Alien Space Gods Of Ancient Greece and Rome (9 page)

For ten long years war raged between Cronus aided by the Titans against Zeus armed with magic weapons from the Cyclops whom he freed. The conflict raged throughout Earth, sea and sky, waged with all the cosmic forces of the Gods. Mother Earth promised victory to Zeus, who finally subdued the Titans with lightning and thunderbolts then bound them in chains in darksome Tartarus. Cronus was imprisoned on the mysterious
island
of
Britain
, guarded by Briareus, a monster with a hundred bands; another tradition declared he fled to Hesperia (
Italy
) where he repented of his former cruelties and as Saturn ruled a wonderful civilisation building fair Saturnia, the future
Rome
.

Zeus from his abode beyond
Mount
Olympus
hated mankind and deprived them of fire. The hero, Prometheus, stole fire from heaven. Zeus swore vengeance, the Giants rebelled and piled mountain on mountain to storm Heaven. After titanic war convulsing Heaven and Earth, Zeus prevailed; to punish Man he created Woman, Pandora, whose notorious box released afflictions to plague humanity. Zeus chained Prometheus to a peak in lofty
Caucasus
, where by day an eagle tore his liver magically renewed at night; later he was released by Hercules, pardoned, and devoted his genius to teaching Man the arts of civilisation. When Zeus decided to destroy the degenerate race of Men, Prometheus counselled his son, Deucalion, to build a boat; in the great floods only he and his wife, Pyrrha, were saved. The ship rested on
Mount
Parnassus
. As they prayed for guidance in a slimy, moss-grown temple they heard a voice from the skies exhort them to throw behind them the bones of their Mother. After some reflection they cast over their heads the stones of Mother Earth; the stones thrown by Deucalion changed into men, those by Pyrrha became women.

The troubles of Zeus were still not finished. A fearsome sky-monster, Typhaeus, drove the terrified Gods from
Mount
Olympus
to
Egypt
, stressing most ancient links between these two countries. Zeus finally slew it with a thunderbolt. Hesiod believed that Men of the Golden Age still dwelled on Earth as pure Spirits clothed in mist and kept watch on judgements and evil deeds and gave rewards and wealth, invisible Guardians of mankind.

The Wars between Heaven and Earth fought with titanic weapons had changed the world's climate from eternal springtime when Nature bloomed in blessed fruitfulness to a cycle of four seasons, in summer the air became parched, lands glowed with heat, in winter the blast of winds chilled over the ice. Men no longer lived in fair cities basking in peace and beauty, the people of this Silver Age sought refuge in caves or rude huts, ignorant of the culture of their wise ancestors, they committed sins, quarrelled and forgot the immortal Gods.

Zeus outraged at such neglect destroyed them all and created a third generation in an Age of Bronze. This brazen race, terrible and strong, ate flesh; adamant and unconquerable, these warriors wore armour of bronze, wielded weapons of bronze and built great houses of bronze. Their fierce souls exulted in warfare plunging mankind to barbarism. All were destroyed by plagues like the Black Death.

In atonement perhaps, Zeus created a fourth race of godlike heroes, men of renown and glorious adventure, who fought with the Seven against Thebes, sailed with Jason's Argonauts searching for the Golden Fleece, or stormed those topless towers of Troy. Some of these righteous sages were rewarded by Zeus and translated to the Islands of the Blessed, possibly Britain, along the shore of a deep-smiling ocean, for whom grain-giving Earth bore honey and sweet fruits thrice a year, ruled by Cronus.

Last of all Zeus in his questionable wisdom created the Age of Iron, which still afflicts the world. Treachery and crime, deceit and violence, influenced mankind; Earth, which had been common to all, became divided into contending countries, war appeared in all its horror, gold became more desirable than iron, families and friends quarrelled in strife, with the last of the Immortals justice fled.

Today a recital of Greek myths provokes students to exasperation and sad disappointment. Is this nonsense the only evidence for Spacemen long ago? In our scientific Age can any sane man really believe such crazy tales compounded by cavemen, written down by romantic poets? Does all this drivel about a Golden Age, Wars of the Gods, Zeus destroying mankind four or five times, represent Celestials from the stars?

These legends happen to be the earliest history of our Earth; admittedly not penned in the lucid logic of our own professors; paradoxically this confusion proves their authenticity suggesting oral transmission through vast periods of time, had all been false they would surely have long been forgotten. Some of us cannot quite recall what happened yesterday, we marvel at the memories of these age-old Greeks. Critics reluctantly concede that the story of Theseus and the Minotaur inspired Sir Arthur Evans to excavate the brilliant civilisation of Knossos, the 'Iliad' prompted Heinrich Schliemann to unearth the necklace of naughty Helen under those much quoted Towers of Troy, even today fables of El Dorado lead to lost cities of the Incas; such exceptions cannot possibly prove that all myths must be true. Scepticism should be encouraged, traditions must be questioned; mankind has suffered too much from doubtful religious dogmas; in its brief history science has made many wrong guesses but it constantly seeks new facts to modify its truths.

If we ridicule the Greek myths, it must be because these curious tales conflict with the conventional thought- patterns of today; the Ancients believed in the Gods, today our minds are conditioned by contemporary culture, we cannot attune to the mental climate, the spirit of ages past. Translated to the walls of
Troy
, we would feel as alien as Achilles lost in the traffic of
London
.

What is our general opinion on those legends of
Greece
? That alleged fountain of commonsense, the Man-in-the- street, associates the names of the Gods with the losing racehorses he backs and confuses Zeus with television's 'Superman'. Politicians may envy Zeus as a smart Prime Minister; instead of changing the Government every few years, why not change the people instead and create completely new voters to whom they could tell the same old tales?

Theologians argue that the Bible makes no mention of the Gods of Greece, the Christian Fathers cursed pagan deities as devils. Moses, alleged Author of 'Genesis', was educated as an Egyptian Prince, versed in the Secret Wisdom he probably knew of Lemuria, Atlantis and civilisations of the East. The Talmud' asserts he became a famous General in Ethiopia, a shepherd in Midian, then was chosen by the 'Lord' to lead the Israelites from bondage to the borders of Canaan, an enterprise demanding divine inspiration. No Egyptologist confirms the existence of Moses, the Jews make him contemporary with Rameses II at the zenith of the Egyptian Empire in the thirteenth century BC, that glorious age of Minoan Crete, golden
Mycenae
and the Siege of Troy. Moses, steeped in all the traditions of his tremendous times, must surely have known the legends of
Greece
, it is difficult to believe that his great mind could have reduced Creation to that garbled account in 'Genesis' when he could have written an epic about the Space Kings.

Who are our experts? Archaeologists cannot comment on the Greek myths, they have dug through the back streets of Athens down to 6000 BC and found no one lived there. Had Howard Carter stopped digging a week earlier he would never have discovered the wonderful tomb of Tutankhamen, much of our knowledge of Ancient Egypt would never have been learned.

Historians hesitate at Homer then come to a stop; paleontologists finger the skull of Prometheus ('Alas, poor Yorick I knew him well, Horatio!') and conclude he could not have the brains to rub two sticks together to make a fire, anthropologists laugh that in those prehistoric days Zeus would be swinging in the tree-tops like Tarzan of the Apes. Classical scholars remain somewhat cautious awaiting new texts, intriguing descriptions are found in
Crete
in Linear ‘A' but no one can read them.

Most of our Makers of modern thought regard the Greek Myths as irrelevant, irrational intrusions like the Sphinx, alien to our scientific world. By a startling paradox, it is Science which now supports these old legends. The latest discoveries in astronomy and biology agree there must be millions of inhabited worlds in our own galaxy. The illustrious Joseph Shklovsky of the Moscow Observatory suggests that Supreme Intelligences can modify the stars. M. Agrest, the Armenian Physicist, claims that Spaceships once landed in the
Libyan Desert
. The world-wide sightings of UFOs make the Greek Myths shine more wondrous than ever with glorious meaning.

Evaluation of myth becomes a problem in semantics of prime importance to the proof of Spacemen visiting Earth in ages past. People promptly construe the word 'Myth' as meaning a philosophical allegory, a sentimental fable, romance or melodrama, elevating or entertaining, but pure fiction describing incidents which never happened, therefore quite irrelevant indeed irrational to any serious, scientific study such as Extraterrestrials in Antiquity. To the Greeks themselves 'Mythos’ originally denoted a tradition of actual events in the far past, so tremendous that the facts, garbled perhaps during transmission were handed down orally before the use of writing from generation to generation; centuries later the classical Poets elaborated 'Pseudo-Myths' from local legends alleging the love-life of Gods and mortals.

Pythagoras and Initiates of the Eleusinian Mysteries distrusted the written text and sternly refused to put their teachings in writing; Socrates, whose logic still influences the West, never left a single word. The most ancient Myths were accepted by the Greeks as Gospel truth and became the basis of their religion. Thucydides, whom Macaulay regarded as 'the greatest historian who ever lived', still honoured by scholars for his judgment and insight, clearly accepted the old traditions as historical material. Introducing his own great history, Thucydidcs wrote, 'Minos is the earliest ruler we know, who possessed a fleet and controlled most of what are now Greek waters.'  

Thucydidcs was quoting a myth, which he and his fellow-Greeks accepted as true; our sceptical modern minds scoffed at this claim unsupported by corroborative texts and accused him of swallowing the legend of Theseus and the Minotaur. Belief in the legend inspired Sir Arthur Evans to unearth the wonderful civilisation of Minoan Crete. Latest revelations of the Bronze Age confirm the basic truth of many of the old legends from Antiquity.

We stress yet again that the fundamental impediment bcclouding dispassionate consideration of Spacemen in ancient times is our prejudiced thought-pattern. Few people know the precise meaning of the words they use or the exact connotation of words used by someone else. Failure of communication confuses Society today; world events prove we hardly understand each other. How can we understand the minds of Greeks millennia a go? Instead of dismissing all the Greek Myths as nonsense, thereby learning nothing, we should recognise our limitations and in humility try to elucidate what those people in ages past were trying to tell us.

Since the Greek word 'Ouranos' meant 'Sky' Uranus could generalise Spacemen from anywhere in the heavens, although it might still refer to the planet, Uranus, known to the Ancients. Uranus does not appear to have been worshipped by the Greeks at any time, nor was the God associated with any cult or art, suggesting he symbolised a most ancient race of Spacemen ruling Earth vast ages beyond Greek cognizance. The Titans or Uranidae, sons and daughters of Uranus, originally dwelled in heaven, they were very ancient figures little worshipped in
Greece
and belonged to a most remote past quite alien to those myth-makers of
Greece
; it was vaguely believed that they were giant Nature Powers, magicians with wondrous arts controlling Nature. 'Ouranos’ was probably identical to Varuna, the powerful primeval God from pre-Indian mythology mentioned in the Vedas, who was associated with heavenly bodies; he controlled the Moon and the stars, the name 'Varuna' meant 'the encompassed sky', clearly indicative of Spacemen. The Titans equate with the giant Asuras of India; later Varuna became Chief of the Adityas and a kind of
Neptune
riding on the Leviathan, possibly a Spaceship plunging into the sea.