by William Saylor
from
WorldMysteries Website
“I would
rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by
mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could
comprehend it”
– H. E.
Fosdick
"There is more faith in honest doubt than in all your
Creeds"
– A. L.
Tennyson |
Contents
The Gods and
Their Flying Machines
The major attribute of the gods is that they could fly. Here are a
few clues:
- When flying Quetzalcoatl
appeared to the ancient Mexicans as a feathered serpent: “…first
it flies, quite high up, well up it goes, and it just
descends…”. And when it flies or descends a great wind blows.
Wherever it goes, it flies” (Baldwin, 1998).
Don't you wonder what kind of
aircraft might appear to the natives as a “plumed serpent”
accompanied by a “great wind”?
- “…there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and
parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into
heaven.” (2 Kings 2:11).
- “And Jehovah was going before them by day in a pillar
of cloud, to lead them in the way, and by night in a pillar of
fire, to give light to them, to go by day and by night…” (Exo
13:21).
- Yahweh lands on Mt Sinai. “…And on the third day, it
being morning, it happened. There were thunders and lightning,
and a heavy cloud upon the mountain, and the sound of a ram’s
horn, very strong! And all the people of the camp trembled… And
mountain of Sinai was smoking, all of it, because
Jehovah came down on it in
fire. And it’s smoke went up like the smoke of a furnace; and
the mountain quaked exceedingly…” (Exodus 19:16-18).
- “…And the spirit lifted me up, and I heard behind me the sound
of a great tumult, saying, Blessed be the glory of Jehovah
from his place; and the sound of the wings of the living
creatures touching each other to the other; and the sound of the
wheels along with them; and the sound of a great tumult…”
(Ezekiel 3:12).
- Jehovah comes down on the high places with a great
heat: “For behold, Jehovah is coming out of his place,
and will come down and walk on the high places of the earth. And
the mountains shall melt under him, and the valleys shall cleave
themselves as wax before the fire, as waters poured out on a
steep place…” (Micah 1:3-4).
- A reference to flying gods in the Mahabharata:
“The gods, in cloud-borne
chariots… bright celestial cars in concourse sailed upon the
cloudless sky.” (Sitchin, 1985).
- Sitchin (1985) also
mentions the flying Maruts:
“…loud roaring as the winds make
the mountains rock and reel…(as they) lift themselves
aloft…these verily wondrous, red of hue, speed on their
course with a roar over the ridges of the sky…and spread
themselves with beams of light…bright, celestial, with
lightning in their hands and helmets of gold upon their
heads.”
- Egyptian King Pepi ascends:
“As an imperishable star; Flies
who flies! He flies away from you, O men! He is no longer
upon earth; he is in the sky! He rushes at the sky like a
heron. He has kissed the sky like a falcon. He has leapt
skyward like a grasshopper.” (Frankfort, 1948).
- An angelic messenger announces to
Manoah about the birth of Samson to his wife, and
who, after telling Manoah that his name is secret,
“…ascends in a flame of fire
from the altar.” (Judges 13:2-15).
- Naymlap, the leading god of
the Indians of Ecuador, was
“taken heavenward by the god of
the speaking stone” (Sitchin, 1990).
- Von Daniken (1982) states
that the “fiery heavenly chariots”, described by Enoch
and Elijah are also found in Buddhist (Padmasambhava)
and Hindu (Ardjuna) mythology. Apparently every
child in India is well aware of ancient flying gods and their
aircraft, which they called
Vimanas.
- In the Sumerian tale of Nergal and Ereshkigal
(Pritchard, 1975), there are hints that there were periods when
the gods were not able to travel from one location to
another, perhaps because their orbital positions or the
planetary alignments were not favorable:
Anu opened his mouth to
say to Kaka:
I will send thee, Kaka, to the Land of no Return,
To Ereshkigal…thou shalt say: "‘Thou art not able to come
up,
In thy year thou canst not ascend to our presence, And we
cannot go down,
In our month we cannot descend to thy presence…"
Probably the most familiar
description of the AA’s aircraft (possibly spacecraft) is
in the biblical book of Ezekiel. It is a very convincing
description by a very astute observer. From this description
former NASA engineer J. F. Blumrich
designed and patented his impression of the vehicle (Blumrich,
1974) (Fig 7-1). A small cockpit, where Ezekiel observed the "Lord",
rested atop the body of the vehicle.
Fig 7-1.
The body, which Ezekiel
called the "fiery firmament", terminated in a single main
engine. Attached to the body were four helicopter engines and
blades, which enabled the vehicle to land vertically without
using the main engine, which would have either covered poor
Ezekiel with rubble or blown him away!
Not so well known, and more interesting in my opinion, is the
tale of the “Divine Throne-Chariot” from the Dead Sea
Scrolls (Vermes, 1962). The introduction to the piece reads:
“The Divine Throne-Chariot
draws its inspiration from Ezekiel (1:10) and is
related to the Book of Revelation. It depicts the appearance
and movement of the Merkabah, the divine Chariot
supported and drawn by the cherubim, which is at the same
time a throne and a vehicle. The ‘small voice’ of blessing
is drawn from 1 Kings 19:112: it was in a ‘small still
voice’ that God manifested himself to Elijah.
In our Qumran text this voice is uttered by the cherubim and
it is interesting to note that although the Bible does not
define the source of the voice, the ancient Aramaic
translation of 12 Kings (Targum of Jonathan) ascribes it to
angelic beings called ‘they who bless silently.’”
“The Throne-Chariot was a central subject of meditation in
ancient as well as in medieval Jewish esotericism and
mysticism, but the guardians of Rabbinic orthodoxy tended to
discourage such speculation. The liturgical use of
Ezekiel’s chapter on the Chariot is expressly forbidden in
the Misnah; it even lays down that no wise man is to
share his understanding of the Merkabah with a person
less enlightened than himself…”
Not being a "wise man" I
guess I'm free to share my speculation regarding the Merkabah.
Of course the ancient Hebrews did not have the words to describe
the technology which they were observing; regardless Ezekiel
did quite an impressive job with the words available to him.
The description of the vehicle in operation, excerpted from
Vermes by Barnstone (1984) reads:
“…and the cherubim utter
blessings. And as they rise up, there is a divine small
voice and loud praise; there is a divine small voice as they
fold their wings.
“The cherubim bless the image of the Throne-Chariot
above the firmament, and they praise the majesty of the
fiery firmament beneath the seat of his glory. And between
the turning wheels angels of holiness come and go, as it
were a fiery vision of most holy spirits; and about them
flow seeming rivulets of fire, like gleaming bronze, a
radiance of many gorgeous colors, of marvelous pigments
magnificently mingled. The spirits of the Living God
move perpetually with the glory of the wonderful Chariot.
“The small voice of the blessing accompanies the tumult as
they depart, and on the path of their return they worship
the Holy One. Ascending, they rise marvelously;
settling, they stay still. The sound of joyful praise is
silenced and there is a small voice of blessing in all the
camp of God.”
Here it is again with my
“interpretations” in parenthesis:
“…and the cherubim (and the
objects with wings - the helicopters) utter blessings (make
a soft sound resembling prayer). And as they rise up (as the
helicopter blades rise into place), there is a divine small
voice (the blades make a swishing sound in the air) and loud
praise (along with the loud noise of the engine); there is a
divine small voice as they fold their wings (when the main
engine is stopped only the swishing sound of the blades is
heard as they drop down and stop).
“The cherubim (The helicopters) bless the image of the
Throne-Chariot above the firmament (make a soft sound like
prayer), and they praise the majesty (and they speak louder,
and in amazement, about the brightness) of the fiery
firmament beneath the seat of his glory (of the glowing,
idling engine under the main body of the aircraft). And
between the turning wheels (between the helicopter’s
blades), angels of holiness come and go (wispy changing
patterns), as it were a fiery vision of most holy spirits
(of flames and vapors from the main engine); and about them
flow seeming rivulets of fire, like gleaming bronze, a
radiance of many gorgeous colors, of marvelous pigments
magnificently mingled (the exhaust from the helicopter
engines mingled with the multi-colored exhaust from the main
engine). The spirits (the helicopters) of the Living God
move perpetually with the glory (always move with the
flaming exhaust) of the wonderful Chariot (of the wonderful
vehicle).
“The small voice of the blessing (the soft sound of the
blades) accompanies the tumult (accompanies the roar of the
main engine) as they depart, and on the path of their return
they worship (they make a loud noise) the Holy One (the
god-pilot). Ascending, they rise marvelously (the blades
ascend quickly); settling, they stay still (the blades drop
down and stop,). The sound of joyful praise is silenced (the
loud noise of the main engine ceases) and there is a small
voice of blessing (the helicopter blades slow and drop down)
in all the camp of God.”
I do not think there is a better
description of Ezekiel’s “spaceship”!
Another interesting tale is that of Elijah meeting the
Lord. In I Kings 19:11-12, Yahweh makes himself known
to Elijah (Eli-yahu):
“And, behold, the Lord
passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains,
and brake in pieces the rocks before the earthquake; but
the Lord was not in the wind: and after the wind an
earthquake; but the Lord was not in the earthquake;
and after the earthquake a fire; but the Lord was not
in the fire; and after the fire a still small voice.”
My translation: As the spacecraft
approaches the exhaust was first perceived as a powerful wind;
as it descended on the mountain the engine caused the earth
under it to vibrate; the engine’s fiery exhaust then came into
Elijah’s view; finally, the main engines are stopped and only
the sound of the helicopter blades is heard as they slow and
stop.
Zecharia Sitchin (1998)
gives an interesting description of Elijah’s ascent to heaven.
This apparently was also the time when Ezekiel wrote of his
experiences with the Lord’s aircraft - about 592 bc:
“…a chariot of fire, and horses
of fire, came. And they separated between them both (Elijah
and Elisha), and Elijah went up in a tempest to Heaven. And
Elisha was watching, and he was crying ‘My father, my
father! the chariot of Israel and its Horsemen!’ And he did
not see him again…”
(2 Kings 2:11).
If your language did not include the
words aircraft, or rocket, or spaceship, or any other thing that
could carry men through the air, what could you possibly call it
but a "chariot"? And it seems clear that some of them
were what we now call VTOL (vertical take-off and
landing) aircraft.
So I am left with no doubt that the
AAs possessed the technology to come to Earth in spacecraft, and
to move about the Earth in various kinds of aircraft which did not
require runways.
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Ancient
Nuclear Warfare
“We turned the switch, saw
the flashes, watched for ten minutes, then turned
everything off and went home. That night I knew the
world was headed for sorrow”
– Physicist Leo Szilard, atomic bomb builder
“(It was) a single
projectile, charged with all the power of the Universe.
An incandescent column of smoke and flame, as bright as
the thousand suns, rose in all its splendor… it was an
unknown weapon... which reduced to ashes the entire race
of the Vrishnis and the Andhakas… the corpses were so
burned as to be unrecognizable. The hair and nails
fellout; pottery broke without apparent cause, and the
birds turned white… after a few hours all foodstuffs
were infected…”
– The Mahabharata.
During the first Egyptian “pyramid
war”, between Horus and Seth, Horus strikes:
“…(and he) let loose against them a
storm which they could neither see with their eyes, nor hear
with their ears. It brought death to all of them in a single
moment…” (Sitchin, 1985)
This sounds to me like the gamma-ray
and neutron pulse from a sub-kiloton nuclear weapon, which
has no fireball and the nuclear radiation extends far beyond the
blast wave.
Zeus battles the Titans:
“The hot vapor lapped around the
Titans, of Gaea born, flame unspeakable rose bright to the upper
air. The Flashing glare of the Thunder-Stone, its lightning,
blinded their eyes-so strong it was. Astounding heat seized
Chaos… It seemed as if Earth and wide Heaven above had come
together, a mighty crash, as though Earth was hurled to ruin.
Also were the winds brought rumbling, earthquake and dust storm,
thunder and lightning.” (Sitchin, 1985).
I would guess that this was a large
nuclear weapon which was detonated on or close to the ground,
thus producing a large mushroom cloud.
Zeus conquering Thyphon:
“A flame shot forth from the
stricken lord in the dim, rugged, secluded valley of the Mount,
when he was smitten. A great part of huge earth was scorched by
the terrible vapor, melting as tin melts when heated by man’s
art…in the glow of a blazing fire did the earth melt down.” (Sitchin,
1985).
Biblical references to nuclear
warfare:
- The destruction of Sodom and
Gomorrah:
“…(Abraham) looked toward Sodom
and Gomorrah…and he beheld and saw a smoke rising from the
earth, as the smoke of a furnace.”
(Gen 18:27).
- “…and the Lord sent thunder and hail, and the fire ran
along upon the ground; and the Lord rained hail upon the
land of Egypt.”
– Exodus 9:23
“And it came to pass, as they fled from before Israel, and
were in the going down to Bethhoron, that the Lord cast down
great stones from heaven upon them unto Azekah, and they
died: they were more which died with hailstones than they
whom the children of Israel slew with the sword.”
– Joshua 10:11
“And the fire of God came down from heaven, and consumed him
and his fifty.”
– 2 Kings 1:12
-“Thou shalt make them as a fiery oven in the time of thine
anger: the Lord shall swallow them up in his wrath, and the
fire shall devour them.”
– Psalms 21:9
“A fire goeth before him, and burneth up his enemies round
about.”
– Psalms 97:3
“Thou shalt be visited of the Lord of hosts with thunder,
and with earthquake, and great noise, with storm and
tempest, and the flame of devouring fire.”
– Isaiah 29:6
There are many other clues regarding
nuclear warfare. Childress (2000) discusses ancient atomic
warfare, first Hattusas (Bogazkoy) in Turkey where “parts
of the city are vitrified, and the walls of rock are partly
melted.” He then discusses Sodom and Gomorrah and compares
them with Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
He thinks Sodom, Gomorrah, Zoar, Admah
and Zeboiim (Gen. 14:2) were destroyed, creating the Dead Sea.
He quotes L.M.Lewis, “Footprints on the Sands of Time”,
who argues for atomic explosions. And he quotes from the
Mahabharata an excellent description of an atomic battle in
which Arjuna is given a “celestial weapon” which he cannot use
against humans “for it might destroy the world”, but he could use it
against “any foe who is not human.”
From the Mahabharata, as quoted by Charles Berlitz
(1972), is probably the best description of ancient atomic
warfare one can find:
“…(it was) a single projectile,
charged with all the power of the Universe. An incandescent
column of smoke and flame, as bright as the thousand suns, rose
in all its splendor… it was an unknown weapon, and iron
thunderbolt, a gigantic messenger of death, which reduced to
ashes the entire race of the Vrishnis and the Andhakas… the
corpses were so burned as to be unrecognizable. The hair and
nails fell out; pottery broke without apparent cause, and the
birds turned white… after a few hours all foodstuffs were
infected… to escape from this fire the soldiers threw themselves
in streams to wash themselves and their equipment.”
Steinhauser (1975) relates a
story from the Ramayana:
“…when the god Rama was threatened
by a ‘army of monkeys’ (men or robots?) he put a ‘magic arrow’
into action. This produces a flash of lighting ‘stronger than
the heat from a hundred thousand suns’, turning everything to
dust. The hair of survivors falls out, their nails disintegrate.
We know of such magic weapons from Sodom and Gomorrah, and from
Hiroshima and Nagasaki.”
Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa,
Pakistan: David Davenport (1996), who spent 12 years studying
ancient Hindu scripts and evidence at the ancient site of
Mohenjo-Daro, declared in 1996 that the city was instantly destroyed
2,000 years bc. The city ruins reveal the explosion’s epicenter
which measures 50 yards wide. At that location everything was
crystallized, fused or melted. Sixty yards from the center the
bricks were melted on one side indicating a blast… the horrible
mysterious event of 4000 years ago was recorded in the
Mahabharata.
According to that text,
“white hot smoke that was a thousand
times brighter than the sun rose in infinite brilliance and
reduced the city to ashes. Water boiled… horses and war chariots
were burned by the thousands… the corpses of the fallen were
mutilated by the terrible heat so that they no longer looked
like human beings…”
From one of the oldest chronicles of
India...
the Book of Dzyan:
"Separation did not bring peace to
these people and finally their anger reached a point where the
ruler of the original city took with him a small number of his
warriors and they rose into the air in a huge shining metal
vessel. While they were many leagues from the city of their
enemies, they launched a great shining lance that rode on a beam
of light. It burst apart in the city of their enemies with a
great ball of flame that shot up to the heavens, almost to the
stars. All those who were in the city were horribly burned and
even those who were not in the city - but nearby - were burned
also.
Those who looked upon the lance and
the ball of fire were blinded forever afterward. Those who
entered the city on foot became ill and died. Even the dust of
the city was poisoned, as were the rivers that flowed through
it. Men dared not go near it, and it gradually crumbled into
dust and was forgotten by men. When the leader saw what he had
done to his own people he retired to his palace and refused to
see anyone. Then he gathered about him those warriors who
remained, and their wives and children, and they entered their
vessels and rose one by one into the sky and sailed away. Nor
did they return."
Childress (1999) also presents
sketches of the Citadel of Mohenjo-Daro and a discussion of
its destruction by nuclear explosion. Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro were
the main cites of the “Harappa Culture” of the Indus Valley, an
amazingly uniform and advanced urban civilization existing between
2500 and 1500 bc, the beginnings of which remain obscure.
About Parshaspur near Srinagar, Kashmir, David Childress
(2000) states,
“It is a scene of total destruction;
huge blocks of stone are scattered about a wide area giving the
impression of explosive annihilation.”
Zecharia Sitchin (1985)
devotes an entire chapter to a discussion of
nuclear warfare in ancient times in Mesopotamia and the
Sinai peninsula.
In this book he also suggests the
destruction of the Sinai “space facilities” by nuclear weapons. He
offers as evidence
“…the immense cavity in the center
of the Sinai and the resulting fracture lines (see figure), the
vast surrounding flat area covered with blackened stones, traces
of radiation south of the Dead Sea, the new extent and shape of
the Dead Sea – is still there, four thousand years later”.
He maintains that the radioactive
fallout from this operation wiped out the area around Sumer
for a period of 70 years, until 1953 bc.
So did the gods use nuclear
weapons in their struggles with each other and with mankind? You
be the judge!
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The
Biotechnology of the Gods
“There are 193 species of
monkeys and apes, 192 of them are covered with hair. The
exception is a naked ape self-named Homo Sapiens”
– Desmond Morris
“It is difficult to say what is impossible – for the
dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality
of tomorrow”
– Robert Goddard
Tales from various sources suggest that
the gods possessed an advanced knowledge of biology many
millennia ago:
- The Egyptian god Thoth
helped Isis, the wife of Osiris, to extract from the dismembered
Osiris the semen with which Isis was impregnated to bear Horus.
- “The Telleriano-Remensis
and Florentine codices declare that Quetzalcoatl,
as great artificer, ‘formed’ and ‘molded’ the first human
beings in his image, and that only he - and no other god -
‘had a human body’.” (Baldwin, 1998).
- “Before I (the Lord) formed you (Jeremiah) in the belly I
knew you; and before you came out of the womb I set you
apart…” (Green, Jay, 1986, Jeremiah 1:5).
- “…‘though it is said that in
truth Zeus, King of the Gods, whom you call Amen-Ra,
was her father’. Seti nodded when he heard this and
murmured, ‘Even as Amen-Ra was the father of Hatshepsut.
Yes, the gods can indeed be the fathers of the spirits that
dwell in the bodies of kings and queens’.” (Green, Roger,
1967).
- In the tale of the birth of
Samson, Manoah’s wife, who was barren, was visited by “the
Angel of Jehovah” who said,
“Behold now you are barren and
have not borne. But you shall conceive and bear a son…(who
shall be)…a Nazirite to God from the womb” (Green, Jay,
1986, Judges 13:2-14)
(Nazirite: Endowed with
special psychic or physical qualities to be used in God’s
service).
- “The god Citlaltonac sent
an ambassador to see the virgin Chimalma…The god told her that
she was to conceive a son, which she did soon after…”
(Fernandez, 1982).
- Concerning the birth of the Toltec god Huitzilopochtli:
“…a woman called Coatlicue, who was charged with keeping clean a
temple on the Cerro de Coatepec, near Tula, was sweeping the
building when she saw a beautiful ball of feathers drop from the
sky, and put it away in her bosom. When she had finished her
work, and tried to find the feather ball, it was no longer
there, it had disappeared. At that same moment she became
pregnant, although she had been a widow for many years.” (Demetrio,
1983).
- In his discussion of the Sumerian story of the creation of
The Adam (" the earthling") from Mesopotamian texts (clay
tablets), Zecharia Sitchin (1985) writes,
“…to achieve the feat Enki
suggested that a ‘being that already exists’, Ape woman, be
used to create the Lulu Amelu (‘the mixed worker’) by
‘binding’ upon the less evolved beings ‘the mold of the
gods’. The goddess Sud purified the ‘essence’ of a
young male Anunnaki; she mixed it into the egg of an
Ape woman. The fertilized egg was then implanted in the womb
of a female Anunnaki, for the required period of pregnancy.
When the ‘mixed creature’ was born, Sud lifted him up and
shouted: ‘I have created! My hands have made it!’”
These stories raise several interesting
questions:
-
In prehistoric times how in fact
did the gods incorporate their ‘essence’ into ape
females, a different species (but possibly the same genus),
to create modern humans, as ancient texts have suggested?
-
How could gods and
humans, of different but possibly similar species, marry and
reproduce as suggested in Genesis?
-
Within historical times how did
the AAs incorporate their ‘spirit’ into the prophets,
humans again of a different but probably similar species?
-
How could the ancient ‘god-kings’
of Mesopotamia and Egypt marry their immediate
family members, as custom required, and reproduce without
apparent damage to the family gene pool?
Before speculating on how these things
were done it will be useful to list some of the bioengineering
methods in use at the present time:
-
IVF: In-vitro
fertilization. Sperm and egg of the same species is fused
in-vitro. The embryo is implanted in the uterus. A common method
of treating infertility since the 1978 British ‘test tube baby’.
-
CSCT: Cross-species cell
transfer (or nuclear transfer). An in-vitro fertilization in
which a somatic (e.g. skin) ‘donor’ cell is fused in vitro with
the ‘host’ egg of a different but similar species (but of the
same genus). The embryo is implanted in the uterus of the host.
-
CCSCT: Cloned
cross-species cell transfer. Same as CSCT except the egg is
de-nucleated, resulting in a clone of the donor animal (although
a small amount of DNA, in the mitochondria, always comes from
the egg). This was the method employed by Advanced Cell
Technology, Inc, to regenerate the recently extinct Asian Gaur
using an ordinary cow as host (which died shortly after -
darn!).
-
RDNA: Recombinant DNA.
Since, in most cases, DNA cannot be transferred directly from
one organism to another, in this technique a desirable DNA
fragment, isolated from the animal ‘donor’ cell, is incorporated
into the plasmid of a benign bacteria (the vector). The bacteria
reproduces the fragment as a part of it’s own DNA, and the
hybrid bacteria cells are injected back into the animal. This is
currently the method of human ‘gene therapy’, but one would
expect that the technique could also be used for cross-species
cell transfer if the bacteria were benign to both species.
-
HESC: Human Embryonic Stem
Cells. A human somatic cell is fused in vitro with a
de-nucleated egg of a different species. “These differentiated
cells began to grow as an embryo and then reverted to become
embryonic stem cells, which can grow into virtually any type of
tissue for transplant use”
So let’s speculate.
Zecharia Sitchin’s statement concerning the development of
the Adam sounds like our current technique of cross-species cell
transfer (CSCT), the ‘essence’ being DNA fragments (genes) which the
gods wanted incorporated into the Ape woman’s egg. The resulting
Adam, a hybrid like mules or hinnies, was sterile. Later on some
procedure was employed to enable the "mixed creatures" to procreate.
Incorporating the "spirit" (certain traits or abilities) of the gods
into the prophets, apparently a partial and selective reprogramming
of the central nervous system, could have been accomplished via the
technique of recombinant DNA.
Finally, the custom of the ancient ‘god-kings’ of Mesopotamia and
Egypt of marrying their sisters and reproducing without apparent
damage to the family gene pool would have been possible using the
technique of cloned cross-species cell transfer (CCSCT)
in the following scenario:
-
Harvest an egg from a human
female and remove the DNA.
-
Collect a skin cell from a
living god, or a deceased god whose cells have been
preserved by freezing (or embalming?).
-
Fuse the skin cell and egg in
vitro, and electrically stimulate the embryo to start
dividing.
-
Implant the embryo back into the
female, whose immune system will accept it.
If all goes well the human will birth
a clone of the god. Now repeat the procedure using a skin
cell from a goddess. The cloned god-son and goddess-daughter would
be totally genetically different, and could marry and reproduce
without genetic damage or violating rules pertaining to incest.
Furthermore, since the god-son and his mother are genetically
different, they may marry, as was required in ancient Egypt, without
violating taboos.
But what if the god and human are of a very different species, or
even of a different genus? That this is probable is evidenced by
literature suggesting that some of the gods were frightful to look
at, and took great care not to be seen by humans, except possibly by
the highest priest:
- Concerning the appearance of
(the angel) Eleleth. “…now as for that angel, I cannot speak
of his power…No, truly, my mouth cannot bear to speak of his
power and the appearance of his face.”
(Robinson, 1978, “The Hypostasis
of the Archons’)
- In the tale of the birth of Samson, the wife of Manoah
says, “A man of God has come to see me, and His appearance
was like the appearance of an Angel of God, very
terrifying.”
(Green, Jay, 1986, Judges
13:2-14) (This might have been an android).
- “Quetzalcoatl…only he, no other God, had a human body. He
was ‘el hombre-dios’, the god made flesh, man embodied with
divine spirit.”
- Fanged (Tlaloc) or
grotesque (Xipe Totec - ‘The Flayed One’), the gods
sometimes hid behind skins of flayed humans.
- “…now it is revealed to us
concerning the race of the gods, and we confess it along
with everyone else, that they have come into being out of a
pure matter, and their bodies are heads only.” (Robinson,
1978, the Asclepius tractate, 21-29)
- “…they (the first male and female earthlings-Adam and
Eve?) saw that they were naked, and they became enamored of
one another. When they saw their makers, they loathed them
since they were beastly forms.” (Robinson, 1978, “On the
Origin of the World”).
In these cases probably the techniques
of recombinant DNA or the generation of human embryonic stem
cells was used. Scary as it sounds the “the hominid-animal mixtures”
described by the Babylonian priest Berossus (Burstein, 1978)
could have resulted from the modern human embryonic stem cells
technique. In fact when this experiment was announced two years ago
by Advanced Cell Technology, biotechnology watcher Jeremy Rifkin
strongly objected:
“They should never, ever have done
this. We don’t know what kind of creature could develop from
that.”
I think we now do know of at least one
kind of creature that can “develop from that ” - the Adam!
In summary it appears that our current knowledge of animal
biology and physiology permits a close understanding of how
the gods might have accomplished their bioengineering feats.
Furthermore, since we are assuming that the gods had this
ability millennia ago, it’s exciting to speculate concerning their
current biotechnology. I suspect we would find it indescribable.
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The Immortals
“The more science learns
what life is, the more reluctant scientists are to
define it “
Leila M. Coyne
"Eternity is very long, especially near the end"
Woody Allen
A universal attribute of the “gods” was
their immortality, or at least their very long lives compared
to humans. Several references to this characteristic follows:
- “For a thousand years, in your
eyes, are as yesterday when it passes, and as a watch in the
night.” (Green, Jay, 1986, Psalm 90:4).
This represents a time dilation factor
of 1/365,000.
- “…that one day with the Lord is as
a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.” (Green, Jay,
1986, 2 Peter 3:8).
Also a time dilation factor of
1/365,000.
- “…adding up to 1200 divine years
of 432,000 Earth years” – The Vishnu Purana, as quoted by
Zecharia Sitchin (Sitchin,1993).
A time dilation factor of 1/360 or
1/432,000, whichever way it is interpreted.
- “Put not thy faith in length of
years, for the gods regard a lifetime as but an hour.”
(Frankfort, 1948).
A time dilation factor of 1/52,840 for a
60 year lifetime.
- Mead (1921) writes,
“Jesus tells his
initiated of the dissolution of the universe after its
expansion is completed ‘in the years of the light’. Mary
Magdalene asks him: ‘My Lord, how many years of the years of
the world is a year of the light?’ Jesus answered: ‘A day of
the light is a thousand years in the world, so that
thirty-six myriads of years and a half myriad of years of
the world are a single year of the light.’”
Translating we have 1 day of light =
1000 Earth years; 1 year of the light = 365 days of the light =
365,000 Earth days = 36.5 myriads of Earth years, i.e. as used
here "myriad" represents the multiplier 10,000.
- From The Vision of Isaiah:
“After taking Isaiah to Heaven,
the angel was requested to return the prophet to Earth.
Isaiah said: ‘Why so soon? I have only been here two hours.’
The angel said: ‘Not two hours, but thirty-two years…’” (Slemen,
2000).
A time dilation factor of 1/140,160.
These references seem to imply that the AAs did not live
forever, but so much longer than humans that they appeared to be
immortal. The texts report that the Sumerian goddess Inanna
did age, but she was considered immortal.
One obvious advantage of being even relatively immortal is that one
could move about the galaxy without having to achieve very high, and
very expensive, speeds. As astronomer Sandy Faber noted, “If
we could live longer we wouldn’t have to accelerate to high speeds”.
Living longer instead of going faster is of course a familiar
science fiction theme.
I can think of four possibilities to account for the alleged
immortality of the gods:
(1) Organ replacement, if the
gods are biological, or parts replacement if they are not - some
of the ‘angels’ and other emissaries of the gods seemed
suspiciously robotic:
“Behold, I send an angel before
thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the
place which I have prepared. Beware of him, and obey his
voice, provoke him not; for he will not pardon your
transgressions, for my name is in him.” (Exodus 23:20-21).
(2) Rejuvenation by somatic
cell nuclear transfer.
(3) Time dilation via travel at relativistic speeds
relative to Earth.
(4) Gravitational time dilation by orbiting a large black
hole.
I am not aware of any references to
organ or parts replacement by the gods; however rejuvenation was
likely since there was a “Tree of Life” which the gods had access to
but humans did not. Zecharia Sitchin (1980) suggests that
to be taken up in ancient Egypt meant that one would be
immortal, so the rocket ship represented the “tree of
life”, and was also symbolized by the obelisks.
According to
the ancient king lists the 1st
god-king of Ur reigned for 28,800 Earth years, but the texts
also mention that the goddess Inanna grew old and fat after
being on Earth for an extended period. So was the Tree of Life a
repository of spare parts, a cellular rejuvenator, or was it a
location such as the vicinity of a black hole?
Time dilation via high speeds seems unlikely, since the degree of
time dilation implied by all of the foregoing statements would
require velocities very close to the speed of light, which we
currently consider to be impossible (although physicists have
recently claimed to have transmitted photons, which have no mass,
faster than the speed of light, moving a spacecraft faster than the
speed of light would seem to require most of the energy in the
entire universe).
Rejuvenation by somatic cell nuclear transfer was probably employed
since the gods possessed a very advanced biotechnology. In this
“still largely theoretical procedure…(the procedure) can
‘rejuvenate’ an aged cell, restoring the proliferative capacity
inherent in cells at the beginning of life.” (West, 2000).
Rejuvenation (replacement) by cloning is also very probable. This
procedure, which can be used to produce “young cells of any type”,
avoids the "Hayflick limit" in which the “telemeres” on the ends of
the chromosomes are reduced every time the cell divides until they
are used up and division stops (Cibelli, 2000).
I think it’s also logical that the gods might reside, at least some
of the time, in an equilibrium orbit about a black-hole which is
massive enough to provide an acceptable tidal force across the width
of their spacecraft. How massive? If we assume a spacecraft of any
length, but having a width of a kilometer (this is a big spaceship
folks!), orbiting a black-hole of 32,425 solar masses, the tidal
force across the width of the craft would be a comfortable 1g (the
pull of gravity at the Earth’s surface). For the case of “1200
divine years of 432,000 human years”, i.e. a time dilation of
0.00278, the ratio of the circumference of the event horizon to the
circumference of the orbit of the spacecraft is 0.999992.
Since the horizon circumference for this
mass is only about 601,585 kms, our gods would need to drive very
carefully! But in this orbit, one Earth year in the life of the gods
is 360 years on Earth. The case of “…a thousand years, in your eyes,
are as yesterday when it passes” is more difficult since the orbit
of the spacecraft would essentially have to coincide with the event
horizon.
But there is another clue. In the Sumerian tale of Nergal and
Ereshkigal (Pritchard, 1975), there are hints that there were
periods when the gods were not able to travel from one location to
another, perhaps because their orbital positions or the planetary
alignments were not favorable:
Anu opened his mouth to say
to Kaka:
I will send thee, Kaka, to the
Land of no Return,
To Ereshkigal…thou shalt say: "‘Thou art not able to come
up,
In thy year thou canst not ascend to our presence, And we
cannot go down,
In our month we cannot descend to thy presence…”
Gravitational time dilation is the
logical explanation here. The time dilation factor is of course
1/12, so that the 96,410 km radius of Anu's orbit is now a
comfortable 665 km greater than the horizon radius. Notice that even
this modest time dilation, if not close to a black-hole, would
require a speed of 99.6% the speed of light - not possible according
to current knowledge.
Although astronomers are convinced that the Milky Way’s core
contains a massive black hole of about 2.6 million solar masses
(Science News, 153:59) it is over 30,000 LY from Earth. So how
likely is it that there is a suitably large black hole reasonably
close to us, say in the Orion nebula? (The solar system used to be
in the Orion nebula but is now about 1500 LY away). One clue may
come from Stephen Hawking’s (1988) observation that,
“The number of black holes may well
be greater even than the number of visible stars (about 1011
in our galaxy)…then the black hole nearest to us would probably
be at a distance of about a thousand million kilometers, or
about as far away as Pluto…”.
Furthermore the Space Telescope
Science Institute reports recent observations which suggest that
they may be numerous:
“Two international teams of
astronomers using NASA’S Hubble Space Telescope and
ground based telescopes in Australia and Chile have discovered
the first examples of isolated stellar-mass black holes adrift
among the stars in our galaxy.” (stsci, 2000) .
Finally astrophysicists have recently
postulated that there may be as many as 25,000 black holes within 15
LYs of the center of our galaxy (Escude, 2000).
Lacking other clues I'll speculate that a combination of cellular
rejuvenation for those that are biological, parts replacement for
those who are not, and gravitational time dilation are probably
how the gods achieved their incredibly long lives, relative to
Earthlings.
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