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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?
sync and corrections by Bellows www.addic7ed.com
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 Ragnarรถk.
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.
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