NARRATOR: 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 worshipped
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
RICHARD RADER (VOICEOVER):
Poseidon does rule
over the kingdom of the sea.
It is envisioned as a kind
of a 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
onto a really big trident.
NARRATOR: 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 they become the
gods of Olympus.
NARRATOR: 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 mothership.
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.
Now, what we have here is not
a creature, but something else.
It could have been
a object, which
was clearly of man-made or
extraterrestrial origin.
A mutiny took place.
Some of the
extraterrestrials, they
had sex with wonderful
Earthly females, women.
They were not
allowed to do this.
So one of these
extraterrestrials who were not
allowed to go back
with the mothership
had the name of Poseidon.
Poseidon fell in love with
a beautiful human girl.
And he made her pregnant.
RICHARD RADER (VOICEOVER):
Poseidon is married, right?
He's got a child.
He's got some
grandchildren, right?
There's the whole cast
of sea nymphs as well.
All of them presumably,
like, live in this place.
JOHNATHAN YOUNG (VOICEOVER):
Poseidon has the power
of the deep, the unseen places.
If you look out at the
sea, you see a surface.
And you are aware
there's a whole world
below that, suggesting powers
beyond that which meet the eye.
