Alien Space Gods Of Ancient Greece and Rome (35 page)

Tarquin the Proud refused his father-in-law a funeral saying that Romulus had also perished without burial, he put to death the leading Senators and organised a reign of terror against rich and poor alike. A bad King in peace, Tarquin was a good General in war; under his sway
Rome
dominated the Latin Federation: he defeated the Volscians and attacked
Cumae
, abode of the Sibyl. An old woman came to him offering twelve books prophesying the future of
Rome
for three hundred pieces of gold. Tarquin refused. She returned with nine declaring she had destroyed three. Again the King refused. The woman destroyed another three and returned once more with six which she threatened to sell to the King's enemies. Tarquin bought the six at the original price; these were consulted by the Senate in times of crisis. The Sibylline Books probably resembled those celebrated couplets of Nostradamus, inspired by some extraterrestrial source. Tarquin's tyrannical rule goaded the Romans to revolt In 510 BC his son, Sextus, raped his cousin's wife, not quite so amorously as Shakespeare suggests; the noble Lucretia called upon her husband and father to avenge her dishonour, then stabbed herself. The citizens flamed with outrage, they deposed Tarquin and established the long
Republic
of
Rome
.

Lars Porsena of Qusium by the nine Gods he swore ‘That the peat House of Tarquin should suffer wrong no more.’ Lord Macaulay's famous ballad, once learned by every schoolboy, told how brave Horatius held the bridge across the
Tiber
against all the hordes of Clusium (Chiusi) to save
Rome
. Like all Etruscan Priest-Kings Lars Porsena studied that strange electrical science, still unknown to us, and communed with the Celestials just as Elijah called upon the 'Angel of the Lord'. In a most significant revelation Pliny recalls that Lars Porsena prayed to the Gods, who hurled thunderbolts to destroy Bolsena, the wealthiest town in
Tuscany
.

Spacemen are not always benevolent; the Sanskrit and Chinese Classics give vivid descriptions of assault from Space. The Bible tells bow the 'Lord' destroyed
Sodom
and
Gomorrah
, slew the First-Born in
Egypt
, killed worshippers of Baal, annihilated the army of Sennacherib at
Jerusalem
(Pelusium?). The ancient city of
Hattus
in
Asia Minor
was apparently destroyed with a fantastic heat which even melted the bricks at a temperature of more than 1000° unattainable by conventional weapons suggesting nuclear-bombs. Such centuries-old menace from the Spacemen may explain why the Etruscans, Israelites and their contemporaries so anxiously scanned the skies. Aerial attacks have occurred throughout history, perhaps more often than suspected. As recently as June 1954 an eleven-year-old African boy, Leili Thindi one night watched strange lights hovering above
Mt.
Kenya
, next morning he learned in horror that the whole population and livestock of the
village
of
Kirimuyu
had been seared to death by terrible burning streams of light from glowing objects in the sky.

On the night of 3-4 November 1957 a UFO hung over the fortress of Itaipu in
Brazil
, it suddenly attacked the sleeping garrison with heat-rays cutting out all electrical circuits and severely burning the sentries. In 'The World at One' broadcast by the B.B.C. on 16 January 1968, that distinguished authority, Mr. Gordon Creighton, disclosed that there had been thousands of visitations by UFOs; some were benevolent, many hostile.

If some Spacemen are hostile today, it is logical to assume that others were hostile centuries ago. The thunderbolt attack by the 'Gods' on Bolsena about 508 BC now seem credible. Pliny studied more than two thousand works, almost all now lost, the Admiral possessed one of the shrewdest scientific brains in the whole Roman world, he must have had firm reasons for accepting that Lars Porsena requested the Celestials to blast Bolsena with thunderbolts; he added that Piso In his 'Annals' had mentioned similar incidents. Plutarch writes that Numa Pompilius never worried about approaching enemies, he just sacrificed to the Gods, who he knew would defend him. As Joshua was directed by the 'Lord’ to utilise the power of sound to flatten the walls of
Jericho
, so Lars Porsena called on Jupiter against Bolsena. We can picture UFOs hovering over the Italian town blitzing it with heat-rays leaving that proud city in flames open to the army of Lars Porsena just as in 640 BC they had blasted Tullus Hostilius to death in his own palace. Fantasy? Pliny believed it.

In 503 BC warlike spears were seen glowing in the heavens at
midnight
; these may have been meteors but Spacemen following the affairs of the infant Republic would be interested in the Sabine onslaught which nearly captured
Rome
.

'... And this is not to be imputed to chance or folly but to the frequent appearance of the Gods themselves. In the war with the Latins when Aulus Posthumus, the Dictator, attacked Octavius Manilius, the Tusculan, at Regilius, Castor and Pollux were seen fighting in our army on horseback and since that same offspring of Tyndarus gave notice for as P. Vatienus, the grandfather of the present young man of that name, was coming in the night to Rome from his government of Reato two young men on white horses appeared to him and told him that King Perses was that day taken prisoner (Pydna 168 BC). ... Nor do we forget that when the Locrians defeated the people of
Crotona
in a great battle on the banks of the river Sagra (6th century BC), that it was known the same day at the Olympic Games....'

Cicero
in
'De Natura Deorum'
, Book I, Chapter 2, recorded the firm belief of all Romans that the Gods, Castor and Pollux, had landed to save their City. For ten years the exiled Tarquin plotted return to
Rome
. In 498 BC with Allies from thirty cities of the Latin League led by Octavius Manilius, he marched to crush the new Republic. The Romans in alarm appointed their first Dictator, Aulus Posthumus, who confronted the invaders at
Lake
Regillus
near modern Frascati. For hours, the battle raged indecisively, the Etruscans fought hard and pushed the Romans back. In desperation, Aulus Posthumus neglected no help human or divine and vowed a temple to Castor. In a frantic charge against the enemy two strange horsemen, handsome beyond the stature of Man, appeared in front of the cavalry leading the onslaught. On the same day that evening two young men appeared in the Forum fresh from the fray and gave news of the great victory. They departed and were not seen again.
Rome
was saved for glorious destiny. Aulus Posthumus built the temple he had vowed on every anniversary on the Ides of Quintilis (15th July), knights clad in purple and crowned with olives rode in the procession from the temple of Mars outside the City to the temple of Castor and Pollux.

Plutarch adds that:

'... the first man who met them, where they were cooling their horses, while they were reeking with sweat, was amazed at their report of victory. Then we are told they touched his beard with their hands quietly smiling the while and the hair of it was changed at once from black to red, a circumstance which gave credence to their story and fixed upon the man the surname of "Ahenobarbus", that is to say "Bronzebeard".'

The Sanskrit Classics tell of the twin Aswins winging down to aid the heroes of Old India. The Greeks after their epic victory over the Persians at
Marathon
in 490 BC swore they were aided by superhuman personages like Theseus, Minerva and Athena. Whatever the truth, Pausanias, Plutarch and Herodotus certainly believed the outnumbered Greeks to have been saved by Celestials from the skies, likewise Livy, Cicero and Dio Cassius swore
Rome
was saved by Castor and Pollu.  Our sceptics would no doubt expect Spacemen to materialise in aluminum suits flashing ray guns; surely it is more likely that they appeared in the costume with the mannerisms of the Age like those Space Visitants alleged to be living among us today.

This magic
land
of
Old Italy
seduces our soul. Those mysterious Etruscans, their Divine Teacher, Tages, revealing religion; King Amulius submerged by his own explosions; God-begotten Romulus translated to the skies then resurrected; wise old Numa married to a Nymph playing with lightnings; a shield dropping from heaven; Tullus Hostilius destroyed by a thunderbolt; Tanaquil the queenly witch; Servius Tullius conceived by fire dying like a dog; Lars Porsena calling down lightning to burn Bolsena; Castor and Pollux fighting for Rome at Lake Regilius; mysterious voices presaging centuries of strange lights in the sky, two suns, three moons, apparitions descending to men.

Suddenly we feel we are reading the Bible, Why must we worship such prodigies in Old Palestine as manifestations of the 'Lord' yet ignore identical wonders at the same time in Italy not far away?  Should we not write a Second Old Testament about Ancient Rome inspired by Spacemen?

For two centuries the virile Republic struggled against hostile neighbours, Acqui, Volscians and Etruscans, whom it eventually conquered and absorbed into that Senatus Populusque Romanus, S.P.Q.R. destined to rule the Western World. The greatest threat came from the North; in 390 BC Brennus crept down with his
Gaul
’s to sack the City, only the resolution of Camillus routed the invaders and saved
Rome
. The Spacemen watching the Peloponnesian War in
Greece
and the tribulations of
Israel
must surely have watched this lusty city on the
Tiber
extending its dominance all over
Italy
. Unfortunately of this vital period little is known.

The vast destruction of contemporary literature greatly restricts our knowledge of Antiquity, particularly of Extraterrestrial influence in ancient times. Scholars and archaeologists have resurrected the past with brilliance but so many fascinating details are missing. Five hundred books by Varro, a hundred by Livy, sixty by Dio Cassius, thirty-five by Polybius, almost all those two thousand learned works consulted by Pliny are lost, all lost. For many centuries the augurs spent millions of man-hours studying the skies, they must have witnessed most intriguing phenomena and even monitored the 'Power and Glory’ of the 'Lord’ visiting the Jews; their records are lost, all lost The discovery of a few Dead Sea Scrolls is profoundly influencing our conception of Christianity, resurrection of only a fraction of the lost Classics might completely revolutionise our opinions of Antiquity, especially of the vital influence exerted by Spacemen. Today even in our Space Age we cannot comprehend the awe accorded by the Ancients to events in the heavens. The Romans were practical, unimaginative people obsessed with mundane matters of Earth. Why were they so concerned with prodigies in the skies? Is there some secret our scholars have missed?

Livy, Dio Cassius, Plutarch, Pliny, Cicero, Seneca and other writers seemed acutely conscious of Divinities guiding affairs on Earth; their highly intelligent minds really believed that omens in the heavens were written by the Gods to presage great events. Nothing happened by chance. Two moons in the sky, a lightning-flash, a flight of birds, an earthquake, the birth of a two-headed calf, the lumps on a sheep's liver, all prodigies portended calamities to Man, the substance of history.