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Review of Ancient Aliens S06E06 "Alien Operations"

11/2/2013

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With this episode of Ancient Aliens, the series returns to H2 from its sojourn on the History channel proper, and, despite History’s decision to renumber the last five episodes of season five as the first of season six, this episode was supposed to mark the first of the new batch recently assembled. It is, according to H2, the “season premiere,” which is rather confusing since the History episodes were also a “new” season. Nevertheless, the ghost of Philip Coppens is still prominently featured, nearly a year after his death. Oh, well; this episode opens by asserting that scientists don’t conduct research into medicine but rather merely pretend to conduct research while doling out dollops of alien medical knowledge but then never follows up on the claim.

Ancient Aliens S06E06 “Alien Operations” opens with scenes of various modern medical miracles, including heart surgery, bionics, and 3D printing of body parts. We then hear how ancient doctors were thought to be blessed with gifts from healing gods, and Philip Coppens and the narrator therefore connect this idea to aliens because aliens are of course masquerading as gods.

As with most episodes, we travel to Egypt, this time to look at Ankh-Ma-Hor’s sixth dynasty tomb with Robert Bauval. Ankh was a physician, and the inscriptions on his tomb show him performing massage (“reflexology” Bauval says) and simple incisions on the human body to repair wounds. Bauval is baffled how anyone could think of such amazing feats without outside help, and the narrator suggests that such knowledge came from Thoth, the god of medicine, who “might have been something or someone who actually existed.” David Wilcock tells us that Thoth used “energetic medicine” derived from high electric technology—based on nothing whatsoever. No evidence of this “energy” is presented.

Giorgio Tsoukalos claims that Thoth “descended from the sky,” which is at this point is simply a refrain he uses for any god, regardless of whether there is any textual support. I suppose this might be slightly warranted in that Thoth was sometimes said to ride in the solar ship alongside the sun god Ra. That said, Thoth is a moon god, so there is that.

Next we hear about Indian accounts of “advanced” medicine, though the Ayurveda system of medicine praised by the show contains claims that either cannot be shown true or are demonstrably false according to modern scientific tests, so I wouldn’t go as far as the show in promoting this as “knowledge” from the sky. The traditional practice uses toxic herbs as well as poisonous heavy metals. Are the aliens trying to kill us?

William Henry, Philip Coppens, and Giorgio Tsoukalos repeat the refrain that humans learned healing from gods and gods are aliens so aliens are responsible for healing. But even the show can’t care about this long enough for a whole two sentences, so the narrator takes us elsewhere to look at skulls that show evidence of trepanation. This is the removal of part of the skull to relieve pressure on the brain. The show however elides the fact that trepanation is not actual brain surgery by placing a description of trepanation beside scenes of modern brain surgery. Trepanation does not involve contact with the brain itself. It deals only with the skull. This is utter dishonesty and uses the methods of television to suggest a conclusion that the words spoken cannot prove. William Henry tells us that trepanation proves an “extraordinary amount of scientific information” about the brain, which is not true, and Wilcock tells us that the aliens used brain scans to guide trepanation. Trial and error apparently plays no role; if ancient doctors drilled into the wrong place or too deep and struck important brain material, the patient was crippled or died and they didn’t do that again.

Oh, well, on to the Ica Stones! Philip Coppens tells us that the Ica Stones are real, as does David Childress and William Henry, even though we possess the confessions of the hoaxers who churned them out in the middle twentieth century. The show presents the stones as real, including their depictions of modern hear transplant surgeries using twentieth century art styles. Not even a hint that the stones are a hoax passes the narrator’s lips.

At the halfway point we move on to the question of whether ancient Irish gods gave out bionic limbs. Diancecht, the healing god, gave an Irish king an arm made of silver. This, the show says, is a bionic limb. Except, of course, that the king—Nuada—is very clearly a reflection of Nodens, the great god, and the king is a mythic degradation of the original deity. The silver hand is a poetic reflection of the earlier hunting god’s “magic hand” which, as the Catcher, he used to catch prey. Both names—Nodens and Nuada—derive from a word meaning “to acquire, to catch.” So does this make Nuada the alien himself? Or do we not allow literary dependence? Besides, silver corrodes, and who would want to polish his arm every day?

Next we discuss Asclepius, the god of healing, whom Zeus struck dead for raising the dead and exceeding the bounds of what mortal doctors were allowed to do. Wilcock says that Asclepius was using extraterrestrial knowledge and technology to do this, but there is no hint of technology in the surviving Greek texts. Apollodorus says that Asclepius used the blood of the Gorgon Medusa to raise the dead (3.10.3)—and remember Ancient Aliens already told us she was an alien hybrid genetic experiment!

As we move toward the last quarter of the show, Tsoukalos claims that the Catholic Church feared the healing power of the aliens and thus suppressed alien knowledge by launching the Inquisition to kill anyone who knew threatening truths about alien healing. William Henry asserts that the Church condemned eyeglasses because they suggested “the human body is improvable,” but I can’t find proof of that. Catholic leaders are on record from shortly after the invention of glasses in the 1300s as praising them as among the most “useful devices in the world.” In 1352, a cardinal named Hugo de St. Cher commissioned a painting depicting himself wearing glasses. The myth seems to come from the tombstone of the alleged inventor of eyeglasses, Salvino degli Armati, whose grave in Florence states that he invented glasses and “may God forgive him for his sins.” The two statements were not meant to be connected.

Henry, Jason Martell, and Erich von Däniken all condemn the Catholic Church for “attacking” science in order to “erase” the connection between humanity and aliens. The show seems to have a very broad view of the Church’s reach, since it next praises acupuncture because it “actually survived the Inquisition,” as though imperial China were subject to Rome. The show asserts that the so-called Iceman found in the Alps in 1991 and dating back to 3300 BCE has tattoos of Chinese acupuncture points on him; this is less true than it sounds. Nine of fifteen sets of tattoos on his body are in similar positions to nine Chinese acupuncture points. That means six were not, and given that there are dozens upon dozens of acupuncture points, those that do match may well be a coincidence since every body part has some connection to an acupuncture point.

The aliens didn’t do much good in delivering us acupuncture since studies have repeatedly found it has little to no benefit. Philip Coppens declares it a “science” and claims that it came directly from extraterrestrial beings. Tsoukalos simply asserts, again, that gods came from the sky to deliver medical knowledge and has not yet mentioned a single text showing any healing god descended from the sky to do this.

Bringing the episode in for landing, the show suggests that evidence of alien involvement in medicine may not be found in either myths or ancient texts but instead in our alien DNA. This, the narrator grandly and utterly wrongly states will solve the “mystery” of human evolution and why humans “unlike any other living species can think, reason, and have the power of speech.” Only one of those three things is unique to humans (speech), and many scholars believe it was shared with other human species, such as Neanderthals. The show asserts that understanding DNA will help us explain how humans create art and music and why we can contemplate our own existence. The pallid visage of Graham Hancock emerges from the shadows to suggest that a “radical change” caused what the narrator describes as an instantaneous shift from “primitive beasts to sentient humans.” This is creationism by other means; Tsoukalos describes the “artificial” change of human DNA through which “all of sudden” human ancestors became Homo sapiens sapiens. This breathtakingly audacious adoption of intelligent design rejects everything we know about the gradual accumulation of knowledge over time and collapses the distinct advances of human development (bipedalism, stone tools, language, art, etc.) into a single creation event where the divine “genetic engineering” occurred.

Tsoukalos adopts Thomas Aquinas’s argument from first cause to argue that human medical knowledge could not have developed spontaneously because every surgeon alive today learns from previous surgeons who learned from previous surgeons; therefore, invention is impossible and only aliens could have been the first cause. The idea of gradual evolution is for him inconceivable; a discipline must exist as an unchanging, complete whole or it cannot exist at all. This is the cultural version of the creationist staple about what good half an eye is. How then does he explain the fact that treatments exist today that did not exist ten years ago, like, say the 3D printing that the show discussed only minutes earlier?

The show’s narrator sums up the episode by asserting that our understanding of DNA (funny how that is allowed to have evolved spontaneously over the past century) will eventually give us immortality, raise the dead, and reunite us with our alien ancestors. So, essentially, the producers have decided that ancient astronauts are a form of intelligent design who will prove the existence of the supernatural and thus of God. It’s the pseudo-scientific version of the old claim that we must want the Devil to exist so we can know there is a God.

27 Comments
Mandalore
11/2/2013 04:41:26 am

I always thought that the Inquisition was intended to suppress alien knowledge. There was certainly nothing else going on at the time that would justify it. Yay history.

What I actually do find interesting is how rare it is that Romans show up in any of this. Lots of Mesopotamians, Indians, Egyptians, Amerindians, Greeks, and the occasional Medieval Europeans. But few to no Romans, which I find odd. Perhaps they were too pragmatic and grounded to be good AAT fodder. (And too well-documented in reality?)

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Clint Knapp
11/2/2013 09:58:38 am

The show pretty much blew their Roman wad in the first season by tossing out Roman gods as exactly the same aliens who inspired the Greeks. They seem to take Romans as a whole to be Greeks with different names.

Perhaps the most Roman reference I've noticed is the constant blathering about the Baalbek trilithon in early seasons. To the AA crowd, it's a key example of the impossibility of cutting and moving big rocks and considered a landing pad for spaceships.

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Sam Marion
11/2/2013 02:13:26 pm

In many episodes of this show the participants have said that humans and aliens have interbred to create hybrids. This ignores basic biology. Most species can only create offspring with their own kind. Yes lions and tigers can interbreed but they have very similar chromosomal structure that allows for it. There are a few other species where this is possible but in the norm it is not. I doubt that an alien from a completely separate origin of life would have DNA similar enough to a human to be able to interbreed. Heck there's no guarantee aliens have DNA, or that they are even carbon based life forms. The Ancient Aliens series is rife with pseudoscience. They make wild claims and offer skimpy evidence as solid proof. To me profound claims require profound undeniable proof. I think this program should be yanked off TV.

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Clint Knapp
11/3/2013 04:37:06 am

Probably worth mentioning that ligers, tigons, mules, and other such cross-bred animals are born sterile and generally have low life expectancy rates and numerous health problems as a direct result of their genetic mismatching- a problem not seen in humans. But, these are the same people who insist the aliens made other, less-compatible, chimeric creatures like the griffon, gorgon, and centaur, so unfortunately they'll just chalk this up to alien super-technology and move on without batting an eye.

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devi
6/19/2019 02:52:20 am

NOT seen in humans? Really? What happens when we interbreed? Breeding too much with our own kind causes heaps of problems - yet diversity makes us stronger. Yet, we're all the same species. How about an RH negative mother breeding with an RH positive father?

Also, I need to point out something omitted from above. The idea they were getting across is they believe early simians were spliced with alien dna - we are those aliens, they continued to breed with us after. What would happen if the crossbreeds of animals didn't happen at random in the wild, but done in a lab where the dna can be picked and chosen?

I'm also not sure how you'd explain "alien technology" that's so far advanced beyond our comprehension to a layman or what to look for to know if you ever came across it. Thousands of years would probably leave bits and pieces.

I don't mind folks trying to think outside the box when our own knowledge of human history is crap and limited and over 90% of our DNA is considered "junk". However, the issue I have with 'skeptics' is you want everyone to prove everything to you on a sliver platter, but not once bother to look for answers on your own to the questions you ask. Too afraid you won't like the answers? Or will they simply be dismissed when they don't fit your preconceived notions? Here's a bread crumb: the Dead Sea Scrolls had instructions on how to build a spaceship.

charlie
11/2/2013 03:31:39 pm

The AAT's keep telling us that the ancient aliens "taught" our distant ancestors so much. Well, then why did it take us more modern humans so very long to get to where we are now? We sure lost a great deal of that alien "knowledge" over time I think. Either those aliens were not very good teachers, or early humans were very poor at learning, remembering, and passing that "alien" knowledge on to following generations.
Also, I got extremely bored during this episode. It seems to me, that nearly ALL that has been covered in this "new" season, on History AND H2 has been done to death in seasons past. Is it just me, or do others seem to feel that they have nothing really new to tell this season?

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Only Me
11/2/2013 09:38:08 pm

I wonder if the AA crew are interested in comic books? I believe they would be surprised at the mythos created by Marvel, since so many elements of the AAT is represented.

First, there are the Celestials, an enigmatic race of beings, who travel the universe, seeding life on planets of their choosing. At a distant point in time (apparently agreed upon amongst themselves), they return, to judge the dominant life form(s) according to criteria known only by them. If worthy, they leave, and life continues on its merry way. If unworthy, the Celestials wipe out all life, only to reseed the planet anew. They supposedly sprang into existence after the Big Bang event.

Second, you have The Stranger, a being of unknown origin, whose only purpose seems to be to experiment. Whether it's allowing advanced technology to fall into the laps of beings who can't possibly know what it is or for, or simply abducting established characters for his own ends, he's the least defined.

Lastly, there's Galactus, the World Devourer. He is the last survivor of a race that existed before the Big Bang.

So, there you have it: abduction, experimentation, visitation, creation/alteration of life and existence outside of our universe. The major difference between the Marvel mythos and AAT? All of the above characters are considered COSMIC BEINGS, greater than, and even feared by, the established gods. Obviously, they are composites of elements from myth, religion and alternative theory....but they are considered "alien" only in their mystery and scope, much like Lovecraft's Old Ones. The established gods still exist, but these beings are as far removed from them as the gods are from mere mortals.

Since most of this was introduced in the 60s and 70s, you'd think more of this would be hijacked by the "true believers" (no offense intended Stan Lee).

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Clint Knapp
11/3/2013 05:01:32 am

Don't forget The Beyonder from the original Secret Wars story; a true blue interdimensional entity with absolutely limitless power who once swatted Galactus like a bug. Granted, he's an 80's creation and therefore subject to alternative influence. However, since the AA gang only seems to have recently stumbled on the interdimensional theory, he does seem a potential candidate for hijacking.

Honestly, I think they spend a lot of their time aping Silver Age standards and then applying those to the fragmented, mis-construed versions of "ancient texts" that they find laying about. I wouldn't be surprised one bit to learn Jack Kirby's Fourth World was on more AA shelves than Enoch and Jubilees (except the X-Man. Tsoukalous strikes me as a Jubes fan).

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Only Me
11/3/2013 06:05:08 am

Good point about the Beyonder.

However, the Marvel mythos has established that its cosmic beings are living embodiments of various aspects of our reality (Eternity/Infinity, Master Order/Lord Chaos, Mistress Love/Sire Hate, Eon, Chronos, Death, the Celestials, Galactus, the Stranger, Mephisto).

The Beyonder was the physical representation of his dimension's universe, because he *was* that universe.

Of course, with the AAT crowd reimagining what their aliens are supposed to be, from one episode to the next, all of the above characters may be fair game!

Gunn
11/3/2013 02:37:23 am

"...we must want the Devil to exist so we can know there is a God."
(From above.)

But if and when you find out there is a Devil, you will most likely want there to be God...Someone with more power than the Devil.

If fear is of the Devil, horror craft is out of line. That kind of fear should be off-limits, yet humans titillate themselves with such fear. The host of this blog is a sort of Fear Meister, a reporter and entertainer on the subject. I guess fear can be a sport, a throw-back to Roman days. The TV, or this blog, become the arena.

I favor peace, tranquility, etc., over fear and confusion. Alien crap is confusing and nonsensical, a distraction, an evil input to titillate the unsuspecting. History and archaeology are more fun to me, because they are real and have substance, not nonsense.

But I guess there's something for everyone.

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Clint Knapp
11/3/2013 05:16:46 am

Apparently I'm on a roll today... so here we go:

Fear is the only reason any of us are sitting here today able to do anything- including have these conversations. Fear itself is a stronger motivating factor in the entire course of humankind than any god ever has been. It's an intrinsic part of who we are biologically and sociologically.

Without fear of starving to death, no creature- man or otherwise, would ever have learned to hunt for food. Without fear of being eaten, no creature would have taken shelter. Mankind would not live behind walls if we weren't afraid of freezing to death, being eaten by physically superior creatures or attacked by our own kind. Fear is a perfectly natural chemical response found in every creature on Earth- to say it's a thing of the devil is to say all of creation is.

The very book you swear by is rife with passages telling you to fear GOD. If this book is holy and the word of God, then God is telling you to fear him and by your logic that fear is of the devil, then God is the devil. Observe:

Proverbs 1:7 - The fear of the LORD [is] the beginning of knowledge: [but] fools despise wisdom and instruction.

Luke 1:50 - And his mercy [is] on them that fear him from generation to generation.

Ecclesiastes 12:13 - Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this [is] the whole [duty] of man.

Need I say more?

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Only Me
11/3/2013 05:54:28 am

I have to correct you on the meaning of "fear" in this instance. The intended meaning of the word is *know*. Hence:

"the fear of the Lord" would mean "knowledge of the Lord"

"them that fear him" would mean "them that know him"

"Fear God" would mean "Know God"

I was confused about how God would want his faithful to *fear* him, until it was explained to me what the word was intended to mean. Yeah, I know, why not use *know* in the first place?

Clint Knapp
11/3/2013 06:22:26 am

Fair enough. I'm not looking to get into a big theological debate on the matter, but Gunn's stated several times in recent weeks that the Bible as presented is exactly how God intended it to be, which suggests somewhat of a literalist view and is why I presented it in the literal form instead of the "intended" form, whatever that may be.

Gunn
11/3/2013 01:23:47 pm

Thanks Only Me.

Right, Clint, that's why in an earlier blog, I cleared up that I don't mind mixing literal with symbolic, or figurative, which leaves things acceptably true in my mind, yet still as mysterious as God intended.

Naturally, there is good fear and bad fear. Fear of God is good. Fear from the Devil is bad. Some of these things need to be explained in detail, right? Fear of crossing a busy road is good. Fear of God is good, only inasmuch as it causes one to draw closer to Him.

As a child, I explain to a child's mind, Clint. Don't make it too simple or too difficult.

Mark L
11/3/2013 11:59:22 pm

Only Me, if "fear" apparently now means, in the Bible and the Bible only, "know", why didn't they just write "know"?

Only Me
11/4/2013 02:59:28 am

I honestly don't know. I can only assume it was one of those words like "thee", "sayest", "spake", etc., that carried over into the KJ version. I'm not a biblical scholar...I can only relate its meaning as it was explained to me by a licensed minister.

BigMike
11/4/2013 04:21:02 pm

Bene Gesserit proverb - "I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain."

Shane Sullivan
11/3/2013 11:22:21 am

"The silver hand is a poetic reflection of the earlier hunting god’s 'magic hand' which, as the Catcher, he used to catch prey."

I knew Nuada was derived from Nodens, but I never knew that about his hand. I used to think Nuada losing his hand was a holdover from some earlier Indo-European myth, thus linking him to Tyr, but I could never find any evidence to support it. This explains why.

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Jason Colavito link
11/3/2013 01:04:46 pm

To be fair, the "magic hand" conclusion is JRR Tolkien's. I'm not familiar enough with Celtic lore to be able to say that it is beyond doubt true.

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Dave Mowers
12/26/2013 10:30:39 am

I solve these error-type riddles using etymology, a base form as a non-scholar but when you look at how mythologies were interpreted and what the root words meant, the difference between them, I feel you see the obvious connections.

The Celtic root word for knowledge is Con, Kun, Cun, Kon, Can, Kan it means "knowledge" and it is also the word for wolf. In 'Dian' 'Cecht' it is listed in Wikipedia as also having a spelling of 'Cainte' Canta' revealing the intended interpretation of 'knowledge' going all the way back to Biblical Cain in the sense of forbidden knowledge such as the art and strategy of murdering and killing or warfare.

Which in the myth is what he does when he replaces a flesh arm with one made of metal then replaces that one with flesh again, an allegory for training in the arts of fighting, combat, warfare. Secret knowledge going all the way back to the first user; Cain.

Nuada contains two roots, one in Proto-Indo-European and Greek 'Gno' such as in 'Gnosis' meaning "knowledge!" The other root is Sumerian oddly and means 'serpent' in 'Ada, Atta, At, Ad, Adder.'

In part of the myth of Dian Cecht the god destroys a child who's heart contains three serpents implying he is evil somehow. How? He is evil because he contains all the knowledge of healing AND killing containing the two serpents of the Caduceus and the blood of Cain, third serpent; the arts of healing, reincarnation and murder, killing, combat, warfare inferring that he alone could control both sides of the equation; a living god.

Ancient Greeks called themselves 'Dans' ....
We have these gods between the Celtic, German, Greek, Phoenician, Egyptian; Tautus, Taut, Thoth, Teutat, Teton, Tatjenen, Hermes Trismesgistus, Hermes-Thoth, Hermes.
Hermiones, Irminones the founding tribe of Germany 'Irmin' in 'Irminsul' has the meaning of 'center, pole, axis' along with 'Sul, Sol' or 'Sun' used as a name representing a people or tribe makes then the 'axis' around which the 'people of the Sun' revolved.

Hermes and Thoth mean 'Thought' they are the deification and personification of the human mind's ability to 'Think' the word 'Man' means 'Thinker, one who thinks' and Mannus founded Germany. In old German Teutat became Deutsch.







Richard "Dick" Neimeyer
11/4/2013 07:43:48 am

The producers and interviewees seem to know how to fool the general audience on things that sound credible. After reading Jason's review(s) I'm more apt to see this with a skeptical eye. Thanks Jason.

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BigMike
11/4/2013 04:27:00 pm

"At the halfway point we move on to the question of whether ancient Irish gods and bionic limbs."

Jason, I just thought I'd point out that this sentence is grammatically incorrect. It can be fixed by removing the word "whether" or changing "and" to a verb like "created." Dealer's choice.

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Jason Colavito link
11/4/2013 10:25:25 pm

It should have read "gave out." I'd like to blame it on Windows 8 and/or Word 2013. Since I got this new computer, my typing accuracy has gone way down, and it seems like Word is always undoing what I just typed without me noticing.

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BigMike
11/5/2013 03:09:05 pm

I know your feels, sir. I know ALL the feels.

aoides
11/5/2013 04:27:48 am

it is getting more and more boring

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A person
12/9/2013 02:42:06 pm

I want a silver bionic arm now. Think about how cool that would be!

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Dave Mowers
12/26/2013 04:48:42 am

I guess it never dawns on the show's participants to see if a known mythological corollary exists which may, when looked at from all views, just show this to be another god perhaps the personification of healing itself?

You know the words Ankh Ma Hor imply a syllabic reading of the glyphs and no one really knows the intended direction of old dynasty readings as they pre-date the usage of directional language, it is really nothing more than a guess.

I'll use the same method right now to make a guess, 'Ankh' 'Ma' 'Hor' is meant to be read as the 'Angel Hermes' in which case he carried as a herald the rod of Aesculapius meaning he was a god of the healing arts and crafts. Gee, could that explain pictures of surgical acts?

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