Alien Space Gods Of Ancient Greece and Rome (47 page)

Today the learned Grimm would recognise that the astonishing Verisimilitude between the Teutonic and Greek Gods is due to the obvious fact that they were all the same Celestials from Space.

The North has not always been barren and cold, the Yogis teach that the First Race of Mankind dwelled there, coal mined in Spitzbergen proves the former existence of tropical forests, ancient cities discovered under the ice support the old Germanic legend of
Thule
, a vanished civilisation peopled by magicians. The UFOs approach through the polar-vents in the Van Allen radiation belts; as agreed by the Ancients it was likely that Celestials would first land in the North.  A century ago, H. Sachs in his 'Schwank der Lappenhäuser' related how the Lapps made a ship of feathers and straw then carried it upon a hill with a view of launching out in it when the wind should fall. Did these Northern wizards still remember their old Space Kings?

The belief in Nordic Supermen still haunts imagination to torture men's souls. Hitler's mad dreams conjured the pagan Gods from
Valhalla
to conquer
Europe
, only to drag his Third Reich down to Götterdämmerung.

In the summer of 1946, our modern age of UFOs was heralded by ghost-rockets and luminous bombs speeding through the skies of
Sweden
to announce the return of the Spacemen. The silent desolation of the North conceals most ancient mystery. The secret may be found among those Space Gods of Scandinavia.

The Star of Bethlehem presaging the Birth of Jesus was followed by wonders in the heavens inspiring the early Christians culminating in AD 312 in that famous Cross seen by Constantine which promoted the establishment of Christianity as the official religion of Rome.

Dio Cassius writing about AD 200 in Book LVI states:

AD 9 ‘The Temple of Mars in the field of the same name was struck by lightning and many locusts flew into the city and were devoured by swallows, the peaks of the Alps seemed to collapse upon one another and to send up three columns of fire, the sky in many places seemed ablaze and numerous comets appeared at one and the same time, spears seemed to dart from the north and to fall in the direction of the Roman Camp.’

AD 14 ‘Thus the sun suffered a total eclipse and most of the sky seemed to be on fire, glowing embers appeared to be falling from it and blood-red comets were seen.’

Admiral Pliny whose scientific curiosity led to untimely death in AD 79 amid the burning lava burying
Pompeii
and
Herculaneum
, wrote in
'Historia Naturales'
, Book XI- XXIV:

AD 17 ‘There are also meteoric lights that are only seen when falling, for instance one that ran across the sky at midday in full view of the public when Germanicus was giving a gladiatorial show, of these are two kinds, one sort are called 'lampades' which means 'torches', the other 'bolides', "missiles', that is the sort that appeared at the time of the disaster at Modena (when Decimus Brutus was besieged there by Antony in 44 BC). The difference between them is that 'torches' make long tracks with their front part glowing, whereas a 'boles' glows throughout its length and traces a longer path.’

Ovid who died in AD 18 related 'In the middle of the night I saw the Sun truly a glittering white.'

In the fourteenth century, Dechany monastery at Kosovskaya Metehia, southern
Yugoslavia
, is found numerous frescoes that seem actually to depict Angels flying in Spaceships like our astronauts. The Yugoslav magazine '
Svet'
in 1964 published a fascinating article with photographs entitled 'Spaceships on the Dechany Crucifix. Sputniks in our frescoes. Could ancient icon-painters have depicted Spaceships in Dechany?' In the leading ship a man without an angel's halo holds an unseen control-column and is looking back at another ship carrying a similar astronaut, both craft seem streamlined with clearly visible jets. Angels below cover their eyes and ears with their hands dreading the glow and noise, others show startled surprise. The control- figure represents the crucified Christ. The fresco depicting the Resurrection of Christ shows the Messiah apparently in a Space-rocket with a two-wing stabiliser. Another Resurrection painting on an icon in the
Moscow
Theological
Academy
dating back to the seventeenth century appears to show Christ in a streamlined capsule emitting smoke which vaguely represents a Spaceship.

On the domed ceiling of the
Alexander
Nevsky
Memorial
Church
in
Sofia
,
Bulgaria
, the renowned Japanese expert, Yusuke J. Matsumura, was thrilled to behold a Golden Flying Saucer. In Roumania at the Princeley Church in Tirgaste, north-west of Bucharest, he saw a wall painting of Christ apparently about to board a Spaceship accompanied by persons wearing spherical helmets; at Varna on the Bulgarian shore of the Black Sea the cathedral was full of frescoes representing Saints with a reddish rocket-shaped machine taking-off.’

AD 36 The conversion of Paul on the Road to
Damascus
by that blinding light from heaven with an admonitory voice reproaching him is attributed to sudden psychic illumination; theologians insist that the future
St. Paul
had an inner vision. Those dogmatic priests should read the great Seneca who lived in
Rome
at the time and possibly met Paul, though he did not say so.

One night shortly before his death in AD 37 shortly after that light on the
Damascus
road, the Emperor Tiberius was aroused by the alarming news that
Ostia
was in flames, the fire could be seen from the hills of
Rome
. Tiberius promptly dispatched the Roman fire-brigade who galloped to the sea-side resort post-haste with their pumps to be confounded by the obvious fact that there was no fire. High in the sky loomed a mysterious object in the form of a fiery beam, diffusing its somber light like that of a flame mingled with smoke filling the sky of the city with its sinister rays. The phenomenon which caused the glow continued for a great part of the night and then disappeared taking with it the mystery of that extraordinary apparition. Seneca probably saw it.

In AD 43 when the Roman legions led by Aulus Plautus invaded
Britain
a UFO like shining light is said to have streaked across the sky from East to West.

AD 51 'Three suns were seen during the consulship of the future Emperor Claudius when Cornelius Ofitus was his colleague. (Pliny.)’

AD 54 'During the reign of Claudius a Comet coming from the North rose towards the zenith to be carried then towards the East becoming less and less brilliant. (Seneca.)'

AD 60 'Indeed we have been able to contemplate for six months that Comet which appeared in the happy reign of Nero. (Seneca.)'

During this so-called 'happy reign' of Nero about AD 64 Peter and Paul were martyred, the Christians were savagely persecuted.

In AD 65 the Jews in
Jerusalem
suffering Roman oppression were cheered somewhat irrationally by signs in the skies which some prophets read as portents of happiness instead of omens of misfortune.

Josephus in
'Wars of the Jews'
, Book VI, Chap. V - 3, says:

‘Thus there was a star resembling a sword, which stood over the city, and a comet that continued a whole year. Thus also before the Jews' rebellion and before those commotions which preceded the war, when the people were come in great crowds to the feast of unleavened bread, on the eighth day of the month Xanthicus (Nisan) and at the ninth hour of the night, so great a light shone round the altar and the holy house, that it appeared to be bright day-time, which light lasted for half-an-hour.'

At the Feast of the Passover the eastern gate of the inner court of the Temple, which was of brass and vastly heavy requiring twenty men to shut it with difficulty, though securely bolted, opened of its own accord about the sixth hour of the night.

'Besides these a few days after that feast, on the one and twentieth day of the month Artemiscus (Ivar) a certain prodigious and incredible phenomenon appeared. I suppose the account of it would seem to be a fable, were it not related by those that saw it, and were not the events that followed it of so considerable a nature to deserve such signals, for before sunset chariots and troops of soldiers in their armour were seen running about among the clouds and surrounding of cities.’

More than two hundred years earlier in 170 BC just before the rebellion of Judas Maccabeus against Antiochus IV similar apparitions of galloping horses in golden armour and companies of spearmen were seen in the skies of
Jerusalem
for forty days.

In AD 66 the Jews goaded to revolt massacred the Roman garrison and soon controlled the whole country. Nero appointed Vespasian, distinguished during the conquest of
Britain
, to quell the insurgence; in the following year with his son, Titus, he routed the Jewish patriots in
Galilee
and among the thousands of prisoners captured their General, Joseph, who retired from warfare to become better known as the historian, Flavius Josephus. Nero in 68 committed his much-applauded suicide; his successors, Galba, Otho and Vitellius in quick succession ruled only eighteen months before the Imperial throne passed to Vespasian who promptly ordered Titus to suppress renewed rebellion in
Jerusalem
.

Josephus tells of Ananus, a husbandman, who for four years before the war began went around
Jerusalem
crying day and night of the dire tribulations to come. Albinus, the procurator, had him whipped till his bones were laid bare yet he continued to lament 'Woe is
Jerusalem
!' until the siege started.

'And just as be added at the last "Woe, woe to myself also," there came a stone out of one of the engines and smote him, and killed him immediately; and as be was uttering the very same presages, he gave up the ghost.'

Josephus vividly describes the terrible siege, the dreadful famine, the catapults pounding the
Temple
walls until only
the smoke-blackened Wailing Wall was left forlorn for future Jews to mourn their tragic past Thousands of Jews were killed, thousands more taken prisoners.
During the next two centuries the various Christian sects contended with the pagans and quarrelled with each other.