Ancient Aliens

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Ezekiel's vision with wheels within wheels

“My brain is only a receiver, in the Universe, there is a core from which we obtain knowledge, strength and inspiration. I have not penetrated the secrets of this core, but I know it exists”. Nicola Tesla

There is a lot of speculation about the Nephilim and Watchers being alien beings, who are either benevolent and have come to share their knowledge and technology with mankind, or malevolent, creating our species as a slave race or experiment. But is there any truth or evidence to support these speculations?

I find it baffling that scientists place the concept of ancient aliens into a category of pseudoscience, yet they cannot dismiss the possibility that alien life exists. We only understand 5% of the universe, the baryonic, or ordinary matter. The rest of the universe is a mystery (well, it’s dark matter and dark energy, but we can’t see it, study it or even begin to understand it!). We have already touched upon the concept of ancient aliens in our Emergence page and again on the page about the Aliens movie Prometheus.

In the mid 1950s, the US and Russia began what we now call the Space Race, which sprung from a post WWII arms race to prove which nation had superior technology. By this time the concept of aliens, visitors from outer space, was already embedded into our collective consciousness through books by H.G. Wells, Camille Flammarion and others, as well as through movies and television series that had been released since the early 1900s. But the idea of visitors from beyond the stars goes much farther back than that.

I first heard about the Dogon tribe in West Africa as a teenager when I read Robert Temple’s book The Sirius Mystery. In the 1930s and 40s, anthropologists Marcel Griaule and Germaine Dieterlen began studying the traditions and myths of the Dogon, and learned of their obsession with the Sirius star system. While Sirius A is visible to the naked eye, its companion white dwarf, Sirius B, was first sighted by astronomer Alvan Clark in 1862. There has been some criticism of the work of Griaule and Dieteren, based on the fact that Griaule had studied astronomy in Paris and was aware of Sirius B. The Dogon did seem to possess incredible knowledge about the cosmos, though, and they obviously incorporated this knowledge into their own myths and legends.

The Dogon Elders believed a race of beings from Sirius traveled to Earth 600 years ago, to share their knowledge with the tribe. Known as the Nommos, they were amphibious beings but could also move on land, coming from the same star system as the Egyptian goddess Isis. Every 60 years, when Sirius appears between two mountain peaks marking a cycle in its orbit, the Dogon holds a celebration, called Sigui. Leading up to the celebration, the younger men of the tribe sequester themselves from the rest of the group for a few months. During this time, they speak in a secret language.

Ancient civilizations from Babylonia to Greece, and even Slavic nations also depicted aquatic beings in their mythology. Interestingly, in ancient Mesopotamian lore there is a deity known as Dagon or Dagan, depicted as a merman or fish god – this depiction can also be seen in the Hebrew Bible. One interesting connection that some have drawn with the Dogon is that of the Dogū in Japan. The Dogū are small humanoid and animal figurines made during the later part of the Jōmon period (14,000–400 BC) of prehistoric Japan, and remain one of Japan’s oldest mysteries.

Alternative theories point to statues of one particular type of Dogū that resembles an astronaut or being in a spacesuit. Some have speculated that the Dogū arrived in flying ships, bringing written language and many aspects of civilization to the Japanese.

Dogū are small earthen figures that date back to 14,000 BC. Some have speculated that ones like these are wearing spacesuits.

In his book The 12th Planet, author Zechariah Sitchin theorized that the ancient Sumerian civilization was visited by alien beings called the Anunnaki. These beings supposedly came from another planet, Nibiru (often called Planet X or Planet 9), and influenced the development of early human civilization, possibly through genetic engineering. Although Sitchin’s interpretations have been widely criticized, the idea of the Anunnaki as extraterrestrials remains a cornerstone of the ancient astronaut hypothesis and the most widely discussed topic in relation to the Watchers and Nephilim.

The most fascinating reference to the Nephilim was Orion, one of the most recognisable constellations in our winter sky (Northern Hemisphere January to April is when it is most visible), although historically it has been associated more with the dog days of summer as it’s appearance followed Sirius and heralded the start of the ancient Egyptian solar year. In ancient Aram, the Orion constellation was known as נפילא (nephîlā'). The Sumerians called it Uruana, and they saw in the constellation the great battle of Gilgamesh and the Bull of Heaven (husband of the goddess Ereshkigal, a battle which preceded Inanna’s descent into the underworld, read more on that here). To the Babylonians, Orion was MULSIPA.ZI.AN.NA, the “true shepherd of Anu”, referring to Ninshubur, messenger of the god Anu and also Ishtar/Inanna.

There are references to Orion in the Bible as k’sil, which the Greeks translated to Orion. Orion was associated with Nimrod the mighty hunter, and is positioned as a rebel against God. The Nephilim are said to be descendents of Orion or Nimrod. This bears some similarity to the lineage of Seth’s line, the “sons of god” and the “sons of men”, the descendents of Cain, those who are cursed, or who rebelled. This takes us away from the idea of the Nephilim as ancient aliens but I wanted to mention it here as we were talking about Sirius earlier and there is a very strong connection between Sirius and Orion so just thinking back to the ancient aliens theory and possible connections that Biblical scribes would have been aware of.

Also worth mentioning in the Old Testament is the Book of Ezekiel, in which appears a series of vivid experiences, often referred to as the Vision of the Divine Chariot. Ezekiel begins by describing a great stormy wind coming from the north, with a large cloud flashing with lightning, and surrounded by a bright light. Within the cloud, he sees what appears to be glowing metal in the center of the fire. Out of the storm, Ezekiel sees four creatures, each with a human face, a lion's face, an ox's face, and an eagle's face. They each have four wings, and under their wings are human-like hands. Above them is a platform that gleams like crystal, and a throne made of sapphire. Seated on the throne is a figure who looks like a man, but he glows with the appearance of fire and metal from the waist up and the appearance of fire from the waist down. What a fantastic vision, and little wonder it was interpreted by ancient astronaut theorists as representing an encounter with otherworldly beings!

Does any of this definitively point to the Watchers or Nephilim being ancient aliens? No, of course we remain in the realm of speculation, and there are far more questions and answers. But it is certainly one possibility.