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While this film delves into pseudohistory under the presumption of telling the "true history of humanity," it also pushes a religious message. Therefore, it has moments that will chill your bones as the Narrators tell how ancient civilizations fell at the hands of demons.

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  • El Cantare and the Eternal Buddha create a "Pytron" to increase the immigrant population so they can catch up to the terrestrial group. While it seemed to work, these clones neglected their spiritual nature and became utter hedonists as they sought material goods, power, and pleasure above their spiritual growth. This is depicted through a fitting sequence of the city and its people set to voices dismissing the faithful's messages and hearty laughs, eventually showing syringes, banknotes, and jewelry falling into a dark place as shadow smoke rises and the laughs become horrified screams and wondering what's happening as they fall into the bottom level of the Spirit World, which became Hell.

  • Satan, despite being depicted in this film as a Magellanic Cloud person reborn on Earth 120 billion years ago, is still intimidating enough to warrant the name. He singlehandedly overthrows Enlil out of jealousy and enslaves his people (and throws his other subjects into poverty, judging by the massive amounts of gold hoarded) until the angels decide to put a stop to his reign of terror.
    • Shortly after the angels showed up, Satan killed two of his subjects and knocked over several torches as he uselessly swung his sword to deflect their arrows. When he thought he has won, Satan turns only to see an armored angel, implied to be the Archangel Michael, ready to slay him, which is the last he sees before falling to Hell as a screaming dark fireball.
    • His rampage upon being barred from returning to a higher dimension is scary to watch, as we see him at his angriest before becoming King of Hell. As he conspired with other evil spirits to blot out the light of Eternal Buddha over the underworld, making the place even more miserable than before.
    • To make matters worse, it's implied that Satan was the only one who could see the angels. Furthermore, from his subjects' point of view, Satan suddenly went insane and slashed at the air for no reason. Moreover, as he set fire to the chambers in his rampage, he was already dying from the smoke before Michael struck him down.

  • After Satan's takeover, the souls of the damned venture upon Earth in search of an energy source. Their invasion is set to the same dismissive, hateful, and seductive voices as they possess people. As the film focuses on a random person being possessed, one of the Narrators comments these spirits sought out and possessed people with dark thoughts, amplifying their dark desires and feeding on their negative energy. Then we see the same person emanating lots of shadow energy as his Evil Laugh replaces the voices before walking after a person who bumped into him with murderous intentions.
    • When it cuts to a man smiling deviously at the riches he gathered only to suffer a sudden heart attack and fall to Hell, another one of the Narrators tells that when the vessels fell into Hell themselves, they couldn't return to Heaven and so the population of Hell kept growing. As the former vessels' spirits set out for Earth as their predecessors and repeat the cycle, the movie then shows a sequence of them possessing random people, who then fall screaming into Hell upon dying, and so on until the city is covered with demonic clouds, all set to tense, creepy music.

  • The concept of Earth having a consciousness that awakens every time there's a mass corruption by demons and sinks the offending civilizations underwater to cleanse itself and prevent further corruption is unsettling. While the Masters and El Cantare revealed it was a last resort and the latter sent branches of his own spirits to be reborn in Earth, it doesn't help matters as this still happens to the subsequent civilizations of Mu and Atlantis. Moreover, the sixth film depicts how close the Earth was to inflict a planet-wide cataclysm after a returning Satan forces Theta to activate the "Ultimate Destruction Weapon".

  • The Reptilians. Evil lizard-like beings whose biggest desire is to take over Earth and devour its people, some of them disguised themselves as God to fool humans into feeding them under the excuse of Human Sacrifice. Moreover, since they're bound by a Galactic Code to not intervene as long as the invaded civilization lives in complete harmony, the Reptilians have human agents to throw society into chaos and disarray so they can have an excuse to invade Earth.

  • Of the decadences of previous civilization after the death of their rulers in which El Cantare reincarnated, Atlantis takes the cake. While it's only narrated by Rient Arl Croud as a lesson for his people, it doesn't take away from the scariness as it's told via a flashback. Not only did the Atlanteans fall into sin two thousand years after Thoth's death, but they actively persecuted the faithful and buried them alive in the town square.

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