Alien Space Gods Of Ancient Greece and Rome (38 page)

The greatest contribution to culture made by Carthage are probably the six comedies of her famous son, Terence (195 - 159 BC) who taken as a slave to Rome then freed, penned elegant plays like
Menander
inspiring the early theatre, which later drew praise even from such a stylist as Cicero. Quintus Ennius (239-169 BC) modeled his thirty tragedies, all lost, on the works of Euripides, his '
Annals
' in Homeric hexameters anticipated Virgil tracing the history of Rome from Aeneas to his own days, only fragments remain; about the same time Gnaeus Nacvius banished for writing satirical plays criticising Rome's noble families turned his talents to a national epic on the First Punic War, nearly all lost. As far as can be determined from the few fragments left to us, these writers of the Third and Second Centuries BC expressed popular belief in the existence of the Gods and their occasional descent to Earth.

After defeating the Carthaginians at
Zama
in 202 BC the Romans turned their ambitions eastwards to the conquest of
Greece
and
Syria
, still torn by anarchy since the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC. The three Macedonian Wars and the final destruction of
Carthage
in 146 BC probably attracted the attention of Spacemen more than the social and agrarian reforms perturbing
Rome
. A few references to celestial phenomena suggest surveilling Spaceships.

175 BC 'Three suns shone in the sky at the same time, several torches fell that night at Lanuvium.' (Obsequens.)

174 BC ‘Three suns were seen.' (Pliny.)

173 BC 'At Lanuvium the appearance of a great fleet was beheld.’

152 BC ‘In many places at
Rome
apparitions in togas were seen, on approaching they vanished from view.’ (Obsequens.)

Apparitions had been seen about 260 BC, 218, 217 and 214 BC. The writers whom Julius Obsequens quoted evidently thought these spectres were Extraterrestrials; otherwise, they would hardly have bothered to mention them.

146 BC 'After the death of Demetrius, King of Syria, who had for sons Demetrius and Anliochus, and shortly before the war with Achaia a comet shone big as the sun. It was at first dazzling enough to dispel the darkness of the night Gradually its surfacc diminished and its brightness faded, finally it completely vanished.' (Sencca. 'Naturales Quacstiones.')

Was this a comet or a UFO? This year saw the complete destruction of
Carthage
by Scipio Aemilianus, younger son of Aemilius Paulus, victor of Pydna in
Macedonia
. The final ruin of this great city was probably watched by Spacemen, who had followed its century-long conflict with
Rome
.

140 BC 'At Praeneste and in Cephallonia it seemed that images had fallen from the sky.' (Obsequens.)

What were these 'signa'? Man-made metallic objects from some aerial ship?

137 BC 'At Praeneste a torch was seen burning in the sky.' (Obsequens.)

134 BC 'At Amiternum the sun was seen at night. Its light was seen for some time.' (Obsequens.)

127 BC 'At Fruosinrtc a burning torch was seen in the sky.' (Obsequens.)

122 BC 'In Gaul three suns and three moons were seen.' (Pliny.)

118 BC 'At Rome three suns were seen." (Pliny, Book II XXXI.)

Pliny adds 'It is also reported that several suns were seen at
midday
at the Bosphorus and that these lasted from dawn to sunset.' Three suns were seen presumably at
Rome
in 174, 116, 44 and 42 BC also in AD 51.

116 BC 'In
Latium
three suns were seen this year.' (Lycosthenes.)

113 BC 'A light from the sky by night, the phenomenon usually called "night suns" was seen in the consulship of Gaius Caecilius and Gnacus Papirius and often on other occasions causing apparent daylight in the night." (Pliny, Book II, XXX11I.)

106 BC 'An uproar in the sky was heard and javelins seemed to fall from heaven. There was a rain of blood. At
Rome
a torch was seen,' (Obsequens.)

During the War with the Cimbri strange prodigies were seen. Plutarch in
'Gaius Marius’
reports:

103 BC 'Many signs also appeared, most of which were of the ordinary kind; but from Ameria and Tuda, cities of Italy, it was reported that at night there had been seen in the heavens flaming spears and shields, which at first moved in different directions, and then clashed together assuming the formations and movements of men in battle and finally some of them would give way, while others pressed on in pursuit and all streamed away to the westward.' (Reported also by Obsequens.)

103 BC ‘The moon with a star appeared by day from the third to the seventh hour. At the third hour of the day, an eclipse of the sun brought on darkness. On the voting-ground it rained milk. In Picenus three suns were seen.’ (Obsequens.)

During the First Century BC the succession of Dictators, Marius, Sulla, Pompey, Caesar, ravaging the country and liquidating their enemies like gangsters in decades of Civil War finally exhausted the centuries-old Republic and made the people welcome the return of kingship under Augustus. Such tremendous conflict convulsing
Rome
would probably attract the Spacemen despairing at human folly.

100 BC 'In the consulship of Lucius Valerius and Gaius Marius a burning shield scattering sparks, ran across the sky at sunset from west to east.' (Pliny Book II, XXXIV.)

93 BC 'At Volsinii flame seemed to flash from the sky at dawn, after it had gathered together, the flame displayed a dark grey opening and the sky appeared to divide, in the gap tongues of flame appeared.' (Obsequens.)

91 BC 'At sunset a globe of fire in the northern region rushed across the sky emitting tremendous sound. In Spoletium a gold-coloured fireball rolled down to the ground and growing larger rose from the Earth towards the cast becoming large enough to blot out the sun.' (Obsequens, confirmed by Orosius.)

88 BC 'In Stratopcdon (Rhodes?) a great star was seen plunging from heaven. The apparition of
Isis
was seen attacking a "Harp" (a giant siege-engine) with a thunderbolt.' (Obsequens.)

This celestial attack recalls the 'Flying Shields' alleged to have dive-bombed
Tyre
during the siege by Alexander in 332 BC.

83 BC Sulla had assembled an army in
Greece
to invade
Italy
, on route to Patrae for the crossing to Brundusium the Romans found a strange humanoid at Apollonia near Dyrrachium in
Illyria
.

Plutarch in 'Sulla' reports:

'Near by in Apollonia and in its vicinity is the Nymphaeum, a sacred precinct which sends forth in various places from its green dell and meadows streams of perpetual flaming fire. Here, they say, a Satyr was caught asleep, such as one as sculptors and painters represent and brought to Sulla, where he was asked through many interpreters who he was. And when at last he uttered nothing intelligible but with difficulty emitted a hoarse cry that was something between the neighing of 3 horse and the bleating of a goat, Sulla was horrified and ordered him out of his sight.'

The Satyr surprised by Sulla's soldiers recalls the God, Pan, worshipped by the Greeks, and even that strange boy, Kaspar Hauser, found at
Nuremberg
on
28 May 1828
, who could hardly speak and appeared so alien to earthly environment like some person from another world. Satyrs haunting forests were depicted as elfin and green suiting their sylvan abodes. William de Newburgh in his
'Historia Anglicana'
, Vol. I, Cap. XXVII, 'De Viridibus Pueris' writes that during the reign of King Stephen at Airpittes (Wolfpit) near Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, there emerged from a ditch in a field two children, boy and girl, green all over their bodies, clad in garments of unusual colour and unknown material (‘emerscrunt due puersi masculus et foemine, tota corpore virides et colores insoliti ex incognita materia veste operti’). The boy lived only a short time, his sister thrived, she later married and lived at
Lynn
. The pair said they came from
St. Martin
's Land, apparently a subterranean twilight world where the sun never shone. Was this Agharta, the civilisation said to flourish inside our 'Hollow Earth', miles beneath our feet?

The Etruscan God, Tages, sprang from a furrow in a field!

Such stories of a satyr by Plutarch and 'Green Children' by William de Newburgh evoke those startling tales of humanoids from Spaceships haunting
South America
. To our bewilderment, the reality of those little green men does seem confirmed by that extraordinary apparition at Luumaki, Finland, in 1965 testified by two very well known people who, wishing to remain anonymous, are referred to as A and B in the following account from
Vimana
No. 2, 1967 published by the Finnish Interplanetary Society.

'On a lovely day in August A and B, together with some friends were picking whortleberries in a seldom frequented part of the forest. By about
noon
, A began to hear some sort of peculiar murmuring and "bubbling" sounds from the top of a nearby slope, though he could not detect anything unusual in the direction of the sound. After some time A again looked in the same direction and he now saw, at a distance of about 200 metres, a small manlike being standing on top of the slope, looking straight at him. This being and A stood staring at each other for some time, and then the little stranger started to walk towards A. The stranger was hardly a metre in height (about 3 feet), yet its head and shoulders appeared to be like those of a strong man. When this alien being started to move, it seemed to totter a bit at first, but soon regained its balance and walked with firm steps straight towards A, who like one paralyzed stood looking at the approaching strange visitor whose face was carrot-red and whose body was covered by a skin-tight green apparel. The little man, however, soon changed direction and reached the edge of a small bog, where it just disappeared and was no longer to be seen.