Miracles, Myths and Legends (10/21)

Miracles, Myths and Legends (10/21)

This documentary takes Dieter Moor to the mysterious stone giants of the Easter Island. Who created these monumental sculptures? What meaning did they have?Or Australia: the central term of the Aboriginal mythology is the dreamtime - the spiritual and moral order of the cosmos. Dreamtime manifests in geographic landmarks like for instance the 65 million years old "Uluru" or more familiar to us, the Ayers Rock. According to the Anangu - i.e. the Aborigines' understanding, the rock originates from a fight between Kuniya, a Python snakewoman and a poisonous snake, i.e. a Liru in the aboriginal language. Kuniya killed the other snake with a club and guards the rocks until today. Aksum in Ethiopia is another mysterious region concerning the people who lived there. Nowadays, Aksum is mainly famous because of its steles which are up to 30 meters high and which also remain a mystery. Carved from a single piece of granite, they probably were put on graves. But again, nobody knows that for sure. And Troy - who doesn't know the story in Homer's Iliad? This book is said to be universal literature's first European epos. But did Troy exist at all? Archeologists have been disputing about this for a long time - just as they have been doing about the Greek myth around the oracle at Delphi.This documentary fascinates from France to Machu Picchu.