Alien Space Gods Of Ancient Greece and Rome (19 page)

Recent discoveries at Alaca Huyuk where tombs disclose an extraordinary profusion of elegant silver and golden objects of art, prove that about 3000 BC a brilliant civilisation flowered in
Central Turkey
. The noted archaeologist, Henri-Paul Eydoux, believes that the culture of
Troy
, Maecenae and
Hellas
originated from
Turkey
not from
Egypt
as Herodotus had claimed. The Trojan War was not the beginning of
Greece
, rather was it the end of a great civilisation around the Bosphorus possibly thousands of years old. Such revelations of a flourishing culture in
Asia Minor
so long ago adds credence to the insistence by Solon that about 10,000 BC
Athens
and her Allies smashed the invasion by the Atlanteans from the West.

Thueydides in his austere
Athens
with few written records could hardly appreciate the remote past. Dark Ages recurred periodically throughout Greek history as in our own. Since Roman days
Britain
has been invaded by Saxons, Danes, Normans, now Asians, all influencing our way of life. After AD 410 when the Roman Legions left, learning and culture were preserved for centuries by solitary monks. About 10,000 BC old
Athens
was destroyed by earthquakes,
Greece
suffered invasion by Pelasgians, Achaeans, Dorians, nomads from North-East and West.

Plato in '
Critias
' frequently stressed 'repeated destruction' and 'intervening periods' when these 'unlettered mountaineers' knew little of the works of the past. Most of the wisdom of Atlantis and prehistoric
Athens
became lost but basic knowledge was handed down by Initiates for generations; the country blossomed into temporary brilliance until invading tribes again brought ruin. This ebb and flow of history was surely watched by Extraterrestrials worshipped as Gods, studying our Earth then as they do now.

Last century those great Greek scholars, Jebb and Porson, denied the real existence of
Troy
; not long since professors taught that
Hellas
began in 776 BC with the First Olympiad, today archaeologists in excitement dig up the Helladic Stone Age, tomorrow will the experts admit that Ancient Greece knew Spacemen?

The literature now left to us suggests that about the Second Millennium BC Extraterrestrials interfered in human affairs more directly than today; their landings in various countries would logically include visits to
Greece
remembered in those glowing traditions of the 'Gods'.

“Truth is beautiful and enduring.''

The early Greeks were unsophisticated souls living among hills, seas and open skies, awed by the sublime grandeur of Nature in all her moods, aware of the imperfections of mortal men with all the frailties that flesh is heir to; their logical minds knew there must be some ideal harmony to which men could aspire. The spirit of
Hellas
yearned for universal simplicity, aesthetics marvelled at the wholesomeness of things, freedom, beauty, goodness and truth. Greeks viewed human life against the complete universe, conscious of the greater grandeur, limitless expanse of Eternity.

Those sublime tragedies of Athens revealed in heroic language the nobility or baseness of Man, the virtues or wickedness of Woman, not as character-studies holding up the mirror to earthly mortals but in emulation of those Personages larger than life, the 'Gods' in the skies. The Greeks staged no 'kitchen-sink' drama or plays about perverts, though Athenian morals seemed worse than our own; their sculptors carved no queer shapes, nor did painters torture their pictures with psychological symbolism, they depicted the world in simple perfection, men and women not as they were but as they should be. The golden rule meant moderation, perfect balance, clarity and freedom, pursued with energy even passion.

The Olympic Games and the open-air Theatre promoted a healthy mind in a healthy body. Socrates campaigned as a common soldier, the athlete winning the
Marathon
might declaim a Victory Ode. Aristotle with his universality would have pitied a scientist, specialist in one field but stupid in others; much as the Greeks praised athletes, they would never have admired a man running a record mile if he had only the mind of a Moron.

The Greek ideal, beauty in mind and body, was probably inherited from ancestral memories of those golden Strangers from the skies, who after millennia of spiritual enlightenment and scientific diet on planets with highly evolved civilisations had developed the human form to perfection. Our own cosmonauts are most carefully selected from the very cream of a nation's manhood, each undergoes most prolonged and rigorous training, extending their mental and physical perceptions to new powers, wondrous potentialities latent in Man; these superb specimens will be sent to the skies representing our peoples of Earth. Those Celestials who landed here long ago to rule our world would surely be the most perfect Beings from their own planets, models of intelligence, grace and beauty far transcending common Man. Legends from every country in the world marvel in awe at the 'Gods' descending in celestial chariots, their radiant features and magnetic personalities enchanting the unsophisticated peoples to wonder and adoration inspiring worship.

The most handsome of the Greek Gods was Apollo, sometimes identified with Helios, the Sun; poets sang of his birth on the
island
of
Delos
, son of Zeus and Letos twin-brother of Artemis, the Roman Diana.
Delos
was a floating island drifting from place to place until Zeus chained it to the bottom of the sea. Some occult traditions allege that Apollo was born on a sidereal island called Asterid, 'the golden star island', the 'Earth which floats in the air', known to the Hindus as 'Hiranyapura'. Reference to a 'God' from a sidereal or floating- island coincide with our modern conception of Extraterrestrials landing from huge Spaceships. Zeus, presumably a Spaceman, married Leto, daughter of Coeus, one of the Titans, that ancient stellar race of Uranids. Apollo was known as 'Phoebus' meaning 'brilliant' or 'shining', apparently suggesting the Sun, yet we are reminded that the countenance of the 'Angels' appearing to the Israelites also shone with radiance like the faces of the Spacemen alleged to be landing today.

Glorious Apollo had most wonderful influence on the mind of Hellas like Osiris in Egypt and Oannes in Babylon; he taught early Man all the arts of civilisation, music, healing, delighting in the founding of towns; mystics venerated this radiant God with Christ-like qualities symbolising those Celestials of supreme beneficence said to inhabit the Sun, who inspired Initiates on Earth. Sudden death was believed to be the effect of Apollo's arrows, the God sent plagues into the camp of the Greeks besieging
Troy
.

Apollo like other Greek Divinities was often depicted with a circle of rays around his head; his son, Aesculapius, the great Healer, also had a nimbus analogous to the haloes of the 'Angels'. The hats of Castor and Pollux emanated sparks, evoking the globes surmounting those intriguing figures in the Tassili frescoes; today we find ourselves wondering whether such crowns symbolised the helmets of Spacemen. Around the head of the Scandinavian God, Thor, artists showed a ring of stars; certain Slavonic idols were crowned with circular rays; Xenocrates associated the planets with the Gods; the likening of the Gods to radiant luminaries of heaven symbolising divine beauty and grace does suggest that these Celestials were not mere figments of imagination but actual Supermen from the skies.

The Gods sped through the skies mightier and swifter than mortals; Poseidon traversed an immense distance in only three steps like the Indian Vishnu, who crossed the three worlds in only three strides. With such swiftness the Gods suddenly appeared and disappeared at speeds beyond attainment of Man in far Antiquity, streaking through the skies like shooting-stars. Hera, like Indra, travelled swift as thought, Hermes and Athene glided down on winged sandals. Athene, like Odin, was sometimes portrayed in flight like a falcon; Zeus appeared to Leda in the form of a swan, perhaps descent from a Spaceship. Zetes and
Calais
, the Boreades, two of the Argonauts, who drove the Harpies, evil winged-maidens, from
Thrace
were said to have long hairy shoulders covered with golden scales and wings on their feet.

Poseidon gave Pelops a winged chariot, even when it ran through the sea its axles were not wet recalling that car of burnished gold driven by the twin Aswins who flew from Space to rescue the Indian Bhujya from the sea. Zeus bound Ixion to a fiery wheel entwined with writhing snakes similar to those discs with feathered serpents depicted in Mexican portraits of Quetzalcoatl which evoke Spacecraft emitting radiation. The Centaurs, said to be born from a cloud, descendants of Ixion, son of Ares (Mars), have been equated with the Vedic Gandharvas, followers of Indra, living in a city in Space; they were depicted as half-man, balf-horse, perhaps to symbolise speed. Chiron, the Centaur, educated by Apollo, instructed Aesculapius in medicine and taught the young Achilles, after Hercules struck him with a poisoned arrow he gave his immortality to Prometheus then Zeus placed him in the constellation of Sagittarius.

Demeter made a chariot of winged dragons for Triptolemus and gave him wheat which he wafted through the sky and sowed the whole inhabited Earth. Vengeful Medea murdered her two children by Jason and fled to
Athens
in a car drawn by winged dragons like those Gods of Ancient China and the Celtic Goddess, Keridwen, of
Wales
. Eros had wings, the Roman Bellona flew like a bird, Plato in 'Phaedrus' describes Zeus, the mighty leader, holding the reins of a winged chariot driving across the heavens with his Gods; Woden and Thor occasionally drove star-chariots followed by winged Valkyries; Indra and his Maruts raced in celestial cars, all remembered by Christians as the Archangel Michael and his Heavenly hosts.

Homer in the '
Iliad'
, Book V, gives a wonderful description of Minerva in her blazing car drawn by ethereal courses cutting the liquid sky speeding high over Greece to land near Troy recalling that picturesque flight of Rama and Sita from Ceylon beyond the Ganges, so colourfully narrated in the 'Ramayana'; all surely suggestive of a world-wide domination by Celestials.

The motion of the Gods through the skies in shattering splendour struck awe into the marvelling Greeks just as half an hour later the Patriarchs in Israel would gaze in wonder at those same Spaceships, the 'Power and Glory' of the 'Lord'. The driving of Zeus or Thor awoke thunder in the clouds; mountains and forests trembled beneath the tread of Poseidon evoking our own jet planes breaking the sound-barrier, some Celestials, Hermes and Iris famed as Messengers, traversed the heavens in silence. The older Divinities of the Greeks, Zeus, Apollo, Athene, Demeter, like their Indian rivals, drove in sky-chariots, only the lesser Gods, Perseus, Theseus, the Dioscurii, rode on horseback; Bellerophon and Oceanos flew on winged horses. It may seem absurd to construe any significance in such development yet the change could imply that the new generation of Celestials flew in single scoutships.

The Gods would suddenly appear or disappear as though they had travelled with the speed of light, recalling those fascinating descriptions in the Sanskrit Classics and the Egyptian
'The Book of the Dead'
where people marvelled at the materialisation of the Spaceships just as we do today. Often the Deities remained invisible, shielded in mist they intervened in battle to save their favourites. Athene threw her aegis around Achilles, Apollo" snatched Hector from that hero's sword, Venus'" flung her protective veil around hard-pressed Aeneas, later in
North Africa
the Goddess conveyed Aeneas in a cloud to Dido sighing by the waters of
Carthage
.