Alien Space Gods Of Ancient Greece and Rome (27 page)

Scholars often assume that the Romans, upstarts of Antiquity, having few traditions of their own, borrowed the golden myths of Greece to bask in reflected glory, poets and politicians, soldiers and philosophers were profoundly impressed by the genius of Hellas; the intellectuals of Rome discoursed in Greek modeling their style on the Wits of Athens yet all were superbly conscious that long ago - their own land was ruled by the Gods. Ennius called
Latium
the 'Saturnian Land'. Varro records that on one of
Rome
's seven hills was an old town named Saturnia with a
temple
of
Saturn
; Junius mentions a Saturnian Gate and ancient houses with Saturnian walls, remains of a remote and proud past.

The legend of Saturn ruling
Italy
in a Golden Age usurped by Jupiter, when the wondrous civilisation degenerated to barbarism, haunted the imagination of men through many millennia. Such deeply rooted tradition burning for generations in race-memory was more than a pleasant myth to beguile the mind, to the Ancients it was precious history. Were this tale confined to Rome it might be dismissed perhaps as poetic invention to boost morale, although it is doubtful whether Julius Caesar and Augustus would have boasted descent from the Gods had they not firmly believed in such Celestial Supermen. All the peoples of Antiquity worshipped Wondrous Strangers from the stars, who taught mankind, then after tremendous wars and cataclysms returned to the skies leaving Men to rebuild their shattered world.

Ovid discussing the antiquity of Man quoted Pythagoras, who stated he had scan what once was solid earth now changed into sea and land created out of what was once oceans; sea-shells lie far away from ocean’s waves and ancient anchors have been found on mountain-tops. 'The London Mirror', Vol. 35, 11th January 1840, discussing giants mentions a skeleton found in 1548 near Palermo about thirty feet in length, later another thirty-three feet and a third thirty feet long; two even longer were discovered near Athens. In 1705 a skeleton measuring twenty-two feet in length was unearthed near Valencia; the
'Journal Litteraire'
of the Abbé Nazari recorded that in Calabria a body was exhumed which measured eighteen Roman feet, each of its grinders weighed on an average one ounce. In the consulship of Lucius Flaccus during the Cretan Wars, 'When the floods were gone, in a great cleft and full of the earth', there was found the carcase of a man of the length of thirty and three cubits or nearly fifty feet.’ 

Divine Kings descended to teach the arts of civilisation to Hyperborea, the circumpolar continent. Down the centuries people must have migrated southwards to inhabit that sunny peninsula jutting out into the
Middle
Sea
, many were Giants. Dr. Louis Leakey dates Kenyapithccus Africanus as twenty million years old, among fossils from early Miocene times are found finely-chiseled flints. In August 1958 Dr. Johannes Huerzeler, a Swiss palaeontologist working in a coal-mine at Baccinelle near Grasseto in Central Italy, about a hundred miles from Rome, discovered amid coal strata 600 feet down, a complete skeleton resembling a man, Oreopithecus, who had apparently lived in Italy during the Carboniferous Age of giant forests; long after he died the great trees were compressed into coal, by some miracle his skeleton became embedded in a seam and preserved.

Sceptics may reject this most ancient Italian, could he then have been some Spaceman who landed on Earth in times far remote? Charles Fort records many metallic objects secreted within rocks deep underground; he mentions a block of metal found inside coal mined in
Austria
in 1885, when it was said to be virtually steel. Analysis in 1966 by Dr. Kurst from the Museum of Natural History in Vienna determined iron with a little manganese and manganese-sulphurs, no nickel, no chromium, no cobalt, therefore with certainty no meteor but cast-iron. Was this metal manufactured in Tertiary times or had it fallen in the primeval forest from a Spaceship?

Dr. M. K. Jessup, the distinguished UFO investigator, whose mysterious death is attributed by some of his followers to Extraterrestrial cause, asserts that in most remote Antiquity Earth bloomed in a world-wide civilisation of pygmy men, who are known to have existed since Miocene times approximately 33,000,000 years ago. Jesuit records state there were pygmies living amid the Swiss mountains as recently as the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, human remains of small stature are found there about 9000 years old.

On the walls of the Thayagin grotto in Switzerland are portrayed reindeer feeding, also a man running beside two horses' heads depicted at least 50,000 years ago; they are brilliantly drawn and would do credit to any modern animal- painter. Cro-Magnon Man millennia later was tall in stature with high forehead, large in brain capacity and apparently superior to many existing races of mankind today, his cave-paintings revealing belief in life after death presuppose a fine intelligence.

The skulls of the Cro-Magnons are so majestically developed that it is difficult to believe that they could have descended from the brutish, low-browed Neanderthal Man; it seems likely that some cosmic catastrophe possibly the destruction of the planet Maldek into the asteroids affected our Earth, causing a mutation of species or perhaps the Solar System encountered a new potency, of cosmic radiation which had swift and drastic influence on human embryos producing more perfect physical and mental men and women. The Cro-Magnons may have been survivors from Atlantis or even from the planet Maldek; a truly fantastic suggestion, yet millennia hence should our own Earth face destruction it is surely likely that the most superb specimens of the human race will be sent forth into Space to people another planet.

Evidence of ancient civilisations slowly accumulate, Soviet geologists prospecting in the almost inaccessible Tien-Shan mountains in Central Asia were astonished to find heaps of slag and worn bronze picks, galleries and pit-shafts dating from the Upper Paleolithic Age showing technical ore-mining about 15,000 BC. Dr. Robert J. Braidwood of the
University
of
Chicago
's Oriental Institute excavating at Cayanu near Ergani in South-Eastern Turkey discovered three metal pins or awls almost 9000 years old, he said the site bore evidence of human habitation for at least 100,000 years. The wonderful jewellery, ornaments and swords found in Bronze Age tombs all over the world reveal exquisite artistry, delicate craftsmanship and an advanced metallurgy far superior to the crude relics of the Iron Age, which followed, suggesting a decline in human intelligence and techniques. We can only speculate on the marvels of the Golden Age beyond imagination when Earth was ruled by Spacemen.

Saturn was said to have imprisoned the Cyclops underground, those Titans, the fabulous Els, survivors of the old Uranid civilisation, fashioned wondrous weapons to aid Jupiter. Virgil in the 'Aencid' repeated traditions of a tunnel from the Cave at
Cumae
, abode of the Sibyl, to
Lake
Avermis
, down which Aeneas descended to the lower world. Daedalus after his tragic flight from Minoan Crete landed at
Cumae
and spent some time with troglodytes, artificers of the subterranean world. The early Christians sought refuge in the catacombs of
Rome
, an underground labyrinth from remote Antiquity.

South American legends tell of long tunnels under the
Andes
built by some most ancient race, perhaps the Els, descendants of Spacemen, where the Incas of Peru hid their golden treasures from Pizarro and his plundering Conquistadores. Sensitives claim that other tunnels lead down to a subterranean civilisation hundreds of miles beneath our feet called Agharta, peopled by descendants of the Atlanteans, a startling suggestion confounded our conditioned thought-pattern.

Dr. Costantino Cattoi, the distinguished Italian airman and archaeologist, discovered gigantic stone figures including monstrous carvings of a Sphinx on a hill near Trepani in Sicily and on Mount Argentario, Orbatello, Italy, which closely resembled those fantastic carved figures on the plateau of Marcahuasi in Peru possibly 100,000 even 1,000,000 years old, evidence of some giant race with great intelligence in ages past associating with Spacemen.

The vast antiquity of Man in
Italy
is supported by the recently discovered Paleolithic site at Terra Amata, Nice, in south-eastern
France
; here are found the oldest evidence of man-made structures, wooden huts 49 feet long and 20 feet wide built from 3 inch diameter stakes by prehistoric hunters 300,000 years ago. Digging has unearthed about 35,000 objects, mainly a large variety of stone tools, remains of charred wood, bones of rabbits, bear and an ancestor of the mammoth, also antlers and even fossilised human excreta. When the beach was formed the
Mediterranean
was 85 feet higher than today, although sea-level had dropped somewhat, the sea covered most of the present plain of Nice.

Near Mt Bego in the Alps amid a bleak lunar landscape of bare rocks and rugged pinnacles opens the Valley of Marvels, on the cliff walls are drawn about 40,000 mysterious signs representing people, horned animals, weapons and a strange menacing Magician; these drawings spread across more than ten square kilometres depict numerous folk apparently praying to the Sun. Similar drawings adorn the Camonica Valley between
Milan
and
Bolzano
dated from about 2000 BC. A human figure raised both his hands upwards to a circle with a dot in its centre, another sketch resembles a Flying Saucer landed, a five-fold circle has two leg-like sticks protruding from the bottom side and another wider one from the right bottom. At Caven, Voltellina, are found horseshoe drawings with linked triangular marks attached outside; several other drawings of circles have attachments such as a cross inside, three protrusions outside, another smaller circle linked by a line and a square protruding. In 1968 Professor Francesco Ranaldi, Director of the Potenza Museum, found in a local hilltop cave known as Tuppo del Sassi important paintings dominated by the figure of a many-headed, multi-eyed monster; he believes the shape may be some kind of divinity and adds, 'But it's certainly the most interesting thing in the painting ... a large masculine being, with six lateral protuberances and one at the head, two trailing legs and a long lizard like tail.’

A human figure with several protrusions from his head resembles cliff-pictures found in the U.S.S.R. and claimed by Alexander Kazantsev to be the ancient Space Visitors wearing space-suits; these prehistoric drawings evoke the famous 'Martian' of the Tassili frescoes in the Sahara, also the pictures of the Chip-San King in Kyushu, Japan, welcoming Seven Flying Saucers, also those intriguing rock-paintings discovered by Dr. Marcel Hornet near the wild Amazon. Fascinating cave-paintings of possible Spacemen are found in
Scandinavia
,
Spain
,
Australia
, North and
South Africa
, showing world-wide visitations. Strange cup-like impressions on a cliff near
Lake
Como
repeated on mountains in
Scotland
,
China
,
Algeria
and
Palestine
led Charles Fort to wonder in his whimsical fashion whether some electric force from Space was writing on our Earth cosmic records to guide Lost Explorers.

Egyptian priests told Solon that about 10,000 BC the Atlanteans ruled a vast Empire; after conquering
Italy
and
Libya
they attacked
Greece
and
Egypt
, finally their onslaught was smashed by heroic
Athens
, the routed Atlanteans fled back to Poseidon, soon engulfed by cataclysm. The Atlanteans were great mariners and colonisers inheriting their brilliant culture from lost Lemuria that they brought to the Lands of the
Mediterranean
. Initiates from Atlantis are said to have built the Great Pyramid about 80,000 BC, they would probably build temples and cities in that ancient Land of Saturn; the proud history of Italy may be many millennia older than we imagine.