WEBVTT 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 00:00:03.889 --> 00:00:06.826 eclipse... these phenomena spoke to our ancestor of the possibility of surviving death. 00:00:06.826 --> 00:00:11.662 Up there in the skies was also a metaphor of immortality. 00:00:11.662 --> 00:00:14.469 - Carl Sagan 00:01:53.920 --> 00:01:58.546 filmed, edited, & scored by John D. Boswell