During World War II, American troops created air bases on some remote islands of the 'Pacific Ocean. To the natives, who had no experience of advanced technology, the sight of these "giant metal birds" landed that made them think that their gods had chosen Earth as their home.
Seeing those big planes land and take off, the primitive people they could not be considered "supernatural" all the technology that we consider normal. The thing they liked more by those big airplanes was the food distributed free: American soldiers were delivering large loads of food as aid to local populations.
At the end of the war the military bases in the Pacific Ocean were closed, and consequently ceased the supply of goods. To attract the ships again and invoke new deliveries of goods, the believers of the cargo cult instituted religious rituals and practices, such as the reproduction of rough airstrips, airplanes and radio and the imitation of the observed behavior in the military personnel who had worked on the site.
Thus were born true religions! This phenomenon, known as the "Cargo Cult", it was primarily developed in some remote parts of New Guinea and in other tribal societies of Melanesia and Micronesia to coincide with the arrival of the first ships of the nineteenth century Western explorers. Cults are similar, however, appeared also in other parts of the world. During the last sixty-five years the cargo cult is decreased until it disappeared almost completely. On the island of Tanna in Vanuatu, survives the cult of Jon Frum, one of the most popular, who was born before the war and later became a cargo cult.
It is clear that the analogy of these cults "corned beef" fits very verosibilmente in the scenario described by the theorists of Ancient Astronaut. According to these researchers, something similar may have happened in the distant past of humanity. It is possible that
Ancient Astronaut extraterrestrials have visited Earth thousands of years ago being mistaken for gods and giving birth to entire religions?
Extraterrestrials visiting Earth mistaken for gods?
The 20 1969 July, astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first men to set foot on the Moon, just like aliens visiting from another world. Until then it was just science fiction, but now, everything you can imagine seems possible. If man can travel into space and travel to other planets, why could not beings from other planets visit our planet?
In modern wave of UFO sightings, there emerges a new theory which is that aliens have visited Earth in antiquity and were considered gods. But if that were true, there should not be any proof? Maybe there! We have to have to open our eyes and our imagination: the test, perhaps, it is all around us.
In 2002 the probe terrestrial
Mars Odyssey reveals huge deposits of ice under the surface of Mars. The presence of water ice and the possibility to suggest that life may have been sustained, or even generated, even on other planets. After decades of shuttle orbiters and robotic rover, the idea of postponing the man in space, Mars and beyond, the power to the imagination and brings back the notion that humanity and extraterrestrial beings have encountered in the past.
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May 2008The Vatican is a shocking statement. For the first time in its two thousand year history, the Catholic Church recognizes the possibility of intelligent life on other planets and that believing in aliens does not contradict faith in God This means that we are entering an era in which the 'universe begins to be considered in a different way than before. But what triggered this sudden change of direction in the religious thought? The Church may have been influenced by recent scientific discoveries?
Aliens in the sacred texts of Judaism?
If visitors from other planets were considered gods, there should be no annotations written about it? Perhaps the answer is right under our noses, in one of the most incredible of all, the Bible!
Erich von Daniken, Author of the bestseller
The aliens returnIs firmly convinced that the Earth has been visited in the past by beings from other planets, and this is entirely consistent with his faith in God and the Bible. It's just a matter of interpretation.
"You have to understand that I do believe in God, but as a young man was to be my God almighty and never needed a vehicle to move or rise in the air," says von Däniken in an interview on the History Channel.
In what Christians call the
Old Testament There are, in fact, many references to visits of God on Earth and his angels. Sometimes, these visits are accompanied by a terrible noise and clouds of smoke. In
Book of EzekielFor example, the prophet claims to have witnessed a visit by celestial beings descended from heaven on board a fantastic. For von Däniken, it would be a detailed description of a sighting alien:
"I looked, and behold, a stormy wind of the north, a great cloud, and a whirlwind of fire, which shone all around, and in the middle could be seen as a flash of hot metal. Regard to their features, were the faces of men; then all four sides of a lion on the right, all four sides of an ox on the left, and all four sides of an eagle. beings came and went like an arrow. beings I looked, and, behold one wheel on the ground beside all four. The wheels had the appearance and texture as topaz and all four of the same shape; their appearance and their structure were as of wheel within a wheel.
They could move in four directions, proceeding not turn when they went. They had very large wheels and rims of all four were full of eyes. When the living creatures moved, the wheels moved beside them, and when the living creatures were lifted up from the earth, the wheels rose. Wherever the spirit had driven the wheels were and still rising, because the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels. When they moved, they also moved, and when they stopped, they stopped also, and when they rose from the earth, which are also still rising, because the wheels there was the spirit of the living beings.
Above the heads of the living creature was lying like a firmament, shining like crystal, and under the firmament were their wings straight, the one toward the other, each had two which covered his body. When they moved, I heard the roar of wings, like the noise of great waters, like the thunder of the Almighty, like the roar of the storm, like the tumult of an army ". [Ez-1,5 27].
Ezekiel describes not only what he sees, it also describes what he feels and defines everything as a whole "
Glory of God! "A Prophet also describes four different winged creatures with human faces, who were traveling on devices with flying shining wheels. In"
Glory of God"There is something like a throne, and on it sat a being who seemed human.
Ezekiel states that this be moved thanks to a vehicle provided with wings, whose noise was similar to the roar of a waterfall. Ezekiel sees "
a wheel in a wheel"And this item looks more high tech than supernatural. Considering that we can not expect those people could tell the difference between supernatural and high technology, the story of Ezekiel could have a real historical foundation interpreted with religious categories.
There is another character in the Jewish tradition that von Daniken takes a sample to prove his thesis:
Enoch. Enoch appears only once in the Bible, but more often on spurious versions of the Old Testament. In "
Book of Enoch"It is said that the great-grandfather of Moses
was taken up into heaven by God for three hundred years.
Is taken to heaven and meets "the Most High" (the Great Gloria) that the Jewish religion is one of the names of God the Almighty said to his servants, "taught this young our language and then teach writing" .
So Enoch began to write books. Enoch was the first eyewitness of contact between humanity and an extraterrestrial species.
When all these stories were written, the writing was a relatively new invention and the first thing that the first reports of their writing were events that happened for real. Events were so important and significant that our ancestors had to put them in writing. Because modern society can not accept that these stories could be true?
The gods of other religions
Of these supernatural phenomena are not only interested in the Bible. Almost every religion has similar stories of gods with spectacular powers and abilities, which descend to Earth and directly influence the history of mankind. In the ancient Sanskrit epic written in India, there are numerous descriptions of "
Vimana"Or mythical flying machines in use to the gods. In one of these reports, the
Bhagavata Purana, Which dates back to more than 5.000 years ago, there is the description of a vehicle steering wheel metal piloted by a king named Nirga.
In other Sanskrit texts such as the
Mahābhārata, The
Rigveda and the
Ramayana, You may find descriptions of
Vimana widths up to 30 meters and with the same capabilities of a modern aircraft. A vimana producing a beam of light which, if pointed at a target, consuming him with his power. This would seem photon beam laser weapon of incredible power. More than a religious text, it looks like a science fiction story! The amazing thing is that all quest stories are accepted as true by the modern Indian society.
It 'hard to believe that these descriptions are merely a figment because, although they were written thousands of years ago, correspond to those reported by people today in the case of UFO sightings. It 'possible that we are facing the real "news" of actual events, described by the authors as best they could?
The mysterious cave paintings of the Stone Age
In addition to the written testimony, other evidence of the coming of ancient astronauts on the planet could be in many cave paintings and stone carvings that can be found all over the world. Pictures are worth a thousand words. When we see the drawings in a cave that seem to represent the astronauts with the helmet, what else could it be but the cosmonauts extraterrestrials?
All these old drawings or statues depicting figures dressed in strange for that time so ancient, with unusual headgear. But it's really depictions of visitors from other worlds who landed on Earth thousands of years ago? How else to explain these curious creatures who wear helmets, have antennae that look dressed in overalls "space"? The question is, did the ancestors to feel compelled to portray on cave walls?
In a city of Guatemala, There is a sculpture that beckons disturbing an astronaut today. Wears a helmet, there is a kind of mouthpiece and on the chest there are as a command or a device for breathing. How was it possible to create such a thing 1.500 years ago?
In Colombia, however, have been found thousands of artifacts that resemble tombstones incredibly airplanes today. There are the wings, the fuselage and there is no fin in the tail upwards, which does not appear in nature, but which exists only in aerodynamics modern. Our ancestors saw something like flying in the sky?
Another very interesting artifact can be observed in
museum in Istanbul. There is this man sitting space into a kind of ship. You can see the hands and you can see the pipes connected in some devices. Wearing a suit and the legs are bent. Even to the untrained eye it looks very aerodynamic and it seems certainly something that comes from outer space.
Our ancestors witnessed something and tried to portray it as best they could, with cultural categories and imagination of primitive humanity. The amazing thing is that even though these human cultures they were far apart from each other, all tell the same experience of alien contact, as if to testify that we are all part of a cosmic hierarchy of sentient beings.
The extraterrestrials will return
In 1968, just one year before the epic space flight Neil Armstrong on the Moon, was released a book that forever changed the world in which many in the scientific community and religious, have their home planet.
Swiss author Erich von Däniken,
The extraterrestrials will return wants to prove that alien explorers visited the Earth thousands of years ago and were considered gods by primitive peoples. The author wonders if our ancestors may have been influenced by the visit of these
extraterrestrial, Of these "
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In the eyes of primitive people, the possibilities offered by the technology of the aliens must have seemed real supernatural forces. This would mean that we need new explanations about the origin of man.
Von Däniken, thanks to his book, he was able to point out many anomalies in the history to which the traditional archaeologists do not know how to respond in an appropriate manner. His was a revolutionary idea: the gods from outer space had arrived on the planet and had helped the man to create civilization. Despite the popularity of the book, the theories of von Däniken are despised by scientists and derided by theologians. The scientific community continued to allocate "
archaeological anomalies" Human ingenuity and technology.
The theory of von Däniken may have a serious scientific value? To find the answer, you are doing research around the world and the evidence could be right under our noses. If aliens had visited Earth thousands of years ago, as they tried to communicate with our ancestors? And there would be some physical evidence of time spent on our planet?
The mysterious Nazca Lines
One answer may lie in the
Nazca Desert. In Peru. At the top of an arid plateau that stretches for about 80 kilometers, the landscape is decorated with many geometric designs and figures. Flying over the desert you can see lines similar to the airstrips that begin and end abruptly. The longest is 23 kilometers and is straight without any curve, and ends in one of these runways.
All these lines, large and small, make gigantesce figures on the ground, depicting fish, spiders, monkeys, gorillas, but so huge that you can see them only at high altitudes. Were drawn by people or by "someone", thousands of years ago. Who were addressed the mysterious designs of the famous Nazca lines, only visible from higher altitudes? "The designs are made for someone who flies! This can not be discussed, "says von Däniken lapidary!
The lines do not suffer erosion because the climatic conditions are such that Peruvian quell'altopiano there is no wind, no rain. The white matter they are made of lines was analyzed by the University of Desdra and appears to be a "crystal glass", odorless and tasteless. There seems to be a natural substance, then Nazca seems, indeed, that there is something wrong! The next step to understanding the mystery of Nazca would be to dig, but this is not allowed by the Peruvian authorities. Nazca is considered a sacred place and as such can not be altered, nor investigate.
The classical archeology continues to provide more plausible explanations on the functionality of the site, suggesting that the lines could be used as irrigation canals (in a place where rain is an extremely rare!), Or served as a giant astronomical calendars, or could be paths to religious worship. The truth is that if you look from Nazca, one has the impression of watching a real airport, with those wide lines that look like runways.
No one has any idea of why we created a site as special as that of Nazca. According to the Ancient Astronaut theory, the long straight strips could be of real runways for extraterrestrial vehicles. Or, according to another famous theory that ipotizzerebbe the existence of an advanced human civilization ancient, these tracks would have been used by the Atlanteans before global cataclysm that struck our planet 12.000 years ago.
But the giant geoglyphs are not the only mystery surrounding Nazca. Flying over the Nazca plateau, you may notice that some of the mountains were leveled artificially. If you make a comparison with the mountains surrounding the site, you'll find that they have ridges obvious, while some are perfectly flat, as severed cleanly. The real mystery is that the material is of the mountain plateau is completely gone. What happened?
But why extraterrestrials would have chosen the plateau of the Nazca stationed on Earth? Assuming you an alien ship arrived on Earth and wants to find out very quickly what the planet is made, Nazca would be the ideal place to visit and get this kind of information, taking samples and conducting experiments, because the Peruvian plateau, even today, is one of the richest regions of the raw materials in the world. There are countless gold, uranium, iron, etc. ... in huge quantities. Those areas are the "summary" of mineral resources on Earth.
The famous site of Palenque in Mexico
But Erich von Däniken and other supporters of the Ancient Astronaut theory, perhaps the most significant illustration is in Mexico. The archaeological site of the Maya
Palenque was abandoned for centuries when it was accidentally discovered by Spanish conquistadors. In the depths of a secret tomb, under one of the ancient temples, there is the sarcophagus of 7 tons of Palenque ruler of the seventh century, Pakal the Great.
King Pakal was a mysterious Mayan leader. He was a giant and a half feet tall and Maya loved him as if he were a kind of divinity. The sarcophagus of King Pakal is adorned with engravings that have become a classic example of Mayan art. Archaeologists believe that the traditional illustration of the sarcophagus depicts Paqual that descends into the underworld of the Maya, but the Ancient Astronaut theorists interpret the incision in a very different way.
You see a man attempt to drive a sort of capsule, with a sort of mask on the nose. With the upper hand is manipulating a series of commands, his hand down something is going on. The heel of the left foot is on a kind of pedal and out of caspula you see a flame. According to Von Deniken, could be a decisive proof of the existence of extraterrestrials.
If we think about the appearance of our astronauts when they are in a rocket, with all the equipment on, we see the similarities. So you have to ask the question, this artifact has only a symbolic value, or have tried to depict, with their limited understanding at the time, what was happening? Re Paqual was just a Mayan king loved by all? Or you may trattatava an important visitor from a planet far away?
A map that should not exist
In 1929 is discovered a mysterious map painted on a gazelle skin. Archaeologists attach the document to an admiral of the sixteenth-century turkish name
Piri Reis. The oddity is that this map, in sharp contrast with other existing at the time, is that it represents land which at the time had not yet been explored. Furthermore, the map depicts the coast
Antarctica as it appears in the current ice sheet. This means that the map was created at a time when Antarctica was free from ice, or,
many millions of years ago!
The map depicts in detail even the coasts of Europe and North Africa, but it is an illustration of Antarctica north to the amazement of the Ancient Astronaut theorists, given that this region would not have been discovered until after 300 years. Antarctica is covered by ice thickness 1 km and radar capable of reading under the ice was only invented in 1956, so a map showing 1531 accurately this topography is quite interesting.
If it overlaps the map of Piri Ris on a modern map of the world, one is in awe to discover that the old paper is accurate down to the most minute detail. How could the creators of that old map of hundreds of years to know mountains or rivers that had not yet been discovered?
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