David Talbott argues that a few thousand years ago, planets now scattered across the solar system hung close to Earth as towering forms in the sky, triggering electric discharge displays so dramatic that every ancient culture built its mythology around them. The film reads ancient rock art, cuneiform tablets, and myth cycles from Egypt, Mesopotamia, and beyond as literal eyewitness records rather than symbolic fantasy, treating the dragon, the cosmic serpent, and other recurring archetypes as descriptions of the same sky event seen from different vantage points on Earth. Talbott walks through petroglyphs and comparative mythology to build the case that this near-Earth planetary arrangement, and the plasma phenomena it produced, is the shared origin of world religion and symbol-making. The film is the first installment of the Thunderbolts Project's Electric Universe series, followed by episodes on Mars and comets, and it lays out the group's catastrophist framework rather than testing it against mainstream astronomy or archaeology, which regard the scenario as unsupported.