Ancient astronaut blasts off in then fasionable space suit. No footwear needed either.
Posted on 04/20/2010 11:28:32 PM PDT by The Magical Mischief Tour
Who created mankind? According to some researchers, the answer lies with those who came from beyond the stars. The imagery of extra-terrestrial visitors who came in from other planets, and possibly even other galaxies, to seed the human race is a fascinating one, although highly speculative.
Erich von Daniken, who popularised this theory with his book, Chariots of the Gods, believes that these visitors — termed as ancient astronauts — landed on Earth when the planet was still in its infancy.
As part of their breeding experiments, they seeded the first human being and imparted them with the skills required to set humanity on the path of evolution.
The ancient astronauts, says Daniken, came time and again as humanity evolved, giving them the benevolent air of gods. They presumably built or helped build many architectural wonders of the ancient world, like Stonehenge.
To support his theory, Daniken has cited evidence available in the form of archaeological artifacts, especially cave paintings drawn by primitive man.
For example, the ones found in the Spanish caverns of Ojo Guarea and Altamira, as well as Val Camonica in Italy, depict figures in astronaut-type suits and headgear.
In subsequent books, Daniken has also mentioned references available in various mythological and religious texts — of divine beings who arrived from the skies on golden chariots and who had the ability to materialise or disappear at will.
Examples abound, he claims, in texts like the Ramayana — which has references to Ravana's flying chariot, the Pushpak Viman — as well as the Prophet Ezekiel's revelation in the Old Testament, which according to Daniken, can be interpreted as describing the landing of a spacecraft.
Of course, most of us in India are already familiar with tales of devtas who possessed miraculous powers. Daniken might lead us to look at them in a new light, although the idea of Ravana as an alien may seem far-fetched to many.
Most modern historians as well as scientists take these theories with a pinch of salt, believing them to be a case of forcing data to fit the idea. However, this hasn't deterred Daniken's supporters.
Some like author Graham Hancock believe that extraterrestrials imparted knowledge on various subjects like astronomy, architecture and mathematics to a mother culture, which was possibly the lost continent of Atlantis.
The Atlanteans, he says in his book, Fingerprints of the Gods, later imparted this knowledge to the Egyptians, Aztecs and Mayans.
Members of the Raelian cult too believe life on Earth isn't the result of random evolution. Instead, all life, including humans, was created by scientists from an alien race known as Elohim which, incidentally, is a Hebrew word mentioned in the Bible, meaning those who came from the sky.
Another author, Zecharia Sitchin, has dwelt on this concept in his book, The Twelfth Planet, which is based on the premise that the ancient Sumerians were often visited by inhabitants of Nibiru, a remote planet in the solar system.
Citing evidence available in ancient Sumerian texts about these visits, Sitchin says in his Earth Chronicles that the Nibiruans came to Earth for mining gold and other minerals, establishing a spaceport in what today is the Iraq-Iran area.
To fulfil their need for slaves to work the mines, they created Homo Sapiens by genetically re-engineering their own DNA.
If any of these theories are true, then mankind need look no further than itself to perceive how aliens would look. Because, if God was indeed an astronaut, He probably cast us in his own image.
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Looks like an indolent Aztec royal lounging on a throne to me.
That’s not to discredit the notion of very old artwork, even cave drawings, showing “vehicles” that look rather like the modern conception of spaceships.
Whatever the things are, they’ve been around throughout recorded history.
I believe it was depicted in von Daniken’s “Chariots Of The Gods” and held out as an example of ancient space travel.
I find the conventionalized representations of six pointed stars, shooting directional rays or beams out of them, to be more compelling. They’re present in paintings, textiles and woodcuts across numerous cultures and nations, up to the middle ages.
But, that one, regardless of von Daniken’s interpretation, looks very much the picture of indolence. He’s got his feet up in the seat of the very elaborate, throne-like chair, and is resting his head on the left arm.
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God’s word is always true yesterday, today, and tomorrow. The Ancient of Days is “The Great I Am”. A loving God who sent his son Jesus, the Christ, to die for our sins. A living scarfice whose blood covered us all if we would just believe in him who rose on the third day delivering us, all who believe in him, from death as he did for his chosen people the Jews during the first passover. God bless all of Israel and God bless America.
Exodus 3:13-15
13Moses said to God, “Suppose I go to the Israelites and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ Then what shall I tell them?”
14God said to Moses, “I Am who I Am.b This is what you are to say to the Israelites: ‘I Am has sent me to you.’”
15God also said to Moses, “Say to the Israelites, ‘The Lord,c the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob—has sent me to you.’ This is my name forever, the name by which I am to be remembered from generation to generation.
Well, anyone who might argue that ancient astronauts engendered humans would have to ask first, who propagated them?
They would have to have originated in the same roughly middle regions of this galaxy, ostensibly from a single G2 star as that is what’s compatable with our existence, and it seems most G2 stars in the Milky Way exist in bi- or trinary systems. This would also have to be a metal enriched star, thus second or third generation, which places constraints on its age relative to the age of the galaxy.
In that their ships reflect light as depicted in most “ancient astronaut”, or even contemproary UFO accounts, they do not/cannot exceed light’s velocity and thus are confined to travel times in which they’d most likely not even be remembered by their societies once they got back, rendering their “missions” pointless.
I think that sticking to a terrestrial orign hypothesis/theory will yield the best information as to biogenesis rather than creating even more problems by running off after cosmic progenitors.
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