KittensAngel
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I find the Discovery and History features regarding Ancient Astronauts, and Aliens, to be fascinating.I like the concept to a certain extent. In my personal view, I think those ancient figures of religion were beings from other locations in the universe, perhaps from a separate dimension of reality as ours, possessing hyper advanced technology as well as being highly developed spiritual beings, with the ability to transform themselves into physical beings at will.
And I do believe that there are millions of species of advanced aliens all over the universe, and that these "angels" have visited them as well as us.
And I think the angel wings are plausible as well.
What are your thoughts on the idea?
And I do think that if an extra-terrestrial intelligence did arrive in our primitive history the people then, who would be completely unaware of flying machines, would have recorded their experience using subjective imagery that denoted the closest thing they knew to what they were witness to.
Flying men then would be depicted with wings. Flying craft would be depicted as winged chariots, because chariots were the mode of transportation of that time.
I like the ancient Sumerian accounts that are said to be translated from the Cuneiform tablets that describe, in the Enuma Elish, that creation epic that preceded the epic of Gilgamesh and yet both accounts contributed to what is today's Genesis fable.
That there are depictions on ancient Sumerian (today's Iraq) tablets showing our solar system with all it's planetary bodies including Pluto, which our astronomers didn't discover until the early 19th century, is intriguing. As is the map of, I believe it's Antarctica, as it appeared prior to the ice cap taking hold. And today's ground penetrating radar is said to have mapped that region and it coincides with the ancient map exactly.
I do believe an ancient race that would have awed and inspired a primitive one, would have been considered like unto creator of all that was new and different. As God's and Goddesses.
There are translations according to one author,Zacharia Sitchin, who is said to be the foremost authority on translation of cuneiform tablets, wherein the human race is said to have been created through genetic science orchestrated by a race of extra-terrestrial beings that even the Bible refers to as the "Annunaki".
Sitchin is under a lot of fire for what he's written in his many books on the subject, however I think one has to judge for themselves. And especially when thinking outside the mainstream, giving credit to a superior other worldly intelligence, isn't always going to be respected in those circles that imagine everything that exists is a direct result of the sole evolution of the human consciousness.
Then there are artifacts that simply aren't easily explained away as all that. Because time-lines aren't in keeping with a plausible excuse.
Like the flying machines depicted within the Temple of Abydos. Or the sarcophagus of the ancient Mayan ruler who appears to be sitting at the controls of some sort of machine, K'inich Janaab' Pakal.
(Pakal gets a new lid)
It's all very interesting. Great post.