Free Alien Space Gods Of Ancient Greece and Rome by W.R. Drake Page A

children. Homer does not mention this; Hyginus, a Roman scholar and writer of immense versatility, Librarian of the Palatine Library of Augustus, disagreed with Hesiod, and wrote in 'Hyginus Fabulae' 139-1 that Cronus did not swallow his children. Perhaps Hesiod's version relates in some garbled fashion to subsequent conflict between the Saturnians and their usurpers from Jupiter?
     
    In the 'Secret Doctrine' Cronus is identified with the 'Ancient of Days', a mysterious Being also mentioned in the Egyptian 'The Book of the Dead' associated with 'Spirits of Light', 'Sons of Darkness' and 'Deities in the Divine Eye', which perhaps referred to Space Gods descending to Earth long ago. Acknowledgement of Cronus appears to have been world-wide; outside Greece he was apparently known as the British Bel or Alan, the Semitic El, the early Hebrew Yahweh, the Hittite Kumarbi, the Egyptian Set and the Indian Indra. Manetho mentioned Cronus as a Divine King of Egypt. It may be significant that in Babylon Cronus was paralleled by En-Iil meaning 'Chief Demon', a Sky God, 'Lord of the Storm', possibly a Spaceman. Berossus, a Priest of Bel at Babylon, who lived about 250 BC at Athens and wrote in Greek 'Babyloniaca', a history based on Chaldean records, believed that ten Kings (Divine Dynasties) reigned 432,000 years, then the God Cronus (Spaceman?) foretold the Flood to Sisithrus, who built an Ark, sent out three birds and landed in the mountains of Armenia. Cronus also advised Sisithrus to write a history from the Beginning and to bury the account in the City of the Sun at Sippara; unfortunately for posterity most records from the remote past were destroyed by the megalomaniac King Nabonasir about 730 BC. Sanchoniathon, the Phoenician historian, fragments of whose manuscript were preserved by Eusebius, described the War between Ouranos and his son, Cronus, who conquered his father and also his own brother, Atlas, explaining in some confusion:
     
    “The God Tautus (Thoth) contrived also for Cronus the ensign of his royal power having four eyes in the parts before and in the parts behind two of them closing as in sleep and upon the shoulders four wings two in the act of flying and two reposing as rest. And the symbol was that Cronus whilst he slept was watching and reposed, while he was awake. And in the manner with respect to his wings, that while he rested he was flying yet rested while he flew. But to the other Gods there were two wings only to each upon his shoulders to intimate that they flew under the control of Cronus, he had also two wings upon his head, the one for the most governing part the mind, and one for the sense.”
     
    Surely no writer would invent such a chaotic description as this! This garbled tale must be true; in just such bewilderment would an ignorant peasant describe a Spaceship; indeed Ezekiel's famous sighting by the River Chebar reads little better. The Gods with wings on each shoulder evoke television's 'Superman' or even the American Army commandos equipped with rockets on their bodies for short flights. This account by its very incomprehension does seem a genuine description of war in the skies by someone utterly baffled. Even so could Shakespeare ignorant of modern Space-science have described the ship much better?
     
    ' The Old Egyptian Chronicles' preserved by Syncellus state that Cronus and the other twelve Divinities ruled Egypt for 3984 years. Manetho in his 'Aegyptica' records that Cronus preceded Osiris as King of Egypt; a fragment of the lost 'Chronicles of Mabolas' quotes Manetho as referring to the planet Cronos (Saturn) called the 'Shining Star.’
     
    It is most important to realise that although our main source regarding Cronus (Saturn) is to be found in the confused myths of Greece, independent references to him are scattered in the scanty literature left to us from Ancient Egypt and Babylon in addition to parallel Deities as far distant as Britain, Palestine and India. Such worldwide