New Article: Aliens and Ancient Texts

9/11/2011

My new online exclusive article on aliens and ancient texts is now available. In this piece, I explore the ancient astronaut theorists' beloved but ill-defined "ancient texts" and their demand that we view fantastic descriptions in these texts as literal reports of prehistoric alien visitation. I showed that following the ancient astronaut theorists' analytical method at face value, we encounter an irresolvable paradox, one that seriously undercuts the ancient astronaut theory's pretention to understanding ancient literature better than the experts. READ THE ARTICLE

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Jan link

9/12/2011 05:18:31 am

Good one.

Selective interpretation is always wrong, I recently encountered a fellow, who was convinced the norse gods were chieftains of a Turkic tribe of As, who migrated to Scandinavia and became the ruling elite.

There is a pseudo-scientific paper on this written by an american geneticist and for a lay person it's pretty convincing.

Sadly, the take the word of Snorri Sturlsson for the absolute thruth, while he did exactly what you're describing - he was a reasonable dude and tried to explain the gods as best as he could. He lived hundreds of years after anything like that could've happened, but they still considered him an absolutely reliable source.
(disregarding modern archaeology, history and anthropology entirely)

BTW, Herodotus was most likely pulling that Zalmoxis story out of his ass too. ;) I'd have to check my books to make sure, but he was probably one of the original Thraco/Dacian gods, a uranic archetype, later he became the god of the underworld.

A good read, thanks!

Jason Colavito link

9/12/2011 06:18:29 am

I'm glad you liked the article! You're absolutely right that Zalmoxis was most likely an indigenous Dacian/Thracian god whom the Greeks tried to explain away. I actually discussed this possibility in my article about the Scholomance, which I found had a connection to Zalmoxis.

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