Alien Space Gods Of Ancient Greece and Rome (14 page)

Plato in the 'Critias' states that once upon a time the whole Earth was shared among the Gods or Spacemen. Poseidon took Atlantis. Hephaestus and Athene in their love of wisdom preferred
Greece
. Athene on the craggy rock of the Acropolis founded
Athens
, city of the arts and elegance.

Philologists agree that the name 'Athene' is pre-Grecian, it may be Mycenaean or even pure Cara-Maya, the language of lost Lemuria. If Athene was a Space Being, her name might echo the language of another planet. It is surely significant that the name of immortal
Athens
springs from some ancient tongue not Greek. The oldest representations of Athene were the 'palladia', stones which were said to have come from the sky, later these stones were replaced by statues in wood which had the same celestial origin. The writer, Giuseppe Aprile, quotes Apollonius as stating, 'This ancient statue measured three cubits (1.32 metres), its feet united, it held in the right hand a lance and in the left a spindle, like an image of death and destiny.'

Peter Kolosimo" cites the suggestion that this space-device represented a terrible 'Palladium-laser' capable of causing immense destruction. In 708 BC during the reign of Numa Pompilius an 'ancile' or 'bronze shield' fell from the sky and was revered by the priests of
Rome
.

The prehistory of
Europe
still has surprises. Soviet archaeologists have discovered near
Vladimir
, north of
Moscow
, two tombs about twenty-seven thousand years old. The grave at a depth of three metres contained the bones of two boys. Among the remains were the remnants of garments apparently establishing that in that distant epoch men wore shirts, leather trousers, boots lined with fur and headgear 'sewn with little pieces of bone'. Cave-drawings at Lussac- le-Chateau in
France
show people wearing clothes. Should we be surprised?

The
'London Mirror'
, VoL 36, 4th July, 1840, discussing ships embedded in the Earth states that in 1462 men in a mine near Berne, Switzerland, found a ship a hundred fathoms deep in the ground with anchors of iron and sails of linen with the remains of forty men.

This conception of an advanced civilisation in
Europe
at about 10,000 BC does not necessarily invalidate the conventional panorama painted by prehistorians of a desolate continent peopled by nomadic hunters, isolated lake-dwellers and primitive cave-men. Geologists support the Greek legends telling of vast earthquakes ravaging
Libya
and driving the waters from
Lake
Trithonis
, presumed birthplace of Athene, to form the
Sahara
Desert
. At the same time the Atlas and Spanish peninsulas collapsed, Atlantis submerged and the great
Mediterranean
Lake
cracked open at the
Pillars of Hercules
.
Europe
too must have suffered immense devastation. With their civilisation destroyed, Neanderthal Men hunted bison with flint-tipped spears near the retreating sheets of ice, in the South-West the broad- skulled, impressively intelligent Cro-Magnons and Aurignacians enchanted their cave-walls with those magical paintings of animals and medicine-men, some of the sketches like the Tassili frescoes vaguely resemble Spaceships and Spacemen.

Plato suggests that after the devastation
Greece
was almost uninhabited. Prehistorians teach that Neolithic Villages appeared about 5000 BC," but civilisation is generally ascribed to the Sesklo tribes who two thousand years later surged into the
Peloponnese
from
Asia Minor
. This opinion seems somewhat doubtful in view of the highly civilised site of Cata Huyuk on the high plateau of Anatolia in
Central Turkey
which apparently enjoyed a highly sophisticated society as long ago as 6800 BC.

Soon after 2000 BC Indo-Europeans invaded from the North bringing the Greek language; about 1600 BC settlers from Minoan Crete established the wonderful Mycenaean Bronze Age, destroyed by the virile Achaeans from the North-West, possibly impelled by some cosmic cataclysm ravaging Hyperborea; in 1200 BC these heroes of Homer's 'Iliad' sacked Troy. Archaeologists admit to much dispute regarding the early settlement of
Greece
and its links with Minoan Crete; perhaps the decipherment of the Cretan Linear A script and new discoveries will considerably revise present opinions. About 1000 BC hordes of Dorians swept down from the Danube; the newcomers brought the use of iron from the Hittites, borrowed the alphabet from the Phoenicians and soon built their famous cities, Athens, Sparta, Corinth, Thebes, to grace antiquity. The history of classical
Greece
, whose great playwrights, philosophers and poets still inspire our Western civilisation, spanned a surprisingly short period from the First Olympiad in 776 BC until conquest by the Romans in 133 BC.

It is strange that Plato, whose transcendent philosophies inspired the scholars of the West for so many centuries, should be completely ignored when he narrates the history of his own country; today two thousand years later we assume we know Ancient Greece better than he did. Let us hearken to this noblest of all Greeks extolling the glories of his ancient land!

In the '
Critias
' Plato describes how the Gods (Spacemen?) ‘…planted as native to the soil men of virtue and ordained to their mind the mode of government. And of these citizens, the names are preserved but their works haw vanished owning to the repeated destruction of their successors and the length of the intervening period. For as was said before, the stock that survived on each occasion was a remnant of unlettered mountaineers, which had heard the names only of the rulers and but little besides of their works.'

Plato goes on to stress, what we should well know, that after each cataclysm the scattered survivors for many generations were too occupied rebuilding society to worry about the former civilisation destroyed.

'For legendary lore and the investigation of Antiquity are visitants that come to cities in company with leisure, when they sec that men are already furnished with the necessities of life and not before.'

The statement of Solon, quoted by Plato, asserted '... that the Egyptian Priests, in describing the war of that period mentioned most of those names (of the Ancients)... such as those of Cecrops and Erectheus and Erictonius and Erysichton and most of the other names which are recorded of the various heroes before Theseus, and in like manner also the names of the women.'

About a hundred years later Egyptian Priests told Hecateus of Miletus, a most distinguished historian and geographer, and afterwards Herodotus, whose History is surely the most fascinating travelogue in all Antiquity, that they could trace the Kings of Egypt back for eleven thousand three hundred and forty years. The Priests revealed that in the eleven thousand years prior to Herodotus the axis of our Earth became considerably displaced; four times the Sun twice appearing to rise in the West, probably only national pride made the Egyptians swear that their own country was not affected.

The tragic destinies of the House of Pelops, grandson of Zeus, who gave his name to the
Peloponnese
, proved a favourite theme for classical poets. Atreus, son of Pelops, was usurped by his brother, Thyestes, who seduced his wife, Adrope, and seized the throne of
Mycenae
. Apollodorus in 'Epitome’ II, 10-3, stales:

'But Zeus sent Hermes to Atreus and told him to stipulate with Thyestes that Atreus should be King (of Mycenae) if the sun should go backwards and when Thyestes agreed, the sun set in the east; hence the Deity having plainly attested the usurpation of Thyestes, Atreus got the Kingdom and banished Thyestes.'

Ovid in 'Tristia' ii, 391, and 'Ars Amatori' i, 32, Hyginus, Fab. 88 and 258, Seneca, 'Thyestes' 776, and Martial, iii, 45, all claimed that the sun reversed its course in the sky not in order to demonstrate the right of Atreus to wear the crown but in honor at the King for murdering his two young nephews and serving their flesh at a banquet for their father, Thyestes; the interpretation of Sophocles in his lost tragedy 'Atreus' or 'The Myccnacans'. Servius in his learned Commentary on Virgil's 'Aeneid' suggested that Atreus was an astronomer, who first calculated an eclipse, thus surpassing his less scientific brother, Thyestes, a rationalist explanation for the apparent contrary revolution of the sun in ancient times.

The insistence by Plato in the '
Critias
' that repeated convulsions had devastated our Earth confirmed the ancient traditions of World Ages taught by the Hindus, Mayas, Irish and other peoples of Antiquity.

In 250 BC Berossus in '
Babyloniaca
' described the Divine Kings of Babylon; Manetho in 'Acgyptica' lists the Divine Dynasties of Egypt; they probably allied with the Athenians to resist the onslaught of the Atlanteans.

Greece
about 10,000 BC was a most excellent land with great abundance of water, retentive loamy soil, great forests on the mountains and boundless pasturage for flocks of sheep in a benign climate of well-tempered seasons. Plato excuses the present barrenness of his country by explaining with persuasive conviction:

'... since many great convulsions took place during the 9000 years - for such was the number of years from that time to this - the soil which has kept breaking away from the high lands during these ages and these disasters, forms no pile of sediment worth mentioning, as in other regions, but keeps sliding away, ceaselessly and disappearing in the deep. And just as happens in small islands, what now remains compared with what then existed, is like the skeleton of a sick man, all the fat and soft earth having wasted away, and only the bare framework of the land being left...'

Athens
twelve thousand years ago was a spacious city, though somewhat austere, since display of gold and silver was forbidden; people avoided luxurious ostentation and meanness, they built pleasant houses inhabited down the generations by their descendants completely unaltered. The military class were originally set apart from the general community by the Divine Heroes (Spacemen?) and dwelled on the exclusive upper slopes of the mountain around the
Temple
of
Athens
and Hephaestus, which may have been a landing-place for Spaceships.

In our present age of alarming birth rate, it chastens us to learn that the ancient Athenians, ‘…watched carefully that their own numbers, of both men and women, who were neither too young nor too old to fight, should remain for all time so nearly as possible the same, namely about 20,000’. Plato delights in concluding that the old Athenians:

‘...were famous throughout all
Europe
and
Asia
, both for their bodily beauty and for the perfection of their moral excellence and were of all men then living the most renowned.’