Alien Space Gods Of Ancient Greece and Rome (17 page)

Sometimes a chance comment will illumine a whole Age. Mongolia is noted for its mules not its myths, no legends titillate us with the love-life of its Gods yet a passing comment by the German mythologist, Jacob Grimm, two hundred years ago revealed that strange land in new wonder. In his
'Deutsche Mythologie'
the learned Grimm mentioned casually 'To the Boruat Mongols beyond
Lake
Baikal
fairy-rings on the grass are where the Sons of the Lightning have danced.'

Sons of the Lightning! At once we think of the Lords of the Flame, the Elohim, Indra, Horus, Jehovah, Zeus himself. Genghis Khan worshipped the Sun. Surely
Mongolia
was visited by Spacemen! Fairy-rings in
Britain
,
Ireland
and
Italy
now find tongue singing of Gods from the skies. Did those 'Sons of the Lightning' dance in
Arcadia
? If a random remark about old
Mongolia
conjures Celestials descending to Earth, what wondrous revelations shine in the literature of Ancient Greece?

Scholars ignored Plato's description of a flourishing Greece about 10,000 BC and agreed with Thucydides, writing in 400 BC that Hellas was not settled until recent times, since the nomadic inhabitants were constantly harried by invaders they built no cities.

'Before the Trojan War,
Hellas
, as it appears engaged in no enterprise in common. Indeed it seems to me that as a whole it did not yet have this name either but that before the time of Ilelleu, Son of Deucalion, the title did not exist and that the several tribes the Pelasgians most extensively gave their own name to the several districts.’

The Romans called the peoples of the
Peloponnese
'Graeci' but even today they know themselves as 'Hellenes', proof of proud antiquity. In the ancient world,
Hellas
meant a way of life, a whole civilisation.

In
Athens
philosophers discoursed with aery eloquence on the Golden Age of the Gods and moralized over the sorry decline of mankind; not one of them ever dreamed of digging up his own olive grove for relies of the past. It was left to Heinrich Schliemann and our archaeologists to resurrect the glories of
Greece
. Thucydides, a model historian, marshalled his facts with scholarly precision; he dismissed prehistory in one paragraph and concentrated on the Peloponnesian War. Our learned professors educated in the Classics scoff at the bizarre suggestion of Spacemen in Ancient Greece millennia ago and are content to quote Thueydides, conveniently forgetting that like all his contemporaries in the absence of written records and archeological research, he was understandably ignorant of events in the past.

After the destruction of Atlantis and the subsequent downfall of
Athens
,
Greece
is believed to have suffered a Dark Age for thousands of years being overrun by migrations from East and North-West; recent discoveries are illuming this gloomy panorama. In
Yugoslavia
at Lepenski Vir near the Iron Gates of the
Danube
, Professor Dragutin Srejovic of
Belgrade
and other archaeologists found, remains of forty-one houses of an hitherto unknown trapeze-shaped design apparently planned set on a hill beside the
Danube
, a settlement dated about 6000 BC. Beside well-built hearths lay skeletons as though the people had fallen asleep with their hands resting under their heads; with each body was a stone sculptured in a sophisticated fashion, there were no graves, they had presumably been overcome by some disaster.

Professor Srejovic hopes to find a market-place, evidence of a sophisticated community in
Yugoslavia
8,000 years ago, 5,000 years before the Siege of Troy, nearly 6,000 years before Thucydides and Plato. New archaeological discoveries are constantly unearthing older and older civilisations, having now dug back 6,000 years can we honestly doubt the likelihood that in a few decades our archaeologists will proudly discover some Greek remains dated 10,000 BC and agree at last with Plato's tale of ancient
Athens
?

Archaeologists have long been puzzled by the absence of ancient cities on the
Peloponnese
, ignoring Plato historians concluded that in early times
Greece
was therefore uninhabited. The Lamont Geological Observatory, New York, has shown that the floor of the Eastern Mediterranean has compressed like a concertina between Africa and Eastern Europe; Dr. Nicholas Fleming of the Institute of Oceanography has found that over the past few thousand years the Peloponnese has submerged by between three and twelve feet from north to south while the islands to the south, Kythera and Antikythera have emerged from the sea by as much as ten feet.

This sinking of the Greek coast explains the apparent lack of ancient settlements; they did exist but were submerged from sight. In a two-month survey of the - Greek coast Dr. Nicholas Fleming has found nineteen drowned cities belonging to Classical times and one, Elaphonisos, dated back as far as 2000 BC; this latter city covers twenty-one acres, consisting of a complex of houses and streets; it had never been noted before: its sudden destruction may have been due to the great volcanic explosion of Thera erupting about 1450 BC, which some experts believe to have caused the sudden collapse of Knossus and the Minoan civilisation of Crete. Thucydides knew nothing of these drowned cities, although Plato does not mention them, he infers in the '
Critias
' that such cities did flourish millennia before and through earthquakes were engulfed by the sea.

Pottery found at Fourth Millennium Greek sites has affinities with pottery in
Mesopotamia
around 3500 BC; Sargon, 2400 BC conquered
Cyprus
and extended Babylonian influence to the
Aegean
.
Egypt
had historic links with
Greece
, particularly during the tragic times of Akhnaton, 1375 BC, whom Immanuel Velikovsky has provocatively identified with Oedipus.

On Minos, the legendary King of Crete, Thucydides wrote:

'Minos is the earliest ruler we know of who possessed a fleet and controlled most of the Greek waters. He ruled the
Cyclades
, and was the first coloniser of most of them, installing his own sons as governors. In all probability he cleared the seas of pirates so far as he could to secure his own revenue.'

Dionysius of Halicarnassus in his
'Roman Antiquities'
, Book 2-61 states that Minos like Lycurgus, the great legislator of
Sparta
and Numa Pompilius of early
Rome
, received the Laws from the Gods. Minos claimed to hold converse with Zeus, at once evoking those famous conversations of Abraham and Moses with Jehovah.

In prehistoric
Athens
was born the genius Daedalus, who claimed descent from Erechteus, a God-King of
Athens
, possibly an Extraterrestrial, killed by Zeus with a flash of lightning at the request of Poseidon. The Greeks honoured Daedalus as a great engineer and architect, inventor of plumbing and carpentry, the saw, the axe, the masts of ships and the magnifying-lens.

Daedalus seems more than mortal, sired and inspired by a God, he devised figures which opened their eyes, moved their arms and walked about, the first automaton. His affinity with the divine Leonardo da Vinci many centuries later is assured by the coincidence that for their patrons they both built reservoirs and fortresses, dissected dead bodies and experimented with man-made flight, though Daedalus left no paintings his artistic talents found expression in architecture and sculptures on temples for which he was famous. When his young nephew Perdrix put two pieces of magnetised iron together to invent the compass, Daedalus, like most geniuses intolerant of talented rivals, tricked him into climbing a high tower then pushed him off. Legend relates that Minerva changed the falling boy into a bird bearing his name, the partridge which avoids heights by flying close to the ground. Ignoring this alleged miracle Athenians summoned Daedalus to the Areopagus, the ancient criminal court, charging him with murder; to escape execution he fled to
Crete
.

The magnificent ruined palaces at
Knossos
with their colourful vivacious frescoes of youths and maidens vaulting over bulls, wrestling together or relaxing in sunny sea-green salons of iridescent loveliness enchant us even today; at its golden zenith the civilisation of
Crete
must have allured all the
Mediterranean
. On this idyllic isle was born Zeus according to cherished tradition intimating perhaps that the Space Gods landed on this focal site between the countries of the
Middle East
and those fabled Lands of the West. Like Leonardo Daedalus soon found scope for his many talents planning elegant buildings and fortifications, he constructed the famous Labyrinth, a maze of winding paths from which there was no escape until Ariadne helped Theseus with a ball of thread to find his way out.

Daedalus for the protection of the island invented Talos, a giant bronze robot, invulnerable except in one ankle, programmed to hurl rocks at hostile ships. When Jason and the Argonauts, voyaging for the Golden Fleece sailed along the coast this huge mechanical man promptly appeared and threatened to sink them with a huge rock. Medea knelt and prayed to the Hounds of Hell to come and destroy him; as the bronze giant lifted an immense stone to hurl upon them he grazed his ankle, blood gushed forth, he sank down and died. Theseus, one of the heroes of Jason's famous expedition, during his imprisonment on
Crete
would probably learn the mechanism of Talos and would surely plan its destruction. The blood may have been the well-known Cretan oil. Theseus may have struck the ankle of Talos with a spear and burst the valve allowing the oil to flow out rendering the monster impotent. A tall tale, perhaps, but no more fabulous than the legend of the Golden Fleece itself.

The ingenuity of Daedalus sorely strained by King Minos was further exploited by his nymphomaniac Queen Pasiphae, who like those naughty girls in
Copenhagen
today craved abnormal sexual delights and demanded intercourse with the sacred bull. Undaunted by his bizarre task Daedalus fashioned a life-size cow from real hides, duly scented with sexual fluids having a suitable orifice over which Pasiphae inside crouched at the required angle. The lusty bull mounted the 'cow' and impregnated the Queen, who promptly conceived and duly produced the Minotaur, half-man, half-bull. Minos ashamed of this unnatural progeny confined it in the Labyrinth where it roamed feeding on human victims. Minos made war on
Athens
and forced the Athenians to send seven youths and seven maidens as yearly tribute to be devoured by the Minotaur.

Prince Theseus volunteered to accompany the doomed youths, aided by Ariadne he slew the Minotaur and escaped in triumph; as his ships approached the Attica coast he neglected to hoist the white sail which was to have been the signal of success; his father, Aegeus, thinking the young Prince bad perished, cast himself into the sea giving his name to the Aegean. Theseus became King of Athens and led a notable expedition to the
Caucasus
to capture Antiope, the Amazon Queen, whom he married; in revenge her Warrior-Women invaded
Greece
and stormed
Athens
meeting final defeat. The Theseus legends tell of a civilised
Athens
, contemporary
Knossos
and those brilliant Cretans who sailed the
Mediterranean
and the
Black Sea
long before recorded history, as Plato insists.