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Why Do We Envision Space Alien Writing as Egyptian-Style "Hieroglyphics"?

7/12/2018

47 Comments

 
​Last week, in the run-up to the annual UFO festival in Roswell, New Mexico and World UFO Day, the Socorro County Chieftain ran an article describing the actual military project believed to be behind the legend of the Roswell UFO crash. On June 4, 1947, Project MOGUL launched a balloon carrying microphones designed to help triangulate the location of Soviet atomic bomb test explosions by monitoring sound waves carried in the zone between the troposphere and the stratosphere, about 50,000 feet up. It crashed, but the description of the balloon is interesting:
The radar reflectors had wooden struts along three perpendicular directions, much like the shape of a “Jacks” child’s toy. Reflective parchment was affixed to the struts to make eight corner-cubes, which reflected any radar impulses from the ground back to their source. As the reflectors in the train spun around, they would have created a flashing “blip” on radar screens on the ground. It turns out that these particular radar reflectors were actually produced by a toy company, Merrick Manufacturing of Manhattan. During World War II, the “Military-Industrial Complex” actually included some small mom-and-pop companies like the toy store. When the Army Signal Corps asked the company to strengthen their reflectors, Merrick used some tape they had lying around to reinforce them. This tape was decorated with fanciful geometric symbols, which Charlie Moore himself recalled seeing on the reflectors, with more than a little amusement.
​These geometric symbols became the infamous “hieroglyphics” of Roswell legend, which Jesse Marcel would later claim helped convince him that the debris came from space aliens, but the incident raises a question about why we as a culture imagine alien writing to resemble that of the Egyptians and the Maya instead of, say, alphabetic writing, binary code, or any number of other ways to encode information.
 
The Roswell “hieroglyphs” are hardly the only time such a description was applied to space aliens.
 
In the 1950s, George Adamski reported that Venusians used strange hieroglyphs, including some that cut into the middle of the soles of their boots.
 
In 1965, a fireball streaked across the eastern United States, and residents of Kecksburg, Pennsylvania reported that a UFO the size of the Volkswagen Beetle crashed in the woods near their town. According to witness James Romansky, a fireman who responded to the incident, “It had writing on it, not like your average writing, but more like ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics.”
 
Antonio Villas Boas claimed to have seen hieroglyphs etched on the front door of the UFO that abducted him from his home in Brazil on October 15, 1975.
 
UFO abductee Raymond Fowler recalled seeing hieroglyphics while on board a spacecraft in 1998: “I am then shown some kind of identification plaque on a device that is golden in color and that has what appears to be hieroglyphics engraved on it.”
 
Such modern claims, however, are only the latest manifestation of a theme that goes back to the nineteenth century.
 
In 1865, the St. Louis Democrat reported that a stone fell from the sky in Montana. “An examination of this stone, or so much of it as was visible, showed that it had been divided into compartments, and that, in various places, it was carved with curious hieroglyphics.” Several other meteors filled with hieroglyphs were reported at the time.
 
In 1897, American newspapers reported that a Belgian man claimed to have been struck by a meteor that, upon examination, was found to have hieroglyphs carved on it. That same year, the Binghamton, New York fraud James MacDonald concocted a hoax in which he alleged that a piece of stone was a meteor from Mars engraved with Martian hieroglyphs.
 
In the 1890s, the Society for Psychical Research reported that some of the mediums it tested had identified hieroglyphs as the medium of Martian writing. (To be fair, some said they had both hieroglyphs and an alphabet!) Famously, in 1895 a pseudonymous psychic known as “Mr. Smead” outlined an entire dictionary of Martian language and writing while communicating with his deceased children via planchette.
 
Such examples suffice to establish the primacy of hieroglyphics as a description of alien writing, something that carried over into science fiction, where space aliens often write in ways that recall Egyptian and Maya hieroglyphs. H. P. Lovecraft, in “The Call of Cthulhu” did a bit better in describing alien writing as “undecipherable characters.”
 
The easy answer is that hieroglyphs carry the prestige of Egypt and the Maya, two ancient civilizations associated, in popular imagination, with the occult and the mysterious. But this doesn’t quite explain why futuristic space aliens should be compared to ancient human societies, and one of the least abstract forms of writing. In theory, if you were inventing aliens from whole cloth, you would project the perceived future of humanity, not its past, into space, wouldn’t you?
 
But the common desire to reach back to Egypt and the Maya to describe mysterious and unknown writing from space seems almost to recall the origins of the myth of space aliens in occult views of angels and theosophical accounts of ascended masters and Atlantean supermen. These earlier mythic beings were ancient and associated with various unusual prehistoric writings in unknown characters. Compare, for example, the “Martian” hieroglyphs with the so-called “Enochian” language of the angels, a fake tongue Dee claimed was the original form of Hebrew but which was written in strange characters that resembled Hebrew letters before they had fully transformed from hieroglyphs to alphabetic figures. Consider, too, Helena Blavatsky’s claim to have encountered ancient unreadable writing, Senzar, the original form of Sanskrit. Later Theosophists—well, specifically Charles Webster Leadbeater, alleged “None knows how old it is, but it is rumoured that the earlier part of it (consisting of the first six stanzas), has an origin altogether anterior to this world…”, from the time when Venusians visited earth.
 
Whether intentional or not, modern efforts to imagine the writing of space aliens in the mold of ancient human texts recalls quite closely earlier efforts among occultists to seek the divine in the ancient past.
47 Comments
A Buddhist
7/12/2018 09:15:36 am

"To be fair, some said they had both hieroglyphs and an alphabet!" Why is this so implausible? The Mayan script included both hieroglyphs (logograms) and syllabic characters, as does the Japanese script. Even Egyptian hieroglyphs include abjad characters. So it is not unreasonable to claim that there is a script that is hieroglyphic (using logograms) and alphabetic.

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Model Cherish Me.
7/12/2018 12:33:44 pm

Question: " Why is this so implausible? "

Because it's all a load of bollocks that's why!

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A Buddhist
7/12/2018 06:39:54 pm

I am not denying that it is impossible for writing to be from Martians as was claimed; rather, I am questioning why it is implausible for a script to be both hieroglyphic (using logograms) and alphabetic.

David Bradbury
7/12/2018 05:17:41 pm

It's becoming increasingly common to use logograms in modern textual communication- but Weebly hasn't quite caught up, so the following probably won't be visible: 😪

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David Bradbury
7/12/2018 05:21:34 pm

Or then again, maybe it will (I've just switched to another browser to check, and it's still there) in which case, my apologies to Weebly. 🦋

An Anonymous Nerd
7/12/2018 07:06:11 pm

[[Why is this so implausible?]]

No one said hybrid writing was implausible, just weird and funny in this context -- trying to use psychic powers to "prove" something made up, then throw on some disagreement on the psychically "proved" fiction.

-An Anonymous Nerd

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V
7/12/2018 08:19:07 pm

Even better, both Japanese and Chinese characters can also be used solely for their syllabic value OR for their meaning. And on top of that, words in Japanese print medium often use both kanji AND kana, in something called "furigana," where the kana (syllables) represent how the word is to be pronounced, while the kanji give the meaning. They're used to clarify meanings on rare kanji or for learners, and also to make some honestly quite sophisticated puns, double entendres, and extended meanings.

The main reason I can think of for the shock at the pronunciation, honestly, is that it was made in England in 1890, so I doubt the ones making the claims had any idea there were writing systems that did that....

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Scott Hamilton
7/12/2018 09:52:56 am

It's fun to imagine an alternate UFO belief based on a couple of the 1890s airship reports where the aliens spoke Volapuk, a contemporary failed attempt to create an international language. How cool would it have been if the Roswell saucer had control panels in Esperanto?

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Machala
7/12/2018 11:30:45 am

I always imagined that the aliens, if they had any type of written "language" would write in either some form of binary script or cuneiform like Sumerian tablets. I picture it as a 3 dimensional language similar to Braille.I always figured that a civilization so advanced that they could travel throughout the galaxy or between galaxies, would have no need of hieroglyphics which are really a primitive means of communication.

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Doc Rock
7/12/2018 05:24:29 pm

If I recall the Edgar Rice Burroughs books presented a wild mix of the primitive and advanced in his portrayal of life on other planets. The circa-1880 John Carter of Mars books had the Martians using some technology far more developed than earth but also had people fighting with swords.

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A Buddhist
7/12/2018 07:34:48 pm

Actually, the first John Carter of Mars book was published in 1912.

Doc Rock
7/12/2018 07:39:21 pm

The storyline of the series had Carter transported from the American southwest to mars circa-1880.

Americanegro
7/13/2018 02:54:48 pm

Always nice to hear from the Tedious Twins. If you imagine I also said "Turd" I'd be okay with that.

Doc Rock
7/13/2018 08:13:13 pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5etZWua2UQk

V
7/12/2018 08:27:26 pm

Hieroglyphics are really not that primitive, honestly. I would see it probably being more like Chinese characters if that were the way their language developed, though; the disadvantage to hieroglyphs is that they are relatively large as ideograms go; more modern ideograms are much more compact. Also, Braille isn't really a "3-dimensional language." It's a 2-dimensional language using texture. You only need to worry about x and y axes for where your raised bits are; a 3-D language would invest meaning in a z axis as well--maybe, for instance, how tall the bumps were would change the sound or meaning.

But we're thinking too narrowly, too. Their recording media for information might not even be VISUAL! How would a species that never developed eyes read a visual language? And what if scent were more important to them than hearing OR sight? They might record things in scent-tubes!

But ultimately, if you can record puns in it, it's a sophisticated enough medium to record just about anything, so hieroglyphs aren't exactly out as a possibility, either.

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HUGH'S POO
7/12/2018 12:30:11 pm

I witnessed a UFO earlier myself.
An Unbelievable Floating Object in the toilet.
I gazed in wonder at it's texture!
nearly split me in two folks!
Ooooooooooooo! Arrrrrrrr!

Ps: be sure to book a spot on my next ancient toilet mysteries tour;
As we go hunting for feces that Giants may have left behind in days gone by.


Pps: Telluric energies, ley lines stonehenge etc etc etc

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Teenah
7/12/2018 02:24:49 pm

And here I was, thinking Extraterrestrials wrote in cursive.

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Machala
7/12/2018 02:42:25 pm

Some people's cursive writing looks Extraterrestrial !

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jj
7/12/2018 02:51:35 pm

The 2016 film 'Arrival', based on the novella 'Story of Your Life' by Ted Chiang, has an interesting take on alien language. It is non-linear due to the way the aliens perceive time. As far as I know there is no similar terrestrial language. It's unfortunate that the AA theorists and UFO crowd can't apply similar effort to devise a novel pretend alien language.

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Bob Jase
7/12/2018 03:02:05 pm

And then there is the question of why didn't these advanced aliens use digital media instead of carving symbols into stone? All those inscribed rocks would have made their spaceships awfully heavy.

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V
7/12/2018 08:31:23 pm

We laser-cut text into equipment panels ourselves today, just gonna point out. And even into stone--like headstones and memorials. Digital media has the problem of not being a particularly stable medium, truth be told. Between format changes and vulnerability to electromagnetic interference of various sorts, digital has a "half-life," if you will, of about ten years if not less. Carving into rocks or engraving into metal lasts WAY, WAY longer. And this, btw, is part of basic information technology studies, which I have a degree in.

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Americanegro
7/13/2018 03:01:00 pm

"Information technology studies"?? What community college issues that degree? You had a beautiful paragraph going then signed off with "I am a pussy."

V
7/14/2018 02:41:54 pm

Ah, so we come to the point where Americanegro is jealous that someone is obviously more informed than he is. Dude, I have a degree in Computer Information Systems. Information technology studies includes coding, hardware, and networking, sweetie. It's what we call an "umbrella term," all of which require an understanding of data permanence.

Not to mention, sweetie, that I'm a woman, so I don't FUCKING CARE if some douchebag with a penis thinks I'm "a pussy." Women have been forced to put up with penis-owners thinking we're weak for centuries and we've gotten the shit DONE. So sit your sexist ass down and get the hell out of the way. I don't got time for your shit, and you're gettin' on my last nerve with it.

Americanegro
7/14/2018 07:14:13 pm

So which is it bitch? "Computer Information Systems" or "Information technology studies"? It can't be both. I'm not happy about all this "douchebag" talk but I'm pretty sure your imaginary diploma doesn't have the word "umbrella" on it. And I would bet your imaginary ovaries on that.

It should be printed somewhere. I'll wait.

So it was community college then?

Doc Rock
7/15/2018 01:13:17 pm

As the link below helps to illustrate, there are a wide range of IT degree programs at schools ranging from community colleges to major universities. IT is an umbrella term and the specific names for programs, departments, and the degrees granted varies widely across schools and even within particular programs.

Also people can and do use multiple labels to describe their degree(s) and academic training. For example, I have a Ph.D. in anthropology. That is all that it says on my diploma. However, my specialization was in cultural anthropology, but with a focus in historical anthropology. So, at different points in time I have chosen to describe my degree as Anthropology, Historical Anthropology, or Cultural Anthropology.

AN is just playing Don Quixote again and seeking an argument where one doesn't really exist.

https://www.collegechoice.net/rankings/best-information-technology-degrees/

V
7/19/2018 02:29:28 pm

Americanegro, if you don't want to be called a douchebag, then don't be a douchebag. It's entirely voluntary. Forget where I went to college, what rock have you been living under that you don't know what "IT" stands for? Data storage is a base level requirement for ALL information technology degree programs--computer programming, network administration, hardware maintenance, and all the other degrees that are possible from the INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES college of any university.

And don't think I didn't notice the bullshit sexist tripe of "imaginary" ovaries, as if a woman couldn't possibly know anything about computers. You don't get the right to judge that when you don't even understand what the fuck an "umbrella term" is. Your penis doesn't entitle you to anything but a urinal--and that's where you BELONG, as far as I'm concerned.

Doc, thanks for being an ally. Too bad AN is such a dick he can't even understand what a fifth grader does.

Doc Rock
7/19/2018 02:54:27 pm

V,

You're quite welcome. The level of ignorance by some here about various academic fields and particular programs of study borders on fringe thought in its own right.

Cesar
7/12/2018 04:35:23 pm

The Villas Boas incident occurred in the first hours of 16 October 1957.

In the 1980 Rendlesham thing an official saw hieroglyphs over the UFO.

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A Buddhist
7/12/2018 06:05:17 pm

Should not that be "The Villas Boas incident ALLEGEDLY occurred in the first hours of 16 October 1957." Or are you a believer?

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Americanegro
7/13/2018 01:06:26 pm

You are being fucking tedious. An incident happened. Jesus Christ just stop.

A Buddhist
7/13/2018 08:54:50 pm

Americanegro: I was not aware that you were so credulous as to believe claims about encounters with aliens without verification.

Americanegro
7/14/2018 01:58:19 am

You are one tedious m-effing c-sucker. Are you saying the incident did not happen? I have not even researched the incident. What you think of it, you idiot, doesn't affect whether it happened or not. Do you have the most basic possible understanding of what the English word "incident" means?

A Buddhist
7/14/2018 08:09:11 am

Americanegro: Why are you willing to accept the possibility that the Villas Boas incident happened without having researched the incident? Without such research, you could be accepting something that is so implausible that only a credulous fool would accept as having happened.

The Villas Boas incident was an allegation by a Brazilian farmer named Antônio Vilas Boas (but commonly misspelled) that 2 aliens brought him into a spaceship, in which he was subjected to medical experiments and seduced by a female alien. We have only his word that he was abducted, that his abductors were aliens, and that the abduction occurred on 16 October 1957. For this reason, I refer to it as the Alleged Incident. However, other alleged incidents involving UFOs/aliens I do not so qualify because there is clear evidence from multiple witnesses whose credibility has not been undermined that something happened on a given date at a given time (even if not contact with aliens or their technology, as is often alleged), such as the Roswell Incident and the Rendlesham Forest incident.

Americanegro
7/14/2018 07:18:54 pm

You are talking about an incident.

If you are talking about an incident, by definition the incident happened.

Jesus fucking Christ, you are incredibly tedious.

A Buddhist
7/14/2018 08:16:13 pm

Americanegro: To say that "If you are talking about an incident, by definition the incident happened" is absurd. By that logic, the Pi-Termination Incident of 5 July, 2015 (which I just thought up) happened, in which the mathematician Theopompus O'Malley discovered the last digit of Pi. Never mind that there is no person named Theopompus O'Malley outside my imagination. Never mind that pi has no last digit. Never mind that I just dreamed up the Rather, by your logic, the Pi-Termination Incident of 5 July, 2015 must have happened because I am talking about it.

A Buddhist
7/14/2018 09:24:56 pm

Americanegro: To say that "If you are talking about an incident, by definition the incident happened" is absurd. By that logic, the Pi-Termination Incident of 5 July, 2015 (which I just thought up) happened, in which the mathematician Theopompus O'Malley discovered the last digit of Pi. Never mind that there is no person named Theopompus O'Malley outside my imagination. Never mind that pi has no last digit. Never mind that I just dreamed up the Pi-Termination Incident of 5 July, 2015. Rather, by your logic, the Pi-Termination Incident of 5 July, 2015 must have happened because I am talking about it.

Americanegro
7/15/2018 01:49:28 am

I am simply applying everyday logic. If you want me to go full Stcherbatsky it will not be pleasant you tedious turdle. Laodan.

A Buddhist
7/15/2018 07:27:03 am

Americanegro: It seems that we disagree about whether it is legitimate to use the phrase "X incident ALLEGEDLY occurred"/"X incident ALLEGEDLY happened". You claim that such a phrase cannot be used, because, you claim, "If you are talking about an incident, by definition the incident happened." I presume that you would not object to the phrase "X incident ALLEGEDLY involved", though, would you? But to me, these two sets of phrases have different meanings.

"X incident ALLEGEDLY occurred"/"X incident ALLEGEDLY happened": This questions whether the incident happened, either at all or at a given time. Since the evidence surrounding Vilas Boas's claims and their timing is so weak, I thought that this phrase was appropriate.

"X incident ALLEGEDLY involved": This questions whether the incident had certain events happen within it, but implicitly acknowledges that the event as a whole happened at a given time. This approach does not seem to me to be sufficiently credulous about Vilas Boas's claims.

You may allege that by using the phrase "Vil[l]as Boas Incident" I am acknowledging its existence, but this is not true. People may use language describing things that they think to be non-existent without believing in such things, and without undermining their arguments against the claimed existence of such things. If this were not so, Jason Colavito's articles against claims about "incidents in which the Smithsonian destroyed evidence of giants" would have to be recognized as more proof about "incidents in which the Smithsonian destroyed evidence of giants", since, to quote your words "If you are talking about an incident, by definition the incident happened."

Cesar
7/12/2018 04:40:16 pm

officer

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An Anonymous Nerd
7/12/2018 07:02:07 pm

My suggestion is that hieroglyphics just look alien to folks who are used to using alphabets.

Also, reinforcing the above, because they were Egyptian, they look exotic and mysterious to the West. I remember reading some Ancient Greek accounts of encountering Egypt and, even then, one ancient society to another, to the Greeks, everything in Egypt just seemed weird, exotic, dare I say "alien."

So, yeah. It fits.

-An Anonymous Nerd

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Tom mellett
7/12/2018 07:03:42 pm

Jason,

You got so focused on the hieroglyphics that you did not notice your error in reporting the date of the launch of the Project MOGUL balloon train. You give the date as July 4, 1947 when the actual date was 30 days earlier, on June 4, 1947.

But I am not reporting this as a trivial typo. Rather, I hope to inspire you to write a whole new blog post on the significance of the timeline that is set up once you start with the correct date.

You see, it is a period of 5 weeks (not 4 days!) from the launch of the MOGUL balloon train on June 4 until the discovery of the crashed debris at Roswell on July 8, 1947. But the balloon launch eventually failed and the giant balloon train crashed to earth within a few days of its launch, say, around June 8 to June 10, meaning that it was baking in the New Mexico desert sun for a full month before its discovery in Roswell on July 8.

Why is this timeline so important? Because on June 24, 1947, Kenneth Arnold has his famous UFO sighting near Mt. Rainer in Washington and the news reports of his sighting commence a UFO sighting frenzy that informs Roswell just 2 weeks later.

Let me quote the paragraphs before and after your excerpt about the hieroglyphics.

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“The first attempts to deploy microphones to detect N-tests, part of top-secret Project MOGUL, were made in New Jersey. Those launches were plagued by severe winds, so the whole project was moved to Alamogordo, New Mexico. And that’s where Charles B. Moore, then a grad student at New York University, came to launch Flight # 4 on June 4th, 1947.

Moore had done some excellent work in atmospheric physics, and was a key member of the team charged with figuring how to deploy the sound sensors with balloon trains. The device launched that June morning was some 600 feet tall, and included over two dozen small weather balloons, along with several parachutes, connecting ropes, and – most importantly – three radar reflectors.”

[ . . . ]

“On the day of the June 4th launch, Moore’s device was tracked to somewhere near Arabela, NM, before it was lost to history. As the balloon train descended, bushes would rip pieces off of the balloons, parachutes, and reflectors, resulting in a debris field hundreds of yards long. As the debris baked in the hot New Mexico sun, however, events in the Pacific Northwest would change everything.

In June of 1947, pilot Kenneth Arnold reported seeing a series of strange lights near Mt. Rainier, Washington. This launched the summer of the “Flying Disks,” with new reports of anomalies in the sky appearing almost every day in the papers.

A $3,000 reward was offered for physical evidence of a disk, and that might be what prompted rancher Mac Brazel to take some of the debris he’d found on the Foster Ranch to Roswell.

Brazel eventually took the debris to the Roswell Army Air Field, and Major Jesse Marcel accompanied Brazel back out to the debris field. More than anything else, it was the “alien hieroglyphics” - the curious geometric markings on the reflectors – which convinced Marcel that this was indeed a Flying Disk. Marcel’s excitement led to a press release, and Roswell became famous, for a day.”

[ . . .]

“The published pictures of the debris all show material entirely consistent with a Project MOGUL balloon train after weeks of exposure to the desert.”

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Martin Stower
7/12/2018 07:56:47 pm

Compare The Murders in the Rue Morgue.

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Bezalel
7/12/2018 08:10:25 pm

The vatican-esque religious mythmakers already noted the link between Egypt and Mars from the past.
Cairo, capital of Egypt, derives from the Arabic Al-Qahira, meaning place of Mars, city of Mars, the victorious (in war, I suppose), etc. Founded by the Fatimid Dynasty in 969 CE

The popular 19th century madness searching for alien life on Mars simply slid into this myth like butter on a frying pan, prelude to the UFO madness.

No institution is more interested in the links between ancient Egypt, Mars, aliens, "demons" UFO's and secrecy than the Holy See herself, especially regarding the numerological chicanery she invests in her own calendar; one example of which is the number 322, inherited in part from the emperors of Ancient Rome, whose own myths pretended descent from Mars and Venus themselves.

Way to much to get into, but a taste:

- 322 roads in ancient Constantinople
- 322 steps between the inner and outer domes of St Peter's (to the summit), subtly alluded to in Umberto Eco's "Name of the Rose" (both book and film)
- Mars' orbit itself is roughly 687 earth days (~322 days longer than earth's)
- The lives of some popes echo this chicanery, as well as other important Vatican events such as the founding of St Peter's Basilica and the Holy Sepulcher (18 November 326 and 12 September 335, respectively).

Span between is 3220 days, give or take a day

Frosting on the cake, 18 November is the 322nd day of the year

Countless other ridiculous examples traversing history right down to present day: Pope John Paul II, installed 22 October 1978, died 2 April 2005, 21:37 (Rome time)
Span between is 9660 days

2137 is 322nd prime number

The time obviously contrived to fit the pattern, but you simply can't make this shit up. She also uses 353, 233, 911, 584 and some others

Nonetheless, Bezalel is also truly mad; like dark side of the moon mad. Clearly in need of salvation

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HOAGIE
7/13/2018 07:25:46 am

Next you will be claiming there are monuments and tetrahedral codes on the face of Mars!

Ps: NASA lies.

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V
7/12/2018 08:34:51 pm

Honestly, I suspect personally that it also has to do with the indecipherability of hieroglyphs. The story of the Rosetta Stone is so famous we name products after it, after all. So I think "had hieroglyphs all over it" is sort of like saying "It's all Greek to me!" Why does it always have to be Greek in that saying? I can't read Cyrillic or Sanskrit, either, but Greek became the standard for "something that confuses the hell out of me" for whatever reason. So maybe "hieroglyph" is just sort of a shorthand for "writing system that does not remotely make sense to me."

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Andrew
7/14/2018 12:02:19 am

There was also, in the ancient world, a perception among those not literate in Egyptian hieroglyphics that they were a purely ideographic form of writing, with characters somehow not standing for consonants or lexemes but for pure ideas- and this was considered to have a certain mystical import. It'd be interesting to trace the influence of these ideas on the theosophists.

On another tack, it's hardly uncommon for technical schematics, diagrams, and manuals- documents that were increasingly common in the dawning electronic age- to be compared with hieroglyphics, which to the western mind are striking for their visual and structural complexity. It's only natural that a race possessed of hyper-advanced technology would be assumed by the popular imagination to require a similarly sophisticated and intricate writing system to record its details- and any such system is likely to have the label 'hieroglyphic' applied to it.

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V
7/14/2018 02:55:56 pm

The really interesting part about looking at hieroglyphs as "complex == sophisticated" is that if you go over to what's now China and look at the origins of the modern hanzi characters, oracle bone script, you actually start to understand that the very complexity is what makes them UNsophisticated in comparison.

http://www.crystalinks.com/chinascript.html This link gives a good chart about the development of modern hanzi. You can see the similarities to hieroglyphs, with their semi-realistic depictions, in the oracle bone script. The more complex your characters are, the longer it takes to draw them, so the less information you can encode in a given time frame. A truly sophisticated data encoding system is streamlined and simplified, because you can encode more information in less time that way.

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