Our Occulted History: Do the Global Elite Conceal Ancient Aliens? (22 page)
By the sixth century BC, Greek power had become concentrated in the two city states of Athens and Sparta. After the Greeks twice defeated Persian invasions, Athens became the center of power and during the next few centuries led the nation’s advancement in science, the arts, and philosophy.
Exhausted by war against each other, Athens and Sparta declined during the fourth century BC, and the power vacuum was filled by Philip of Macedon, whose son Alexander the Great, born in 356 BC, plundered Greece, then Persia, Syria, Phoenicia, Egypt, Babylonia, and parts of India before dying in Babylon at the age of thirty-three. During his rule of Egypt, he founded the city of Alexandria, which became the ancient world’s most important center for scientific and literary studies, as well as for the transmission of esoteric traditions. Alexander was a student of the Greek philosopher Aristotle, who had been taught by Plato, who had learned from Socrates. By 146 BC, Greece was dominated by Rome. Centuries later, after the Roman Empire had been divided into eastern and western halves and the western empire had fallen, Greece became part of the Byzantine Empire.
A close study of mythology from around the world reveals striking similarities among many cultures and their beliefs in ancient gods. Legends from different peoples living in all corners of the Earth seem to tell essentially the same story—in the distant past, certain individuals with “godlike” powers molded mankind into a civilized state following a period of cataclysmic upheaval.
While there is no agreement on the specific connections among the “gods,” due to the large amount of incidental material that has grown up around the stories, a general comparison of mythologies demonstrates common features that appear to go beyond coincidence and reveal the striking similarities among all versions of the ancient “gods.” The names changed with different languages, but the characteristics remained the same.
It is important to understand that early on the Sumerians never considered, nor referred to, the beings who brought them knowledge as “gods.” This was a later interpretation by the Romans and Greeks, who fashioned their own gods after the earlier traditions of the Egyptians and earlier civilizations.
All references to these gods carry similar attributes, which correspond to other worlds beyond the Earth and also convey the idea of influences over humanity as found in astrology, the origin of which is so ancient as to be unknown.
The Greek Herodotus, the “father of history,” has been proven truthful in his accounts. The Scythian city Gelonus was a privileged trading partner to the Greeks until conquered by Alexander. Herodotus’s description of this population center as being a thousand times larger than Troy was widely disbelieved until it was rediscovered in 1975.
Herodotus made it quite clear that the Greek gods, and the rites attributed to them, all came from Egypt, conquered by Alexander in 332 BC. The Egyptian gods simply assumed new names when translated into the Greek language. One clear example is the Greek term for their pantheon of gods, the Titans, who ruled the earth prior to an insurrection. The ruler of the Titans was Cronos, who has been identified as the Anunnaki Anu. He was succeeded by his son Zeus, who has been compared to the Sumerian overlord Enlil. Furthermore, the Titans have always been associated with the various planets, indicating a strong connection to the heavens, and in the Sumerian cuneiform tablets, the word for “those who live in the heavens” is Ti-ta-an.
Herodotus also noted the extreme longevity of ancient Egyptian rulers and also wrote that prior to eleven thousand years ago living “gods” had resided among the humans. “Thus far I have spoken on the authority of the Egyptians and their priests. They declare that from their first king to this last-mentioned monarch, the priest of Vulcan, was a period of three hundred and forty-one generations; such, at least, they say, was the number both of their kings, and of their high-priests, during this interval,” wrote Herodotus in Book 2 of his
Histories
.
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Now three hundred generations of men make ten thousand years, three generations filling up the century. … However, in the times anterior to [the human kings] it was otherwise; then Egypt had gods for its rulers, who dwelt upon the earth with men, one being always supreme above the rest. The last of these was Horus, the son of Osiris, called by the Greeks Apollo.” As indicated in the comparison chart, Osiris was the Egyptian name for the Anunnaki god Enki, meaning that his son, Horus, would have been Marduk to the Sumerians and Ares to the Greeks, who was the god of war. Is it just coincidence that Marduk began the great civil war between the Anunnaki?
Close to twenty ancient buildings in southern Greece look like pyramids and show evidence of Egyptian influence. One impressive pyramid is located near the eastern Peloponnesian village of Hellenikon in Argolis, but for the most part, the structures are largely ruins. Some speculate that in the past the edifices were torn down and used as construction materials for churches and for lime production.
It appears that the Greek pyramids, like the Great Pyramid, were aligned with heavenly bodies. In the 1990s, archaeologists with the Archaeological Museum of Nauplion found the astronomical orientation of the long entrance corridor of the Hellenikon pyramid probably aligned with Orion’s Belt between the years 2400–2000 BC. By measuring accumulated radiation using a method called thermoluminescence, archaeologists were able to date scrapings back past 3,000 BC, making them older than similar Egyptian structures.
Athletes and musicians gathered every few years in the Greek city of Delphi to compete in the Pythian Games, which may have begun even earlier than the Olympics, which according to tradition began in 776 BC. Delphi was also home to the Oracle of Delphi, a famed figure in classical Greek mythology. There are mysterious connections between this sacred site and other sites in Greece, such as the Acropolis of Athens, where the Parthenon is located.
In
Odyssey of the Gods
, an account of extraterrestrial contact in ancient Greece, Erich von Däniken writes of an experience with Theophanias Manias, a Greek Air Force officer who had studied topography at the National Technical University of Athens.
He [Manias] took a pair of compasses, placed the point on Delphi and drew a circle through the Acropolis. Strange to say, the circumference of the circle also touched Argos and Olympia. These places were equal distances from each other. A strange coincidence, thought Colonel Manias, and then placed the compass point on Knossos at Crete. The circumference of this circle also touched Sparta and Epidaurus—strange! Colonel Manias continued. When the center was Delos, Thebes and Izmir lay on the circumference; when the center was Paros, it was Knossos and Chalcis; when the center was Sparta, Mycenae and the oracle site of Trofonion were on the circumference.
Both Manias and von Daniken saw in these configurations a repetition of the previously described golden ratio indicating the influence of ancient knowledge. “In ancient Greece many such triangles can be drawn, and always with two proportions in regard to the length of their sides,” noted von Daniken. “Such triangles joining cult sites cannot just arise by chance.”
Maurice Chatelain has written of sacred sites connected with a perfection that could only have been accomplished from the vantage point of outer space. He described thirteen mystical sites within a 450-mile radius of the long-venerated Greek island of Delos connected by straight lines to produce a perfect Maltese Cross, later the emblem of the Knights Templar. Delos has always been considered one of ancient Greece’s most holy sites, although no one has ever known exactly why. In
Our Ancestors Came from Outer Space
, Chatelain wrote, “What interests us now is how and why such a gigantic pattern was marked on the Aegean and surrounding lands. I do not believe that even today’s land surveyors could so precisely mark such a gigantic figure of over 360 miles jumping from island to island and stretching over sea and mountains. Except from high up in the air this Maltese Cross would not be visible.”
Hesiod, a Greek poet who lived about 700 BC, wrote extensively of the gods in his
Theogony
, a synthesis of stories concerning the Greek gods. He wrote of conflicts and wars, even between Zeus (Enlil in Sumerian) and his father Cronos (the sky god Anu in Sumerian). He may have been describing thunderous Anunnaki sky god Enlil and his more beneficent half-brother Enki when he wrote, “The glowing Sun never looks upon them with his beams, neither as he goes up into heaven, nor as he comes down from heaven. And the former of them roams peacefully over the earth and the sea’s broad back and is kindly to men; but the other has a heart of iron, and his spirit within him is pitiless as bronze: whomsoever of men he has once seized he holds fast: and he is hateful even to the deathless gods.”
In writing of the wars between the gods, Hesiod spoke of their flying chariots and may have even described ancient atomic weapons when he wrote, “And flame shot forth from the thunder-stricken lord in the dim rugged glens of the mount, when he was smitten. A great part of huge earth was scorched by the terrible vapour and melted as tin melts when heated by men’s art in channeled crucibles; or as iron, which is hardest of all things, is softened by glowing fire in mountain glens and melts in the divine earth through the strength of Hephaestus. Even so, then, the earth melted in the glow of the blazing fire.” Hesiod goes to some length to detail the many wives of Zeus and the spreading of his bloodline following the wars of the gods.
Many centuries after Hesiod, Plato wrote in the
Statesman
that Earth’s poles shifted after the gods left the Earth.
In the fulness of time, when the change was to take place, and the earth-born race had all perished, and every soul had completed its proper cycle of births and been sown in the earth her appointed number of times, the pilot of the universe let the helm go, and retired to his place of view; and then Fate and innate desire reversed the motion of the world. Then also all the inferior deities who share the rule of the supreme power, being informed of what was happening, let go the parts of the world which were under their control. And the world turning round with a sudden shock, being impelled in an opposite direction from beginning to end, was shaken by a mighty earthquake, which wrought a new destruction of all manner of animals.
The classical Greeks also wrote of leaders and rulers who, much like the Anunnaki, were the offspring of humans and gods. In the oldest telling of the story of Jason and the Argonauts, Pindar’s Pythian Ode number 4, eleven adventurers, including Jason, all were said to have been descendants from the ancient gods.
Beyond the overlaps between Sumerian and Greek mythology and the influence the Greeks have had on our culture, it’s possible that the Greeks and their gods are affecting us in ways we might never have imagined. Recently, a man known pseudonymously as Ted Connors, who worked with a Department of Defense subcontracting firm in Alabama, recounted how one morning in 2007 he saw a large metallic hubcap next to a tree with long wires stretching upward. Suddenly the object rose and disappeared in midair.
Connors was among several people who were reporting seeing such “spider drones.” Later in the year, Connors found himself having disturbing dreams about his encounter. When he revisited the tree, he found that it had been cut down. As he sat nearby contemplating, he began to feel an electrostatic charge throughout his body and started to receive what he thought were telepathic messages from beings from another planet. They first explained that the object Connors saw was a drone probing Earth for information. They said they were from a planet called Oltissis, the twenty-third planet in their star system, one that has four moons. The probe came through a “tear” in time and space, which was repaired upon its return. Connors was told that our interpretation of time and space is incorrect. “All is infinite,” they explained, adding that we would not understand their “ethos,” a Greek word for the character or nature of a people.
As
ethos
is derived from the Greek and Oltissis sounds Greek, Connors wrote, “My feeling is these [telepathic beings] are the ancient Greeks. These [from Oltissis] are the ones who came here before Earth’s historic timeline. They are the Greek gods.”
Connors’s tale might be written off as a delusion or fabrication, except for a further development. Because he connected his experience to the Greek gods, Connors visited a local library for a book on ancient Greece and stumbled across one entitled
Ancient Greek Gods and Lore Revisited
. It was copyrighted 1962 and was by an author whose name Connors remembers as Fredrico Ionnides. In this book he said he found three references to Oltissis. Apparently one reference mentioned Oltissis as a historic Greek pleasure palace. He said he left the book on his car seat, as he intended to read it when he had time.
Two days later, Connors said he was surprised to be called into his boss’s office. He was even more surprised to find two men there who presented identification showing they were from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the National Security Agency (NSA). The pair asked him about the library book he had obtained and said curtly, “We need to have that book.” When asked why, the one from DHS replied it was a national security matter and asked if Connors was aware of the PATRIOT Act.