THE ANCIENT GODS OF MODERN DAY

I believe our modern day astronauts who flew the Apollo missions and walked in space and on the moon were the ancient Gods depicted in, amongst other things, the cave art of ancient man. 

 

Erik von Däniken proposed in his book Chariots of the Gods that the Earth had been visited by ancient astronauts and  this is why you find so many ancient depictions on cave walls, ornaments and statues of something that looks remarkably similar to the modern day astronaut. These ancient artistic expressions can be found in South America, Africa and Asia.  The helmeted, bubble headed beings are depicted clearly floating, rather than standing, sitting or swimming.  Sometimes they have pack packs and tubes coming or going from their nose and mouth, sometimes they appear to be holding strange looking tools, while other times they are sitting in a small enclosed capsule in front of what looks like a panel of instruments. 

 

Psychologists, I suppose would say that we interpret what we see in the context of the culture we are most familiar with.  In other words,  we recognize the similarity between things we are familiar with and images or sounds that we have not encountered before.  The human brain is very good at identifying the world around it and when it comes across something new it draws on memory to see if there is anything similar to it.  In a similar way these strange  depictions do bare a resemblance with images of the modern day astronauts that we are so familiar with. 

 

Since the artists are long since dead by a couple of thousand years we can not say for sure what it is that they were trying to depict.  But, it does raise a question.  Where as we would recognise the image of an ancient astronaut in these images because of our familiarity with such images, where did the original artist get their inspiration from?  What inspired them to draw such strange looking figures?

 

I am a proponent of the idea that an ancient and highly sophisticated and technologically advanced civilization such as Atlantis once existed on Earth.  There certainly seems to be many enigmas, ignored by archaeologists that suggest a sophistication of academic and technical knowledge that existed way before our civilization came into existence.  I also believe it is likely that we have been visited by alien travellers long ago and may still be even to this day.  I tend to believe that these were some form of aquatic beings as described by the Dogon tribe of Somalia and other cultures.  The idea of intelligent fish visiting human beings in space ships and claiming they came from a distant star, in the case of the Dogon’s, Sirius B, is too ridiculous to make up.  But maybe I’m not giving enough credit to human imagination.  Whatever, I can understand why they would visit a planet covered with 75% water.  They must have been terribly disappoint when they found us!

 

Whether we were visited by ancient astronauts in the form of fish, lizards, tall grey men or what ever, is something  I am not sure about.  I believe we were visited rather than know.  What I am absolutely sure about however,  is that I on occasion get to see the future.  I have premonitions and have always had premonitions from the time I was a small child.  Most are so fleeting that I can’t take in what it is that I’m seeing and hearing, feeling, knowing etc.  But, many have been clear enough for me to realise exactly what I was seeing.  Even then, with out being in context, the premonition may not mean anything.  Yes, I am the one who had the premonition of Princess Diana’s funeral and wrote about it six years before it happened, and embarrassingly interpreted what I was seeing as a bizarre music video by Elton John.  However, when the actual event occurred the many who had read my description were able to recognize it easily.  Well, maybe I’m just a twat or not very good at interpreting things that are not in context.  So, have a little sympathy with me, I’M NOT PERFECT! and isn’t that obvious.

 

I do, however believe the ability to see the future is as old as the hills.  There are certainly enough legends going back through mans history from all over the world to suggest this ability was known by most human beings through out most of our history.   I tend to believe the ability was stronger or more developed in ancient people who worked closer with nature and had more time for the more subtle aspects of the world around them.  Where as most people today would not be able to tell you what stars are in the sky at Autumn or what is the first sign that Winter is coming to an end, our ancestors were very much more aware of their world.  However, because of the unknown nature of this ability it is easy to imagine our ancestors attributing it to God.  I think the old prophets of the Bible is a case of mistaken identity.  Premonitions were mistaken for prophecy’s given specifically by God. 

 

I think there is a possibility that ancient people had premonitions reaching far into the future.  It is not unthinkable to suggest that these people might have had visions or dreams about the Astronauts that manned the Apollo missions.  What would they have made of such images?  What would they have thought they were looking at.  These strange creatures with the faces of humans, bubble heads and strongly bulky bodies floated around or jumped incredible distances in strange looking places,  sat in small flying houses twiddling an odd array of objects in front of them.  They obviously couldn’t be humans, no humans looked like that.  The belief that premonitions and strange dreams are sent by God would therefore lead to the conclusion that these must be the images of Gods. 

 

Today, we are very matter of fact about the technology we have around us.  That man has travelled to the moon and even walked on it’s surface is something of history.  The astronauts, now long since retired from the space programme are some of the bravest and most adventurous  men in modern history, risking everything to go where no man has gone before.  They should be amongst the most respected and honoured of all the worlds citizens, yet, that is not the world we live in and many would rather meet the actors of fantasy films about space adventures rather than the thrill of meeting the real thing. 

It is however my postulation that, as ignored as they are today in our superficial society, once long ago Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong, Alan Shepherd and a dozen other brave men were worshiped by ancient cultures as Gods under many different names and depicted on the many cave walls, ornaments and statues riding their Chariot of the Gods.