4. The Ancient Traditions and the Alternative Explanation
Thus, there are
certain factors that suggest that an alternative view of these
traditions, myths, and legends is necessary, one in which it is
assumed that they contain kernels of historical and scientific
truth:
1. The belief among some Indian tribes and nations that different ages were exhibited and inhabited by different types of creatures, including different types of humanity;
2. The consistency with which Native Americans pointed to fossils as evidence of the truth of their traditions and myths concerning the age of giants and monsters (a fact that, again, would indicate that the myths predate the cultures encountering the evidence);
3. The belief of different ages being typified by different kinds of creatures and humans, coupled with the consistency of their understanding of fossils as coming from antiquity and a war of giants and monsters, suggests not that the Indians invented the myths to explain the bones, but rather that the origin of those myths and traditions stems from the time of the dinosaurs themselves, for if such myths contained any kernel of truth, then at some point they had to be based on contemporaneous observation.
Why is this so? Why
must one entertain the possibility that these myths and traditions
stem from the time of the dinosaurs
themselves?
Look carefully at
point number one above, for such a viewpoint is remarkably similar
to the ideas of modern evolutionary theory and modern anthropology.
Indeed, there is little if anything to distinguish the American
Indian views, when reduced to the barest elements, from the views
of modern science. The legends and myths, in other words, suggest
an origin within a culture far more scientifically sophisticated
than those Indian tribes which preserved them, and that means in
turn that the origin of these traditions is very, very ancient, or,
to put it in the terms I have used elsewhere, “paleoancient.”
Indeed, if they originate from such a culture and more or less
contemporaneously with the events described, then they antedate modern mankind
himself.
To put it as
succinctly and nakedly as possible, the Native
American Indian traditions are older than modern mankind himself
and thus predate the tribes that preserved them. And this act must
be considered to be an act of “preservation” and not “creation”
simply because the scientific sophistication they suggest could not
have originated within those tribes and cultures.425
This observation,
plus the observations of all previous chapters, now suggests that
two stunning and mutually opposed agendas might be in play “from high
antiquity”:
1. On the one hand, there is a body of lore, myths, traditions, and legends, spanning the globe from ancient Mesopotamia to North and Meso-America, which, taken together, suggest that modern mankind is the deliberately engineered product of some genetic “cousins” who were here long before modern man emerged. Additionally, both Mesopotamian, ancient Hellenic, and Native American Indian traditions speak of a war with “giants and monsters” occurring at some point in “high antiquity” prior to the emergence of modern man, and yet with whom at some later point modern man is contemporaneous. In some Native American Indian traditions, this view is codified into the belief that there were different ages of humanity and that these ages were also typified by different types of creatures that populated them. Thus, one agenda suggested by these observations is that someone from high antiquity wished modern mankind to know his true origins, and how these fit into a larger picture involving wars, giants, and “monsters.” Furthermore, the presence within ancient texts of details suggestive of an ancient high technology of genetic engineering also suggests that the “monsters” themselves — i.e., the chimeras of myth and the dinosaurs of science — might themselves be the deliberate products of engineering.
2. On the other hand, there is a body of lore, myths, traditions and legends embodied in some texts that suggest that others, at a later period, wished to obscure and hide those origins from a segment of humanity, and did so via the technique of “religifying” them in ancient times, and in modern times, ruling such possibilities out of court in the name of “science.” In the service of this possible agenda, ancient texts and legends have perhaps been deliberately mistranslated to obscure the possible technological references. Viewed a certain way and from this perspective, both classical Judeo-Christian texts and modern evolutionary dogma each serve to obscure these origins if one grants the proposition that there is any truth to such ancient myths that suggest that humanity is an engineered product, and that it had “cousins out there” that did the engineering. The very fragmentation of the story into so many disparate traditions with conflicting details over the basic storyline also suggests that the fragmentation itself may have been an attempt to obscure the story.
The astute reader
will now have noticed an acute problem: if the legends concerning
giants and monsters are true on the one hand, and if they are to be
taken as indicative of something peculiar going on in the age of
the dinosaurs on the other (as one implication of the standard
academic view would have it), then who
is doing the “remembering” here and creating the myths to begin
with? If some Indian traditions are sophisticated enough to suggest
different ages populated by different
creatures, including different “humanities,” then this is a
view every bit as sophisticated and “scientific” as modern theories
of the origins and evolution of mankind.
But clearly,
sophisticated as these Native American traditions and cultures
were, they were not sophisticated enough to have such a scientific
view.
In short, they did
not create their myths, they inherited
them.
So once again, who
is creating these stories, and
why?
The answer to that
question requires, once again, a foray into current scientific and
genetic findings on the origins of man, and a careful combination
of that science with the views of the ancient texts that I have
advanced here and elsewhere...