Chapter 4:

THE IDEA THAT human beings are a slave race owned
by an extraterrestrial society is not a new one. It was
expressed thousands of years ago in mankind's earliest
recorded civilizations. The first of those civilizations was
Sumeria: a remarkably advanced society which arose in the
Tigris-Euphrates River valley between 5000 and 4000 B.C.,
and flourished as a major civilization by 3500 B.C. * Like
other ancient societies which arose in the Mesopotamian
region, Sumeria left records stating that humanlike
creatures of extraterrestrial origin had ruled early human
society as Earth's first monarchs. Those alien people were
often thought of as "gods." Some Sumerian "gods" were
said to travel into the skies and through the heavens in
flying "globes" and rocketlike vehicles. Ancient carvings
depict several "gods" wearing gogglelike apparel over their
eyes. Human priests acted as mere intermediaries between
the alien "gods" and the human population.
Not all Mesopotamian gods were humanlike extraterrestrials.
Some were obvious fabrications, and fictitious attributes
were often ascribed to the extraterrestrial humanlike
gods. Once the blatant fictions are stripped away, however,
we discover within the Mesopotamian pantheon a
distinct class of beings who do indeed fit the "ancient
astronauts" mold.
In order for me to better discuss these "high tech" "gods," *
it will be necessary for me to invent a new term.
The word "god" alone contains too much undeserved awe.
Historical and modern-day testimony indicates that these
"gods" are as "human" in their behavior as you or I.
The term "ancient astronaut" pigeonholes them into
the distant past when, in fact, they appear to have
maintained a continuous presence all the way up until
today.
The label "extraterrestrial" is too broad.
I cannot name the "gods" after any star or planet from
which they might hail because I will not speculate as to
their place of origin. Furthermore, it is conceivable that
the alleged ownership of Earth may have changed hands
over the millennia, in the same way that ownership of a
corporation can pass among different owners without the
public being aware of it.

That leaves me to invent a new label based upon the
"gods' " apparent relationship to the human race. For lack
of anything better, I will simply refer to them as the
"Custodial" society, meaning that specific extraterrestrial
society (or succession of societies) which appears to have
had ownership and custody of the Earth since prehistory.
For brevity, I will often refer to them simply as "Custodians."
What sort of creatures are these newly-labeled "Custodians"?
Historical records and modern testimony describe them
as physically humanlike, racially diverse, and, most importantly,
very similar to human beings behaviorally. For
example, some modern-era UFOs have exhibited adolescent
prankishness by racing at airplanes as though they
were going to collide, and then abruptly veering away
just as impact seemed imminent: an apparent game of
aerial "chicken." At least one modern witness has allegedly
been "zapped" by a UFO for no other apparent reason
than malice. Ancient writers describe their extraterrestrial
"gods" as being capable of love, hate, amusement, anger,
honesty, and depravity. Ancient records and modern testimony
alike would indicate that Custodial personalities
run the entire gamut from saints to sinners, from the
most degraded of despots to the most true-hearted of
humanitarians. Sadly, it is the brutal and despotic element
of their society that would appear to be the most influential
in the affairs of Earth, as we shall document.
The ancient Mesopotamian civilizations recorded a great
deal of their history on clay tablets. Only a fraction of those
tablets have survived, yet they manage to tell a remarkable
story about the Custodial "gods" and their relationship to
Homo sapiens.
According to the history inscribed on Mesopotamian tablets,
there was a time when human beings did not exist at
all. Instead, Earth was inhabited by members of the Custodial
civilization. Custodial life on Earth was not pleasant,
however. Custodial efforts to exploit the rich mineral and
natural resources of Earth proved backbreaking. As one
tablet tells us:
When the gods like men
Bore the work and suffered the toil—
The toil of the gods was great,
The work was heavy, the distress was muck—I
The tablets described lives of endless drudgery as the
"gods" carried out building, excavation, and mining operations
on Earth. The "gods" were not at all happy with
their lot. They were prone to complaining, backstabbing,
and rebellion against their leaders. A solution was needed,
and it was found: to create a new creature capable of
performing the same labors on Earth as the Custodians.
With this purpose in mind, the Custodial "gods" created
Homo sapiens (man).
Mesopotamian tablets tell a creation story in which a
"god" is put to death by other "gods," and the body and
blood are then mixed into clay. Out of this concoction
a human being is made. The new Earth creature is very
similar in appearance to its Custodial creators.
In his book, The Twelfth Planet, author Zecharia Sitchin
exhaustively analyzes the Sumerian creation stories. He
concludes that the tale of a god's body being mixed with
clay may have referred to biological engineering. Mr.
Sitchin supports his surprising conclusion by pointing to
those Sumerian tablets which state that the first humans were
bred in the wombs of female Custodial "gods." According to
the tablets, Custodians had male and female bodies, and they
bred by sexual intercourse. In fact, ancient Mesopotamians
stated that they provided ruling Custodial "gods" with human
prostitutes. Mr. Sitchin believes that the "clay" was a special
substance that could be inserted into a Custodial womb. That
substance held the genetically-engineered cells of the new
slave creature, Homo sapiens. Humans could apparently
be bred in that fashion because they were physically very
similar to Custodians. Interestingly, modern scientists have
bred animals in a similar fashion, such as a zebra in the
womb of a horse.
Ancient Mesopotamian tablets credit one "god" in particular
with supervising the genetic manufacture of Homo
sapiens. That "god's" name was Ea. Ea was reported to be
the son of a Custodial king who was said to rule
another planet within the farflung Custodial empire.
Prince Ea was known by the title, "EN.KI," which
means "lord [or prince] of Earth." Ancient Sumerian
texts reveal that Ea's title was not entirely accurate
because Ea was said to have lost his dominion over
major portions of Earth to his half brother, Enlil,
during one of the innumerable rivalries and intrigues
that seemed to forever preoccupy Custodial rulers.
In addition to engineering Homo sapiens, Prince Ea
is given credit in Mesopotamian tablets for many other
accomplishments. If he was a real person, then Ea could
best be described as a scientist and civil engineer of
considerable talent. He is said to have drained marshes
by the Persian Gulf and to have replaced them with
fertile agricultural land. He supervised the construction
of dams and dikes. Ea loved sailing and he built
ships in which to navigate the seas. When it came
time to create Homo sapiens, Ea demonstrated a good
grasp of genetic engineering, but not, according to the
tablets, without trial and error. Most importantly, Ea
was described as goodhearted, at least in regard to his
creation, Homo sapiens. Mesopotamian texts portray Ea
as an advocate who spoke before Custodial councils on
behalf of the new Earth race. He opposed many of the
cruelties that other Custodial rulers, including his halfbrother,
Enlil, inflicted upon human beings. It would
appear from Sumerian tablets that Ea did not intend
Homo sapiens to be harshly treated, but his wishes in
that regard were overruled by other Custodial leaders.
As we have just seen, our ancient and highly civilized
ancestors told a very different story of humanity's emergence
on Earth than we tell today. The Mesopotamians
were clearly not schooled in Darwinian theories of evolution!
Nevertheless, there is some surprising anthropological
evidence to support the Sumerian version of prehistory.
According to modern-day analyses of the fossil record,
Homo sapiens emerged as a distinct animal species somewhere
between 300,000 B.C. and 700,000 B.C. As time
progressed, a number of subspecies of Homo sapiens
emerged, including that subspecies to which all human
beings belong today: Homo sapiens sapiens. Homo sapiens
sapiens appeared a mere 30,000 years ago—some say only
10,000 to 20,000 years ago. This raises an important question:
were the Sumerians referring to Homo sapiens or Homo
sapiens sapiens in their creation stories? There seems to be
no firm answer. Excellent arguments have been made that
they were referring to original Homo sapiens. I tend to favor
the argument that they were probably referring to modern
Homo sapiens sapiens, for the following reasons:
1. The oldest surviving creation stories were written circa
4000-5000 B.C. It is more likely that a true record
of mankind's creation would survive 5000 to 25,000
years than it would survive 295,000 years or more.
2. If the Sumerians were describing the creation of Homo
sapiens sapiens, later events described in Mesopotam
ian tablets fall within a more plausible time frame.
3. The Mesopotamians themselves were members of the
subspecies Homo sapiens sapiens. They were primarily
concerned with how they themselves had come into
existence. In their various works, ancient Sumerians
depicted hairy animal-like men who appear to be a
more primitive subspecies of Homo sapiens. The
Sumerians clearly viewed those primitive men as an
entirely different race of creature.
If the Mesopotamian creation stories are based upon
actual events, and if those stories refer to the creation of
Homo sapiens sapiens, we would expect Homo sapiens
sapiens to appear very suddenly in history. Remarkably,
that is precisely what happened. The anthropological record
reveals that Homo sapiens sapiens appeared on Earth
abruptly, not gradually. F. Clark Howell and T. D. White of
the University of California at Berkeley had this to say:
These people [Homo sapiens sapiens] and their initial
material culture appear with seeming suddenness just
over 30,000 years ago, probably earlier in eastern than
in western Europe.
The mystery of this abrupt appearance is deepened by
another puzzle: why did the more primitive Neanderthal
man (Homo sapiens neanderthalensis) suddenly vanish at
the same time that modern Homo sapiens sapiens appeared?
Evolution is not that fast. Messrs. Howell and White pondered
this question and concluded:
. . . the utter, almost abrupt disappearance of Neanderthal
people remains one of the enigmas and critical
problems in studies of human evolution.3
The Encyclopedia Britannica concurs:
The factors responsible for the disappearance of the
Neanderthal peoples are an important problem to which
there is unfortunately still no clear solution.4
The Sumerian creation stories do offer a clear solution
to the riddle, but it is one that many people would have
a difficult time accepting: the sudden appearance of Homo
sapiens sapiens, accompanied by the abrupt disappearance
of Neanderthal man, was caused by intelligent intervention.
It might be conjectured that Neanderthal man was either
exterminated or hauled off the Earth to make room for
the new slave race, and perhaps to prevent breeding
between the two subspecies. Whatever the precise truth
of this might be, we do know two facts with certainty:
modern anthropology has discovered a sudden replacement
of Neanderthal man with modern man, and Mesopotamian
records state that intelligent planning by an extraterrestrial
race lay somewhere behind that dramatic event.
In Chapter 2, we discussed the fact that humans appear
to be spiritual beings animating physical bodies. The spirit
seems to be the true source of awareness, personality,
and intelligence. Without a spiritual entity to animate it,
a human body would be little more than a reactive animal,
or dead. The people of ancient Mesopotamia thoroughly
understood this critical fact when they mentioned a spiritual
being in connection with the creation of Homo sapiens:
You have slaughtered a god together
with his personality [spiritual being] I
have removed your heavy work, I
have imposed your toil on man.5
Custodial rulers knew that they needed to keep spiritual
beings permanently attached to human bodies in order to
animate those bodies and make them intelligent enough to
perform their labors:
In the clay god [a spiritual entity] and Man
[physical body of Homo sapiens] shall be bound,
to a unity brought together;
So that to the end of days
the Flesh and the Soul
which in a god have ripened—
that Soul in a blood-kinship be bound;6
The tablets are silent about which "personalities" were
chosen to animate the new slave bodies. Based upon how
things are done in human society, we might guess that
the Custodial society used criminals, deviates, prisoners
of war, detested social and racial groups, nonconformists,
and other undesirables to obtain the spiritual beings
it needed to animate the new slave race of Earth.
Humans were certainly treated like convicts sentenced to
hard labor:
With picks and spades they [human beings] built the
shrines,
They built the big canal banks.
For food for the peoples, for the
sustenance of [the gods].7
As beasts of burden, humans were brutally treated by their
extraterrestrial masters. The clay tablets tell of vast and catastrophic
cruelty perpetrated by the Custodians against their
human servants. Cold-blooded population control measures
were carried out frequently:
Twelve hundred years had not yet passed
When the land extended and the peoples multiplied.
The land was bellowing like a bull,
The god got disturbed with their uproar.
Enlil [half-brother and rival of Ea] heard their
noise*
And addressed the great gods, "The noise of mankind
has become too intense for
me,
With their uproar I am deprived of sleep. Cut off supplies
for the peoples, Let there be a scarcity of plant-life to
satisfy their
hunger.
Adad [another Custodian] should withhold his rain, And
below, the flood [the regular flooding of the
land which made it fertile] should not come up from
the abyss.
Let the wind blow and parch the ground, Let the clouds
thicken but not release a downpour, Let the fields
diminish their yields,
There must be no rejoicing among them."*
* These lines suggest that Enlil had lived more than 1200 years. A
similar longevity is attributed to Ea and other Custodial rulers. Many
people find it difficult to believe that any creature, including an extraterrestrial,
could live that long.
The surprising longevity attributed to Custodial rulers may perhaps
be explained by Sumerian spiritual beliefs. The Sumerians believed
that a "personality" (spiritual being) survives the death of a physical
body and that it is possible to identify the "personality" after it has
abandoned one body and taken on a new one (in the same way that
one can identify a driver who jumps out of one automobile and
climbs into another). A "personality" could therefore hold the same
political or social position body after body, as long as the "personality"
could be identified. When Sumerians gave Custodians an extensive
longevity, they were not necessarily suggesting that a single Custodial
body survived for centuries; in many cases they appear to have been
saying that a Custodial "personality" held a political position for a very
long time even though it may have done so through a succession
of bodies.
An Assyrian tablet adds:
"Command that there be a plague, Let
Namtar diminish their noise. Let disease,
sickness, plague and pestilence Blow upon
them like a tornado." They commanded and
there was plague Namtar diminished their
noise. Disease, sickness, plague and
pestilence Blew upon them like a tornado.9
The tablets describe ghastly conditions in which food
supplies were cut off, in which diseases were laid upon the
people that constricted wombs and prevented childbirth, and
in which starvation became so rampant that human beings
were forced to resort to cannibalism. Lesser diseases, such
as one resembling influenza, were also visited upon Homo
sapiens, suggesting that the Custodial "gods" understood
and engaged in biological warfare.
When this genocide did not produce a sufficient drop in
the human population, the Custodians resumed it. Eventually,
a decision was made to destroy the human race entirely
with a great flood.
Many archaeologists today believe that there was a cataclysmic
flood in the Near East thousands of years ago. One
description of the "Great Flood" is found in the Babylonian
"Epic of Gilgamesh," which predates the Bible.
According to the Epic, a Babylonian named Utnapishtim
was approached by Prince Ea, who opposed the decision
to destroy his creation, Homo sapiens. Ea told Utnapishtim
that the other "gods" planned to cause a deluge to wipe out
the human race. Ea, who is described in other writings as a
master shipbuilder and sailor, gave Utnapishtim instructions
on how to build a boat which could survive the flood.
Utnapishtim followed Ea's directions and, with the help
of friends, completed the vessel before the flooding began.
Utnapishtim then loaded the boat with his gold, family,
and livestock, along with craftsmen and wild animals, and
hoisted off to sea.
Babylonian and Assyrian tablets relate that just prior to
flooding the land, the Custodians scorched it with flame.
Then they flooded the region by causing a long rainstorm
and by breaking the intricate system of dams and dikes that
had been built in Mesopotamia to control the erratic flooding
of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.
The Gilgamesh Epic relates that Utnapishtim and his
crew survived the ordeal. When it was over, they sought
out dry land by releasing a series of three birds; if a bird
did not return to the boat, Utnapishtim would know that it
had found dry land nearby on which to alight.
Once back on solid ground, Utnapishtim was joined by
several Custodians returning from out of the sky. Instead of
destroying the survivors, a degree of leniency prevailed and
the Custodians transported the surviving humans to another
region to live.
The tale of Utnapishtim should ring a bell with anyone
who is familiar with the Biblical story of Noah and the Ark.
That is because the tale of Noah, luce many other stories
in the Old Testament, is taken from older Mesopotamian
writings. Biblical authors simply altered names and changed
the many "gods" of the original writings into the one "God"
or "Lord" of the Hebrew religion. The latter change was an
unfortunate one because it caused a Supreme Being to be
blamed for the brutal acts that earner writers had attributed
to the very «n-God-like Custodians.
Early Mesopotamian writings gave us another famous Old
Testament story: the tale of Adam and Eve. The Adam and
Eve narrative is also derived from earlier Mesopotamian
sources which described life under the Custodial "gods."
The "God" or "Lord God" of the Bible's Adam and Eve
story can therefore be translated to mean the Custodial
rulers of Earth. The story of Adam and Eve is unique
in that it is entirely symbolic, and through its symbols
it provides an intriguing account of early human history.
According to the Bible, Adam, who symbolizes first
man, was created by "God" from the "dust of the ground."
This idea reflects the older Mesopotamian belief that Homo
sapiens was created partially from "clay." Adam's wife,
Eve, was also created artificially. They both lived in an
abundant paradise known as the Garden of Eden. Modern
versions of the Bible place the Garden of Eden in the
Tigris-Euphrates region of Mesopotamia.
The Old Testament tells us that Adam (first man) was
designed to be a servant. His function was to till the soil
and to care for the lush gardens and crops owned by his
"God." As long as Adam and Eve accepted their servient
status and obeyed their ever-present masters, all of
their physical needs would be met and they would be
permitted to remain in their "paradise" indefinitely. There
was, however, one unpardonable sin that they must never
commit. They must never attempt to seek certain types
of knowledge. Those forbidden forms of knowledge are
symbolized in the story as two trees: the "tree of knowledge
of good and evil" and the "tree of life." The first
"tree" symbolizes an understanding of ethics and justice.
The second "tree" symbolizes the knowledge of how to
regain and retain one's spiritual identity and immortality.
Adam and Eve obeyed the commandments of their masters
and lived in material bliss until another party entered the
scene. The intervening party was symbolized in the story as
a snake. The serpent convinced Eve to partake of the "fruit" *
from the "tree of knowledge of good and evil." Eve followed
the serpent's suggestion, as did Adam. "God" (i.e., Custodial
leadership) became immediately alarmed:
And the Lord'God said. Look, the man has become as
one of us, knowing good from evil: and now, what if
he puts forth his hand, and takes also of the tree of
life, and eats, and lives forever?
GENESIS 3:22
The above passage reveals an important truth echoed by
many religions. A true understanding of ethics, integrity,
* This fruit is usually portrayed as an apple, but that is the invention of
later artists. The Bible itself does not mention a specific fruit because
the "fruit" was only a symbol to represent knowledge.
and justice is a prerequisite to regaining one's spiritual I
freedom and immortality. Without a foundation in ethics,
full spiritual recovery becomes nothing more than a pipe
dream.
The Custodians clearly did not want mankind to begin
traveling the road to spiritual recovery. The reason is obvious.
The Custodial society wanted slaves. It is difficult to
make thralls of people who maintain their integrity and sense
of ethics. It becomes impossible when those same individuals
are uncowed by physical threats due to a reawakened
grasp of their spiritual immortality. Most importantly, if
spiritual beings could no longer be trapped in human bodies,
but could instead use and abandon bodies at will, there would
be no spiritual beings available to animate slave bodies. As I
we recall, Sumerian tablets revealed a Custodial intention to
permanently attach spiritual beings to human bodies. Early
man's attempt to escape this spiritual bondage by "eating"
from the Biblical "trees" therefore had to be stopped. . .
and fast!
Therefore the Lord God sent him [Adam] forth from
the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he
had been taken.
So he drove out the man; and he placed at the
east of the garden of Eden cherubim [angels], and a
flaming sword which turned every way, to shield the
way [prevent access] to the tree of life.
GENESIS 3:23-24
The "flaming sword" symbolizes the no-nonsense measures
that the Custodians undertook to ensure that genuine
spiritual knowledge would never become available to the
human race.
To further prevent access to such knowledge, Homo
sapiens was condemned to an additional fate:
AndtoAdam,he [God]said,Becauseyouhave listened
to the urgings of your wife, and have eaten from the
tree of which I commanded you not to, saying, You
shall not partake of it: cursed is the ground for you, in
toil will you eat its yield for all the days of your life:
Thorns, too, and thistles will it bring forth to you;
as you eat the plants from the field: By the sweat of
your face will you eat bread, until
you return to the ground; for out of it were you taken:
for dust you are and to dust will you return.
GENESIS 3:17-19
This was a highly effective way to deal with Adam's and
Eve's "original sin." The above passage indicates that Custodial
rulers intended to make humans live their entire lives
and die without ever rising above the level of arduous
material existence. That would leave humans little time
to seek out the understanding they needed to become spiritually
free.
A common misinterpretation of the Adam and Eve story
is that the "original sin" had something to do with sex or
nudity. This confusion comes from that part of the story in
which Adam and Eve eat from the "tree of knowledge of
good and evil" and immediately become ashamed of their
nakedness. It was not nudity, however, that shamed them.
Adam and Eve were mortified by what their nakedness represented.
Ancient Mesopotamian records depict human beings
stark naked when performing tasks for their Custodial
masters. Custodians, on the other hand, were depicted as being
fully clothed. The implication is that Adam and Eve felt
degraded by their nakedness because it was a sign of their
enslavement—not because being naked in itself is bad.
As we have seen, early humans were reported to be a
constant headache to their Custodial masters. The slave
creatures not only disobeyed their rulers, they often banded
together and rebelled. This made human unity undesirable
to Earth's Custodial rulers—it was better that humans be
disunited. One of the ways in which the problem of human
unity was solved is described in the Biblical story of the
Tower of Babel—a tale which also has its roots in early
Mesopotamian writings.
According to the Bible, this is what happened after the
Great Flood:
And the whole earth spoke one language, and used
the same words.
And it came to pass, as they migrated from the
east, that they found a plain in the land of Sh'-nar
[Babylonia: a region in Mesopotamia] and settled
there.
And they said, Come on, let us build ourselves a city
and a tower, whose top will reach the skies; and let
us make a name for ourselves, otherwise we will be
scattered all over the face of the earth.
And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower,
which the men were building.
And the Lord said, Look, the people are united, and
they have all one language; and this they begin to do;
and now nothing will stop them from doing what they
take in their minds to do.
Come on, let us go down, and there confuse their language
so that they cannot understand one another's
speech.
So the Lord scattered them abroad from there all
over the face of the earth: and they stopped building
the city.
Therefore the name of it is called Babel: because the
Lord did there confuse the language of the entire earth:
and from there did the Lord scatter them abroad over
the face of the whole Earth.
GENESIS 11:1-9
In The Twelfth Planet, Mr. Sitchin offers an intriguing
analysis of the Tower of Babel story. According to his
research, the word "name" in the above passage ("let us
make a name for ourselves") was a translation of the ancient
word shem. The Bible's translation of shem may be in error,
says Mr. Sitchin, because shem comes from the root word
shamah, which means "that which is highward." Ancient
shems are the obelisk monuments that were so prevalent
in many ancient societies. Those shems, or obelisks, were
copied after the rocket-shaped vehicles in which the Custodial
"gods" were said to fly. Mr. Sitchin therefore believes
that the word shem in Mesopotamian texts should be translated
to "sky vehicle," meaning rocketship. When this translation
is placed into the above Biblical passage, we find that
the ancient Babylonians were not trying to make a name
(i.e., reputation) for themselves; they were trying to make a
"sky vehicle" or rocket! The implication is that they wanted
to match the technological might of their hated Custodial
masters and thereby put an end to their enslavement. The
tower itself may have been intended as the launching pad
for a human shem.
If Mr. Sitchin's provocative analysis is accurate, we
would better understand why the Custodial entities became
so alarmed by the Tower of Babel and felt such a compelling
need to thoroughly disunite the human race.
Ancient stories and legends from other parts of the world
indirectly support the Tower of Babel story. The Japanese
people, Alaskan Eskimos, South Americans, and Egyptians
all have traditions stating that their earliest forefathers had
either been transported by humanlike "gods" to where the
modern descendants live today, or that those "gods" had
been the source of the local languages or writing.
It may be difficult to accept Mesopotamian and Biblical
statements that ancient human society had been split
apart thousands of years ago in a "divide and conquer"
effort by flying extraterrestrials, even though the "divide
and conquer" technique is frequently used by military and
political leaders on Earth during wartime. Interestingly,
using the technique was advocated a number of years ago by
a distinguished Yale professor if Earth should ever colonize
other planets. The good professor suggested that Earth could
control another inhabited planet by pitting one native group
against another.
If we compare ancient and modern ideas about how
mankind came into existence, we find two very different
versions. The ancient version is that an extraterrestrial society
had come to possess Earth and sought to exploit the
planet's resources. To make the exploitation easier, a work
race was created: Homo sapiens. Humans were treated as
livestock and were frequently butchered when they became
too numerous or troublesome. To preserve Homo sapiens
as a slave race and to prevent future rebellion, spiritual
knowledge was repressed, human beings were scattered
geographically into different linguistic groups, and conditions
were created to make physical survival on Earth an
all-consuming chore from birth until death. This arrangement
was to be maintained indefinitely for as long as the
Custodial society possessed Earth. In contrast, the modern
view is that human beings had evolved accidentally from
"star stuff" into slime, into fishes, into monkeys, and finally
into people. The modern view actually seems more fanciful
than the ancient one.
In the story of Adam and Eve we noted the appearance
of a snake. The serpent was said to be "God's" enemy,
Satan, who had literally transformed himself into a reptile.
The Bible suggests that snakes are feared and disliked
today because of Satan's alleged transformation back in
the Garden of Eden. However, it should be remembered
that the Biblical Adam and Eve story is entirely symbolic.
The snake, too, was a symbol, not an actual reptile.
To determine what the Biblical snake represented, we
must go back once again to older pre-Biblical sources.
When we do so, we discover that the snake symbol had
two very important meanings in the ancient world: it was
associated with the Custodial "god" Ea, reputed creator and
benefactor of mankind, and it also represented an influential
organization with which Ea was associated.

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In all honesty,...it is far more likely that there have never been extraterrestrials here. Many in the know believe that their is a correlation between the spirit world and UFOLOGY.
It is far more likely that there were visits from the spirit world. Have you ever noticed that alien pictures look like demons? And messages from those abducted are usually spiritual in nature,..and denouncing the belief in God and Christ by their abductors.
Evil spirits,...can be an orb,...orbs look almost identical to the witness in a haunting, or a ufo sighting. And they vanish,...simply vanish,..like no physical spacecraft could do,.........unless we are talking about something that exists in a different plane in our world.
That is a far more plausible idea,..than being seeded here by another race of beings from worlds far away,.........and the Bible certainly doesnt give any credence to this world being started by a distant world.
We were created from dust, in our creators image. We were also the most loved of all His creations,.......thus despised by the fallen angels who sought their own glory, their own power and domains,..thus cast from heaven to earth.
They are vast in number,...and they have their own government with Satan as President..so to speak. Since Satan is not omnipresent like God,...he has his minions, demons, elementals, and principalities do his biding.