Sources and Influences
- The series bible mentions Erich von Däniken's books Chariots of the Gods? (1968) and Gods from Outer Space (1970) as the source of the idea that aliens may have visited the Earth roughly 40,000 years ago.
- Yago's ability to create illusions using the power of the Moon was, according to the series bible, "implied in the Lunacy (sic) Act of 1842".
- Bennu is the Egyptian word for the mythological phoenix bird.
Read more about this topic: The Phoenix (1982 TV Series)
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