zoser, on 07 December 2012 - 06:47 PM, said:
Just catching up with the thread; every day there are another 10 or so pages on this thread.
Pictographs of ET like beings?
It really doesn't take long to find:
Any of these look human to you? I'll let you decide. The ancient world is brimming with this kind of thing. Extremely easy to find.
Well my first question is "what do "known humans" (ie tribal chieftains, famous warriors etc) from those cultures at the same period the statues where made look like when represented in stone? It's possible what we're calling "possible ET" is actually the peak of their artistic skill in representing people at the time.
zoser, on 07 December 2012 - 07:12 PM, said:
Your argument doesn't prove that the statues were not ET. I am in no way convinced that the ancients had the same habits as our modern culture when it came to art.

I accept the definition given by the descendants of the peoples who made those artworks of them being "spirits". Of course that doesn't refute at all the possibility of "spirits" being a misremembering/best explanation for aliens.
zoser, on 07 December 2012 - 07:37 PM, said:
I can find more references to it if you wish.
Just another nail in the coffin for orthodox archaelogy.
Here's yet another:

that's a spirit. See above.
In fact, in this case the locals get a little atagonistic when their beliefs are conscripted by others - so it's REALLY a sky spirit.
zoser, on 07 December 2012 - 08:01 PM, said:
Taken out of context "spirit", taken in context (especially with the "these beings say they come from the stars" history they have) I've no qualms saying "possibly ET" on this one.
Mind you, could still be a spirit.
zoser, on 07 December 2012 - 08:05 PM, said:
The Inca did not build the original temples at Machu Picchu or Cusco.
Our story gets so much larger when we listen to the wisdom keepers of the ancient traditions. The histories known to the old cultures around the world tell of highly advanced ancient civilizations; and of the coming and going of ages punctuated by world cataclysms. Where ‘modern science’ has dismissed the histories as given by indigenous cultures as mere myth; there are now a few brave researchers, who are willing to face the rejection of the mainstream academics and are publishing the suppressed evidence supporting the knowledge of our ancient ancestors.
In the Americas during the European invasion, after the church sanctioned destruction of so much of the arts and records, a few of the Spanish got around to asking the native history keepers their stories. What was then told and chronicled is quite different than what is generally accepted today. During the 1600’s, in Peru, the Spanish chronicler Fernando Montesinos recorded the histories of the Quechua speaking peoples of Cusco, Peru, those now called Inca.*
http://sacredheritag...ilizations.html
Philip Coppens (in a book the name of which escapes me, but I think is something like "Lost Civilisations") actually agrees with you, but doesn't posit aliens as the answer, rather an as yet unidentified other culture was responsible.
There's some evidence he suggests that it might have been European or "Old European".