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Review of Ancient Aliens S13E10 "The Sentinels"

8/10/2018

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​In circling the world for material to fill the empty hours of Ancient Aliens, it is no wonder that every so often they alight on the Polynesian areas of the Pacific. Remote, largely unknown in America, and home to haunting stone statues, Polynesia provides a hint of the exotic that recalls the thrill of old pulp adventures, mixed with the unfortunate legacy of Mu, the fictitious lost continent ruled by a vanished white master race that was supposed to have connected the Polynesian islands before it sank into the waters. But the funny thing about old myths and legends is that you can make them seem to support whatever you want. In this episode we hear how Polynesian tales reflect allegations of alien contact—or “ultimate proof” as the episode description falsely claims. But consider this: You can also make the legends seem to support not the ancient astronaut theory but H. P. Lovecraft’s “The Call of Cthulhu.” Take this point that I brought up many years ago, on an earlier occasion when Ancient Aliens tried to impose extraterrestrials onto Polynesian myths: “In fact, several Pacific cultures have an octopus god who lives in a stone palace under the sea, is resurrected on occasion, and brings terror and madness to those who meet him. His name is, in Tonga, Tutula. Does this mean that Cthulhu is also real?”
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An early depiction of the colossal statues of Easter Island.
​Segment 1
Easter Island has been a frequent touchstone of the ancient astronaut theory in general and of Ancient Aliens in particular, in no small measure due to the otherworldly aesthetics of the colossal stone moai that dot Rapa Nui and the bafflement of early explorers as to how the statues were carved and erected. (They didn’t know that the denuded island once had trees, which were used to help move them.) William Henry says they are “alien”-looking statues. The look more like H. P. Lovecraft than the Greys, truth be told, but this show has a long history of ignoring the idea of stylization in art. Last year, Expedition Unknown sent Josh Gates to the island to hunt for evidence of space aliens, and nearly sixty years ago, the anthropologist Robert Suggs (with whom I have discussed Polynesian history) lamented that even at that date Easter Island had become the province of mystery-mongers. “The mystery of this island, then, is largely of an artificial nature, created for specific purposes by nonscientific authors.” The passing decades did not change his view. Now Ancient Aliens sends Giorgio Tsoukalos and David Childress to Polynesia to expand the “mystery” across the Pacific.
 
The first segment tries to dismiss any potential explanation for how the statues were moved given by archaeologists so that they can endorse an oral tradition that magic made the statues walk into position on their own. Tsoukalos thinks himself clever by saying that the people of the island were either “off their rockers” or witnessed levitation technology. They aren’t much for symbolism over at Ancient Aliens, but one explanation involves the use of rockers to basically “walk” the statues into place. Childress suggests that the statues beamed out a force field to protect the island, even though he offers no explanation for how this technology would work.
 
The show suggests that the only moai to face the ocean rather than inland, a group of seven on Ahu Akiv, are designed to target the Marquesas Islands, in whose direction they face, albeit from two thousand miles away.
PictureMarquesas Tiki / Wikimedia Commons
​Segment 2
The second segment takes place on one of the Marquesas where Childress and Tsoukalos examine petroglyphs and statues dating back centuries. Because some of the drawings depict turtles, the show tries to tie this to world turtle myths, though animals, as one must note, tend to exist in more than one place and to have stories told about them where they live. The show also talks about the Birdman cult, but they make the same mistake that Josh Gates did. As I said last year, “The story of sky beings is actually a part of the largely unrelated story of the Birdman, a more recent cult established after around 1500 CE that replaced the previous religious belief system. We know that the Birdman can’t be an alien who built the moai because the Birdman cult didn’t take root until after the majority of moai had been built.” By collapsing historical developments into a generic “past,” the show eliminates context and attempts to pick and choose among beliefs and ideas to fit a particular narrative. Tweedle-Dee and Tweedle-Dum gawk at some Tiki images, depicting the first created human, with large, goggle-like eyes and speculate that the ancestral spirit was an extraterrestrial. (Tiki statues come in many forms, and the large eyes are a stylized form popular in the Marquesas; elsewhere, they are more naturalistic.) Tsoukalos literally calls the Tiki images “weird,” which just about sums up the entirety of the failure of Ancient Aliens and the ancient astronaut theory to either respect or understand the cultures they exploit for titillation and profit.

​The segment ends by setting up the question of why a Marquesas myth tells that seven royal brothers were exiled from the islands and, in leaving, discovered Easter Island. 

​Segment 3
After the break, the narrator calls Marquesas Tiki statues “disturbing,” which is yet another insult to indigenous, non-Western art. Tweedles Dee and Dum compare the Tiki statues to stylized indigenous art from Peru and Mexico, and the narrator adds several other indigenous artworks from Africa and Asia, before they basically declare that non-Western art styles must reflect extraterrestrials, on account of how the artists couldn’t possibly use stylization and must have carved what they literally saw. You know, like Salvador Dali and Pablo Picasso did. As a result, the two men claim that a statue showing a goddess giving birth is actually an image of a spaceship letting out passengers and a llama. Another Tiki, which appears to be polydactyl, they assume must be a literal depiction of polydactyl space aliens. “Why did they carve six fingers if they did not see six fingers?” One might ask why they think aliens have six fingers. This is a trait that some Christian creationists have associated with Nephilim (based on the Giant of Gath in 2 Samuel 21:20), but it is not a common trait in either world mythology or modern UFO discussions. This seems to be another case of Christian Nephilim beliefs seeping into the show, as has happened with increasing frequency over the past few seasons.
​Segment 4
My intuition was proved right when the show descended into speculation about Nephilim giants and alleged that the “ruling elite” of Polynesia were extraterrestrial fallen angel Nephilim Bible giants. As this slow-moving episode rolls on, the fourth segment discusses the Polynesian belief in a spiritual power force called mana, and the show descends into some lurid pulp titillation by reveling—complete with bloody reenactments—in a tradition of cannibalism in the Marquesas. Exploiting Pacific Island cannibalism for white audiences’ excitement has a long history. I have a book on my shelf entitled Head-Hunting in the Solomon Islands that is not too far afield from this, though ironically more respectful than Ancient Aliens despite its prejudices. The show, however, descends into similarly uncomfortable colonialist tropes when it concludes that the founders of Easter Island were giant alien hybrid elites who fled the Marquesas because “the native” wanted to eat them in an ignorant and mistaken hope of consuming their extraterrestrial power. The trope of the civilized outsiders who impose their rule but fear primitive violent savages won’t accept it is a staple of imperialist and colonialist fiction, and it is disturbing here to see Ancient Aliens not only adopting basically racist views of indigenous Pacific Islanders but also asking us as the audience to identify with the space alien ruling elite, who stand in for the white colonialists of the traditional narratives or the ancient white master race of Mu, as Childress used to claim in the 1980s. 
​Segment 5
The fifth segment returns to Easter Island to discuss the hats worn by the moai, which were recently discovered to have originally sported petroglyphs. Andrew Collins parrots “ancient mysteries” books going back decades when he suggests that Easter Island was not merely the home of the Rapa Nui but instead was a locus for many different cultures. He bases this only on the fact that Easter Island used cyclopean masonry, like other ancient cultures. It was the most stable style, and requires no trans-Pacific contact to explain. Childress continues the theme by asking why Easter Island was the “navel of the world” like Delphi and other sites (hint: all humans have belly-buttons, so the metaphor is hardly unusual), and he asks about a global positioning grid that links Easter Island to other ancient sites. These arguments were presented nearly in the same terms in Graham Hancock’s Heaven’s Mirror twenty years ago, and they were not original then. They also don’t require aliens, which raises the question of what, exactly, Ancient Aliens thinks it is proving by speculating about transoceanic contact in some unspecific pre-Columbian time period.
​Segment 6
The final segment features Tweedle-Dee and Tweedle-Dum debriefing each other over coffee. I can’t say that the new, slower format for the show, in which ancient astronaut theorists travel to locations, repeat old material from earlier episodes, and then get lunch and repeat themselves yet again in the form of an episode summary pretending to be a conclusion, is an improvement. It certainly means that the show can repeat itself even more per hour since they are doing less original work. And it gives the show’s stars free paid vacations. But in terms of entertainment value, Ancient Aliens is becoming less entertaining simply by dint of doing less per hour, slowing down, and therefore making its uncomfortable undercurrents all the more obvious. 
38 Comments
Titus pullo
8/11/2018 12:03:12 pm

The scenery was stunning but the content almost had me wishing for the jumbled but faster pace of america unearthed. With Wolter i would just howl and laugh. With Georgio and David, its just boring. Then again i hope my son is earning Georgios income after he finishes Georgios alma mater next year. He has some serious loans to pay back

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Joe Scales
8/11/2018 12:16:33 pm

"The final segment features Tweedle-Dee and Tweedle-Dum debriefing each other over coffee."

I caught a bit of this when flipping channels. Those two aren't aging well. Need to get back to the studio with some atmospheric lighting that's more kind to them.

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Biglino
8/11/2018 12:18:55 pm

Obviously it's not suspicious at all for Colavito and sceptics that Marquesas Islands are just another of the hundreds of examples of ancient culture where people said they were visited by the gods from the sky and that these gods created men from the clay and blood according to their image. It's just coincidence, just like the same stories about burning animal fat for the gods who liked their smell all over the world.

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An Anonymous Nerd
8/12/2018 12:16:05 am

"Sky people" is an awesome story. So it's natural and expected that more than one people group would tell it.

Nothing suspicious about it.

As to fat: Fat burns no matter what continent you're on. The fire reaches the sky. Maybe the Gods can smell it too. And so forth. (By the way I'm not sure it was fat for all cultures. I'm pretty sure I remember seeing references to some cultures "cook" the whole animal for the Gods.)

Neither aliens nor hyperdiffusionist super-cultures required. Indeed one might ask why on earth either aliens or hyperdiffusionist super-cultures would care how much animal fat we burned. Or wanted us to cook animal flesh for them.

-An Anonymous Nerd

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Biglino
8/12/2018 03:40:27 am

If you read Mauro Biglino then you will know why gods liked that smell because the same smell is in the space and even NASA authorized research to patent one fragrance like that. In other words astronauts could small fragrance like burning meat and thats why Yahweh wanted that

An Anonymous Nerd
8/12/2018 10:39:10 am

[If you read Mauro Biglino then you will know why gods liked that smell because the same smell is in the space and even NASA authorized research to patent one fragrance like that. In other words astronauts could small fragrance like burning meat and thats why Yahweh wanted that ]

So the aliens wanted us to burn meat so we could have a smell that's similar....To one they already knew and were used to and presumably could smell any time it pleased them. Think about that for a moment.

And besides, see here:

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/07/what-space-smells-like/259903/

and

https://www.popsci.com/science/article/2013-07/what-does-space-smell

The smell sometimes variously is described as burning charcoal, burning meat, sulfur, burning or hot metal, etc. Also the smell is caused only partly by space and partly by us Earthlings interacting with it. Remember that we cannot literally smell space in its raw form while we're on a spacewalk or something: We would die.

How do we know the aliens have the same sense of smell we do, anyway.

As to Mr. Biglino generally I've dealt with him adequately, elsewhere. As I believe you remember.

One day I'll find one of his few English language translations and take a look. Somehow I doubt the results will be different.

-An Anonymous Nerd

PS: For anyone who hasn't seen those posts, based on secondary sources, because Mr. Biglino's stuff is not widely available in English, and a few videos, the obvious conclusion is that Mr. Biglino makes several critical errors. One is that he assumes the modern conception of what an "alien" is and then reads it into the Biblical text. Another is that he assumes he can "literally" translate Ancient languages which is of course impossible because of the different perspectives between our language and theirs. Also he seems to have of late started down "bible code" like territory.

Doc Rock
8/12/2018 11:50:20 am

With all this talk of sky gods and space one tends to lose track of the fact that belief in an underworld and associated beings is quite common cross-culturally. I believe the origin myth of a lot of indigenous groups has them emerging out of the earth.

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Peter B
8/11/2018 06:27:06 pm

I have to admire your intestinal (and probably testicular) fortitude in continuing to watch this appalling rubbish and still have the strength to report on it. What nasty condescending racist crap.

On the other hand I should be grateful for learning that "the two men claim that a statue showing a goddess giving birth is actually an image of a spaceship letting out passengers and a llama." That surely out-Danikens von Daniken and is several times funnier than anything he wrote. Huge guffaw.

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GodricGlas
8/12/2018 12:09:45 am

“Peter B”.

You mean like, “Peter Beter”?

Just curious.

😊

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GodricGlas
8/12/2018 12:49:55 am

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Beter

GodricGlas
8/12/2018 12:53:08 am

http://www.peterdavidbeter.com

Peter B
8/12/2018 10:57:09 am

O, sure. I speak lunatic theories from beyond the grave. Best you start dotting cloves of garlic around the house...

GodricGlas
8/13/2018 09:54:38 pm

I didn’t mean to imply any of that.

Just wondering if you had adopted that handle.

I’m a refugee from a handle-rich environment.

👍

orlando romero link
8/13/2018 12:03:53 pm

I strongly agree with your comments. I marvel at Jason's constant returning to the outhouse to point out the nose high BS.Somebody's got to do the dirty work. JC is a real trooper. My thanks to him...

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GodricGlas
8/12/2018 01:17:10 am

Brethren?

I know that there are those of you that have see this twisted, unholy site.

But for those that have not yet?

Feel free to roll to save for your sanity:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CKKTqB_Lzv0

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An Anonymous Nerd
8/12/2018 02:11:36 pm

Umm.....Wow.

For anyone who is curious but hasn't posted this yet: It's "Piano Man" by Billy Joel with the lyrics reworked to reflect the Lovecraft mythos.

Yes you read that right.

Lyric sample:

"I had drifted o’er seas without ending,
Under sinister grey-clouded skies
That the many-fork’d lightning is rending,
That resound with hysterical cries;
With the moans of invisible daemons
that out of the green waters rise."

Umm. Wow?

-An Anonymous Nerd

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GodricGlas
8/13/2018 09:18:03 pm

Well: Did you dig it? Or not?

That’s all I’m concerned about, aside from a place where I can post enthusiastic Cthulhu stuff.

😊

Look, I understand that there are all sorts of nerds. I’m of a particular sort, myself.

What sort are you?

Suzanne Olsson link
8/12/2018 09:34:43 am

Hmmmm. Interesting. I doubt very much that the 'real' Giorgio has posted such comments here, comments that are quite out of touch with the image that Giorgio tries so hard to cultivate and keep credible worldwide. However, if we could just see the hair of the 'alleged' Giorgio poster/imposter, then we could know for sure. On one side of the ancient alien topic, the idea is not new...it's one of the very first topics that man wrote of since man began writing. Human beings developed language c. 35,000 BCE as evidenced by cave paintings from the period of the Cro-Magnon Man (c. 50,000-30,000 BCE) which expressed concepts concerning daily life, and yes, aliens or sky gods. The first acknowledgements of something "extra-terrestrial" appeared then. Written language (cuniform) in which letters were used instead of pictographs first appeared in Sumer, southern Mesopotamia, c. 3500 -3000 BCE. It too jumps right in to "aliens" or sky god topics.. Now either they were very primitive and superstitious, or they were explaining things they actually saw. What 'Ancient Aliens' of today is doing has been going on for a very very long time, apparently with little or no improvements. The problem is that nothing new has happened in this genre since 35,000 years ago....leaving the Giorgios of the world to 'reinvent' alien stories connected with everything they see that's unexplained since 35,000 years ago- and with no more evidence, wit, or intelligence then than Giorgio has at hand now....The best solution of course would be for REAL aliens (ancient or otherwise) to shake hands in a proper introduction and say hello to this world, the world of humans on earth. The alternatives are to make up fantastic explanations and stories such as we see on Ancient Aliens. If they throw enough at the wall, maybe something will stick and they'll be proven right 1 out of 1000 guess. Frankly I think the Sumerians and the Bible did a much better job of it..

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The Sumerians and Bible
8/12/2018 02:03:29 pm

Myths and Legends are not historical fiction !!!

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Stories and stories
8/12/2018 02:04:44 pm

Let's believe in any old rubbish

Americanegro
8/12/2018 03:36:21 pm

You say two things as if they are settled science that are not:

a. art necessarily implies language
b. Sumerians had the first writing system

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SUZANNE OLSSON
8/12/2018 03:51:42 pm

Well Negro, it’s also not “settled science” that you’re actually literate, but that doesn’t stop you from posting rambling, incoherent comments!

Americanegro
8/12/2018 05:19:41 pm

Sick burn, bro! I've seen your website so I'm very comfortable.

Suzanne Olsson
8/13/2018 07:57:07 am

And by the way. "Negro" ...I did NOT make any reply to you before just now....someone posted to you using my name..it wasn't me....that's not my style of commenting..

AMERICANEGRO
8/13/2018 12:45:59 pm

No worries sweety, may I ask whether you’re the the same Suzanne Olsson who played Cindy Brady in the TV show “The Brady Bunch”?

GodricGlas
8/13/2018 09:23:02 pm

You can’t say “Sweetie” anymore to women, AN.

You’ve got a good heart but you’re going to have to break some old habits.

Sending a heads-up because you are leading the troll-smashing fest.

Lead On!

Americanegro
8/13/2018 09:26:37 pm

Tweren't I, twas someone trying to dilute my brand.

GodricGlas
8/13/2018 09:44:48 pm

Sorry, Sir.

You rule when you are you.

We’ll fix this shit somehow. I shouldn’t even be able to post “shit”. But gonna have fun while I can. This is so 1997.

<b>Jason?</b>

Maybe new platform time.

😊

AMERICANEGRO
8/13/2018 10:58:02 pm

The only new “platform” that’s needed around here is one for your flat head!

GodricGlas
8/13/2018 11:07:01 pm

Certainly yes.

But my “flat-head” can make it work.

What? You wouldn’t like to be verifiably “You”.

You asked the same of me, under the most tenuous of web-posting circumstances.

Get yourself under control. You’ll likely be one of the first moderators.

You’re just enjoying the slack, like me, too.

What are you watching right now?

😊

GodricGlas
8/13/2018 11:13:54 pm

P.S.

Death to trolls. Yada.

You’ll notice noone imitates me.

😊

Americanegro
8/14/2018 12:19:56 am

"AMERICANEGRO
8/13/2018 10:58:02 pm
The only new “platform” that’s needed around here is one for your flat head!"

Again, not me, just another lame attempt at brand dilution and cyber-bullying!

Suzanne Olsson link
8/13/2018 07:55:08 am

Hey guys...I've fought bigger and more important battles than this one over semantics about ancient aliens, ancient history, Sumerians, and Giorgio's hair! I was just commenting in passing...Don't let it upset you so much..

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BATTLES
8/13/2018 11:42:37 am

DNA OF CHRIST IN KASHMIR
LOL

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SRINAGAR
8/13/2018 11:44:49 am

Mirza Ghulam Ahmad was a looney

He started all that nonsense

Suzanne Olsson
8/13/2018 02:59:25 pm

Geesh what a crowd! Not for me. Byeeeeee Jason. Best of luck to you..

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GodricGlas
8/13/2018 11:29:18 pm

Goddamnit!

Jason!

There has to be a resolution for this problem.

I don’t even know who I am posting to.

This sucks!

Fuck.

Alright, then,

Look, Jason, this is coming down to “user experience”, at this point.

You have to Serve.

I know it’s stressful. But it has to be done.

You. Can. Do. It.

I promise.

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GodricGlas
8/14/2018 01:03:16 am

There Are Two Ways To Kill A System.

👹

You can over-feed it.

Or under-feed it.

I’m going to go ahead and starve it if my posts for awhile.

😸

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