Ancient Aliens - Ancient Aliens On Location: Decoding The Alien Glyphs
Episode Date: November 20, 2025Ancient Aliens has examined the oldest and most mysterious rock art on Earth–up close and in person. Now, Giorgio Tsoukalos takes a look back at the incredible hieroglyphs, petroglyphs, and... geoglyphs that he believes tell a worldwide story–of alien visitation.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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Prehistoric rock art depicting astronauts.
Oh, look at that.
Space man.
Space man, exactly.
Look at the helmet.
An ancient temple covered in otherworldly writings.
It's all here in this sanctuary.
The whole story of humanity's place in the stars.
Incredible petroglyphs of mysterious flying objects.
So this one here looks like a UFO.
For more than a decade, ancient aliens has examined the oldest and most mysterious carvings on Earth, up close and in person.
Now, we reexamine some of the most extraordinary glyphs, glyphs that according to ancient astronaut theorists, tell a worldwide story of alien visitation.
There is a doorway in the universe.
Beyond it is the promise of truth.
It demands we question everything we have ever been taught.
The evidence is all around us.
The future is right before our eyes.
We are not alone.
We have never been alone.
Here is ancient astronaut theorist Giorgio Suclos.
On ancient aliens, we have traveled across,
the world examining some of the most mysterious stone carvings, often referred to as glyphs.
Our ancestors spent countless hours carving images and symbols as a record of what they thought
were the most important pieces of their history. Many glyphs depict strange humanoid figures
and tell stories of visitors coming down from the sky. William Henry got to see some of these
incredible glyphs up close in the mountains of northern Italy.
Valcomonica, Italy, June 13th, 2019.
Ancient astronaut theorist William Henry has traveled to this UNESCO World Heritage Site
to investigate what he believes could be forensic evidence that early civilizations of this region
came into contact with extraterrestrials.
Joining him is Luca Giorelli, the head of the Valcomonica Historical and Anthropological Society.
Luca has spent years studying this mysterious region of northern Italy and wants to show William the rock carvings for which this Alpine Valley is famous.
I'm here at Valcamonica because it is a treasure trove of images from the ancient world that have been well documented and studied by scholars.
They don't agree on the meaning of the images, but some of them are very open-minded to the ancient astronaut theory.
This is one of the rock art site here in Blackmonica.
Thousand and thousands of figures on the rocks.
Footprints. Footprints there.
You can see here.
Look like deer.
We have warriors.
What we have here?
We have this one, this figure, this spaceman.
Space man, exactly.
Look at the helmet.
Look at the helmet.
Right.
It's like he's glowing.
Yeah.
And the communion rose.
The communion rose.
Luca points to an X-shaped symbol with nine strategically lined dots.
It's a strange, a mysterious symbol with nine dots.
Was made probably of the first millennium before Christ.
Wow.
We have 19 communion rows in Valka,
19 communion roses.
Archaeologists call the mysterious symbol the communion rose because of its X or flower-like shape.
While its exact meaning is lost to history, some believe it to be a religious symbol or representation of the movement of the stars.
But ancient astronaut theorists suggest it might also depict something else.
The vessel that brought these helmeted figures to Valcamonica.
Look at that, that looks like a spaceship.
It's like you'd look up in the sky and you would see this kind of twirling, spinning ship in the sky.
It seems to me just looking at it, they're trying to talk about beings coming from other worlds,
maybe to this place.
It could be an interpretation.
Tell me about that five-pointed star.
We have a lot of five-point star here on this rock, but we don't know what they meaning
when they did this particular geometry.
shape.
Sometimes the stars mean energy, like energy from the stars would come to this place, where
star beings would come to this place.
Yeah, it could be an interpretation.
We have a lot of mystery about the meaning of the engraving here in Valkimmonica.
We have a different motivation, religious, mythological, and also describing events.
Okay.
So this is like a newspaper then.
It says this was in the sky above us at some point, and this space man.
man came down and maybe met the community in people.
It could be.
According to the ancient stories, the city of Turin, just 155 miles from Valcomonica, was founded
by a character from Greek mythology called Phaton, who came to Earth from the stars.
Legend states that Turin was founded by the god Phyton, who is a son of the sun god Helios,
and in the myth of Phytton, we learned.
learned the story of how he descended to earth in a fiery chariot,
perhaps crashing into Mount Musini.
This is Jonathan Young, PhD, founding curator of the Joseph Campbell Archives.
This also led to something fortuitous because he brought gifts to this place.
He had great skills, was a metallurgist, and taught this to the local people.
Here is David Childress, author of Technology of the Gods.
When we look at myths such as the myth of phaeton,
here is really the story of a UFO,
landing on a mountain,
and interacting with the locals.
Given the connection with the spacemen that are etched into the rock,
that we have to be open to the possibility
that what the ancient artist is trying to portray
is something that he actually saw in the sky,
something coming out of the heavens.
Is there a connection between the stone,
stone carvings found at Valcomonica and the story of Faton's descent from the sky.
And do other clues exist here that point to ancient alien contact?
Were there any other cultures that were connected with the valley?
We found some engravings that represent a god of Celtic religion.
What sort of engravings?
You know, Cernunos.
It's a...
Oh, the horned god.
Yeah.
the whole god and we find the same figure here in Valkmonic.
That means the Celts were here.
Yeah, they were the connection.
So is this the only location where we see the spaceman?
No, we have two locations.
This is one, but we can find another astronaut out of the pot.
Even deeper into the woods?
Yeah, we can go there if you want.
I'd love to go.
Let's go.
Luca guides William up a steep portion of the valley for a rare look at another carving hidden
from public view.
Whoa, here we are.
Take a look where we are.
Wow.
We're like on the edge of a cliff here.
We have less than 100 people in the last 10 years
that came here.
Did you see them?
Wait a minute.
That's one of them, isn't it, right there?
Yeah.
How cool.
Couple of spacemen.
Wow.
You can see here the helmet with rays like the other one.
Yeah, these are just like the other guys.
Yeah, it's very similar, but they are bigger.
The detail is amazing.
Yeah.
It's like a mirror.
One in front of all the same position, same helmet.
There's clearly some kind of an exchange that's happening here.
It's like they're making a photograph of what happened at this place.
They're trying to say, at this spot, this is what we saw here.
We don't know, but it's very strange because it's hidden location.
These engravings are not meant to be seen by other people.
people. Of all places to find a rock like this, this is a very secretive, almost
initiatory place where select people would be brought here to be told this story about
these extraterrestrials. Yeah, maybe the hidden message for us. Do the so-called
Spaceman of Alkomenica commemorate an extraterrestrial visitation, as ancient
astronaut theorists suggest? Perhaps further clues can be found by
examining an Egyptian temple covered in hieroglyphs that tell the story of the creation of
humankind.
Of all the mysterious glyphs we've examined on ancient aliens, some of the most astounding
can be found in Egypt, where they're known as hieroglyphs.
One of the most extensive collections of hieroglyphs is at the Temple of Edfu, and in 2018,
Rami Romani gave us a rare opportunity to see them for us for us.
ourselves. Edfu, Egypt, April 2018. Egyptologist Rami Romani has invited author and researcher
Andrew Collins to join him on a visit to one of the most impressive and best-preserved shrines
in Egypt, the temple of Edfu, located on the west bank of the Nile, 465 miles south of Cairo.
According to mainstream archaeologists,
Edfu is believed to have been built sometime between 237 and 57 BC.
It is dedicated to the falcon-headed god Horus,
the son of Osiris and Isis.
This temple was one of the last temples that was ever built in ancient Egypt
during the Roman times.
When they built that temple, they were like,
we want to preserve the stories.
So let's gather all the mythology.
of ancient Egypt and try to put it in one temple.
It took 150 years to make this happen.
And then finally, we have the book of ancient Egyptian mythology.
It's right in front of us on all these walls.
Every wall is absolutely covered in hieroglyphs and images,
not only of the foundation of ancient Egypt and the first temple,
but also how the world came into being,
how Egypt came into being,
how the universe was essentially founded in the first place.
I mean, there's just so much here.
The most sacred part of Edfu is its inner sanctum,
featuring a 12-foot-tall granite statue.
This is it, right here.
This is how it all began.
Every symbol, every text, every little drawing in here
represents the most sacred thing for ancient Egyptians.
The question that humans now still ask themselves,
How did it all begin?
What created us?
But every religion talks about it.
Scientists try us to figure out.
Ancient Egyptians had an answer.
And it was right there.
Right on top of this is the Pyramidian.
That Pyramidion is the primeval mound
that appeared in the middle of the marches
where all the gods came and landed on for the first time
to start creating humanity.
This is the beginning of humanity.
And the Pyramidian is almost like a
miniature of what we see at Giza with the Great Pyramid, which is so fascinating because what
we have here is a focus of all of these chapels, finishing with this incredible structure,
pointing towards the stars.
It's actually pointing towards the origins of the gods themselves.
There's another piece of evidence here that you might like.
This is the boat.
a symbol of the boat that they believed that gods came on to the first primeval stone.
Well, that's quite extraordinary.
The first primeval mount, the gods would have arrived on this ship.
So it's all here in this sanctuary.
The whole story of humanity's beginning.
You know, it's placing the stars and how it arrived here in the first place.
This to me strongly suggests that they were aware that our origins are found amongst the stars.
Or could it just simply be humans trying to make religions explain what science can't explain?
But I don't think it's about religion.
This is about cosmology.
An ancient cosmology that we're now beginning to understand for the first time within science.
We can now essentially say that the idea that life came from the stars is almost certainly a reality,
whether it came here or on a meteorite or whatever.
somehow the ancient Egyptians knew this.
Are the ancient hieroglyphs carefully inscribed on the granite stone at the Temple of Edfu?
Merely the fancable notions of ancient Egyptian priests.
Or could they be based on actual historical events?
Perhaps the answers can be found by examining an ancient glyph that can only be seen from the sky.
On ancient aliens, we have traveled around the world, investigating incredible glyphs that for me prove we are not alone in the universe.
Some of the most dramatic examples of this are geoglyphs, enormous symbols that have been carved into the earth and can only be seen from the sky.
In 2018, David Childress got a bird's eye view of one of the most amazing geoglyphs we've ever seen.
ever examined. Blythe, California. Located in the desert just west of the Arizona border,
an estimated 300 gigantic figures can be seen etched into the arid ground.
Known as the Blythe Entaglios, these ancient carvings depict animals, spirals, and perhaps
most significantly, gigantic humanoid figures. This is Chris Hegg, author of
ancient universal language of man.
These entaglios are unique in that they are always found on the shorelines of ancient
lakes that existed 12,500 years ago and prior.
In April 2018, ancient astronaut theorist David Childress traveled to Blythe to meet
with historian Patricia Robles and Alfredo Figueroa, an elder of the local Chemauevi tribe.
He is also known to many in the region as the guardian of the glyphs.
David was eager to see firsthand whether the legends surrounding these unique geoglyphs could be true.
They can only be seen from the air, really, right?
Well, it can be seen from the ground, but you can see it all intact.
If you're walking on it, you really don't know what you're walking on.
Exactly, yeah, right.
We'll be able to see it with the drone, I think.
Who builds this and why?
The original tribe chair were the Aztecas.
Aztecs. Right. With the drone camera, David, Patricia, and Alfredo are able to see the blithe
entaglios from a vantage point that their creators never could have. At least, not without the aid
of some form of aircraft. But if this is true, then why were they created? And for whom?
All right, this is... Oh man, see what? See what means woman. And she is pregnant. Right here,
She's like having a baby then.
And right next to the Ocelot.
Ocelot is a jaguar.
So you can see it's a cab because that's a very long tail, huh?
Well, the tail is supposed to have been like a loop.
A U.
And in the cosmos, it represents the big dipper.
Here in this place, they came down,
and because they descended from the cosmos,
our ancestors created these images,
and align them with the constellations so that we would understand that story.
But of all the blithe and taglios, the ones Alfredo is most eager to show David, are those that are the largest and arguably the most dramatic.
They are the ones representing the Aztec gods, Coco Peli, better known as Quetzikotol and Cece Meadle, the Aztec Star God.
Which glyph is this one?
What we're seeing here is Kokopini.
And he represents Ketzalkoad.
The Aztec god of Ketsuqqo.
So this one is...
Sissimi.
His face there, you see his nose.
I mean, he's not like a normal person, is it?
No, well, it looks just like a...
Like E.T.
He looks like an extraterrestrial.
Uh-huh, yeah.
An extraterrestrial, is it possible that these incredible geoglyphs
represent not just mythological gods,
but actual alien beings whose arrival on Earth
was witnessed by the Azteca people.
Ancient astronaut theorists say, yes.
And Alfredo Figuera is convinced that it was here,
the location of the Aztec's legendary home of Atslan,
where extraterrestrial visitors came down from the sky.
Oslan is very important in Aztec mythology.
It was a place where the gods came down to give them the information and prophecies that the Aztecs had.
I mean, you're maintaining that this whole area here around Blythe and the Colorado River
is the ancient homeland of the Aztecs and the gods, too?
Yes.
The Jiglis were made by the Nawa people.
The Nawa are the origin of the Aztecas and the Mexicas.
So they're the ones that made them at first.
And then the Nawa people made these geoglyphs to honor the greater gods.
Right.
And to not forget where we came from.
That's right.
Could it be that Blythe, California really was the ancestral home of the Aztec people?
And that more than 1,000 years ago, the area was visited by extraterrestrial beings.
Ancient astronaut theorists suggest that the answers may be found
by examining the most mysterious glyphs of all.
Incredible images of visitors from the sky.
Any discussion of mysterious glyphs
has to include the incredible ancient rock art
of the Native Americans.
In 2013, I got the rare opportunity
to examine a remarkable collection of petroglyphs
in the Zuni territory of New Mexico
with tribal elder Clifford Mahoudi.
the Zuni Pueblo, New Mexico.
Located at an elevation of over 6,000 feet,
this barren desert land has been home to the Zuni
for at least 1,300 years.
Stretching roughly 700 square miles,
it contains literally thousands of ancient carvings
that most outsiders have never laid eyes on.
And the Zuni claim that some of these petroglyphs
depict visitations from star-bearing,
from star beings.
This is Zuni tribal leader, Clifford Mahoudi.
To the Zuni people and other tribes,
there's a spiritual connection with the star beings.
They're the ones that actually rule the universe
or the world that we're on.
If you look at the petroglyphs,
there's a lot of references to those type of entities.
There is definitely evidence
that aliens visited North America in a distant past,
and there are petroglyphs
throughout this part of the country carved by ancient Americans that depict just that.
In 2013, ancient astronaut theorist Georgiosuclos traveled to New Mexico to meet with Zuni
elder Clifford Mahoudi and get an exclusive look at this mysterious rock art.
What can you tell me about this petroglyph right here?
You know, if you can see on top of it where maybe a head would be, it's kind of eroded off.
But on the next part of it, there's work on the...
Parma is like extension of something sticking out.
Yeah, almost like lakes.
It could be something that they saw in the air.
Mm-hmm.
Isn't there a legend that beings visited on top of this mountain?
Oh yes, on all of the mesas.
Look at the triangle up there.
And you've got the dots around it that have been carved into the rock.
They remind me like stars.
In conjunction with all the stories of star people descending from the sky,
in fiery shields and things like this.
When I see a pattern like that,
I always think, what if this is something that they saw
and then they carved onto a rock?
For something like this that they saw,
maybe in the sky or had an encounter,
they would come over and say, well, it looked like this.
So they will put on there.
They say, well, the best of my recollection,
here's what it looked like.
So they would put it on there.
So this is a permanent record.
Right.
Oh, no, that is why Stone was used.
It is the only permanent record that we have.
Yes.
And the thing about it is that how does it connect to present day?
I mean, there are certain things out here where you can look at it.
Okay, for example, the UFO, we didn't know anything about UFOs until the last century.
But all those years, they knew about them, they saw them, it's something that says, okay, I'm going to put this down here
for longevity.
And I say, grandson, I want to show you what I saw when I was a young man.
And they'll come over and say that's exactly what I saw and here's what it looked like.
Is it possible that these ancient rock carvings in remote areas of the Zuni territory
provide a historical record of extraterrestrial contact?
You can find petroglyphs that are similar to those in the Zuni territory all throughout
North America.
And surprisingly, nearly identical.
Antical drawings can be found on the other side of the planet.
Brisbane Water National Park, New South Wales, Australia.
The Bulgandri Preservation Site is one of numerous sacred indigenous locations
where ancient rock art and engravings can be found.
Many are believed to date back thousands of years.
In February 2016, researcher and publisher Georgiosuclos travel to
Australia to meet with Aboriginal elder Kevin Gavie Duncan to learn about one of the oldest carvings that can be found here
So what are we looking at here? So this image is an actual image of what we say is our godfather
Creator being by army
That's what our people believe. Okay
Bayami came from what a place that we call the morning star within the mirror booker
Mirror means stars and Bukha means river.
It is the Milky Way that flows across the night sky.
No kidding. Okay.
And so he is one of those sky heroes that has descended from the Milky Way?
Yes. He's a sky hero.
And Bahami is carved in a manner as you see them and he has his arms out.
And he holds the moon in one hand and the morning star in the other.
which is a bit like what we call planet Earth.
And these are the two moons which exist around the morning star in the Mirabuka
that Bayami came from.
And this is the canoe.
He sailed through the river of life in the Mirabuka across the sky.
He sailed through the Milky Way.
Yes, he sailed through the Milky Way.
And this was his vessel that he sailed and landed to the Earth.
And he crushed the top of the mountain, which is the sacred mountain of Mount Yango, not far from here.
And when he landed, they said the fire came from his feet and it burnt the top of the mountain
and all around it every time he landed.
So the landings were always associated with a lot of noise, smoke and fire?
Yes.
The fire trail that was left when Bayami was leaving the top of the mountain into the sky world.
When Bayami had left was so bright.
People interpret that as a spaceship of some...
kind as coming and going.
But this is the way we simply interpret Bayami's spaceship.
Right, but it's because the vocabulary didn't exist at the time.
Yes.
So to me, those are all wonderfully poetic ways to describe eyewitness accounts of things that were incredible.
Yes.
This site is considered around 8,000 to 10,000 years old.
Wow.
These carvings, these rock paintings, these are
our books. They are considered to be basically truth. Do the petroglyphs found in Australia and
North America tell the same story of alien visitation? Ancient astronaut theorists say yes and
suggest that another series of rock carvings found in Australia may reveal the truth
about how these other-worldly visitors arrived on planet Earth.
ancient aliens we've examined glyphs all over the world and we find strikingly similar imagery
again and again.
But what was completely unexpected was the discovery of what are clearly Egyptian hieroglyphs,
not in Egypt, but in Australia.
Central Coast, New South Wales, Australia.
Deep in the Brisbane Water National Park is a mysterious site known as the Gosford Glyphs.
The site consists of two massive eight-foot-high walls engraved with over 300 ancient carvings.
Carvings that experts say do not resemble indigenous artwork, but Egyptian hieroglyphs.
After deciphering the texts, 21st century Egyptologist Ray Johnson believed them to reveal the burial site of Lord Nefertiru, a member of the Egyptian royal family, who died while visiting the area with his brother.
sometime between 2637 and 2614 BC.
While visiting the area in 2016,
Giorgio Suclos met with local ancient astronaut theorist Evan Strong
to get a first-hand look at these enigmatic carvings.
Wow!
That's incredible!
I had no idea. I mean, this looks totally different than on pictures.
So what do these hieroglyphs say?
Well, at least one panel talks about two brothers, two princes, coming here from Egypt.
They were shipwrecked.
One of them ended up getting bitten by a snake.
He then died.
The fear is then he was interred here, and that's why you've got pyroglysis here,
because he died here.
But there's these other walls with a mixture of symbols.
This one over here, it's more of a philosophical astrophysics-style thing with...
thing with symbols meaning all sorts of esoteric stuff.
Now, have these symbols at all been interpreted by Egyptologists?
There's been a few actually, a few different people have done that.
And what was their reaction?
Well, Raymond Johnson was one of the first people to come here and translate.
He actually sent some of his translations off to the Cairo Library
and Dr. Abu Dio Ghazi ended up saying, yep, you're on the right
track, something called Proto Egyptian.
And how old do you reckon these are?
We're thinking because of their prevalence at least in one panel of Proto Egyptian,
that it's about 4,600 years old.
Wow. Are there any hieroglyphs that stand out to you?
Yeah, definitely. Follow me down here and I'll show you this other one.
So this one here, we call the UFO glyph, and people have called that since they've been coming here,
because it kind of looks like a UFO.
It definitely has the classic UFO shape.
It's got the rays or whatever you don't call it.
What would you suggest if anyone says, well, this is not a UFO,
it's some other symbol, but certainly not that.
I think someone suggested it's jewelry,
but it's a completely different symbol that's upside down,
and it really doesn't quite fit in.
It's one of those symbols here that doesn't fit into the canon.
In your opinion, why do you think the Egyptians made it all the way to Australia?
I think they were looking for esoteric.
Wisdom, definitely.
From the Aboriginals.
Yes.
The ancient Egyptians, we have stories and Aboriginal stories about their arrival
and about their visits, long before Europeans had arrived here.
Naturally, we would have shared ceremony with these people
because they have the same similar beliefs as our people.
Egyptians have that same spiritual connection to the sky world.
Hieroglyphs found in Australia.
Might the continent have actually served as a pilgrimage site for visitors seeking a direct connection to the so-called gods?
Ancient astronaut theorists say, yes, and suggest further evidence of this otherworldly link
can be found in one of the most remote places in the world.
What's fascinating about many of the glyphs we've examined on ancient aliens is that they depict the natural world of our ancestors.
with extreme accuracy.
But every now and then we find a bird that looks more like an airplane,
or a serpent with wings, or even a turtle descending from the sky.
And this is exactly what I found at one of the most remote locations in the world,
the Marquesas Islands.
The South Pacific Ocean, June 2018.
Ancient astronaut theorist Georgiosugelos and David Childress,
set out to explore the remote Marquesas Islands
in search of evidence that extraterrestrial contact
took place here in the remote past.
Arriving on the island of Nuku Hiva,
they are met by a local guide,
Aniata Kimiteta.
She has brought them to an area known as Kamwehe,
a sacred place believed to be rich
in what the natives call manna or spiritual power.
So we're arriving at this spot where I really wanted to show you about the site.
Oh, look at this.
What we see here, it's what we call a petroglyphs.
Yeah.
So you have three turtles.
And also on the rock, you can see a canoe.
Okay.
So you have the head of the canoe here that looks a little bit like a bird.
Their canoes had a birdhead at the front.
You see the beak?
Yeah, that looks like a bird head.
Yeah.
And what is the significance of the bird head?
of the turtles.
The turtle is actually the messenger from the gods.
He was a very sacred animal.
People were not allowed to eat them.
You know, I think this is really interesting what you said
that the turtle is regarded here as a messenger of the gods,
because this is not something new.
It's not something native to this area.
There are other parts of the world where the turtle
is described by having descended from the sky.
And the idea.
that this is here too considered a messenger of the gods,
that to me is a connection to potential extraterrestrials.
Throughout the planet, numerous ancient cultures
have origin stories that involve some sort of divine
or cosmic turtle.
Followers of Japanese Shinto venerate Kameishi,
a stone turtle that portends the end of the world.
In Guatemala, there are legends of giant flying turtles,
and even artifacts that feature the image of a man
wearing what appears to be a helmet lying inside a turtle shell.
In North America, the Iroquois Indians tell tales of a sky goddess
who falls to earth from the heavens,
whereupon a giant turtle rises up from the ocean to catch her.
I think it's interesting here, this canoe, which would have been very large,
has the birdhead on it,
and you have the birdman of Easter.
Island that are so famous.
One of Easter Island's ancient traditions involves Tangadamanu, or the Birdman
cult.
According to legend, the creator god Maki-Maki-Maki was looking into a mirror and saw a bird
land on his shoulder.
Seeing his image combined with the bird, he decided to make a son who is half-man, half-bird.
In turn, the Rapa Nui people of Easter Island worshipped the bird man as the predecessor of all humans.
One of the central focuses of the rituals, the annual rituals at Easter Island, was that of Tangatu Manu, the Birdman.
And the Birdman is a universal symbol that we find in many parts of the globe that relates to ancestry of
associated with figures, characters in feather coats,
who were seen to be able to go between this world and the next.
And here we have these same ideas on Easter Island.
Is there more to see on the island?
We have a lot more to see on the island.
OK.
So let's go.
OK.
After showing Giorgio and David the ancient petroglyphs,
Anyata takes them to a site that
is some of the most striking statuary in the
Marquesas.
Right now we are at the Tohua of Temahia, so the Tohua is the gathering place.
And so this sculpture here is a modern sculpture.
But is this based on something old?
Yes, because the site that we are on was rebuilt.
Even though it's modern, it's really based on the original statue.
Oh wow, okay.
Is this considered a Tiki?
Yes, Tiki represent the population.
So to the Marquesque.
In the Marquesan people, what is a tiki?
A tiki at first was the representation of our god of magic and sorcery.
He was one of the only god in French Polynesia that has the face of a man.
He became our protector because when you have a tiki by your side,
then you're protected from your enemy.
In the marquises, the word tiki can be used to refer both to an ancestral figure
that came to the islands in ancient times,
as well as the statues that represent him.
They are variously carved in both wood and stone,
and often depict a being with large,
goggle-like eyes.
And this is what Tiki looks like.
Yes, because they say in the legend
that when Tiki left the earth,
they made the sculpture of how he looked like,
just to have something to remember from Tiki.
So that's how he looked like, actually.
It looks very strange to me.
This is a representation of what your ancestors thought
this figure looked like.
It doesn't look like a man.
It looks weird.
Yeah, I mean, he sort of looks like a man,
but with these big goggle eyes
and the elongated head and everything,
he looks like an extraterrestrial.
Is it possible that glyphs found on nearly every continent,
every continent reveal that ancient people all over the world encountered extraterrestrial
visitors. Ancient astronaut theorists suggest that some rock art provides a record not only of alien
contact, but even of how they got here. Could these mysterious petroglyphs provide the best evidence
yet of ancient alien contact? To me, the ultimate proof lies in the fact that all over the world,
cultures that were separated by thousands of miles
carved the same strange figures and symbols again and again,
leaving us with a record of extraterrestrial intervention on Earth.
Our alien origins are in plain sight for anyone to see.
You only need to read the writing on the wall.
