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Review of Ancient Aliens S11E15 "Shiva the Destroyer"

9/2/2016

33 Comments

 
I can’t say that I’m sorry to see it go. This episode of Ancient Aliens marked the end of its eleventh season (and seventh calendar year) on the air. This season was also the longest since season three, and the first I can remember to run almost uninterrupted. (It was off the day of the Olympic opening ceremony.) All told, this gave me Ancient Aliens fatigue, and it sapped some of the joy even out of pointing to such ridiculous missteps as citing the Weekly World News as a reliable source, as they did a few weeks ago. Fifteen episodes is just too much of a bad thing, but clearly History’s audience disagrees. Last week’s episode drew 1.12 million viewers, about even with its season average, a number that has rarely moved more than 10% up or down year after year.
 
It seemed fitting that the morning this episode aired, the Bizarro comic strip ran this:
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This cartoon neatly encapsulates the stereotypes of the ancient astronaut theory, from the popular (though incorrect) shorthand that aliens built the pyramids, to the assumption inherent in the theory that ancient people were pretty stupid.

Speaking of stupid, we might as well discuss the show.
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Segment 1
Our topic for this evening is the Hindu deity Shiva, who is thought by some to originate not with Indo-European mythology, as most Hindu gods, but from the Indus Valley Civilization, and thought by others to be a composite who subsumed aspects of a range of Indo-European gods and pre-Indo-European gods. The show ignores this to go back to the classic ancient astronaut claim that the Mahabharata describes the nuclear annihilation of a city and descriptions of alien spaceships, the vimanas. This is only partly true. Powerful weapons are indeed described, but they bear only a superficial resemblance to nuclear weapons—the more exact similarities are modern fabrications. There are also flying ships in the epic, but these are etymologically derived from earlier accounts of horse-drawn chariots that could fly, a clear literary projection of the ground world into the sky.
 
The show alleges that Shiva’s third eye isn’t symbolic but rather an energy beam that shot out of Shiva’s forehead. Giorgio Tsoukalos bizarrely identifies Shiva with Zeus, Viracocha, Quetzalcoatl, Odin, and other chief gods and civilizing gods of various mythologies. This is bizarre on many levels, not least of which is that Zeus has a Vedic analogue: Dyaus, the Vedic god who shares his name and originates in the same Indo-European deity.
 
The show also ascribes to Shiva the onset of Noah’s Flood, even though Hindu mythology does not. In the most ancient surviving Hindu versions of the Flood myth, such as the one recorded in the Satapatha Brahmana, it is Vishnu who takes the lead role in warning the first man, Manu, of the coming disaster.

Segment 2
The second segment reviews the rock-cut stone temple to Shiva known as Kailasa, carved entire from the living rock in the early middle ages. The show alleges that such rock carvings are impossible in the eighteen-year timeframe ascribed to it. The show also claims that the excavated rock “disappeared.” I can’t find any reference to the building taking eighteen years to build; it seems to be a misunderstanding based on the length of the commissioning king’s reign (756-773 CE).
 
The show also takes for truth the semi-fictional 1876 spiritualist text Ghost-Land, which claims that a cult had a secret headquarters in tunnels under the temple. They ascribe the text to Emma Britten, though she credited herself only as its translator, the work being that of the Chevalier Louis de B—. (The actual authorship is unknown.) The text is a common enough Western Orientalizing narrative, in which a Westerner travels to India, encounters holy men (in this case the fictitious Ellora Brotherhood) and receives spiritual wisdom from them. They lie, though, in saying that the leader phased in and out of existence; the author actually says in Chapter 21 that he came and went “like a spirit,” meaning that he was fast and silent. David Childress alleges that the temple is older than archaeologists let on, and that it was created in the Great Flood, which the aliens rode out in a city under the temple.
 
Segment 3
The third segment talks about Shiva’s stone penises, the lingam. The show rejects the phallic worship inherent in the stone penises and instead suggests that they are copies of “technological” devices. Kathleen McGowan Coppens, who believes herself to be Jesus’ descendant, claims that the stone represents “atomic energy.” The narrator calls it a “mysterious shape,” and a talking head called Praveen Mohan claims that it looks like a nuclear reactor, and the milk poured over it in ritual is coolant. It’s a dick. No points to guess what the milk represents.
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Segment 4
The fourth segment describes pages of an undated text that describe the works of Sage Agastya, author of the Agastya Saṁhitā, laying out how to build a battery. David Childress and a physicist then reconstruct this battery and claim it has amazing power. If this sounds familiar, it is because I wrote about it last December, when I found the story in an old book of mystery-monger Andrew Tomas. It’s an old hoax, and rather surprising that producers for the show only got around to doing an episode about it after I wrote of it, coincidentally right around the time they would have been breaking episodes for this season. As I discovered, everyone who wrote about the text, including David Childress, who popularized it in 2000, pretended to have seen or know of someone who has seen a text that does not exist. Even the alleged “discoverer” of the text lied about it. The text comes from the December 1923 Vedic Magazine (vol. 21, no. 7), where it is given not as an ancient recipe for making a battery but an admitted modern interpretation of an alleged ancient poem! There is no actual ancient text describing how to make a battery.
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Segment 5
The fifth segment discusses Mount Kailash, the mythological home of Shiva. The show follows a Russian claim that the mountain is actually an artificial pyramid, though there is no evidence of artificiality. The evidence seems to be that pilgrims to the holy mountain feel “energy” in the area. The show tries to link this to Mount Meru, though it is not always identified with the mythological axis of the world, and sometimes stands alongside it. Childress claims that the mountain is hollow, and that it contains nuclear waste from alien activities, though no radiation measurements have ever suggested such a thing. 
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Segment 6
And what a surprise that the last segment uses Nicholas Roerich’s UFO sighting at Mount Kailash, also from Andrew Tomas’s book, that I wrote about a month before discussing the Agastya Saṁhitā “battery.” Roerich actually saw a weather balloon, launched by Sven Hedin nearby. Either I am very good at psychically intuiting this show’s “research,” or could it be that someone at the show reads my blog? As Giorgio Tsoukalos likes to say, I’m just asking questions. (Best answer: They are probably just recycling Tomas via Childress.)
33 Comments
TheBigMike
9/2/2016 10:19:04 pm

As a certain E. Von D. has said... "Nobody reads the question marks!" I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if some of the ideas were coming from your blog. I'd suggest trying to trap them by lacing the blog with a fake article or two and then suing, but that would be highly unethical. We all know what's going on and it's just a shame that they really can't be called on it. They could at least offer you a writing credit...

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Only Me
9/3/2016 12:10:02 am

"The third segment talks about Shiva’s stone penises, the lingam. The show rejects the phallic worship inherent in the stone penises and instead suggests that they are copies of 'technological' devices."

I'm surprised the show didn't have Childress in a porn shop, looking at dildos, before grabbing one and asking, "Could this be some koind of alien technology?"

"It's a dick."

Holy shit, I think someone better call NASA to help locate my sides!

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bkd69
9/3/2016 02:17:47 am

Because making stuff up would take actual work.

If you're going to posit leftover nuclear facilities from ancient alien activity, why, in Xenu's name, would you ignore Oklo?

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Graffitibird
9/3/2016 08:41:31 am

"David Childress alleges that the temple is older than archaeologists let on, and that it was created in the Great Flood, which the aliens rode out in a city under the temple."

Would it not have been easier and more efficient for the aliens to simply fly away in their sky-cars?

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Jim
9/3/2016 10:10:14 am

Nope, some had to stay behind to keep the nuclear reactor from having a premature critical mass episode.

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jiiikoo
9/3/2016 10:36:12 am

Critical mass ejection from the lingam

SouthCoast
9/5/2016 06:40:02 pm

Nope. 'Cause when you're an ancient antediluvian soooper genius, you just know that the best place to ride out a flood is underground, somewhere in the vicinity of the local water table.

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Shane Sullivan
9/3/2016 11:46:18 am

Anyone else notice the narrator's pronunciation of "Shiva"? I was half way into the episode before I realized it was about a Hindu god and not the Jewish mourning period.

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Clete
9/3/2016 12:11:55 pm

Watched only a portion of the episode. Two things stuck me as odd. If you were going to survive a flood, wouldn't you go high ground and not to some underground city, which would need an outlet to the surface to provide air circulation. I mean, the conventional idea to survive a flood is to move to higher ground.
Second, after the flood, the waters receded. Where did the water go? Did a group of ancient aliens show up with some large sponges and mop it up?

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Jim
9/3/2016 12:21:25 pm

Um,,, back in those days the world was still flat, so the excess water just poured off the edge of the world.

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DaveR
9/3/2016 12:34:35 pm

This is predicated on the belief that a man named Jesus Christ actually lived and was executed by the Romans. Even though an entire religion has been created around this man, there is no concrete historical evidence that he existed.

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Jim
9/3/2016 12:55:24 pm

If you want concrete evidence, Scott Wolter is your man.

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Kal
9/3/2016 12:34:43 pm

Next on Ancient Aliens, how the aliens could be related to the movie Sausage Party...Uhm...

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Daniel Djadan
9/3/2016 07:44:06 pm

How does it feel to be part of the conspiracy, Jason?
You're doing a great public service, so thank you. When will we be rid of this travesty called the "History" Channel?

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Rose McDonald
9/4/2016 04:01:38 am

I've been sitting back quietly observing the froth and fever of the fringers for a while. I've come to the conclusion that an awful lot of them are devolving from goofy conspiracy theory fans into outright foaming at the mouth cults. Several of the proponents of fringe theories are so locked into their suppositions that they're beginning to sound delusional. The least hint of disagreement sends them into a rage, and they respond with sarcasm, insults, and fabrications to gloss over previous fabrications.I'm giving the whole misagash a year, tops, to implode.

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BobM
9/4/2016 04:07:01 pm

I sympathise with your wish to stop critiquing ancient aliens. In fact I'm surprised you stuck it out for so long.

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Jim
9/4/2016 07:44:39 pm

No kidding, I watched part of this episode just because of Jasons comments on segment 3.First and last time I ever watch this show ! I am much more entertained by Jasons blog than I ever could be by the actual show.
The part I came in on had them questioning why there was no access to vertical shafts dropping straight down, insinuating they were hiding something. They might be on to something, I mean what's wrong with allowing tourists to wander around darkened chambers with sudden 40 foot drops onto rock floors ? What could possibly be the downside ?

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Harte
9/6/2016 05:48:42 pm

You want entertainment, watch the show with the sound off. I do impressions of the talking heads while watching this way. Try it. NASA will have to find your sides too.

Rick
9/9/2016 01:46:20 pm

I like to watch the shows and read Jason at the same time.

Edith D. Thurman
3/21/2017 07:43:22 pm

OMFG I thought the same thing...please go ahead open the doors so people can fall in! LMAF. I personally don't see a down side. Hehehe

mahesh desai
9/5/2016 05:35:04 pm

so, was shiva and alien or not? I did not see anyone here refute what the episode claims about shiva being an et.

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Daniel Djadan
9/5/2016 05:55:14 pm

It would be impossible to refute that Shiva was an E.T, just as it would be impossible to prove he wasn't a time traveller from our future or someone's epileptic hallucination. Simply because you can't know the origin of the myth and enter the mind of the person who created it. The burden of proof is on those who propose that mythology would not appear without actual physical "gods" flying around above the heads of our ancestors, because who would ever invent something fantastic or write an imaginary story.

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Peter Uwira
9/8/2016 01:31:54 pm

This would have been the perfect episode to shed some ligth on the mystery behind the "CERN Shiva Ritual Video" from August 11, 2016. (The Shiva statue at CERN was a topic in S07E03 The God Particle: http://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/review-of-ancient-aliens-s07e03-the-god-particle).

This story immediately made it into the mainstream media (I first read about it on the official website of Austria's state TV: http://orf.at/stories/2354332/).

A CERN spokeswoman admitted that this video was actually filmed ***on their grounds*** and that those responsible for the "prank" had ***access badges***. The investigation would remain internal and ***police would not be involved*** (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/08/19/cern-launches-investigation-after-pranksters-sneak-onto-campus-t/)

As in so many similar cases there are no updates. Who were the pranksters? Why is it so hard to indentify them? What were their motives? What are the consequences? Are there similar "pranks" happening at other supposedly rational institutions?

So the void created by the lack of any official updates is filled with more Youtube stuff:

Leaked video of mock sacrifice performed at CERN feels staged:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woQDrs8BzZU

Quantum Effect - The Cern Ritual Sacrifice:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4aTFrcEpGM

The official CERN statement (https://press.cern/backgrounders/cern-answers-queries-social-media):

I have seen a video of a strange ritual at CERN, is it real?

No, this video is a work of fiction showing a contrived scene. CERN and its on-site accommodation fills up with scientists from across the world coming to CERN as part of their work. Work at CERN can take place 24 hours a day, 365 days a year with shift work and data analysis. Persons that are authorised to access the CERN site sometimes let their sense of humour go too far, and that is what has happened on this occasion. The video was filmed from an office building; strict safety systems are in place to prevent any unauthorised access to technical and experimental facilities. CERN does not condone this kind of spoof, which breaches CERN’s professional guidelines, and is currently carrying out an internal investigation.

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shamond
11/20/2016 02:48:06 am

Shiva is an inter dimensional being that lives in what I would call a kind of hyper space I had a unfortunate and completly horifing incedent where I interrupted him Influencing a group of people. He was just as suprised as I was that I could see him. Frankly at first and for a long time I dint really know what I had seen.

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Kamesh
12/23/2016 06:27:09 am

"Lingam" also means a marker not just dick.
This was used as a marker to depict areas belonging to shaivi-ites when there was a clash of belief in Hindus. The other sect followed using "Swastika"(Reverse of nazi symbol). Both are prevalent these days. Your review was helpful and educating; just one thing was wrong.

Thank You
=)

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Malakar
2/17/2017 11:40:00 pm

Lingam means symbol in sanskrit. In hindi linga means dick. So vedas written in sanskrit and shova lingam is the symbol of shiva.

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Girish
6/23/2017 09:03:37 pm

You are wrong one thing that is Shiva Lingam doesn't represent phallus. This is spread my English missionaries to put Hinduism in bad light. The Lingam represents Infinite Consciousness and is elliptical in shape. There is a story where Shiva ask other two gods of trinity, Vishnu and Brahma to find the end of this infinite consciousness, but Brahma lies to have found the end, so there are no temples for Brahma and is not worshiped in Hinduism.

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Rohit Patil
7/11/2017 10:11:52 am

You seriously need to do some research man.... The theories you have put forward is absolutely bullshit... You need to do research on agastya samhita.... It is the manuscript that dates back to more than 4000 years ago.....also the theories you have put forward on episode God particle regarding vedas on origin of universe as well... The hymn you have said is an incomplete one... Read the vedas fully

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Harte
7/24/2017 11:52:20 am

Agastya samhita is a collection of different books, all by the mythical sage Agastya. So, which myth to read???

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aleen
7/14/2018 04:46:32 am

The 'lingam' represents the formation, reproduction and maintaining the human kind. If Shiva form and destroy, then unless the most important part of human reproduction lingam and yoni which is seen in form of symbols in temples, human kind will cease to exist. There are evidences that could be linked that hindu's originated from Aliens or formations of Aliens because-
1. There is no story in Hinduism of evolution.
2. The proofs of ancient temples built with hug stones carved in
mountains is not work of ordinary
3. Hindu's is a way of living and not a religion and believed one
need to be born as a Hindu and not converted to spread
religion
4. Scientific details of space ships, submarines, surgeries in
Hindu books.

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alchemist
8/11/2018 09:31:05 am

One of the stories of Shiva is this. He was unborn and he did not die-his birth was prophesized by sages (sound similar!! to Jesus and Buddha). During his youth he was a cow herder and did normal things but was also in love with Radha, who was about 5 years older than him, and he wanted to marry her. However, he was dissuaded from doing so. But on insisting he was told that his mother was not his mother and that he was born for a much larger purpose. He was told of the prophesy by the sage. He resisted that idea and said that "he loved this land and the women and the cows- that he had no desire to be "the avatar" or "divine representation" on Earth". Following this deeply disturbing event he went to the top of the local mountaintop/hill. As he was standing for hours on the mountaintop he received enlightenment or "divine energy". When he came back down, his persona had changed from one of an immature man to that of a wise enlightened soul. His friends and family, noticed the change, and bowed down to him. Guess he had a "halo" - not the Beyonce kind. It was then that he grew into fulfilling his prophesy. He never had children, never aged. He had no father and mother. And the depiction of him is an all powerful being in human form. Not only that Hindu scholars have placed him living around 60-70,000 years back not the silly Western scientific idea of no real human civilization before Sumeria.

Two below water cites have been identified off the coast of Gujarat in India-one thought to be Dwaraka and one off Kambat. Apparently carbon dating (not sourced) has put one of those cities about 32000 years ago!! This Dwaraka is also thought to be the birthplace of Krishna. For those interested, the root is Krishna and Christ seems to be the same. Coincidence??

Now one can speculate if this is mythology or one can start looking at our mythologies differently and detect a hint of greater truth in them. That is a matter of personal choice after doing your own due diligence. What is getting increasingly clear with more modern discoveries of more ancient and lost civilizations, that our entire story of man will be re-written. Not only that the entire story of man's evolution will need to be re-written and the idea that we evolved from monkeys over 21 millions years ago after a split in the evolution tree.

There is a wealth of material in the Hindu texts-unmatched in any other civilization, that bears examination for truth or mythology. Whether Plato was correct about Atlantis or if he just made it up- who knows. Graham Hancock suggests a Lost Civilization in Fingerprints of the Gods. The sphinx may be a lot older than it is given credit for -perhaps if the erosion theory is correct then it dates back to deglaciation and flooding that occurred around 10000-12600 years back or so. Hindu scholars date Mahabharata to a much older time and do not agree with Western dating. Not only that Western authors, to denigrate Hindu thought, have suggested that polytheism is non-sense (because it did not conform to the one God thesis) and non-Christian, and therefore wrong despite the fact that the texts were written thousands of years before JC. In fact most pre-JC cultures practice polytheism-Greeks, Romans, native Americans, Sumerians, Egyptians, Hindus, etc. The Sumerians point to the Gods for giving them "science" and agriculture. Nothing looks the way it is- whether one is in the fringe or not. By description of Shiva's life, he was an alien. Not only that-if one agrees with the "currently hallucinatory" idea of highly advanced multidimensional entities (MDE's) that can manifest as humans without being born, then by definition, Shiva was that. And humans by force would call him a God, given his advanced and evolved state.One book that talks about MDEs is "Autobiography of a Yogi". In fact Mahavatar Babaji is credited as being just that. And there are many stories of "contactees" having witnessed MDEs. Pure hallucination!!! or attention seeking??

There is a lot more to lingam than just a dick - Jason. Not having lived during those times, one can only guess at the concept behind the lingam- be it just a dick or representation of human fertility or a powerful source of creativity. Think we would all be wiser if we read some of those Hindu texts or translations thereof with both an open mind and a healthy dose of skepticism while understanding that the way we process information is limited to our way of looking at things not obvious to us.

A belief or non-belief in something only destroys that thing. The Ancient Alien shows are sensationalizing a different idea, lack entertainment value, and lack the kind of due diligence and research that is needed to give it credibility. What you and I are required to do is to have an open mind. There is too much mystery out there in our texts and in our multidimensional Universe(s) to have any single truth. All belief systems are expedient.

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RL Poole link
9/22/2018 08:17:00 am

This is how much of an "expert" Praven Mohan really is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2X1flVlacA

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