1 00:00:00,624 --> 00:00:03,889 The reappearance of the crescent moon after the new moon; the return of the Sun after a total 2 00:00:03,889 --> 00:00:06,826 eclipse... these phenomena spoke to our ancestor of the possibility of surviving death. 3 00:00:06,826 --> 00:00:11,662 Up there in the skies was also a metaphor of immortality. 4 00:00:11,662 --> 00:00:14,469 - Carl Sagan 5 00:01:53,920 --> 00:01:58,546 filmed, edited, & scored by John D. Boswell