Alien Space Gods Of Ancient Greece and Rome (8 page)

The virile Gods and vivacious Goddesses of Greece in warm humanity inspired poets and artists to enchant the world. Surely those marvellous tales were more than allegories with hidden meaning, symbols for sacred truths or personifications of natural forces theorised by our mycologists, who ignorant of Visitants from Space are confined to conventional thought-patterns of Earth. Myth is not imagination, aery fiction from long-forgotten yesterdays, but oral tradition, dim memory of events in far Antiquity with immense impression on people's minds; each muted testament bequeathed down so many generations far transcends stone monuments preserving living proof of memorable happenings in the history of
Man.

The epics of Semitic minstrels down dusty millennia were copied by Moses in 'Genesis' to teach the Children of Israel, their story of Jehovah's manifestation to men inspired our religions of the West; if the early Books of the Bible are to be believed for Palestine, should we not accept similar stories of Ancient Greece only a few hundred miles away? Theologians allay modem doubts by asserting that the Scriptures were never meant to record actual history being figurative revelations of the Will of God to His Chosen People, the Jews; the great tragedians of
Athens
swore the old legends told of the Will of Zeus for His Children, the Greeks. We today with our new knowledge of the inhabited Universe, Extraterrestrials ruling Earth in Ages past, world-wide traditions of Sky Gods, wonder whether Jehovah and Zeus were Spacemen.

The history of our twentieth century seems sadly confused, few people could agree on a common account; in fifty thousand years' time what traditions will our remote descendants cherish of events today? We know almost nothing of our own ancestors, the Ancient Britons, not very long ago, yet the Greeks preserved legends from far prehistory, garbled through the chasm of time. Considered anew by our Space Science these delightful tales suddenly resolve in wondrous illumination giving a tremendous, exciting revelation of Earth's Golden Age with Celestials from the stars.

In his book
'Spacemen in the Ancient East
' the present writer reviewed the mythologies and chronicles of India, Tibet, China, Japan and Egypt in the light of our latest knowledge and found a clear, consistent story confirming a world-wide culture millennia ago inspired by Space Kings. The relative legends from most countries agreed so precisely that prior to studying the Space Gods of Babylon it was quite apparent that:

'Before even considering Babylonian religion and myths we can confidently expect to find a primeval God, Who created the Universe, Earth and Man from Chaos, Gods of the Sun, Moon and Planets, a fertility-Goddess, who would descend to the Underworld, a God who would be slain to rise again; old Gods dethroned by virile young Gods. Celestials ruling Earth in a Golden Age followed by War between Gods and Men waged by aerial ships speeding like light with annihilating-bombs, fights with Sky Dragons, cataclysms ravaging Earth, change of climate, collapse of civilisation, a Wagnerian Gotterdammerung, a Twilight of the Gods abandoning our planet to be worshipped by men at whose urgent prayers a God would land in secret to give aid or cosmic instruction to Initiates. We have heard all this before, over and over again, as yet we may not know the names which hardly matter. Were cuneiform never deciphered, we could still predict with accuracy the Gods and myths of
Babylon
from the universality of the Spacemen.'

Detailed study showed that the mythology of
Babylon
basically agreed with the common legends of other Eastern countries.

Myth becomes science, the old fables subject to empirical proof. As a chemist can predict the properties of an element he has yet to isolate, so from our knowledge of the Ancient East and modern Space lore we can guess the earliest legends of
Greece
confident its mythology must agree.

The story of Creation told by the Ancient Greeks reveals a cosmic wisdom surprising from an allegedly unsophisticated people. Hesiod states that Chaos 'came into being, it had not existed eternally, implying therefore some Supreme Power had evoked a gaping Void into existence with the purpose of creating the .Universe. The Hindus teach that Brahm thinks a finite Universe into existence for a predetermined period, at its dissolution while He sleeps, the new Universe exists only in a state of potentiality conditioned by the Karma or accumulated experience of its predecessor, then Brahm dreams, His thoughts manifest into energy materialising into suns, worlds and all the sentient Beings in Creation from archangel to insect. Our cosmologists theorise that the Universe expanded from a primeval atom, Hesiod in his
'Work and Days'
like the 'Rig Veda' suggests a state existing even earlier. Whence did Hesiod, a humble peasant living on a lonely farm in the
Greece
of the eighth century BC learn this Secret Wisdom distilled by the most subtle minds? Was such recondite knowledge inherited from some ancient civilisation or taught by Spacemen?

Creation legends in homely imagery explained that Chaos and Nyx, Goddess of Night, produced Erebus (Darkness), who mated with his Mother until dethroned by their two beautiful children, Aether (Light) and Hemera (Day); these Deities aided by their own child, Eros (Love) then created Ouranos (Sky), Pontus (Sea) and Ge (Earth). Some versions differ slightly. One legend stated that Erebus and Nyx produced a gigantic Egg from which Eros emerged to create the Earth." Creation of the Universe from a Cosmic Egg has great occult significance and was taught in the 'Rig Veda', the Chinese 'Panku' myth and the Japanese 'Kojiki' suggesting the cosmologies propounded by modern astronomers.

Later
Greece
, according to Ovid, believed that a God, 'a natural force of a higher kind', appeared suddenly amid Chaos, who separated the Earth from Heaven, and the waters from the Earth, and set the clear air apart from the cloudy atmosphere. This unknown God, sometimes called Phanes, then created countries, rivers, mountains, forests; He made 'stars and Divine Forms occupy the Heavens, then gave life to fishes, wild beasts and birds. Lastly the Creator made Man from  divine seed in the Image of the all-governing Gods to stand erect, bidding him look up to Heaven, and lift his head to the stars. Had
Darwin
told the Athenians they descended from monkeys the outraged Greeks would have tossed him into the
Piraeus
; their classic ideal of beauty conceived men like Gods. This myth resembles the Japanese legend of Izanagi and Izanami creating Earth from chaotic brine, also the Gilgamesh Epic, where the Babylonian Goddess, Arwin, made the first man, Eahani, from a piece of clay.

'And God said Let there be light, and there was light.’  'And God said Let us make man in our own image.'

The Greek account of Creation, more poetical perhaps than the terse story in 'Genesis', is similar to Creation legends from many countries, suggesting a common origin; most ancient peoples agreed that Man was fashioned by God in His own Image, thus associating Man with the Gods or Spacemen.

Ovid wrote that God shaped Earth into a great ball, the Poet probably quoted the teachings of Pythagoras regarding the sphericity of the Earth. The Ancient Greeks generally believed Earth to be like a disc with their own country in the middle; in the exact centre stood
Mount
Olympus
, abode of the Gods. The Earth was divided into two equal parts by the sea, all around the flat circular Earth flowed the great river Oceanus from which the sea and all the rivers received their water. The Northern portion of Earth was supposed to be inhabited by the Hyperboreans living in eternal Spring, free from disease, old age and death; their land was inaccessible by land or sea but was frequently visited by the Gods. South of Greece lived the Ethiopians, a happy people whom the Gods loved to visit Far away in the West lay the beautiful Isles of the Blest Called the Elysian Fields, whither mortals favoured by the Gods were transported without tasting Death to enjoy immortality. Beneath the Earth loomed Hades, the Underworld, Kingdom of the Dead.

The Greek myths recall the earliest civilisations on Earth in terms still baffling to our scientific minds; events spanning vast ages are condensed to confused incidents sung by bards down thousands of years until Hesiod and the romantic Poets set down their own interpretations as literature. We in
Britain
should scarcely criticise; no British myth mentions the beginnings of mankind, although the Britons were contemporaries of the Ancient Greeks. Those unsophisticated tribes of remote Antiquity preserved their cherished traditions in symbolism they understood; such thought- patterns are alien to ours: it is exceedingly doubtful many millennia hence whether our distant descendants will comprehend the few fables from our twentieth century. The fascinating primeval myths were race-memories of peoples living long before the Greeks of history, superficially the story they tell seems naive making little sense; now in our context of Spacemen ruling Earth in ages past, those same tales assume pregnant importance.

Uranus (Heaven) married Ge (Earth) and fathered twelve gigantic children, the Titans, also three rebellious sons, the one-eyed Cyclops; greatly fearing their powers, he hurled them down to the dark chasm of Tartarus, a gloomy underworld, so far distant from Earth that it would take a falling anvil nine days to reach its bottom; there they set up smithies and fashioned wondrous weapons for the Gods. Sorely distressed at the tyranny of her husband, Ge implored the Titans to take revenge and wrest the kingship from him. All except the youngest, Cronus (Saturn), feared their redoubtable father. Ge, understandably perhaps considering all the progeny she had to bear, decided on the first and most effective birth-control expedient in all history; she armed young Cronus with a flint sickle; grasping his father's genitals in his left hand as he slept, Cronus castrated Uranus and flung the severed penis far into the sea; from the fertilised foam sprang Aphrodite, Goddess of Beauty, a fair exchange. Drops of blood spurting the Earth gave birth to the Furies, Giants and Nymphs. Uranus cursed his son and prophesied that one day Cronus too would be usurped by his own children.

Cronus married his sister, Rhea, and ruled the world in a Golden Age, extolled by all the Poets of Antiquity. Men lived like Gods in blest content, free from toil and grief in sweet innocence for sorrow and sin had not yet afflicted their souls. Miserable old age did not sadden humanity nor did they suffer sickness, men prospered in perfect physical and spiritual health beyond all evil, making merry with feasting; when at last they had to die it was as though their eyes were overcome with sleep. In this idyllic bliss men needed no laws or punishments since wrongdoing was unknown; untroubled by wars, all peoples enjoyed peaceful leisure, their cities undefended by soldiers or swords. The sun shone with beneficence giving pleasant climate, the rich soil of its own accord brought forth fruits and berries without cultivation, warm zephyrs caressed the flowers and fields of golden corn, flocks of sheep and cattle pastured in the verdant meadows, lands flowed with rivers of milk or nectar and golden honey dripped down from the green oak. Men communed with the Gods in wondrous peace, for the Poets all agreed that in this Age of Perfection Man wasn't yet distracted by Woman.

While his subjects rejoiced, Cronus, tortured by conscience, was mindful of the warning of Uranus. To avert dethronement by his own sons, Cronus every year swallowed the children Rhea bore to him; first Hestia, then Demeter, Hera, Hades and Poseidon. Before the birth of their youngest son, Zeus, the enraged Mother sought advice from her parents, who sent her to the
island
of
Crete
, where Zeus was born and hidden in a cave on
Mount Ida
. Rhea substituted a stone in swaddling clothes and dutifully handed it to Cronus which he surprisingly swallowed. The young Zeus was protected by the Priests of Crete, and on growing to manhood challenged Cronus, whom Rhea with an emetic had forced to disgorge all the children he had devoured. The stone too was disgorged by Cronus and was set up at
Delphi
. Ages later the great traveller, Pausanias, saw it about AD 180 and commented 'A stone of no great size, which the Priests of Delphi anoint every day with oil.' Such trickery rivaled their notorious double-tongued Oracle.