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NARRATOR: In recent years, a growing number
of ancient astronaut theorists have suggested that not only
did extraterrestrials influence our ancestors
as to the precise positioning of important structures,
but they did so in a way that was
designed to tap into the Earth's natural energy.
And there are various places around our planet
that are said to be power places,
places of vortex energy.
And they are all connected to this worldwide energy grid
that surrounds our planet and that these places are
areas where energy lines cross.
It might be that extraterrestrials
are also tapping into this worldwide energy grid.
NARRATOR: Curiously, at many mysterious sites
worldwide, researchers have noted yet
another peculiar connection.
Many early depictions of the so-called gods
have been immortalized carrying what appears
to be a type of handbag.
DAVID CHILDRESS: These mysterious handbags
are held by the Sumerian gods.
We find it in Mexico with the Olmecs.
We find it in Mongolia as well.
We find it in Colombia.
It may be some type of misunderstood technology.
Perhaps it was some type of a tool bag
or some type of maybe a breathing apparatus
for extraterrestrials, because it doesn't
look like a fashion item.
It looks more like a transmitter,
an old cell phone, a computer.
If you'll look at our astronauts,
as they are walking from the launch tower
into the spacecraft, they carry a suitcase system.
That's their temporary life support system.
It's very possible that this is something similar.
NARRATOR: Ancient astronaut theorists have also
noted that there appears to be a common narrative
thread amongst the cultures where
the depictions are present.
As we begin to trace this handbag symbol,
we see it appears at Gobekli Tepe,
where there's this sudden spike in civilization.
It reappears in Sumeria, where we suddenly have
this infusion of knowledge.
Same thing virtually every place this handbag appears,
we find this sudden spike or infusion of new knowledge.
There are tales in ancient Mesopotamia of a figure thought
of as the bringer of civilization sometimes called
Adapa or Dagon or Oannes, sometimes described
as fish-tailed or bird-headed.
And this character is carrying a bag.
And in that bag, all of the learning, all of the sciences,
all of the imagination that humanity will ever need.
There is a theory that they had the ability
to levitate through energy that might have
been given to us by an alien.
I mean, it's a science fiction concept.
But we don't know for sure, although we know
that the Aztecs and the Egyptians
and the people that came before them did have some technology.
We don't even know how much technology they might have had.
That's why von Daniken's theory is possible.