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The reappearance of the crescent moon after the new moon; the return of the Sun after a total

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eclipse... these phenomena spoke to our ancestor of the possibility of surviving death.

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Up there in the skies was also a[br]metaphor of immortality.

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- Carl Sagan

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filmed, edited, & scored by John D. Boswell