Originally posted by one_small_step
In the long, long ago the People From The Stars came to Elohimona...
Are you a raelian?
Nope. That's a Cherokee (Tsalagi, Aniyunwiya) legend from ancient Native Americans (Indians).
Originally posted by Trustnone
I am not familiar with these cherokee legends, could you give a few links?
Most of our knowledge is sung, not written. Some of it has been written down. Try
this
link and
this link.
I used to laugh at this stuff. Then over the years I heard it from many different tribes and many different elders. Check these links on
Shenandoah and on
The Woman
Who Fell From The Sky.
Our origin myths existed when we first met the Europeans, so we are not looking at post-contact, post-technological mythmaking. The stone-age Indians
were quite clear: our ancestors came from the stars. They didn't get this idea from Star Trek; Rodenberry got it from them.
I tried rationalizing this as, 'sure, a hypernova was our Mother'. But that is not what the Elders mean. They mean we literally came from a
starfaring race. But apparently one of not unlimited power. They barely made it here.
I've heard this around desert campfires and in books. And I've seen it in dated ancient petroglyphs, especially around Dinosaur National Monument.
Lucas obviously has, too.
Our legends must have spawned a lot of the 'Space Brothers' junk over the centuries.
Now, if the govt has actually found any artifacts
confirming our Ancestors stories- on the Earth or on the Moon- well, its above top secret-
thanks to
Brookings and the
Alien Contact
Act (yeah, the original one was repealed but there's a new one in its place).
So contact may have already taken place. And ET is us.
Just the possibility means we need to take another, closer look at human origins, evolution, physics and so on...
[edit on 10-5-2005 by Chakotay]