyges

could be proven to be real, what
does it suggest about other

fantastic stories of
gods and titans?

Hisarlik, Turkey

Within this archaeological site

lie the ruins of Troy, a place
once thought by mainstream

scientists to be no more than
myth until Heinrich Schliemann

unearthed its remains in 1871.

Here in the 12th century B.C.,

the ancient Greek city was the
center of the Trojan War,

a Greek battle described
in Homer's Iliad.

According to the epic poem,
the goddess Athena gives King

Diomedes the power of divine

vision during the war so that
he could see like the gods.

Athena comes down and she
wants to help the Greeks, so

she finds Diomedes and she says,

"I'm gonna help you out here.

So what I'm gonna do is strip

away this mist that's
over your eyes.

You, as a human being, you don't

really know what's going on.

You just see battle, but once I
strip away this mist, you're

gonna be able to see what's
really going on, which is that,

in addition to a battle going
on, there are gods fighting.

King Diomedes sees that
Ares-- the god of war-- is

fighting alongside his enemy
Hector, and he was not to use

this sight to attack the gods,

but that is exactly
what he uses it for.

The side aspect of
it's a question--

did the gods really have this?

Were they superhuman like we

want to become, or did they have

technology which enabled them
to do these kind of things?

Diomedes and the gods'
power of super eyesight

may seem like pure fantasy, but

enhanced vision is also becoming

a reality thanks to advancements
in spectrometer technology.

Spectrometers are devices used

to measure properties of light
over a wider range of the

electromagnetic spectrum than is

visible with the human eye, and

today, just as we are developing

cloaking devices, we are also
developing technology to see

through those devices.

Technology is driven
by society's needs.

more than anything else but myths
have a way of inspiring us

and they represent part of the
imagination which we need

to even envision the next
generation of technologies

If I dream, I could
go to another galaxy

I will sooner or later
go to another galaxy

We are the offsprings
of the gods

and all these things
are in our brains

We think we are very powerful.

In practice we are not, but we

have technology to develop the

power because we are
the sons of the gods.

Might technology be our
way of reconnecting with the

gods, or did the so-called gods
deliberately deny us their

superpowers as a way of
motivating our imaginations and

technological achievements?

Perhaps further evidence can
be found in the heavens at a

Mexican ceremony that

commemorates real-life close
encounters with alien visitors.

Veracruz, Mexico Five
men in ceremonial dress

ascend a 100-foot pole.

Once at the top,
one of the men

performs a sacred dance while

playing a flute and
drum atop a platform.

The other four men
launch themselves off.

It is a ritual known as
La Danza de los Voladores,

or The Dance of the Flyers.

The ritual has the leader
stand on top of the pole

on the top of little platform,
and the four flyers

wrap up cable around that
pole and then branch out

fly around in a pyramid shape,
in perfect synchronized order.

It's a stunning and
daring thing to do.

They are representing the birds.

They are representing the
four cardinal directions.

They are representing
the elements.

Heavily symbolic and mythic, and
it is a powerful ritual.

The Totonac people who
practice this ceremony today

claim it is a dance that was

invented 500 years ago as a plea

to the gods to end a severe drought.

But could this ancient ritual
have different, perhaps

otherworldly origins?

What we have here
with the Voladores

is 100% living mythology

something that describes
and illustrates

in front of our living eye

the descent of the gods,

from a time ago.

The motive of the god
descending from the skies

is one of the most
ancient stories.

If you go back to
the Old Testament

you have the stories
of the sons of gods

descending from the
sky and they see the

daughters of men and they
create a race of giants.

In the Book of Genesis, Jacob

sees a ladder ascending into the

heavens with angels ascending

and descending upon this ladder.

Jesus, in the Book of John,
describes the heavens opening

and beings descending
upon the son of man.

According to ancient
astronaut theorists,

the Voladores ritual is a
reenactment of a close encounter

with alien visitors
in the distant past.

They believe extraterrestrials
descended upon the flat

mountaintops of the Palpa
region in Peru around 500 A.D.,

dropping from their aircraft
and gliding down to Earth in

spiraling circles.

The Voladores
ritual was very technological,

as in, you know,
these beings

descending from
the sky and the

circle signifying
arrival of the gods.

Where does that flying or
descending gods motif originate?

Our ancestors
saw something

because why would you hurl
yourself from a 100-foot

pole out of nothing,
to imitate a bird?

Birds are not that important.

Something very significant happened.

Could an alien
encounter really be the

inspiration for the Voladores ritual?

And could the Totanac people,

who created the ceremony, really

have been trying to mimic the
ancient gods' power of flight?

As further evidence that early
humans may have encountered

alien visitors equipped
with the power of flight...

Ancient astronaut theorists
point to various artifacts

and statues depicting
ancient gods.

One such example is the Mayan

god, Ah-Muzen-Cab, also known
as the flying "Bee God."

Another is the most prominent
god of early Mesoamerican

culture-- the winged
deity Quetzalcoatl.

Mesoamericans believed
in the winged serpent

or the Quetzalcoatl, which came
from the sky bringing wisdom,

power of the wind, and also
influenced everything

that happened in the every
day life of the Mayans.

In fact, they looked to the sky
for all their answers, from

everything as simple as when to

plant corn, to when to go to war.

Uh, they believed all answers in

the universe came from the sky
and trying to relate that to

their daily lives.

The 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.

In my eyes, because we are
the sons of the gods,

we are the offsprings of the
gods whatever humans can dream,

whatever humans think

was once reality in the past or

will be reality in the future.

July 21st, 2003
The English Channel.

Felix Baumgartner becomes the
first person to cross this

22-mile wide body of water in

free fall using a specially
made fiber wing.

But the Austrian daredevil
is just one of many who have

used wing-suits to simulate flying

by means of a free fall.

A wing-suit
is basically a jump suit

that you put on under your rig

and it's designed to
actually make you fly.

when you exit the plane.

The material inflates underneath

your arms, in between your legs,

and creates basically an airfoil

that you glide on through the air.

It's an amazing feeling because

you're actually the
pilot and the plane.

It is total freedom.

You feel as though you're flying.

Though you are falling,

you're using the air
to maneuver your body.

And the wing-suit helps you

cover a lot of ground
as you're descending.

Some people have been exceeding
two-to-one glide ratio.

For example, three-to-one would

mean for every foot you descend,

you're traveling
three feet forward.

We got these flying
guys that have these

wings attached to their backs,

and they hurl themselves out
of planes, and some even have

rocket engines attached to them.

And so they essentially
themselves become airplanes.

Now imagine showing that to

someone from a hundred years ago.

That person would be in complete

awe of what they are witnessing,

not understanding that there's

technology involved with this.

Just using our own
body, we cannot fly.

We have no wings.

But, of course, we have the
fantasy and we have the

technology to develop
wings that we can fly.

The pursuit of flight has
been one of the most

sought after quests in all
of mankind's history.

Why?

Because with flight you could

reach, conceivably,
the realm of the gods.

From the ancient Greek
myth of lcarus, fashioning

wings of feathers and wax,

to modern daredevils,
like Felix Baumgartner,

human beings have
been fascinated with,

and often frustrated by,
their desire to fly.

But have birds really served
as mankind's inspiration?

Or something else?

Something extraterrestrial.

And if ancient visitors could
fly, what other powers might

they have possessed?

And what abilities might
early man have had and lost?

Perhaps the answer can be
found, not in the skies...

but deep beneath the sea.

Cape Sounion, Greece.

Perched on the headland,
surrounded on three sides by the

sea, lies the ruins of the

Temple of Poseidon, built in 440 BC.

The second son of the Titan King

Cronus, Poseidon was worshiped

throughout Greece almost as much

as his younger brother Zeus.

Poseidon was
the god of the sea,

he was also the god of earthquakes
and, strangely, horses

When Poseidon
was in a good mood,

he created new
lands out of the sea.

He gave calm waters
for good voyages.

When he was in a bad mood,

he destroyed ships
and brought storms.

Poseidon does rule over
the kingdom of the sea.

It is envisioned as a kind of
place where people live.

And when he comes
out of that place

yes, he rides the spectacular
kind of like water chariot

that is driven by dolphins and
he holds a really big trident.

In Greek mythology,

Cronus eats all of his children

except for Zeus, who eventually

rescues his siblings, including

Poseidon, from
the belly of his father.

A potion is prepared that
makes him heave up all the

other siblings of Zeus, and

these become the gods of Olympus.

But ancient astronaut
theorists believe

this Greek myth is actually a

metaphor for an
extraterrestrial event.

They believe the notion of gods

being vomited up from the belly
of their father actually

describes mutinous aliens being
expelled from the mother ship.

Any being which is swallowed up into a living creature

will not be able to
survive for three days

it will die from suffocation
and will begin to decay

So what we have here is not a
creature, but something else.

It could've been an object,
which was clearly of a man-made

or extraterrestrial origin.

A mutiny took place.

Some of the extraterrestrials,
they had sex

with a wonderful
earthly female, woman

They were not allowed to do this.

So, one of these
extraterrestrials who were not

allowed to go back with the

mother spaceship had
the name of Poseidon.

Poseidon fell in love with
the beautiful human girl.

And he made her pregnant.

Poseidon is married,
all right.

He's got a child.

He's got some grandchildren,
right.

There's a whole caste
of sea nymphs as well.

All of them presumably,
like, live in this place.

Poseidon had the power of
the deep, the unseen place.

If you look out at the sea, you

see a surface, and you're aware
there's a whole world below

that, suggesting powers beyond
that which meet the eye.

Among the mythical creatures

associated with Poseidon
are the Telchines

a race of advanced fish children.

These human like beings could
live both in and out of water

They're masters of technology
and seem to match up with

the fish gods of ancient
sumeria who worked for Enki

the great god of alchemy, and
technology and smith craft

The Telchines are also
kind of in the shadowy

territory of god
human monster things.

They're just these kind of
figures who are not gods

but they're like human beings

There's one story about the
Roman version of Zeus, Jupiter.

trying to destroy them.

Now, we don't know whether
they are actually all destroyed

but it's possibly because of their
relationship to the magic.

In Greek legend, the Telchines
were also metallurgists

They were said to have created
Poseidon's magical trident

and to have casted the first bronze
statues of the gods of Olympus.

And according
to some historians

the Telchines may not
have been creatures of myth

but were beings
who actually existed.

There were people
called Telchines,

we do actually have
evidence of these beings

they were actual ancient
greeks who had specific tasks

and traits like metallurgy,
like smiting and so on.

And so you could see how
it is that a being like Telchines

that these things could in fact not
these just these mythological beings

but like actual people.

So the way we look at the
ancient greeks and Rome,

is the way they would
have looked at the stories

that are being told about the aliens.

We've got the stories of the Telchine

and they were able
to survive under water

for unlimited amount of time

Now, how is such
a thing possible

unless you have access
to some type of technology

An Israeli company is
currently developing

a human artificial gill system

that allows humans to take
oxygen from surrounding water

without the need of oxygen tanks

You can potentially
can remain underwater

for unlimited amounts of time.

All the technology that
we are discovering today

is in fact old news.

It's been around before.

Could the
ancient Greek myths

really be based on actual events?

Were the Telchines early humans

enabled with god-like abilities?

And were these powers really
misunderstood alien technology?

Perhaps the answers can be

found, not in the past,
but in the present.

As modern day advances in
science and technology give us,

perhaps, our greatest evidence
that we are not alone.

The ability to fly

to thrive underwater,

and to travel through space
and explore the universe.

At one time, these were all

believed to be impossible notions.

Dismissed as mere
science fiction or myth.

But mankind's continued advances

in technology have made the word

"impossible" almost obsolete.

In our modern world, steroids

can help generate Herculean muscles,

titanium joints can replace
and even improve upon

our own natural ones.

And even prosthetic gills are

being developed,
so human beings

can breathe underwater without
the use of air tanks.

Today, government contractors
like Raytheon-Sarcos and

Lockheed Martin continue to
develop exoskeleton machines

for the U.S. military.

When worn, they can allow
soldiers to walk, run and lift

hundreds of pounds with
virtually no effort.

What makes
exoskeletons so cool

is that it's an every man thing

Every body can pick one,
put one on,

anybody can be the hero.

You can take a person with any
sort of physical weaknesses

and make them greater than
the person without them.

Exoskeletons would be a
prime example of something

coming out of comic books
into mainstream reality.

And in reality, exoskeletons
are becoming very popular

with the military.

A soldier can wear the Raytheon
exoskeleton, for example,

and lift 200 pounds

While these
modern day super men

may be limited in their mobility,
the development of exoskeletons

represents an incredible evolution

in the relationship
between men and machine.

But did such incredible
technology exist before?

Perhaps in mankind's
ancient past.

Now, it is possible that some type

of exoskeleton technology
was used in the remote past

for example,
on the Giza plateau?

Imagine the operator of one
of those exoskeleton machines,

coming out of that machine,

that person has super powers

even though the person does
not have any powers at all

That person is only operating
sophisticated technology.

One could argue, with
all the advancements

we are making today in science
and all the other academic fields

we are becoming more god-like

We are not becoming gods,

we are not turning
into real super heroes

we are only becoming god-like

because of our technology.

I think we have innate

need to push our bodies and our

minds to the utmost limits and

strive for super intelligence,

super strength and
other superpowers.

The reason is that people have

long been fascinated with what

could be stronger than humanity

itself, and if it's not human,

then it must come from somewhere

else, either a god or
an extraterrestrial.

But with all of these
scientific achievements,

is mankind perhaps making himself

more and more vulnerable to what

could be terrible consequences?

There are many tales of
ordinary mortals ascending to

become rulers, to become gods and
various positions of enormous power

Often these characters
then become corrupt

and the stories stick around and
are retold over a long period of time,

long after their sources
have withered away.

to teach us that power corrupts

to be careful what you wish for

and to be very cautious if
ever holding great power

because of its ability to harm.

Almost 50% of our stories
are about technology

run amuck, or the dark
side of technology,

because when you talk
about superpowers,

when you talk about all
this transformation,

everything comes at a price.

And you always have to weigh
whether or not price is worthy,

or necessary to make,
for the greater good,

and sometimes it's not.

Sometimes, the price you
pay is just too great,

when you lose your own self.

Are all of mankind's scientific

achievements really examples
of emerging technology?

or is the yearning
for superpowers

and heroic feats embedded
in our collective DNA?

Are humans finally catching
up to the abilities of beings

who have been here before?

And were they gods?

Or, as some believe,
alien ancestors,

living thousands of years
ago, but possessing powers

and abilities thousands
of years more advanced?

Perhaps only time and further

advancements in
technology will tell.

Or perhaps it will all be revealed

when they return.

sync and corrections by Bellows
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