Aliens Without Borders
Last updated: October 5, 2011
What if a humanitarian delegation from another planet came to Earth in the past after a cataclysm nearly wiped out our species? First mulled over by Erich von Daniken in his 1968 book, Chariots of the Gods, evidence of the possibility has been piling up ever since. Some proponents of the theory speculate that those ancient astronauts might even return if the climate here continues to deteriorate. Is it really possible?
Ancient drawing from a cave wall in Sego Canyon, Utah
In 1976, historian Robert Temple reported extraterrestrials likely rocked the cradle of civilization in his bestseller,The Sirius Mystery. Starting with a French anthropological study of the Dogon tribe in Mali, Temple unraveled a bizarre tale that connected the cultures of Nubia, Egypt, Mesopotamia and Greece to of all places, the Sirius star cluster.
Temple's book makes for a fascinating read. From his exhaustive research, he concluded that a certain watery planet attached to the white dwarf star, Sirius B, is home to an alien race that once visited Earth. According to the Dogon, Sirius B orbits the much larger Sirius A — the brightest star in the sky, not counting Venus — and there's a miniscule Sirius C in orbit nearby. The three stars reside about 8.6 light-years away from us, although only Sirius A is visible with the naked eye. How the Dogon came by their astronomical data is an open question. Evidently, Sirius C wasn't even discovered by modern astronomers until the 1990's.
Because of the watery nature of the planet near Sirius B, Temple thinks its resident population is comprised of amphibians. Curiously, some of the biggest names in world mythology — including Enki in Babylonia, Oannes in Sumeria, Osiris and Thoth in ancient Egypt, and Viracocha in South America — are all remembered as being fish-like or fish-garbed in appearance.
One of the best-known ancient sources of the alleged alien visitation to the Near East is the Chaldean historian Berossus. In the third century B.C. he wrote a detailed description of the Babylonian "god" Oannes compiled from his own research of much older accounts:
"The whole body of this being was like that of a fish; and under a fish's head another head, and also feet below, similar to those of a man, subjoined to the fish's tail...When the sun set, it was the custom of this Being to plunge again into the sea, and abide all night in the deep..."
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On the top left, the Assyrian relief of the god Oannes makes you wonder if the artist was just trying to replicate a description he'd read. The actual eyewitnesses may have been unable to convey an anatomical shape or high-tech garb that was completely foreign to their culture. As for the basket Oannes carries, Temple thinks it was some type of electronic gadget. -- The Atlantes figure on the right was found in Tula, Mexico. Some researchers think the object he's holding is a torch, or a tool used for mining gold and other precious metals. -- On the bottom, the "Man in Serpent" sculpture at La Venta, Mexico also features a basket. This is the earliest feathered serpent depiction of the Aztec god Quetzalcoatl.
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Berossus credited Oannes and his crew with the invention of writing, architecture, agriculture, religion, science and even social etiquette. According to the scribe:
"In the day-time he used to converse with men, but took no food at that season, and he gave them an insight into letters and sciences, and every kind of art. He taught them to construct houses, to found temples, to compile laws, and explained to them the principles of geometrical knowledge. He made them distinguish the seeds of the earth, and showed them how to collect fruits; in short, he instructed them in every thing which could tend to soften manners and to humanise mankind."
Vedic literature from central Asia mentions a fish god named Vishnu. According to one account, Vishnu played a pivotal role in advance of the Great Flood, instructing a select group of people on how to escape the catastrophe. According to the Satapatha Brahmana:
"The fish said, 'I have saved thee. Fasten the vessel to a tree, that the water may not sweep it away while thou art on the mountain, and in proportion as the waters decrease thou shalt descend.' Manu descended with the waters. The Deluge had carried away all creatures and Manu remained alone."
In Egypt, hieroglyphs equate the goddess Isis to Sirius A. As the brightest star in the night sky, Sirius A was the focal point around which the plans of numerous temples were laid. At the time of its annual heliacal rising (i.e. appearing in the same spot as the rising Sun), the star would cast a beam of light down each temple's main aisle and up to the altar. The author of The Sirius Mystery quotes an inscription at the Denderah Temple:
"She shines into her temple on New Year's Day, and she mingles her light with that of her father Ra on the horizon."
Ra is the name of the Egyptian sun god. Alluding to Sirius B, Temple cites the Greek historian Plutarch, who said he learned from Egyptian priests that "Isis was born in the regions that are ever moist." By some coincidence, the fabled creatures we know as mermaids got their start in Assyria, just a few hundred miles east.
Map of Assyria 660 B.C.
Early Greek mythology is also crowded with half human, half amphibious creatures, Temple documents in his book. The Old Men of the Sea fall into this category, as well as Cecrops, who is considered the original founder of Athens. "It was Cecrops who welcomed Athena to Athens in the first place," Temple notes, "deciding in her favor in a dispute between her and Poseidon over which one was to be the Patron god of Attica, the country of Athens. " A couple of ancient texts also assert that Cecrops originally came to Greece from Egypt.
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Top right is an image of Cecrops on pottery. The half-fish Greek sea-monster Scylla (see next page) is to the left, with three dogs coming out of her. She was also said to yelp like a dog and guard the whirlpool known as Charybdis (bottom image), Some modern observers think Charybdis is an ancient reference to the massive black hole at the center of the Milky Way.
A possible spinoff of mermaids (and mermen), the so-called Sirens were described in Greek lore as winged nymphs who lured mariners away from their ships, never to return. Temple notes that the word siren is synonymous to mermaid in several languages. What's more, in zoology the term Sirenaides represents a genus of tailed, eel-like amphibians.
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DVD's and TV Programs
Ancient Aliens - The Series The History Channel
The Mysterious Origins of Man Based on the book Forbidden Archaeology.
The Mystery of the Sphinx. Featuring John Anthony West and geologist Robert Schoch.
Chariots of the Gods(1970) Comprehensive worldwide review of alien evidence in ancient monuments and drawings.
Articles of Interest
"Top 10 Ancient Civilizations with Advanced Technology" by David Hatcher Childress.
"Evidence of Ancient Aliens?" History Channel.
"What was the Sphinx? by Robert Temple." New Dawn Jan. 2010.
"Search for extraterrestrial life is growing." Washington Post 12/27/2009.
"Origin of the Species, From an Alien View". (Interview with Zecharia Sitchin) New York Times 1/8/2010.
The Dogon and the Sirius Mystery (various articles) UFO Evidence.
"The Dogon of the French Sudan" by Marcel Griaule and Germaine Dieterlen. In African Worlds: Studies in the Cosmological Ideas and Social Values of African Peoples. 1954.
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Books
Fingerprints of the Gods (1999) by Graham Hancock.
The Sirius Mystery (1998) by Robert Temple Buy now...
The 12th Planet (1978), The Earth Chronicles (several titles), and The Earth Chronicles Expeditions: Journeys To The Mythical Past (2004) by Zecharia Sitchin
Leap of Faith (2000), by Gordon Cooper
Forbidden Archaeology (1993) by Richard Thompson and Michael Cremo
Technology of the Gods: The Incredible Sciences of the Ancients by David Hatcher Childress Buy now...
Chariots of the Gods (1968) by Erich van Daniken
Lost Civilizations of the Stone Age (2003) by Richard Rudgley
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