The ancient knowledge of indigenous peoples challenges high-tech science in a near-cosmic tale from a South African dese | dG1fejJnN2VHaldHQ2s
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00:00 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:03 Definitely, we're dealing with a mystery.
00:29 Throughout history, we've often reached
00:32 points where we think we have the answer
00:34 to the nature of the universe, only to discover
00:38 when we observe in a way that we haven't observed before
00:41 that our conception of the universe is totally wrong.
00:54 The Western idea of rock art was always art for art's sake,
00:59 so that people were drawing what they
01:00 were seeing on the landscape.
01:03 This is generally not the case.
01:06 But the rock art is related to a spiritual tradition, usually
01:10 linked to a trance experience.
01:12 [MUSIC PLAYING]
01:16, [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
01:37 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
01:41 [MUSIC PLAYING]
01:51 One of the big questions is, are we alone?
01:54 Confronted with that mystery, it's natural for us to ask,
01:58 how do we fit in?
01:59 How did we come to be here?
02:01 And how does this vast thing that we've come to understand,
02:06 what is our place in it?
02:07 [MUSIC PLAYING]
02:10 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
02:12 [MUSIC PLAYING]
02:17 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
02:19 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
02:22 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
02:23 [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]
02:26 [MUSIC PLAYING]
02:37 (dramatic music)
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