Earlier today ancient astronaut theorist Philip Coppens posted a comment on my blog post from Sunday about his claim that the ancient Egyptian architect Imhotep received alien help in building Djoser’s Step Pyramid. Coppens was upset by the post and felt that I unfairly labeled his statement a “lie” when he did not “deliberately” foster an untruth.
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Let me preface today’s blog with a quick note reminding readers that I was not personally involved in the production of Ancient Aliens Debunked and do not endorse the filmmaker’s personal beliefs about the reality of Noah’s Flood or the Nephilim.
This does tie in, however, to what I was writing yesterday about Andrew Collins. Collins—who, incidentally, believes in “sentient” “light beings” composed of plasma that can be contacted by buying his most recent book—also wrote a tome about the Nephilim in 1998. He claimed that these beings were in fact a “shamanic elite” from the last Ice Age who sparked the Neolithic Revolution and reigned as a parasitic ruling class until the end of the Bronze Age. These same Nephilim are also found in Zecharia Sitchin’s work as space aliens. Apparently I don’t keep up with all of my pseudo-archaeology. I try, heaven knows. But there’s just so damn much of it. Every time I turn around somebody or another is making wild claims about the human past. Somehow, I missed Andrew Collins’ silly foray into alternative archaeoastronomy called The Cygnus Mystery. Obviously modeled on Robert Temple's The Sirius Mystery and Robert Bauval’s The Orion Mystery, Collins’ 2007 book and DVD and his 2010 article in the Lost Knowledge of the Ancients Graham Hancock reader claim that ancient sites around the world can be linked to the constellation Cygnus, or the Swan.
I’m sure you’ll remember Collins from his Gateway to Atlantis (2000), where he claimed Atlantis was really Cuba and was destroyed by a comet. His work on Cygnus is more difficult to critique because it is based largely on assumptions and interpretations rather than disprovable fact. |
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