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Carter stopped digging a week earlier he would never have discovered the wonderful tomb of Tutankhamen, much of our knowledge of Ancient Egypt would never have been learned.
Historians hesitate at Homer then come to a stop; paleontologists finger the skull of Prometheus ('Alas, poor Yorick I knew him well, Horatio!') and conclude he could not have the brains to rub two sticks together to make a fire, anthropologists laugh that in those prehistoric days Zeus would be swinging in the tree-tops like Tarzan of the Apes. Classical scholars remain somewhat cautious awaiting new texts, intriguing descriptions are found in Crete in Linear ‘A' but no one can read them.
Most of our Makers of modern thought regard the Greek Myths as irrelevant, irrational intrusions like the Sphinx, alien to our scientific world. By a startling paradox, it is Science which now supports these old legends. The latest discoveries in astronomy and biology agree there must be millions of inhabited worlds in our own galaxy. The illustrious Joseph Shklovsky of the Moscow Observatory suggests that Supreme Intelligences can modify the stars. M. Agrest, the Armenian Physicist, claims that Spaceships once landed in the Libyan Desert . The world-wide sightings of UFOs make the Greek Myths shine more wondrous than ever with glorious meaning.
Evaluation of myth becomes a problem in semantics of prime importance to the proof of Spacemen visiting Earth in ages past. People promptly construe the word 'Myth' as meaning a philosophical allegory, a sentimental fable, romance or melodrama, elevating or entertaining, but pure fiction describing incidents which never happened, therefore quite irrelevant indeed irrational to any serious, scientific study such as Extraterrestrials in Antiquity. To the Greeks themselves 'Mythos’ originally denoted a tradition of actual events in the far past, so tremendous that the facts, garbled perhaps during transmission were handed down orally before the use of writing from generation to generation; centuries later the classical Poets elaborated 'Pseudo-Myths' from local legends alleging the love-life of Gods and mortals.
Pythagoras and Initiates of the Eleusinian Mysteries distrusted the written text and sternly refused to put their teachings in writing; Socrates, whose logic still influences the West, never left a single word. The most ancient Myths were accepted by the Greeks as Gospel truth and became the basis of their religion. Thucydides, whom Macaulay regarded as 'the greatest historian who ever lived', still honoured by scholars for his judgment and insight, clearly accepted the old traditions as historical material. Introducing his own great history, Thucydidcs wrote, 'Minos is the earliest ruler we know, who possessed a fleet and controlled most of what are now Greek waters.'
Thucydidcs was quoting a myth, which he and his fellow-Greeks accepted as true; our sceptical modern minds scoffed at this claim unsupported by corroborative texts and accused him of swallowing the legend of Theseus and the Minotaur. Belief in the legend inspired Sir Arthur Evans to unearth the wonderful civilisation of Minoan Crete. Latest revelations of the Bronze Age confirm the basic truth of many of the old legends from Antiquity.
We stress yet again that the fundamental impediment bcclouding dispassionate consideration of Spacemen in ancient times is our prejudiced thought-pattern. Few people know the precise meaning of the words they use or the exact connotation of words used by someone else. Failure of communication confuses Society today; world events prove we hardly understand each other. How can we understand the minds of Greeks millennia a go? Instead of dismissing all the Greek Myths as nonsense, thereby learning nothing, we should recognise our limitations and in humility try to elucidate what those people in ages past were trying to tell us.
Chapter Three The Golden Age
Since the Greek word 'Ouranos'
Historians hesitate at Homer then come to a stop; paleontologists finger the skull of Prometheus ('Alas, poor Yorick I knew him well, Horatio!') and conclude he could not have the brains to rub two sticks together to make a fire, anthropologists laugh that in those prehistoric days Zeus would be swinging in the tree-tops like Tarzan of the Apes. Classical scholars remain somewhat cautious awaiting new texts, intriguing descriptions are found in Crete in Linear ‘A' but no one can read them.
Most of our Makers of modern thought regard the Greek Myths as irrelevant, irrational intrusions like the Sphinx, alien to our scientific world. By a startling paradox, it is Science which now supports these old legends. The latest discoveries in astronomy and biology agree there must be millions of inhabited worlds in our own galaxy. The illustrious Joseph Shklovsky of the Moscow Observatory suggests that Supreme Intelligences can modify the stars. M. Agrest, the Armenian Physicist, claims that Spaceships once landed in the Libyan Desert . The world-wide sightings of UFOs make the Greek Myths shine more wondrous than ever with glorious meaning.
Evaluation of myth becomes a problem in semantics of prime importance to the proof of Spacemen visiting Earth in ages past. People promptly construe the word 'Myth' as meaning a philosophical allegory, a sentimental fable, romance or melodrama, elevating or entertaining, but pure fiction describing incidents which never happened, therefore quite irrelevant indeed irrational to any serious, scientific study such as Extraterrestrials in Antiquity. To the Greeks themselves 'Mythos’ originally denoted a tradition of actual events in the far past, so tremendous that the facts, garbled perhaps during transmission were handed down orally before the use of writing from generation to generation; centuries later the classical Poets elaborated 'Pseudo-Myths' from local legends alleging the love-life of Gods and mortals.
Pythagoras and Initiates of the Eleusinian Mysteries distrusted the written text and sternly refused to put their teachings in writing; Socrates, whose logic still influences the West, never left a single word. The most ancient Myths were accepted by the Greeks as Gospel truth and became the basis of their religion. Thucydides, whom Macaulay regarded as 'the greatest historian who ever lived', still honoured by scholars for his judgment and insight, clearly accepted the old traditions as historical material. Introducing his own great history, Thucydidcs wrote, 'Minos is the earliest ruler we know, who possessed a fleet and controlled most of what are now Greek waters.'
Thucydidcs was quoting a myth, which he and his fellow-Greeks accepted as true; our sceptical modern minds scoffed at this claim unsupported by corroborative texts and accused him of swallowing the legend of Theseus and the Minotaur. Belief in the legend inspired Sir Arthur Evans to unearth the wonderful civilisation of Minoan Crete. Latest revelations of the Bronze Age confirm the basic truth of many of the old legends from Antiquity.
We stress yet again that the fundamental impediment bcclouding dispassionate consideration of Spacemen in ancient times is our prejudiced thought-pattern. Few people know the precise meaning of the words they use or the exact connotation of words used by someone else. Failure of communication confuses Society today; world events prove we hardly understand each other. How can we understand the minds of Greeks millennia a go? Instead of dismissing all the Greek Myths as nonsense, thereby learning nothing, we should recognise our limitations and in humility try to elucidate what those people in ages past were trying to tell us.
Chapter Three The Golden Age
Since the Greek word 'Ouranos'
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