Paleocontact is a hypothetical visit to the Earth in the past by intelligent beings of extraterrestrial origin, possibly attested in some ancient monuments of earthly culture. In the modern system of knowledge, paleovisit is understood as a hypothesis according to which in ancient times there were numerous contacts between ancient human communities and aliens from other star systems. The founder of the paleocontact hypothesis in its modern formulation is considered to be K. E. Tsiolkovsky, who first came up with the idea of a possible visit to the Earth aliens in past. In the 1950s-1960s. The paleocontact hypothesis was popularized by the Soviet mathematician M. M. Agrest, who in his resonant article “Traces Lead into Space” interpreted ancient myths as evidence of a visit to Earth by representatives of extraterrestrial civilizations. The peak of the worldwide fascination with the idea of paleocontact was influenced by the book of the Swiss ufologist writer Erich von Däniken “Chariots of the Gods? Unsolved mysteries past”, as well as the West German documentary film series “Memories of the Future” (German: Erinnerungen an die Zukunft, 1970) and “Message from the Gods” (German: Botschaft der Götter; in Soviet release - “Secrets of the Gods”, 1976) based on it. - falls on the 1970s. 
Zecharia Sitchin, in his books “The Cradle of Civilization” and “The Twelfth Planet,” claims that some megalithic structures (for example, Baalbek or buildings on the Temple Mount) from large stone blocks weighing up to 1000 tons could have been built by the Anunnaki aliens as launching pads (“spaceports”) ") for their spaceships. Theories of paleocontacts are developed by such authors as Immanuel Velikovsky, Erich von Daniken, Alford Alan, Koneles Yu.V., Sklyarov A.Yu., Zecharia Sitchin. 
It is known that long before the emergence of the modern scientific paradigm, Egyptian priests were confident in the population of cosmic worlds and their contacts in ancient times with earthlings. 
These ideas were inherited from the Egyptians by Greek thinkers. The philosopher Anaximander (610-546 BC) created the doctrine of emerging and dying worlds and the existence of alien inhabited worlds. His successor Anaxagoras proposed the idea of panspermia - the transfer of life germs in space. This theory was developed in detail only at the turn of the 19th-20th centuries by the Swedish scientist Arenius and in the 20th century by Fred Hall. The outstanding materialist of the Hellenistic era, Epicurus, also shared the idea of a plurality of inhabited worlds. There are many similar examples. 
Of course, these cave paintings are not proof, but the question arises: why would prehistoric people draw obvious pictures that are recognizable as “modern” aliens? Let's move on... The great physicist Isaac Newton once wrote: “Just as everything around us is teeming with living beings... so the skies above us can be filled with creatures whose nature is incomprehensible to us... And just as the planets remain in their orbits, so any other bodies may exist at any distance from the Earth, and, moreover, there may be beings who have the power of moving in any direction at will and stopping in any region of the heavens to enjoy the company of their own kind, and through their messengers... to rule the Earth and communicate with the most remote corners..." 
As can be seen from the logical constructions of the greatest minds of the past, the problem of paleovisit grew out of the conviction that the Cosmos is populated not only by living, but also by intelligent beings. The Age of Great Geographical Discovery proved that the Earth is just a ball, and not the center of the universe, and showed humanity that the world infinite. When our planet ceased to be an endless world for humanity, standing on whales and turtles, and turned out to be a relatively small planet, like mushrooms after rain, fantastic stories and scientific treatises began to appear about the flight to the Moon and its exploration. The further train of thought boiled down to the question: if we, earthlings, are going to visit the Selenites, then why shouldn’t they visit us too? This is exactly how the French popular scientist Bernard Le Bovier Fontenelle (1657-1757) posed the question in “Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds” (1686): “maybe aliens in general, and the Selenites in particular, have already visited us?” 
It was approximately in this form that by the middle of the 19th century the idea of a paleovisit was formed. It is necessary to pay attention to the term. It must be borne in mind that during their visit the ancient astronauts were not at all obliged to come into contact with ancient humanity. If there was contact, then in this case it is more correct to talk about the development of a paleovisit into a paleocontact, especially when it is possible to scientifically prove the transfer of material or intellectual achievements of an alien culture to the aborigines of our planet during this contact. Considering this possibility, the Russian scientist encyclopedist, Professor N.A. Rynin, in the 30s, published a 6-volume encyclopedia "Interplanetary Travel", the first two volumes of which are devoted to the analysis of the actual side of paleocontact. In the “Bulletin of Knowledge” he wrote: “The statement that inhabitants of other worlds did not visit our planet is indeed confirmed by the official history of all countries. However, if we turn to the legends of hoary antiquity, we will notice a strange coincidence in the legends of countries separated from each other by oceans and deserts. This coincidence lies in the fact that many legends talk about visiting Earth in time immemorial inhabitants of other worlds. Why not admit that these legends are based on some grain of truth?" In the 60s of the twentieth century, public attention to the problem of paleocontact was attracted by Soviet researchers Matest Agrest, Alexander Gorbovsky, Alexander Kazantsev. Since the 70s, the theory of paleocontact through the efforts of Vladimir Avinsky, Yuri Morozov, Igor Lisevich, Vadim Vilinbakhov, Vladimir Rubtsov, Rostislav Furduy, Harry Burgansky and Alexei Arkhipov strengthened its scientific position and received strong support from the Swiss amateur archaeologist Erich von Däniken.In a simple and intelligible form, E. Däniken described many finds , who allegedly spoke about visiting the Earth in ancient times by guests from the stars. Unfortunately, not all facts are described correctly by Deniken, and not all of them can be considered evidence of paleocontact. However, what remains beyond the criticism of science is a fairly large array of mysterious information, allegedly testifying in favor of the arrival of aliens from the vastness of space.What asset does the paleocontact hypothesis now have, allegedly proving the arrival of representatives of the EC to Earth in ancient times? Mysterious Japanese dogu figurines, reminiscent of a modern space suit, are often cited as evidence. 
It later turned out that spacesuit-like images were found in several dozen places around the world. A series of strange finds include the so-called “nose-fronted”, whose features are imprinted in the cultures of Central America, Japan, Mexico, Afghanistan. The difference between their faces and the features of a modern person is that their nose starts from the middle of the forehead, and not from the level of the eyebrows, as in humans. The works of science fiction writer A. Kazantsev mention human and animal skulls with holes similar to bullet holes with an age of 10 to 40 thousand years. Historians are convinced that at that time a person could not have had such a weapon, but Kazantsev boldly raised the question that this kind of damage could have been left by a weapon similar to a modern one. Many researchers include golden Colombian airplanes as evidence of paleocontact. Their models behaved in the wind tunnel like modern vertical take-off and landing fighters. Now more than 30 such aircraft have been found all over the world. 
and in Africa (Gambia) there is even a Yundum airport, made by no one knows who and when. The main thing is that planes of any weight can land on its smooth, artificially polished stone slabs (which is what is being done now). It is possible that in ancient times Indian vimanas landed at such airports, which, according to modern estimates, had jet engines with a thrust of 9.5 tons and a speed in the air of up to 800 km/h. Vimanas are also mentioned in the ancient Slavic Vedas. A modern prototype of a vimana in the form of a Tu-135 stratospheric aircraft 
Many ancient monuments include amazing construction technologies. For example, giant stone balls in Costa Rico, it is unclear how and on what they were made. Now dozens of such balls have been found in Europe, America, and Asia. Alexander Kazantsev was convinced that the famous stones (trilithons), weighing 750 tons each, or the largest processed stone in the world - the “stone of the South”, weighing about 1500 tons, were made and moved using currently unknown technologies. And this is all in Lebanon, i.e. in close proximity to famous Egyptian pyramids. In recent years, significant evidence of the use of high-speed cutting machines in the construction of the Egyptian pyramids has been provided by Russian researcher Andrei Sklyarov. A. Kazantsev, V. Shcherbachenko, M. Agrest, A. Gorbovsky and other researchers have repeatedly argued and proven that modern technology is not capable of creating and moving such gigantic products. Nowadays, hundreds of buildings made from giant stone blocks are known all over the world. Proponents of the paleocontact hypothesis have repeatedly pointed out, contrary to the opinion of orthodox historians, that the task of manufacturing and moving such gigantic objects is not quantitative, but qualitative. Therefore, it should be solved not by a mathematical increase in the number of slaves, but qualitatively differently, by using fundamentally different technologies that are currently unknown to earthlings. The researchers were especially interested in the drawing in the ancient Mayan tomb on a stone slab in the city of Palenque 
In their opinion, a cross-sectional drawing is depicted on the stone slab spaceship with an astronaut on board. Characteristic were not only the pose of the astronaut, intensely peering at the instruments, but also the rocket principle of the aircraft itself. A flame torch is clearly visible at the very bottom of the rocket. Sumerian drawings even depict a silo launch of a rocket. The shaft depicts a rocket during engine purging, i.e. on the eve of launch. 
To this can be added a clay model of a liquid jet engine found in Africa. 
and the amazing similarity of the minarets around the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul with the Soviet launch vehicle for the lunar program - the N-1 rocket 
Images of rocket-like machines, aviation and legends about them have been found in Japan, Turkey (in the ancient territory of Urartu), Italy, Yugoslavia, Egypt, China, Zimbabwe and many other areas of the world. The number of similar finds, supposedly indicating the reality of paleocontact, currently numbers in the dozens. But, unfortunately, no one except Kazantsev and the author of this report saw that it was in the images of rocket-like devices, space suits and other space paraphernalia that the main and fundamentally important limitation of the theory of paleocontact was hidden. Many cave paintings of ancient spaceships look quite convincing, but only at first glance. Actually, it was this similarity that gave rise to the paleocontact hypothesis. But if you look closely at the design of these spaceships of the past, then you can relatively easily recognize in them slightly modified forms of MODERN spaceships. The appearance of a rocket is determined by the type of its engines and fuel. However, modern cosmonautics, based on the fission of chemical fuel, cannot boast of any particular successes. Our manned spacecraft and satellites are still completely at the mercy of gravitational forces. The resource for their free movement in outer space is very limited and is suitable only for small adjustments of orbits. An accidental strong deviation from the course threatens the ship's crew or satellite with inevitable death. It follows that modern space technology is not able to reach the necessary speeds for interstellar flights within the time frame determined by the duration of human life. Consequently, similar to modern spaceships of ancient astronauts, they are also FUNDAMENTALLY unsuitable for long and long-distance missions. space travel! Descriptions and drawings of ancient space technology have reached us, suitable only for near-Earth, shuttle flights or, at best, to the nearest planets solar system. And Alexander Kazantsev understood this very well, being not only a writer, but also an engineer. That is why his heroes were the inhabitants of the planets of our solar system - Phaethon, Mars, Venus, and not Alpha Centauri, Sirius, or another galaxy. 
Scientists date the coin and the Stone Face from Pristina to 5 thousand years BC. Strange things are also described by another, even older, literary source - the Bible ( Old Testament). Very impressive are the descriptions of how God himself or his angels descend from the sky with a great roar and in thick clouds of smoke. One of these incidents is described by the prophet Ezekiel: “It happened in the thirtieth year, on the fifth day of the fourth month, when I was at the river X:)r among the exiled, and then the sky opened up... But I saw a squall approaching from the north, and a large a cloud surrounded by radiant brilliance and continuous fire, from the middle of which a metallic sheen sparkled. And in the middle... figures appeared as if of four living creatures; they looked like human figures. And each creature had four faces and each had four wings. Their legs were straight, and their soles were like the hooves of a calf, and they sparkled like pure metal... Then I saw near each of the four creatures a wheel on the ground. The wheels looked like the faint shine of peridot. And all four wheels were of the same type, and were made like this , as if each wheel was inside the other. They could move in all directions without turning while moving. And I saw that they had rims and their rims all around had eyes on all four wheels. When living beings walked, the wheels also walked side by side with them, and when living beings rose from the earth, the wheels rose with them." If we put aside the religious explanation and verbal hyperbole of the chronicler, we have before us a man-made aircraft. NASA specialists, who in this case were asked to make a conclusion, not only unequivocally spoke out in favor of the technogenic nature of the “chariot,” but also, based on its descriptions, patented several valuable inventions, including “wheels within a wheel.” No matter how great and grandiose the mysteries associated with the problem of paleocontacts may be, it cannot be assumed that only this theory can and should explain all the mysteries of antiquity. It is quite possible that on Earth thousands of years ago a proto-civilization flourished, its level of development not inferior to ours. However, most researchers are not yet psychologically ready to recognize such a proto-civilization that had advanced technology, technologies, knowledge on the basis of which it was possible to build spaceships and fly into space. It seems much more logical to assume that it was this proto-civilization that made multi-ton stone blocks. It is strange to hear claims that aliens flew to Earth in order to cut down the idols on Easter Island or hew out trilithons. However, the question of the existence of a pre-civilization on Earth is also not free from contradictions. The development of any technological civilization as we know it requires energy. Since ancient times, humanity has been drawing this energy from the bowels of the planet in the form of minerals. Therefore, by the time of occurrence modern civilization The “storehouses” of our planet should already be pretty empty. Geologists encountered the opposite fact and showed that before the start of mass mining in the 18th-19th centuries, reserves of ores, coal, gas, and oil were practically untouched. It is possible that this pre-civilization, if it existed, used other energy to satisfy its needs, about which we now have no idea. They usually say that we find no traces of a pre-civilization because it died. If so, why? The answer to this can be given by some mysterious facts of ancient history. There are large spaces on Earth with strange traces similar to traces of nuclear bombings. They did not receive an unambiguous historical explanation. These areas were discovered in Pakistan (Mohenjo-Daro), Egypt (Libyan Desert), Iraq (Euphrates River) and northern Syria (Aleppo, modern Aleppo), in Europe (Scotland). From the legends it follows that the ancient Hindus possessed a whole arsenal of destructive weapons superior to modern ones. They fought with weapons capable of melting stones, affecting the human genetic apparatus, and boiling river waters. The Hindus knew such small periods of time as micro-, nano- and picoseconds, that is, 10^-9, 10^-12 and 10^-15 seconds. Such units of time are only used to measure the rate of nuclear reactions. There, in India, a few years ago, a male skeleton was found, more than 3,000 years old. Its radioactivity was 50 times higher than background. The high technological culture of some archaeological finds is also amazing. So in Iraq and Egypt, during archaeological excavations, polished crystal lenses were found, which currently can only be made using cesium oxide, the oxide that is obtained electrochemically. As far as we know, the ancient people could not have known electricity. The laws of electrolysis (thanks to which cesium oxide is obtained) were discovered only by the English scientist Michael Faraday in the 19th century. Foggy Albion is also famous for the University of London Museum, which houses an ancient bone that is ten centimeters above the joint right hand professionally amputated using a smooth rectangular cut. Such an operation can only be carried out with high quality steel and appropriate medical knowledge. Our ancestors could not have had either one or the other (according to generally accepted historical theories... He presented a serious riddle to his contemporaries and to us English writer Jonathan Swift. As you know, Mars has two satellites - Phobos and Deimos (fear and horror). Long before the American astronomer Asaph HALL discovered these moons in 1877, the fact of their existence was known. Johannes KEPLER already suggested in 1610 that Mars had two satellites. But when the Capuchin monk Shirl, a few years later, claimed to have seen the moons of Mars, he clearly fell victim to deception, for with the optical instruments of that time, the tiny satellites of the planet of the god of war could not be seen. Captivating is the description made by Jonathan Swift in 1727 in the book “Travel to Laputa” (this is one of Gulliver’s travels): in the book he not only describes both Martian satellites, but even gives their sizes and trajectories around Mars. In the 3rd chapter of the book we read: “Laputian astronomers devote a significant part of their lives to observing celestial bodies, and for this they use glasses that are far superior to ours. This advantage enabled them to make their field of observation much larger than that of the astronomers in Europe; they have a catalog of 10,000 fixed stars, while our greatest catalogs contain only a third of that number. They discovered, among other things, two small stars, or satellites, orbiting Mars. Of these, the inner one is removed from the center of the planet by exactly three, and the outer one by five of its diameters. The first completes its revolution in ten hours, the second in 21.5 hours...” How could Swift describe the moons of Mars if they were discovered only 150 years later? At the time of Swift, there were only assumptions about the possible existence, but the assumptions were never enough for such precise indications... But there are also fakes like this. We could go on and on about the amazing facts of ancient history available to supporters of paleocontact. At the same time, it must be recognized that the theory and practice of the paleocontact problem are still far from truly scientific development. Currently, there are no clear methods for identifying historical artifacts and conducting their technical examination. The approach associated with the comparison “similar - dissimilar” is also far from objectivity. Therefore, arbitrary interpretation of any mysterious historical artifacts should not be taken at face value. Only an unbiased scientific analysis of the mysteries of history can bring the problem of paleocontact from a collection of curious stories to the level of a scientific discipline. But in any case, it’s interesting to look a little further beyond the horizon... If you’re too lazy to read, I can watch the movie: _______________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ 
From myself: Really, living in such a beautiful galaxy as Milky Way and looking at the sky on August evenings, have you ever thought that among the countless number of stars that exist somewhere out there, there is no other one as alive as ours? Would you like to know the truth? Meet our distant neighbors? _________________________________________________________________________ “To consider the Earth the only inhabited world in boundless space would be the same blatant absurdity as to say that only one ear of wheat could grow in a huge sown field” (Metrodorus, 150-70 BC). “This whole visible world is not at all unique in nature, and we must believe that in other areas of space there are other lands with other people and other animals” (Titus Lucretius Carus, 89-55 BC). The Christian Church fought fiercely against the ideas of a plurality of inhabited worlds. Let us remember: the great associate of science Giordano Bruno (1548-1600) cost his life his “heretical” idea that “... there are countless suns, countless earths that revolve around their suns just as our seven planets revolve around our Sun ... These worlds are inhabited by living beings.” Contemplating the Universe, Christiaan Huygens (1629-1695) exclaimed: “How wonderful and amazing is this majestic infinity of the Universe! How many suns, how many earths...” Another major scientist, Blaise Pascal (1623-1662), perceived the greatness of the cosmos very dramatically. “The eternal silence of these vast spaces frightens me!” - he exclaimed more than 300 years ago. Similar thoughts about the insignificance of man before the greatness of the cosmos were characteristic until the end of the 19th century. A man, not armed with either knowledge or technology, could not think differently, because his attitude towards the cosmos was passive, contemplative. The question of life in the Universe was also of interest to the founder of materialist dialectics, Friedrich Engels, who wrote that if nature ever kills its highest color - reason, then with the same iron necessity it will create it at another time and in another place.
Aliens are a source of despair. They should be called only when all rational explanations have run out.
Carl Sagan. A world full of demons: Science is like a candle in the dark
Any sufficiently developed extraterrestrial intelligence is indistinguishable from God.
Last law Shermer(107)
Alexander Borisovich Sokolov - “Are scientists hiding?” (“Alpina-non-fiction”, 2017).
Criticizing pseudoscientific ideas can be difficult for a reason that American psychologist Jonathan Smith summed up in two words: “patchwork” (108). The ideas and arguments of adherents of some pseudoscientific concept, unlike normal science, do not form a system. This is a chaotic collection of individual statements, sometimes loosely related to each other. To refute this, you yourself will have to piece together some kind of “theory” from scraps. And you will look in vain for hints of scientific publications. Authoritative sources here are books with exciting titles, popular blogs and films.
The theory of “paleocontact” is just such a case, although once upon a time even serious scientists were carried away by this hypothesis that excited the imagination (though, somehow, all of them were not historians or archaeologists). And the popularity of the idea was ensured in the second half of the 20th century by science fiction writers and corresponding cinema.
Let's remember Clarke-Kubrick's "A Space Odyssey", which opens with a scene of this very paleocontact. From the height of the 21st century, it is not difficult to find factual inconsistencies in the film. With the hands of aliens, the author tried to teach our ancestors - Pithecanthropus, amorphous and stupid - to make tools and hunt. Now we know that chimpanzees are capable of both the first and second. So the aliens would have to conduct master classes not only in front of the australopithecines, but also teach the wisdom of the entire humanoid brethren in the African jungle (and also the capuchins in South America, who masterfully handle stones).
However, supporters of the popular version of paleocontact consider the “start” of the Paleolithic to be an insufficiently large-scale affair for the aliens. The aliens had much more serious plans for our planet. What did they want? Save humanity from epidemics? Tell people the secret of eternal youth? No, better! Build up the entire planet with structures made of stone blocks.
In our country, the “paleocontactors” movement has a long history. Back in 1987, the magazine “Technology for Youth” published an article “The Ballad of Space Aliens” (109), the authors of which, Lev Fomin and Alexey Arefiev, analyzed (and tore to smithereens) the main arguments in favor of paleocontact. And in 1988, Soviet scientists - philologist Alexander Kondratov and archaeologist Konstantin Shilik - wrote the book “How Myths of the 20th Century are Born” (110), an entire section of which was dedicated to “ancient astronauts.” Analyzing the reasons for the popularity of the idea of paleocontact, the authors considered it as a kind of modern religion.
Alas, after almost 30 years, the number of supporters of this pseudoscientific concept has only increased.
Perhaps the most famous preacher of “paleocontact” in the world is the Swiss writer and film director Erich von Däniken. This extremely active character has produced more than 30 books, which have sold tens of millions of copies in total. Cheerful and energetic, Erich does not write scientific tedium; his works are distinguished by a different style - rollicking, with jokes and constant attacks on “academic science”. Däniken's spontaneity and directness are captivating. “It’s difficult to call me a scientist, because I have never participated in scientific work“,” the “researcher of ancient civilizations” innocently admits in an interview with the German magazine Focus (111). And it is true! And in one of the books, Däniken tells how he tried to find out from a friend “who this Omar Khayyam is,” whose name he had just read on the label of a wine bottle (112).
“Really, sometimes you are amazed at what kind of pseudo-arguments the authors of school and university textbooks do not try to operate in order to substantiate their teachings that cause yawning” (113) - another characteristic statement of Däniken.
Apparently, it was yawning that pushed the cheerful Swiss away from pursuing science. But he perfectly mastered the formula “aliensdidit” (“the aliens did it”). How to use it? You need to find something incomprehensible in the past (for von Däniken with his horizons this is a piece of cake), and then - aliensdidit! "Who? Who built these structures / carved these magnificent statues into the rock / stuffed these mummies into tombs / comprehended the movement of the planets / invented the calendar? What do you think, huh? – the author winks at us. -What are these mysterious creatures? Does anyone seriously believe that people were capable of this? Where should they go, poor people! What if we assume for a moment that they were aliens?” With this, the theorem can be considered proven.
The second iconic figure on the horizon of paleocontact is the American writer Zecharia Sitchin, who gave the world the planet Nibiru and the almighty Anunnaki. Once every 3600 years, a mysterious planet approached the Earth. And it was precisely at these moments in history that something happened to humanity! People invented agriculture, ceramics, and writing. Is it really just a coincidence? Hardly! It's all because of the Anunnaki - the gods, the creators of the Sumerian civilization. Unlike the humorist Däniken, Sitchin is extremely serious and even boring. The writer scheduled his next visit to Nibiru for 2012. But either “their gasoline has run out, or maybe the engine has stalled,” as Vysotsky sang. The Nibiruans did not arrive.
Let us consider the main arguments of the supporters of paleocontact.
1. Firstly, the unevenness of technical and cultural progress. "Leaps" in the development of mankind - for example, the sudden appearance of art, the rapid spread of agriculture - are declared the result of "humanitarian aid" from outside.
How could a person, ask paleocontacters, who had previously eked out an almost animal existence for millions of years, “wandered through the forests in search of berries” and used nothing but roughly hewn stones, at one moment become a creator of magnificent works of art, a builder of cities, an astrologer, a healer? , conqueror of the world?
Alas, when talking about sudden ancient innovations, paleocontacters quickly end up in a puddle. Because, firstly, they clearly draw information only from popular literature. Secondly, they are confused about the chronology of events (which they do not know well).
Thus, Erich von Däniken in his book “The Stone Age Was Different” writes about the achievements of Neanderthal man:
“In addition to the enormous volume of the brain, which in itself speaks volumes, the Neanderthal erected structures that were amazing for his time. He managed to create such perfect masterpieces that his Cro-Magnon descendants, who lived 35,000 years after him, never created anything worthy of standing on a par with them” (114).
Immediately after such an intriguing passage, Däniken begins to talk about flint mines in the town of Rijkholt. Everything is fine, only the age of this monument is 5000 years, Neanderthals have been extinct for 30,000 years.
“Despite the fact that more than 2 million years passed between the appearance of Australopithecus and Neanderthal, both of them used similar tools - sharpened stones - and their appearance (as we imagine them) was not much different from each other - and this is Zecharia Sitchin . “Then, unexpectedly and inexplicably, as if completely out of nowhere, about 35,000 years ago a new race of people appeared on Earth - Homo sapiens (“reasonable man”), which swept away the Neanderthal from the face of our planet” (115). Compare the description of Australopithecus and Neanderthal from at least Wikipedia and count for yourself how many mistakes Sitchin made in this short text.
But even if we close our eyes to factual errors, the question remains: should progress proceed evenly? We ourselves live in an era of unprecedented technological leap. However, such examples do not affect supporters of paleocontact.
2. “Inappropriate artifacts” - that is, some ancient objects (products, sculptures, structures), whose appearance is impossible in “that era”, with “that development of technology.” It is assumed that the paleocontactor knows “that era” well.
Among the out-of-place artifacts are giant images in the Nazca desert, fakes glorified by Hollywood - “Aztec crystal skulls”, and periodically pop-up sensational smaller finds, like a Romanian “250,000-year-old UFO part” that turned out to be an excavator bucket tooth (116).
“Look at these grandiose monuments! - exclaims the paleocontact proponent. – On their size, processing accuracy. Estimate how far they were dragged. Is it possible for pitiful people of the Stone Age, these half-animals in animal skins, who have just climbed down from the trees, to do this? How many thousands of people had to sacrifice their lives to erect meaningless monuments, if we accept the traditional version? Did they have nothing else to do? And did so many people live in that era?”
Confidently dismissing the terrestrial origin of megalithic buildings, the paleocontacter believes that cutting out limestone blocks in quarries is a favorite pastime for aliens.
3. Ancient myths, legends, epics, religious texts. In them, the authors of theories about aliens look for and find references to spaceships, robots, alien monsters, and “incredibly accurate” descriptions of the solar system.
If there was a desire, there would be an alien in the text. Especially if the document is written in a dead language, using a writing system foreign to us. Recognized masters of linguistics have been arguing over its interpretations for years. Ancient tales are poetic, filled with metaphors, allegories, and miracles. What a field for interpretation!
In a decent myth, the gods live in the heavens and periodically descend to Earth. How much imagination is needed to replace the sky with space, and the gods with omnipotent humanoids? The gods demonstrate their anger - they incinerate people and entire cities. Isn't this a direct indication of the use of nuclear weapons? And when the deity heals the crippled or resurrects the dead, obviously we are talking about the miracles of Nibiruan medicine. This is how aliens appear in the Bible and the Mahabharata, Chinese chronicles, Icelandic sagas, and ancient Egyptian and Sumerian mythology.
An unsurpassed master of finding aliens in ancient texts, the real king of interpretations is Zecharia Sitchin. Here is an example of his approach that I suggest you put into practice. The word shem, found in the Bible, is usually translated from Hebrew as “name.” However, the same term, Sitchin claims, was used in Scripture to describe a memorial stele with an oval top. And the word itself comes from the root “shama,” meaning “that which is above.” What is this if not a space rocket? If now the word “shem” in the Bible is translated every time as “heavenly ship,” then the Holy Scriptures will take on a completely different meaning (117). Try it and see - Sitchin is damn right!
What is the biblical account of the creation of the world actually about? “And God said, Let the earth produce green grass, grass yielding seed, and a fruitful tree, bearing fruit according to its kind, in which is its seed on the earth. And so it became.”
Sitchin believes this passage accurate description sequences of plant domestication (118). After all, according to historians, “this process began with wild grasses, followed by wild cereals, and then fruit and berry species of trees and shrubs,” writes Sitchin.
The Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh certainly describes “air-space travel,” for which the hero requires a shem (you guessed it, a space rocket).
Even in the Sumerian writing icons, Sitchin saw the image of a spaceship with a descent module - exactly like Apollo 11 with the lunar module! Look at the picture: a real three-stage rocket with parts tightly fitted to each other (119).
In fact, what else could the Anunnaki fly from Nibiru on thousands of years ago, if not on three-stage Apollos.
We come to the next point.
4. Ancient images. Now let's play the exciting game “find the alien in the picture.”
What are the benefits of ancient drawings and sculptures? Because they are often schematic and conventional - for example, they violate or even completely ignore the laws of perspective. Thus, in the drawings of the ancient Egyptians, the size of the human figure does not mean the distance to the person, but his status. Ancient works of art may use a language of symbols that are unfamiliar to us. Moreover, they are far from perfectly preserved.
As with ancient texts, interpreters have some room to expand. With some skill, cosmonauts and interplanetary ships are found not only in rock paintings and in the works of ancient sculptors, but even in Orthodox icons.
Let’s say this, according to Zecharia Sitchin, is a head in a helmet with straps and goggles (Israel, 9th millennium BC) (see figure below, left) (120).
But this 4,000-year-old stone goddess is dressed in a pilot’s or astronaut’s costume with “a special helmet, on both sides of which there are objects tightly covering the ears, reminiscent of a pilot’s headphones…” (121) (see figure above, right).
True, the pilot’s bare feet stick out from under his dress, but these are such trifles.
And here is irrefutable proof that the Sumerians used radioactive substances in medicine: “...on a cylinder seal dating from the earliest period of the Sumerian civilization... without a doubt, a man is depicted lying on a special bed; his face is protected by a mask, and he is exposed to some kind of radiation” (122) (see figure below).
Von Däniken's fantasy is no poorer. Any creature depicted in a headdress or with something around its head seems to the tireless Swiss to be an astronaut in a helmet. Horned helmet? Definitely radio antennas. Anything flying - be it the “wheels with eyes” from the book of the prophet Ezekiel or the chariot of Hanuman from the Ramayana - is nothing more than a flying saucer.
Proponents of paleocontact seriously believe that such games prove something. And they pile interpretations upon interpretations without any caution, forgetting about Occam’s blade. But do you remember? There is no need to produce entities beyond what is necessary. Von Däniken and Co. repeatedly snatch out the “ancient aliens” hypothesis, which requires a lot of arbitrary assumptions, without even bothering to consider simpler, often trivial explanations.
For example, the "heavenly chariot" from the myth might be:
Allegory, metaphor;
An impression from a certain atmospheric phenomenon (flight of a comet);
Description of hallucinations;
But I really want it to be a spaceship!
Something covering the head of the man in the picture could be a schematically depicted headdress, a ritual mask of a shaman, an unusual hairstyle, or an ornament “just for beauty.”
But I really want it to be an astronaut’s helmet!
Let me formulate a few questions that I would ask any adherent of paleocontact:
Why did the aliens, who possessed super-technologies, waste time on structures made of stone blocks? Stone processing is great, but isn't it a little weak for aliens who have traveled interstellar distances? By the way, in Russia, already at the end of the 19th century, they stopped building fortifications made of stone, since they no longer served as reliable protection against the actively improving artillery (123).
Continuing from the previous one: why would aliens (or people who mastered alien technology) build “ancient observatories” from rough-hewn boulders that pointed at celestial bodies at certain points in time? Is Stonehenge the limit of Nibiruan technology? Did our celestial guests not have normal astronomical instruments?
Why should "ancient landing sites" (in the Nazca Desert) look like giant images of earthly animals - monkeys, spiders, birds or lizards? Otherwise, the aliens won’t figure out where to land the spaceship? Why does a supercivilization need any landing signs at all? Even our landing modules on the Moon and Mars managed without them. And what supercivilization marks out the future spaceport by hammering in wooden stakes (their remains were found at the corner points of the Nazca images)? (124)
Why should aliens from distant stars who visited our planet thousands of years ago look like earthly cosmonauts of the 20th century, that is, like little men in a spacesuit, wearing a helmet with antennas? This is how a child who has seen enough cartoons draws aliens, but we seem to be adults.
How far can you go in interpreting legends and myths? Is it possible that the stupa with Baba Yaga is from the Russians? folk tales a spacecraft, Kolobok - a spheroidal cybernetic organism, Kashchei the Immortal - a robot terminator, Pike from the Ice-hole - a representative of the underwater civilization of ichthyoids?
Where does it end common sense when interpreting images? For example, in the drawing of my daughter Alena (see picture below) there is a space rocket and a humanoid with tentacles? Or is it a house with a roof and a girl?
What else should I add? The paleocontacter is very proud that his concept explains a wide range of questions that “no other theory” can answer. “And only the hypothesis about the intervention of representatives of alien intelligence provides an answer to all questions at once and has universal applicability, explaining everything - from the origin of life on Earth and intelligence to the causes of biblical miracles” (125), Däniken proudly writes. In fact, universality, that is, the absence of limits of applicability, - characteristic pseudoscientific fantasy. What we have here is the classic “universal theory of everything that explains everything.” In this sense, the logic of paleocontacters is no different from the approach of a religious fanatic, who sees the “hand of the creator” everywhere. Instead of trying to figure it out, something incomprehensible (requiring explanation) is replaced by something else, no less incomprehensible, but no longer requiring any explanation. This is the will of God, amen... That is, Aliensdidit! It seems that the theory of paleocontact is an excellent replacement for religion for the modern layman, who for some reason is not satisfied with the classical Almighty. Tired of the traditional Lord? Let's replace it with all-powerful aliens (literally: among the orthodox “paleocontacteurs”, both Jesus and Buddha are messengers of other worlds). The covenants were given to us from above, only not by the Creator, but by green men from a flying saucer. We are not alone - we are constantly being watched. And someday they will fly back to “fix everything.”
The secret behind the popularity of the idea of paleocontact is simple: aliens are exciting! A school history textbook is boring. A teenager who grew up watching science fiction films can only believe in the reality of what is happening on the screen. How can you not believe it when the TV presenter’s voice sounds so confident, and “researchers of ancient civilizations” sparkle with authority. As one creative person put it, “I like to believe in aliens!” I like to believe. An ideal formulation of a view of the world that is directly opposite to the scientific one.
Can paleocontacter theories be called science? For comparison, open any article in a decent scientific journal devoted to proving some prosaic archaeological hypothesis. Whether we are talking about the methods of hunting of ancient people, or about the presence of their homes, or about the use of fire, or about helping each other with injuries, or about their diet, or, for example, about the causes of osteoarthritis in ancient artisans - you will see how Researchers carefully justify each of their thesis, how careful they are in their formulations. Compare with the level of argumentation of supporters of paleocontact. Feel the difference between science and “nonsense” masquerading as science.
Pyramids, medieval astronaut and laziness. An astronaut on a bas-relief of a cathedral in Spain and other artifacts - scientific journalist Alexander Sokolov examines
Alexander Sokolov. Science vs Ancient Astronauts
Who built the pyramids - Atlanteans or Martians? Did the guests from Nibiru reveal the secret technologies of the gods to the Sumerians? Where are the mummies of ancient aliens kept? Is it true that man is a product of alien genetic engineering? Why don't historians believe in paleocontact?
Paleocontact. Ancient aliens. Myths about human evolution.
Huge drawings on the Nazca plateau in Peru, megaliths around the world and mysterious hints in ancient texts. Doesn't all this prove that powerful aliens visited the Earth in ancient times? Or maybe man himself is the result of genetic experiments by aliens? What evidence do adherents of paleocontact use, and is it worth taking this version of human origins seriously?
Humanity or UFO? Evgeny Girya.
In the lecture you will learn about archeology as a science that deals with the reconstruction and evidence-based interpretation of human behavior in the distant past.
Legendary archaeologist, historian and very charismatic popularizer of archeology Evgeniy Girya. There are legends about Evgeniy: either he and his colleagues cut up an elephant with stone choppers in the Leningrad Zoo, or straightened the tusks of mammoths using Paleolithic technology... Is this true?
Evgeniy talks about how ancient man left behind many objects of material culture: tools, fireplaces, labyrinths, rock paintings... Traces of conscious activity can be found in the most unexpected places. Thus, cuts and notches were found on a camel bone 2.1 million years old. It looks like some ancient monkey has already experimented with tools! How to distinguish natural damage from artificial traces of processing made by an intelligent or almost intelligent creature? The science of traceology studies traces of the activities of ancient people. It is used in both forensic science and archaeology.
Exposing the goat-horned aliens (Alien... goats)
Internal paths to the Universe. Traveling to other worlds with the help of psychedelic drugs and perfumes. Strassman Rick
THEORIES OF PALEOCONTACT
THEORIES OF PALEOCONTACT
Proponents of these ideas believe that highly advanced aliens played an important role in human history. The author of this idea is Matest Agrest, an ethnologist and mathematician of Russian origin, who first put forward the theory that intelligent beings from outer space visited the Earth and that some monuments of ancient cultures appeared on our planet as a result of contact with a race of aliens. In February 1960, the Russian Literary Gazette published an article by Agreste, in which he suggested that aliens visited the Earth in prehistoric times. Very soon his concept was discussed in all the world's media, and was later popularized by Erich von Däniken. Agrest had experience studying ancient manuscripts and noted that the Hebrew word????? (Nephilim) is a very important concept, but it cannot be translated into English.
In several translations the word ????? (Nephilim) stands for "giants" or "titans". Agreste's goal was to show that these translations of the word Nephilim in Genesis (6:4) are incorrect. From his point of view, the exact meaning of the word Nephilim- “creatures that have fallen” (from the sky). On this basis, Agrest concluded that this verse reports that during the time of Enoch, alien humanoid beings descended to Earth. Thus, Genesis (6:4) becomes the written record of paleocontact. Having discovered one of Ramban's commentaries on Genesis 6, Agreste introduced a misinterpretation that has become widespread in science fiction literature and the Internet: that "giants" (Nephilim) were fallen angels.
Also in the Book of Genesis, Agreste discovered a sentence that he interpreted as an event opposite in meaning to the above: the ascent of man from Earth to heaven. This verse in Genesis (5:24) speaks of Enoch: “And Enoch walked with God; and he was no more, because God took him.” The Bible informs us in detail about the age at which all the forefathers died, but there is not a single record of the death of Enoch. According to Jewish legend, he was the creator not only of writing, but of mathematics and astronomy. In the Koran (Sura 19:56) Enoch is called Idris - the righteous one.
The Kabbalistic treatise Zohar says that in ancient times the Book of Enoch existed, and the Apostle Jude mentioned it as apocryphal. Like many other apocrypha, the Book of Enoch was lost. It was found only in 1773 by Scottish explorer James Bruce. The structure of this book is similar to that of the Bible. The first seven chapters of the Book of Enoch are very similar to those in the Bible - and Agreste uses verses 1–7 of chapter 6 as a primary source for constructing his theory of paleocontact:
1. And when the sons of men were multiplied, it came to pass that in those days (the days of Jared, the father of Enoch)...
2. And the angels, the sons of heaven, saw them...
5. And all of them were two hundred.
6. And they went down to Ardis, the top of Mount Hermon...
Here Agreste establishes a connection between the place of descent - Mount Hermon and the time of descent - the time of Jared. In addition, the very name Jared in Hebrew means “one who descended.” This descent of anthropomorphic creatures from the sky supposedly made a huge impression on the inhabitants of the Earth. In biblical times, children born during important events, were named after such events. Therefore, Enoch's father received the name Jared. From this, Agrest argues that it is likely that the divine beings who fell from the sky were those who descended from Mount Hermon during the time of Jared and are mentioned in Genesis 6.
Another argument in favor of the paleocontact theory is the assumption that an important part of human knowledge and religious beliefs was received in ancient times from space invaders. This possibility has been considered by some scientists, including Carl Sagan and Russian astronomer Joseph Shklovsky. Although Sagan, Shklovsky and other highly respected scientists took the possibility of aliens visiting Earth seriously, they were generally very cautious in their assumptions. Although Sagan is known to be skeptical of the existence of UFOs, in a book co-written with Shklovsky, he argues that highly technologically advanced extraterrestrial civilizations were widespread throughout the universe. He also believes that it is likely that representatives of these civilizations visited the Earth several times in the past.
Popular authors such as Erich von Daniken and Zecharia Sitchin are less critical in their approaches and are sincere defenders of the ancient astronaut hypothesis. In fact, their theory is an extended and perhaps less credible elaboration of the paleocontact theory. According to this hypothesis, human beings are the descendants or creations of aliens who landed on Earth thousands of years ago.
Rice. 9.1. Manifestations of a nonlocal universe.
Our goal here is to discover meaningful and relevant information in the theories of Daniken and Sitchin, which sometimes seem surprising, if not completely ridiculous, and to evaluate all the arguments for and against the hypothesis of ancient astronauts. In our argument, we will draw on the work of Rick Strassman and Michael Heizer, an expert on ancient religions, which expands our understanding of the UFO phenomenon (see Figure 9.1).
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Modern Egyptians, Mexicans, Iraqis and other peoples who live among the ruins of ancient civilizations are unlikely to have anything to do with them, no matter how skillfully they convince themselves of this.
Did paleocontact take place?
Modern science recognizes that the ancient civilizations of Egypt, Sumer, and Maya were very highly developed and possessed very advanced technologies. But not a single scientist could really explain where these civilizations got their knowledge and technology from. Until now, they have not been able to explain how and with the help of what technologies the ancient structures that belonged to these civilizations were built. How did people who, according to modern historians, used primitive tools, were able to carve temples directly into the rock using stone tools or build pyramids of unimaginable sizes with each block weighing tens of tons?
Pyramid complex in Giza (Egypt) built in the XXVI-XXIII centuries BC. e.
Another question that modern science cannot answer is where did these civilizations come from, where did they already have such technologies in their arsenal during their formation, and where did they suddenly disappear, leaving only legends, myths and ancient structures as references to themselves?
Modern Egyptians, Mexicans, Iraqis and other peoples who live among the ruins of ancient civilizations hardly have anything to do with them, no matter how skillfully they convince themselves of this... It is safe to say that these civilizations disappeared long ago before the arrival of these people, that they only used these ancient places for their needs and never had anything to do with their construction.
Are Aliens Gods?
One of the possible versions of these civilizations acquiring such high technology and powerful knowledge is the theory of paleocontact - an assumption about the meeting of ancient people with representatives of other planets. More and more researchers are beginning to lean toward this version, since almost all ancient legends contain references to meeting aliens (Gods) and transferring to people some knowledge or social and moral laws. Almost all of these legends are identical in content; they only change the characters and their names.
Depiction of the Annuak alien gods
Among all the legends, one can highlight the Sumerian tales about the Anunnaki Gods, who settled on our planet in the amount of 600 people. The very word “Anunnaki” is literally translated as “50 of those who came down from heaven.”
In Sumerian myths there is also a mention of a certain creature, half-man, half-fish Oanna, who came out to people from the sea and traveled through cities and villages, passing on knowledge about construction, medicine, laws, crafts and agriculture. The same descriptions are found among the ancient Egyptians, the Indians of Peru, and even in the early Christian “Book of Enoch.”
UFOs in paintings and rock paintings
Rock paintings in India. Age - 10,000 years
Not only ancient tales and legends point to meetings with the Gods from the sky, but also ancient objects visual arts. There are many paintings, figurines, drawings and rock art that depict welcoming guests from heaven.
These evidences are difficult to distort because they specifically show what the artist who painted them saw. They clearly depict flying saucers, the “Gods” themselves and their technologies.
An excellent selection of such images can be viewed in the famous documentary film Erica von Däniken - "Chariots of the Gods." Scientists believe that these images are thousands of years old.
It is noteworthy that information about UFOs is found not only in traditions and legends, but also in the works of ancient historians and scientists. For example, the ancient Roman historian Plutarch, the Byzantine historian Deacon, and the Italian sculptor Cellini wrote about UFOs.
All eyewitness accounts are very similar to modern ones - objects that move across the sky at unimaginable speeds, freeze, change their flight path and emit a glow.
Alien skulls in archaeological finds
Modern archeology also poses serious questions to official history. Findings by archaeologists today increasingly confirm the version of contacts between aliens and people. The latest artifacts that were excavated under the soil prove that other creatures, very similar in structure to humans, lived on the planet along with people.
Find by R. Riquelme
In 2011, in Peru, archaeologist R. Riquelme managed to excavate graves with skeletons that were strikingly different from ordinary human skeletons. They had a completely different skull shape, and their sizes were significantly different from human ones. The height of these creatures was no more than 50 cm, and the size of their heads was proportionally much larger than that of an ordinary person.
Skull found by R. Riquelme in Peru
The skull of this creature surprised many scientists, since its eye sockets were huge, the shape itself resembled a triangle, and the skull itself was disproportionately elongated and was not at all similar to the skull of an ordinary person. Also, a fontanelle was found on the surface of the skull. At first, scientists thought that the skull belonged to a child, but immediately abandoned this version - the teeth in the skull were molars. The find was sent for DNA testing, but no one was informed about the results; soon the find was “forgotten” and was never remembered or examined again.
In the 90s, the entire scientific world was puzzled by a new discovery - skulls were found in Peru that were also elongated, and the skeletons themselves made it possible to assume that the height of these “people” was about 3 meters. An interesting fact is that the pharaohs and their wives in ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs are depicted with long headdresses. Since the discovery of these skeletons, many scientists seriously believe that these are not headdresses at all, and that the people depicted on the hieroglyphs actually had such a skull structure.
It is also noteworthy that the height of these people is 2 or 3 times higher than that of all other people who are depicted in the same frescoes.
The essence of the hypothesis of paleocontact with extraterrestrial civilizations is that the origin of modern man is the result of a visit by “good” aliens who flew to Earth long ago and taught ancient people to sow wheat, sculpt pots, build houses, etc. Man himself, according to the theory of paleocontact, is a product of genetic experiments by aliens who changed the course of evolution of the ancient monkey.
The idea is extremely popular and is nurtured by the media and television along with GMOs. So where does this tempting hypothesis come from?
History of the paleocontact theory and its supporters
The history of the idea of paleocontact begins in the writings of the mystics of the 19th century (Mrs. Blavatsky). In the 20th century, many Soviet figures like science fiction writer Alexander Kazantsev were also keen on this hypothesis.
Throughout the world, the theory of ancient astronauts owes its popularity primarily to the Swiss writer Erich von Däniken. He used to be the owner of a chain of hotels, but thanks to the success of his first book, Chariot of the Gods, which became a bestseller, he decided to pursue a writing career and eventually wrote more than 30 works.
“Chariot of the Gods” later received a film adaptation called “Memories of the Future.” In 1972, queues lined up for the premiere of the film in the Soviet Union; tickets in cinemas were sold out in a matter of hours. Soviet citizens enjoyed watching science fiction in the absence of the REN TV channel.
Erich von Däniken himself is extremely cheerful open man. For example, in an interview he does not hesitate to admit that he is not a scientist or researcher. But his books always have bright covers and a lot of humor:
“It’s amazing how many pseudo-arguments the authors of school and university textbooks try to use to justify their yawn-inducing teachings.”
That is, Daniken doesn’t like them because they are boring. But the writer found a way to bring a life-giving stream into the scientific swamp: he finds in ancient history some obscure fact, and then casts the spell “Aliens did it!” Done, the theorem is proven.
The second star in the sky of paleocosmonautics is Zecharia Sitchin. The American science fiction writer gave us Nibiru - a mysterious one that is invisible to any telescope. According to him, once every 3600 years Nibiru flies towards the Earth, and it is at this time that technological breakthroughs of earthly civilization occur. For example, according to Sitchin, the invention of ceramics and agriculture was prompted by the good Anunaki.
Facts of paleocontact with extraterrestrial civilizations
Firstly, supporters of paleocosmonautics cite the fact of uneven scientific, technical and cultural progress as irrefutable evidence:
“How did an ancient man who was engaged in hunting and gathering, in the blink of an eye, become an outstanding navigator, architect, and astronomer? This is all for a reason!”
Here the authors, as a rule, begin to get confused in historical details, since they have little understanding of this topic. For example, Däniken is trying to talk about the incredible achievements of the Neanderthals, while mentioning the monuments of the Neolithic times, when the Neanderthals themselves had not been on the planet for several thousand years.
In general, progress does not have to be uniform. Right now, before our eyes, we are witnessing a powerful technological breakthrough, 3D printers are being invented, a manned flight to Mars is being prepared, and expeditions to Jupiter’s moon Europa are being prepared in search of real extraterrestrial life. But supporters of the theory of ancient cosmonauts are not convinced by such analogies.
Secondly, the so-called “irrelevant artifacts” are a product, structure or design that could not have appeared at that time with the level of technology. A classic example: the ancient Egyptians, who were unable to drill into granite using copper tools. Or huge images of animals in the Nazca desert. Or megalithic buildings with their “huge” sizes and “accuracy” of edges.
Thirdly, analysis of ancient texts: epics, tales, religious scriptures and legends. In these works, lovers of paleocosmonautics see stories about space flights, ultra-precise descriptions of the solar system, etc.
In almost any epic, the deity lives in heaven, periodically descending to Earth. What is this? Of course, this is a spaceship landing! The deity is angry, incinerating entire cities - evidence of an ancient nuclear war. The gods are healing someone - a demonstration of the capabilities of alien medicine.
Thus, aliens appear in the Bible, Sumerian myths, Scandinavian tales and Chinese chronicles. The master of reading between the lines is Zecharia Sitchin. Virtuoso and king of interpretations.
For example, Sitchin takes the Bible and says: “Look, this word in the Bible is usually translated as “name.” I think it can be translated as “sky ship.” Let's replace the meaning of the word everywhere in the text, and look what interesting meaning it turns out!".
Another example: the Sumerian myth about the creation of man from clay and the blood of a deity. "Not so simple!" - Sitchin tells us. He suggests replacing the word “clay” with “egg.” An egg is almost an ovum. It turns out that aliens took the egg of an ancient monkey and fertilized it with the sperm of God.
Fourthly, ancient images. If you look at them for a long time, you can see incredible things. For example, what is shown in the figure above? An ancient X-ray, of course. The Sumerians had tomographs. Proven.
Is this sculpture a girl with a jug? No, this is an astronaut with a helmet and headphones. True, Sitchin does not mention that the woman’s bare feet are visible from under her dress. But these are minor things.
What do these signs in Sumerian writing mean? Yes, this is Apollo 11 - a three-stage spacecraft with a descent module.
The authors of books about paleocontact forget about the principle of Occam’s razor: you should not create entities unnecessarily. The ancient alien hypothesis requires a huge number of arbitrary assumptions. At the same time, much simpler, sometimes banal explanations are ignored.
For example, “heavenly chariot” can be a metaphor, a description of hallucinations, an atmospheric phenomenon, the passage of a comet, and, finally, an invention of the author.
Megaliths and the incredible technologies of the ancients
Proponents of the hypothesis of paleocontact with extraterrestrial civilizations have little knowledge of history and paleontology. It has long been experimentally proven that if you take a copper tube, an abrasive (quartz sand) and make a hand spinner, then granite can be drilled without haste. Such experiments were carried out even by amateurs at home; there are countless detailed reports on the Internet.
The builders of the 10,000 km long Great Wall of China did without humanoids. The aliens did not help during the cutting down of a huge 70-meter Buddha statue in the rock in China (8th century), or the construction of St. Stephen's Church in Vienna, more than 130 meters high (15th century).
Why go far for examples, the thunder-stone on which the Bronze Horseman stands in St. Petersburg. It weighs 1500 tons, and the workpiece weighed 2000 tons. However, it was dragged from the other side of the Gulf of Finland and installed in the right place.
Fans of the theory of ancient astronauts are proud that their hypothesis can explain many complex issues in history, starting with and ending with miracles from the Old Testament.
In fact, super-universality and the absence of limits of applicability are a characteristic feature of numerous all-scientific fantasies. Adherents of paleocosmonautics behave in the same way as religious sectarians, who imagine the hand of the Creator everywhere.
In fact, it is a new religion of the 21st century. Traditional religions are no longer in fashion, Darwin and the theory of abiogenesis are boring, and aliens are just that, in the spirit of modern science fiction films and TV series.
Instead, let's remember the words of Carl Sagan, producer: "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence." If you love science, read WikiScience!
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