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Ancient Astronauts
Flaming Shields, Chariots of the Gods
Flying Saucers, Spacesuits, Delta Wing Jets and Ray Guns
depicted on everything from cave walls to ancient Egyptian temples - all surviving eyewitness accounts of UFO sightings in our most ancient past. Reports of unidentified flying objects appear even in our most ancient historical records.
For anyone looking at the most ancient primitive cave drawings and petraglyphs ~ it seems impossible now to take them for anything other than technology. Could travelers from outer space have visited this planet long ago?
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Carved in Stone
Throughout history, extraterrestrials have been making continual contact with the Humans beings on planet Earth.
- and occasionally, the ancient world speaks to us of strange things that the primitive people of the time attributed to The Gods.
From the Nazca Lines of Peru to ancient aircraft of Egypt and India known as Vimanas; from the enigmatic and symbolic petraglyphs of Ancient America to the pantheons of European and Mediterranean gods; nearly every ancient culture, on every continent yet explored - it seems that every civilization in the world was at one time or another touched by beings from above. As mankind evolves and advances in technology, we are now becoming somewhat familiar with many of the things that obviously impressed our ancestors enough: to take time away from hunting and gathering and etch their likenesses in the stone walls that served as the first shelters. We know that we are not gods, but what would ancient peoples think of most of the things we take for granted today? Would your ability to read evoke jealousy from their most revered scholars? Would a disposable lighter or ball point pen get you burned as a witch? And what would they make of your palm pilot - or for that matter, a harmonica? The two figures depicted in rock-art at Val Comonica, in Northern Italy (above right) easily appear to modern observers to be a literal and accurate representation of modern astronauts. Their bulky suits come complete with space helmets, and each are holding decives of some sort; one of their tools even looking remarkably like a sextant. This particular site is a perfect example, and is featured in the groundbreaking 1968 book Chariots of the Gods, by Erich Von Daniken - but is only one of so many found throughout Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas; all associating the Gods with the stars, and other things which we modern humans today file under the same heading: space technology. Could this primitive depiction of a space helmet have been a primitive precursor to what we modern humans know as haloes? Could all of the world's religions all have a root in these ancient gods who came down from the sky? For millennia, the absolute authority on the beginning of everything was the Bible - specifically, the book of Genesis, which tells us the order in which creation began to express itself: first minerals, then plants, then animals. This is something that the ancient scribes simply could not have known, if we are to remember them as truly primitive - tribal hunter gatherers, barely farmers - technologically barren, possessing little more than fire and the ability to write stuff down. Perhaps God emparted this simple itinerary to His chosen scribes, but one of the first things to pop into existence is said to have been Light itself - which seems to also ring very true, as it turns out, according to modern quantum physics, we're all made of stardust. The only question remaining is, of course, from which particular star's dust have we been thus assembled? Modern fundamentalists have retranslated the biblical "light" as, or into, "the word" or "truth" - often meaning "the existence" or "the reality" of God. This also follows advanced scientific theories that the prime foundation of existence (time, matter, and the very fabric of dimension) are fractal, and vibrations: made up of infinite combinations of (put very simply) something and nothing - as in binary code, a sequence of ones and zeros. A parallel can also be drawn from New Age philosophies, which often contend that all is illusion. For all our fumblings, we have advanced, and perhaps evolved, to the unenviable point where we now know that there is very much that we do not know - and there is a great deal that we will likely never be able to fathom, but we can still dream and imagine - and we are at least able to measure our perception of what we perceive to be time and space. So far, among other things, we have measured the size of the Earth and distance between Earth and the Sun - very specific values and ratios that are found in multiple archaelogical sites around the world, where also emanate legends of gods who came down from the sky. |
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Idols
The ancient world is filled with statues, idols and icons - depictions of beings or entities we know or assume were worshiped as gods.
In many cases, it's all we have to go by. Imagine if all that survived of our age was the Statue of Liberty, and a few coins with her face on it.
We would likely be perceived as a race that worshiped Liberty (a strange name), as the Goddess of Fire, or even Goddess of the Sun.
Venus may become jealous.
But In the case of Lady Liberty, the torch and the tablet are obvious enough - but what of the strange points emanating from her head?
What might future archaeologists glean from this amazing find - ceremonial headdress or funky hairstyle?
Located just 45 miles outside Mexico City, near Teotihuacan and Tenochtitlan, is Tula - a megalopolis of the Toltec culture, which is thought to have flourished between 750 and 1250 AD. Atop a massive platform, with a pyramid base, is the most sacred temple at Tula: Tlahuizcalpantecuhtli, the Temple of the Morning Star. The big tourist attractions there are several giant statues known as atlantes (above right) - which are thought to be Toltec warriors, dressed in full regalia, as if standing guard over the city. Each of them the same height, approximately 15 feet, they are believed to have once supported a roof, that once covered the temple. Other decoratively carved, slightly shorter pillars are also located on this platform, and many more are found at the Palace of the Columns, not far away. |
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Staggeringly similar in design is "El Ponce" (left) - the idol at Tiahuanaco, near Lake Titicaca in Peru.
It is important to remember that next to nothing is known about the people who founded the site
- but anytime the words "astronomer" and "priest" both appear in the same job title,
chances are that daily routine had less to do with stone carvings and agriculture
than what was really going on in the universe, perhaps just above our protective atmosphere.
The statues of Tula and Tiahuanaco, if made today, would easily be passed of as works by the same artist (although perhaps from a slightly different period). They all seem to have been carved from free-standing cylindrical columns, previously erected on the site, having nothing to do with the culture they're currently associated with. When one takes in the wider context of the Central and South American sites, it becomes difficult to not see an immediate connection. Be it Toltec, Aztec, Inca, Maya, or any other indigenous culture, long since faded into obscurity, it is believed that these ancient civilizations are remnants of a vast culture which once spread far across the seas - even to Europe and Asia - and yes, even to Egypt. Also at Tiahuanaco, jutting out from the walls that enclose the temple are several dozen stone heads, supposedly depicting the priests of the temple. This is a common theme in American sites, remarkably similar to the Aztec skulls - in fact, they have more in common, artistically, with the Mexican ornamentation than the overall impression one gets when encountering the mega-sites themselves. It seems as if more primitive cultures had moved in long after the original architects had abandoned the sites - and held understandable reverence for whomever it was that had created such surroundings. |
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to be seated before a console operating with hands and feet. also from Palenque Mayan Cualdron (below) resembling a modern jet engine. |
THE ASTRONAUT OF THE TEMPLE OF PALENQUE. | |
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Gods of the Sky
If not a hoax, the famous Helicopter Hieroglyph found in the Temple of Abydos, in Egypt,
would be another prime example of highly advanced technology represented in ancient art.
Abydos was originally owned and operated by ancient Egyptian kings - first by Seti I, then Ramesses II (around 1200 BC).
Inside, the ceiling support beams of one chamber contain many inscriptions,
a certain famous four of which have stunned paranormal researchers, taken the "faithful" by storm, and seem even more out of place.
At first glance, these ancient Egyptian heiroglyphs appear to depict aerial technology - namely (amazingly), a helicopter, a submarine, a UFO and a WWII style airplane.
On second glance however, it seems painfully obvious that the image must have been faked, as they show show a more bronze color than the native sandstone
- but this is actually a simple image enhancement technique (not trick), used to show more contrast in the relief.
The dark gold coloring of the highly circulated internet image may also be an artifact of original scanning, depending on the source (as from a magazine or video screenshot).
The image has been altered again here (below, top image) to more closely approach the coloring of the actual sandstone.
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The first thing that grabs anyone who beholds this ancient stony text is the first glyph's uncanny resemblance to a modern military helicopter
like the Apache, Jayhawk and Blackhawk (below)
- carved meters in the air, near the ceiling of one of the most important temples of ancient Egypt.
That it should be immediately accompanied by glyphs resembling other examples of modern aerial technology
- all facing in the same direction, to the right - should be more than enough to completely rule out coincidence as an explanation.
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The glyph immediately to the right of the helicopter has been compared to a tank, a submarine, a small boat or cabin cruiser
- and even appears to some as Luke Skywalker's landspeeder, from the first Star Wars movie.
Directly below that curiosity is what most consider indisputably to be a classic UFO
- but given the non-symmetrical shape and added tail fin, eyes are widened to the possibility of an aircraft only slightly more advanced than we have today
(perhaps something still on the drawing boards, not yet given to public knowledge, as of this writing).
The profile is roundish, yet also shows what are possibly wings, resembling a NASA prototype for proposed space taxis,
(expected to be in operation by the middle of the 21st century) - or Commander Criton's shuttle pod, from Farscape, the popular science fiction TV show.
One almost expects, if such a craft ever existed, that it was armed with phasers.
The fourth icon, below the alleged UFO, seems at once to be a World War II vintage airplane, complete with high tail and bubble cockpit
- albeit without wings, or perhaps what the artist was depicting was partially submerged, in water or sand.
While officially attributed to a palimpsest: a scratching out (or an ancient typo), "the result of a recutting" it cannot be completely ruled out that the original carvings were actualy of some witnessed aerial technology - unless, of course, you are categorically opposed to even considering such things. While modern Egyptologists identify the heiroglyphs' message as telling us of a suppression of "the ennead of nine" and "foreign countries" (these cartouches superimposed over each other), it cannot be ruled out that they might have been the original inspiration for the design. It seems a beyond chance that a character should exactly match the profiles of the tails of an airplane and helicopter - and all in the same place. But what kind of king would be identified with such objects, and what kind of king would have them erased? Mainstream Egyptologists classify the anomaly as a palimpsest: or a typo, "the result of a recutting" offering the simple explanation, "the original signs were covered in plaster, and new ones cut into the surface," and continuing further, "this plaster has now fallen out, leaving images that look rather like modern items!" While there certainly is significant crumbling and water damage around the ceiling and support columns (and this sort of editing of history is known to have periodically occurred with shifts of power) ~ however, a significantly complex response does not necessarilly ammount to a full explanation. To more liberal researchers, this may seem like a blatant cover-up, or at best a lame explantion ~ reminiscent of the Face on Mars being recently attributed to being "a trick of light and shadow" by NASA officials. But this does not completely rule out the possibility that the original heiros were accurate or that the "accepted" cartouche may have evolved from the obvious visualization. Official explanations limit the scope of debunking to the helicopter ignoring the other figures to the right of the alleged submarine, UFO and airplane. It is a well established fact that glider technology did not originate with the Wright Brothers. Leonardo DaVinci had designs for submarines, as well as helicopters, in the late 15th century - although they are not known to have ever been tested. There is even a toy helicopter from ancient China - an example of which was brought to the west by Marco Polo in the late 13th century. So, could the technology of our present era have possibly inspired our ancient past? One tries not to ask one's self such questions. But that's the problem with thinking about time travel - it makes you dizzy. |
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Some, however, do speculate that this is proof enough that people from our century have managed to travel back in time, if accidentally
- citing evidence of paranormal events involving time travel, such as the famous Philidelphia Experiment
- and lending further support to theories of what may be the cause of certain controversial yet documented
temporal and magentic anomalies experienced in the Bermuda Triangle.
Thus, one begs the question: "Could the airplane symbol be depicting one of the
famous Flight 19 fighters that disappeared from the Bermuda Triangle in 1947?"
Well, the above models do not conform exactly to the five TBM Avengers lost over the Sargasso Sea, on December 5th, 1945
- but they are not very far removed from other airplanes of the same period, either.
The point is: the ancient wooden models weren't removed from the display case
until modern airplane contractors started building fighters that just happened to look just like it.
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Sources
The Abydos Temple Helicopter - by Thierry Helicopter Hieroglyph Explained Historical Artwork and UFOs - by Matthew Hurley |
Hoaxes
There would seem to be enough evidence of ancient astronauts
and alien beings (scaring the pants off those who had just recently invented pants),
without needing to invent something circumstantial of your own - unless you just want to sell books.
For the record, chances are: your classic gray alien, as seen in movies like Close Encounters and X-Files
are not likely to appear in anything ancient.
For one thing, information like that is hard to suppress.
People would have been dressing up like ET before Halloween was even invented.
But let this not dissuade you - let this not distract you - from the inevitable evidence that is, and abounds. There are, for example, numerous reptilian gods - and a few reptilian stories and legends dating back as far as anyone is able to trace, and originating from all around the world. Gods live on mountains, or in the clouds, or in the sky, and even in the sea. When legends tell of a race of beings that live in space, or come from another planet - such as the Peruvian legends surrounding Lake Titicaca, or the Dogon tribe of Africa - then you may lift your head up from the dust that covers the past and the present, and learn all there is to know, to become worthy of our future. |
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