Did Ancient Humans Survive and Become Our Gods? | Mysteries 

And this came out of a game about shooting aliens

Send this to some grandma that has no idea what Halo is and watch her mind get blown.

*Ancient aliens meme guy has entered the chat*

I think the Ancient Astronaut Theory is a giant load here in the real world but in the Halo universe...I believe it 1000%.

I always assumed the Japanese looking structures in that animated short were just artistic liberties from the anime company, I had no idea there were lore explanations behind it! So cool, I like this theory

12:48 And you had the Nephilim, who were Ancient Humans breeding with post-Activation humans.

This is actually one of the connections I really like about halo. Was surprised that no RU-vidr covered this before. Great vid👌🏻

Man I needed this I'm going through a hard point in my life. My father is very sick and it's not looking good. I just wanted to say that your videos are very therapeutic for me... Thank you installation00.

I've been wanting another Ancient Humanity video

I wonder if these ancient ancestors might be the unknown hostiles at the Battle of Oct 10.

Hopefully this story will be further developed where the UNSC meets ancient humans

Ancient alien theorists agree

Really hitting us with the Gigachad Ancestors in the thumbnail

This would make an amazing plot to a movie. Like a better version of Prometheus.

I was thinking about this yesterday, if you would consider writing a book, along side with 343, about Ancient Humans, and Reevvolvied Humans us, how we would met. Also how it had to of happened, that the ForeRunners finally admitted to themselves, that they were wrong to have killed the Precursors, and stolen away, The Mental of Responsibility, out of nothing more than jealousy! Maybe that is why they deevolved Humans, inatead of not out right killing us off! And because as it was said humans are able to resist The Flood. And this also explains why The ForeRunners, did not aid, direct and assist other species, who might one day also become a bearer of the Mantal of Responsibility. Because they attained not by earning, but by conquest! Even in your telling Ancient Humans sheperded the Deevolved Humans, it is in our DNA, to look after others!

I'm going to be cheeky and posit another hypothesis. Erde-Tyrene was the Librarian's "special population", and prior to their removal before the firing of the Halo's had shown a remarkable capacity to rebuild in some cases up to industrial ability. What if this was a "back up" population, a "control" population if you will, not imbued with geas, even perhaps made up of some of the some other 120 species that humanity consisted of? And perhaps in lieu of the advantage of being placed by the portal at Voi instead they were placed in the most intact ruins of ancient humanity. Anyway, would be interesting to see a vid speculating on the lore of humanities 120 subspecies - did the Librarian consider them collectively special, or just Homo Sapiens? e.g. it was noted on Erde-Tyrene humanity divided into species and of those only some, or one, devoloped industry in 1000 years.

Ancient Human: Tall with a big white beard, and has a gun that shoots out an electrical charge so powerful that it can destroy a building. Name of the Ancient human: Zeus

If there was an advanced group of ancient humans that survived everything over 100,000 years ago, that means that ancient humans are 100,000 years more technologically advanced than what they were during the flood forunnner war, so they could be more advanced than the forunners were

I frickin love the deep lore of Halo and how well structured it is to fit in our real world history so damn well.

"The deadline is coming and I can't make some good looking alien architecture!" "Just copy some very old buildings, problem solved"

This actually goes full circle and it imply that we can't keep this out of our collective subconscious minds, so much so that we put it into our fictions. This is actually Meta both in and out of universe even if Ancient Astronaut aren't plausible IRL.

Honestly it fits Halo's motif of not having magic like at all but having stories that could be interpreted as mythical and lengdary... Also I love how it came from Halo lengends a collection of semi canon videos in all sorts of different art styles if I recall correctly... And what a new Halo infinite map? Yet I feel it's done way better then in star trek with vastly more material an likely more budget.

Love all the ancient halo stuff❤️

This is a rabbit hole of a theory that I would absolutely LOVE to dive head first into. I can only hope this gets expanded on.

I always like the design of ancient Human ships over Forerunners. They look so much cooler to me. Like that one derelict ancient human ship that ONI found, the art for it is so cool.

If we start finding "human stuff" out there in the galaxy once we DO go FTL, It'd change things. Also, we'd probably start wondering about EVERYTHING. Then we'd start looking for just WTF happened to us.

Dude took Graham Hancock's theory and put it into Halo's universe. Love it

I love that in the second half of the video it went all "Ancient Aliens". But given the topic spoken about, I does make sense.

One way I can see some Ancient Humans surviving the Halo Array would be if they were stored in a non-,biological data form, such as in the mid-transition process of a non-Slipspace teleporation process, therefore not being in a state that would ve vulnerable to the effects of the Array. The possible reason for this could be to efficiently preserve as many people in the smallest amount of space possible, as data forms would not need things like air, rest, medicine or nourishment, and they could be better protected deep within their ships and possibly better avoid notice from Forerunner and or Flood forces. These ships could discreetly move towards the edge of the galaxy into Dark Space (which still has a lot of stars, just in a lesser density compared to the main galaxy) or hide within celesrial objrcts or phenomena for extebded periods of time. This eould continue until the ships were either destroyed, something goes catastrophically wrong, or the ship AIs have enough reason to believe that their passengers can be safely led out again. In the event of the last option, they eill then be rematerialized into the baryonuc universe again,feeling like no time has passed at all snd hopefully finding a fully-developed colony waiting for them, courtsey of the AI systems utilizing local resources over time.

My friend, what did you smoke? (I mean this teasingly. This'll be an interesting watch)

Yesssss. This is the type of Halo shit i like and want! I want lore...

W mans w vid keep up the good work brother

Really enjoying this mysteries series you’ve been doing

This is just pure head canon

There really is so much 343 could do with halo. It’s not at all absurd to suggest SOME humans didn’t get captured by the forerunner and devolved and as advanced as ancient humanity was, I really do think they could’ve created away to be immune the effects of the halo so they could’ve survived. I think it’d be cool if 343 had the ancient humans come back in the present and maybe help present humanity against the banished or even better yet, the endless or even forerunners as they can come back too especially since we know some fled to nearby galaxies it’s not absurd to suggest they too survived and kept their tech. Ancient humanity and forerunners “coming back” doesn’t have to be nor should it be like their entire respective civilszions coming back maybe only a few hundred of each are left, maybe the endless are something way more powerful than forerunners and ancient humans combined and THATS why they were such a great threat, that’s why maybe it would warrant ancient humanity helping modern humans. There’s so so much 343 could expand on and unpack from the original halo story stuff that is still halo. ALL of these could’ve perfectly piggy backed off halo 4s story easily. I don’t think the notion of ancient humanity helping devolved humanity bc it kinda takes away from the librarian doing her work to ensure humanities ascendancy so I like it better to think humanity is where it is now on their own minus being made smart enough to do it by the librarian. Maybe ancient earth civilizations looked that way bc, in some better more advanced fashion, ancient human architecture was always like that and that just carried in a lesser way when humans were devolved.

All of this reminds me of what’s known as the Tartaria old civilizations from ages passed.

I feel like a conversation I had in a comment section of one of your previous videos might've gotten seen, I thank you for looking into this.

Maybe they were also the ones who engaged with that small patrol fleet a few days before the Battle of Earth in a video you made about 1 unknown ship forcing the UNSC ships to run.

What if the spartan II candidates had more prominent ancient human genes. Would be an awesome twist to see master chief meet ancient humans and have them accept him saying their prophecy has come true

Great video, just bummed out not to see a photo of you, with the crazy alien guy's hair photo shopped on 😅 i guess thats what the discord is for!

I always loved your mystery 'deep dives' into weird or strange rabbit holes adjacent to the lore of the franchise that are unexplored and that we don’t know. Anyway, I love your video and I kinda accepted this as canon Especially the idea that the advanced humans helping and meeting their primitive cousins sounds very genius Plus it kind nods to the original lore of Bungie where we thought that we are the forerunners. This also reminds of what happened in the original halo 2 cut ending where the Arbiter would find a skeleton of a forerunner only reveal to a skeleton of a human! I do wonder though are you gonna update your older theories like the humans and forerunner relations and how would finally solved the issue that could Satisfies both the group that wish the forerunners are humans and the group that is ok with the forerunner not being humans. There is also Bungie’d environment designer Paul Russell‘s own theory of this issue on twitter and here is what he says “Theory: We’re talking about evolutionary timescale. Precursors pick 3 out of 10 Sapiens and advance them as Forerunner. Millions of years go by. Forerunners evolve under Precursors perhaps differently than Sapiens alone. Not all humans are Forerunner, but all Forerunner are human.'' Regardless though great video as always!

I love this theory! Could this explain the Meddlers?

The real question is where did they go, and do they possibly have anything to do with the meddlers?

Ooh, now that is an interesting question!

Not as well versed on the timeline, but it might have been that some of the Ancient Humans either found out about the Halo arrays, or came up with a similar theory (even if they were unable to execute it) for eliminating the Flood and ran for intergalactic space. Third option is that the Ancient Humans wanted an emergency backup population in case they lost to the Flood or the Forerunners. An ark ship launched into Slipspace early enough in the Human-Forerunner war would likely not even come up as a blip on the Forerunners proverbial radar. It could even have been that one of the Human colony/evacuation ships encountered a slipspace anomaly, and either got flung well outside the Halo's range, or even popped back into real space sometime after the Array was fired. And just to add one more tidbit of theory, some Forerunner might have also been in on the uplifting of devolved Humanity. Apparently there were some "fishlike" "gods" in both ancient Greek and certain African mythologies. In the case of the Greeks, they allegedy taught humans about metal working, and they crafted some of the tools of the early Greek gods. It seems to me that Forerunners kinda have a bit of the piscene to their features...

Yes I also had the same thoughts on this story

Ancient astronaut/Halo crossover theory

Different cultures created pyramids and pyramid-like structures due to a pyramid being the easiest shape to build. The Mayan, Egyptian and other pyramids are only superficially similar. While Egypt is similar to Mesopotamia due to being in the Fertile Crescent. Other ancient civilizations outside of that area had very different cultures and agricultures.

Imagine if ancient humans evolved into dinosaurs

Great idea and the usual detail and footage was great. I suppose that if they only taught basics on economics etc, it would explain the technological inferiority to the covenant. That zeus guy really didn't want us to have fire so it sort of fits

beautiful storytelling if 343 is really cooking this. So ancient humans came back after the forerunners recreated primitive humans and upgraded them and planted religions to later reform ancient beliefs and technologies.

Now if these were ancient humans that built these structures and helped primitive humans were are they now? Also Great content and keep up the good work

I hope we can get more acient humanity in future halos i would love to see acient human weapons being replicated by unsc

Great Job my Brother!!!!! Please do more ancient humans videos!!!!!

I love this video. My conspiracy theory mind is running wild now.

And 8 days ago we had the video about expired Human IFF tags and super advanced vessels. Seems sus to me, boss (I'm here for this hype tho, this could be an amazing storyline)

The other video you had where you were talking about the unknown ship days before halo 2 started, I wonder if that's connected

Tonight on ancient aliens

The Halo Array seems to have missed more and more things as the series goes; they clearly didnt work in hindsight; not really .-. Love that the Forerunners do very little right when looking at them lol It feels fitting somehow

Given that we first saw this planet in halo legends (as far as I’m aware that’s the first time it popped up), which was around when bungie still was in charge of the story and we know they originally planned for humanity to be the forerunners (which is eluded to countless times in the games and extended lore until 343 kinda threw all that out the window), it would make sense for this place to be an ancient home (possibly even the true original home world) of humanity. All this other stuff is just 343 trying to do their best to add mystery to it without retconning it. But honestly I’m interested to see if they pick up any of these mysterious dead ends like that of the “meddlers” as hydden likes to call it… I just really enjoy having a sense of cosmic horror/fear of the unknown in halo

**Plays the Stargate theme song.** 😁

Awesome theories awesome.

Forerunners: we are the Keepers of the Mantle Ancient Humans that survived the Halo Array founding new civilizations: yes, and we are the Reclaimers The Precursors and the Endless in Living Time: hold on! Let him Cook 🗣️

3 radii of the galactic center. Maybe with human slipspace tech it would take that long to move out of the way of the blast and come back. The galaxy is 100k light years across. If they were at the edge of the galaxy they'd need to travel at least 100k light years to avoid a lethal dose then travel back at least another 100k light years to get back to the edge. Ancient human ships would need to travel at least 2xlight speed. I don't know if that is quick in halo lore.

I would like to have some remnant of the Prehistoric Human Civilization be introduced in the games, to see how similar and how different they are.

continueing this line of thought keeping in mind that “ ancient humans “ survived and became “ gods “ can you explain the tower of babel was it a rudementry try at the most advanced “ primitive tribe / civilazation “ attempting to recreate a space elevator ?

Daily reminder that in Bungie’s canon Forerunners were definitively ancient humans. The ONLY outliers were the few things that Frank O’Conner had direct control over. EVERYTHING ELSE pointed to humans and Forerunners being one and the same. It was just kept vague as to whether or not we were literal Forerunners, or apes molded into Forerunners (the latter would’ve been the big reveal of Halo 2’s original ending. Truth’s plan also made perfect sense).

It does strike me that there is some crossover between Halo and Battlestar Galactica here. Both arguably have pantheons who could be ancient humans. If Kobol is a shield world that was abandoned by the Forerunners but reclaimed by ancient humanity, then humanity could've been preserved. It'd be different from how Earth's humans were preserved on the Ark. Perhaps the few remaining ancient humans nabbed some devolved humans while the Forerunners fought the Flood. The ancient humans could have acted as gods, of a sort, before sending Kobol's populace to a specially terraformed quartenary system, while the Thirteenth Tribe was sent to Earth. Wild thought, I know, but I like it.

love this kind of stuff. really makes me sad about all the missed opportunities for game stories that are non chief story lines,

but the forerunners only won, due to humanity fighting the flood and being betrayed by the sanshium.

Great video 🧠🧠🧠

I love your out-tro , lol❤

It does make me wonder... maybe the unknown fleet that showed up and were engaged by battle group Rhino just before Regret's fleet showed up might have been these ancient humans? Why might they have showed up at that exact moment with a bunch of outdated civilian transponders though... Also what is the source for this? I don't remember hearing about this in any of the books etc?

Is it starting to sound like Assassin's Creed and would explain why the Ancients didn't bother exploring space

The emerald tablets

Nice video 00!

But but, those civilizations are gone BECAUSE they weren’t great, but lesser.

This video was excellent it gave me Graham Hancock vibes i like the idea

First I didn’t look at the channel name, I thought “wtf is this conspiracy theory doing in my feed”

*nods in Graham Hancock*

Random thought. Where would you get the bodies for a galactic scaling war. Especially with the way we humans wage war. Well used to and often use as an extreme representation of such things like halo call of duty and gears of war. Warhammer is getting there. What im trying to get at. Is for a galactic war involving humanity the forunners to begin with. While the primordials were the chip that folded the cards in. As in the primordials being the piece that started war with the forerunners and humanity ended up covering for them. Like a young pompous adult. (The primordial) Saying something or doing something considered stupid and or dangerous (without knowing this action or audience the primordial held was going to be taken as dangerous or stupid to the forerunners) in front of someone like a mob boss.(The forerunners) While this isn't exactly what i was trying to gwt at. But it is a very decent representation of the situation the forerunner flood war was. While thes ancient ruins. "All those bodies had to come from somewhere to wage such a galaxy spaning war" Rustling in many empty worlds. And knowing humanity. There are probably technology's sleeping in these ancient ruin capable of bringing both the primordial and the ancient man back into the setting. Think project phonex in rick and Morty. How rick had a project in place in case something ever happened to him. Just upscale this concept to include the entirety of ancient humanity and recently included the primordials. Because in theory the forerunners, the primordials, and us humans, would probably be best summarized as being around relatively tge same time. Its that when the war broke out. Was probably after all 3 had finally found echother. Humanity probably experiencing the brink of extinction so many times that they probably asked for the forerunners to technologically reset them back to primitive of their own valuation knowing the forerunners would be able to provide our kind with the beneficial experience of never having to know a true end like the heat death of our universe or the cold death. That ancient humanity probably experienced as the traveld through space completely at the mercy of the cosmic winds. No where near in control like the primordials or forerunners were more than capable of doing. This being anchoring space in place and actively adjusting matter through theor means. Forerunners. Technological. Primordials. Biological. While humanity. Is a bit of both but more with impact. Whith how ancient humanity kinda hurdled straight into both of their hands at relatively the same time. Causing the primordials and forerunners move relative to humanities reckless tumbling through the void that is space. While the previous before experience of the heat death and frlzen death of our universe. Was mearly humanity were it is in space. Hurtled throgh a temperature differential that was either extremely colder or hotter. Resulting in our biology taking into account and attempting to adapt to such sudden changes as they come. Resulting in our cold blooded nature. Hence why we were able to effortlessly adapt and adjust ourselves to standing next to the primordials and forerunners when the opportunity presented itself when the forunners and primordials stabalized humanities area of the void probably by sheer wonding of what this was that they were equally seeing in front of them. This of course being us humanity. And if you got lost in my words i don't blame you. Its what happens to word's when tackling such things as "beyond ones self" does to wording. This of course being ancient humanity the forerunners and the primordials. While we can get the covenant in as the individual races caught in humanities reckless wake throughout the void known as space. Before the primordials and forerunners caught them in motion and all thes other rases started cascading into veiw probably resulting in the confusion that would send two galactic altering super Powers to wage war on echother. Was probably them thinking they were effecting echother when it was most likely humanity unknowingly effecting them. Through what is know as a staple in human development. Most of the things we discover is through sheer metaphorical and literal accident and accidents. Meaning. Could have accidentally effected the primordials the primordials would probably understand where this was coming from. While the forerunners would think its something the primordials did to these pink prime apes resulting in ever once in a while a neurological signal to break through the melanin of the flesh and into the forerunners air waves. Making it much more difficult for the forerunners to narrow down. And in their confused state. As another living entity is effecting their way of life. By way of life i mean how we can effect technology through radio Waves being initiated from our own bodies as well as trace's of radiation being produced at a nearly given constant from our bodies. Resulting in us being able to effect digital and biological systems. Hence the primordials confusion after putting itself back together just to find all its prices scrambled beyond recognition due to the constant biological and digital signals the human body gives of And with humanity being introduced to the forerunners and the primordials. This would lead humanity into becoming advanced humanity. Later to be recalled as ancient humanity. Where humanity was up amongst the Stars helping the primordials probably first. then helping the forerunners. While simultaneously after achieving some sense of normalcy woth these two factions. Probably guided the races that would become the covenant into forming their covenant. While one day up and vanishing with the only ones any tge wiser being. Legolo worms and long gone ancient prophets. While some of the prophets buried culture probably contains many cluse to ancient humanities working together with the founders of their covenant. Leading many prophets to bury such stories in favor of taking ancient humanity places in their hierarchy. Meaning. In the old covenant. The ancient prophets and ancient humans shared similar leadership roles in the formation of the covenant. Dun dun dun. To be continued. My phone is dying and i reached a good place to stop.

i love 00's videos, im watching it and studying it like these events actually happened... or are going to happen.... uhhhh... at this point its part of ancient human history. lets make a religion and warship the ancient humans and forerunners.

Question, has there been a Halo in the Magellan cloud? There hasn't would be my guess because the librarian went there to find the lost tribe of the forerunners or am I mixing stuff up?

And also believe that the halo story does have some truth behind it.

Is he talking about Halo or our own real history!?!? I’m confused 😂

I should not have watched this high ffs

Hear me out... what if it was a peaceful sect of Ancient Humanity that heard of what the Forerunners were doing? They got on ships, evacuated Heian, went into cryosleep, and just set their slipspace drives to go in one direction for a few ten thousand years, then drop out of slipspace, and come back on the same trajectory? They made it out of the galaxy by the time the Halo Array fired, and came back after, finding the galaxy largely empty? Also, 'the ancient humans are our gods' theory, you just reinvented the Ancient Aliens theory, bro.

*history channel at 3am*

It’s entirely possible especially when you look at the common ground in religion and mythology

Lore wise, what are the biological differences between modern humanity and the ancient humanity?

Man, that's a pretty big red pill in Halo!

*Billy Carson has entered the chat

Intriguing

I'm not saying it's humans. But it's humans.

Lowkey i think the people who wrote halo lore were getting bits and pieces of actual historical truth drip fed from the collective unconscious in some of their ideas, not saying earth used to be inhabitted by larger humans that left ruins we claimed as our own but im also 1000% saying that lmfao

Oh the goosebumps

Hear me out, what if Ancient Humans also had access to Neural physics? They could might as well be our gods, angels and demons.

Ancient Aliens, ancient astronaut historians claim.

Is halo legends even cannon? I never wach it

I think that while the context of this video is very much different from irl ancient alien theories, we do have to remember that ancient alien theories are directly tied to racist hypotheizing that discredits people who are not of European decent