posted on May, 17 2005 @ 09:12 PM
There is so much room in the history of the Earth for civilizations to have come and gone, it’s mind boggling. From all estimates, our solar system
has been here for around 4.5 billion years, and the civilization that we acknowledge is only 5 or 6,000 years old and certainly no more than 10,000
years. The dinosaurs “ruled” the world for approximately 65 million years, and went extinct around 65 million years ago. If it took us even
10,000 years to go from hunting and gathering in groups to exploring our solar system, then how many other civilizations could have reached the same
level in the same amount of time, or even exceeded our current level of technology? My handy dandy calculator says there would be room for 6500
civilizations, each 10,000 years old. Now, what happens if the last civilization before us was extremely lucky, and lasted 20,000 or even 40,000
years? What would they have been capable of?
I’ve been reading The Sirius Mystery by Robert Temple. His assumption is that 5,000 years ago amphibious humanoids from the Sirius star
system came here and gave humanity the tools to develop civilization. His argument is very compelling, as there are not one but at least 3 cultures on
the earth that claim that they were given the skills of civilization by just such creatures. One of the groups is the Dogan, an African tribe. Through
their rituals, they give a detailed description of the Sirius star system, and claim that is exactly what it is. They identified the Sirius star
system as being made up of 3 stars with several planets. This was first reported in 1931 by a group of French anthropologists who visited the tribe.
The unique thing is that Sirius A is an extremely bright star and it’s light completely hides both Sirius B and C. As a matter of fact, Sirius B was
finally imaged in 1962 and Sirius C was accepted by astronomers to exist in 1995.
Temple believes that they knew this because they handed down the information given them by the occupants of that star system, the very same amphibious
humanoids recorded by both the Chaldeans and the Chinese. he goes on to explain that the location of certain oracle sites established by the Greeks
and various myths give the same information through analogy, right down to the period of rotation of Sirius B and C around Sirius A, and the existence
of planets harboring life in that system. He specifically mentions the story of Jason and the Argonauts in their search for the Golden Fleece. At that
point, I realized something.
What would have happened if, as I said in the beginning, there was a civilization that was 20,000 years old, and what if they developed the
technology to travel to the Sirius Star system (about 7.8 light years away)? I began to wonder if maybe the story of Jason was an account of that
trip, and due to a catastrophe that caused the end of that civilization, their crowning achievement of visiting another star system and mapping it wag
reduced to myth and legend over the generations.
I began to wonder what could that catastrophe have been, and naturally the first thing that came to mind was the flood that again, shows up in
nearly every culture on earth. Or maybe it was something bigger. Something that would have totally destroyed that civilization that it would leave
very few if any artifacts. And there is. Since science is based on theory, it is not set in stone, or absolutely infallible. In 1976, the Giant
Impact theory of the creation of the moon was put forth,. Basically, it theorizes that a body the approximate size of Mars built up in the L4 position
formed by the earth and the sun, and over a few hundred years drifted into the earth’s orbit and delivered a glancing blow. The impact destroyed it
and sent a large part of the earth’s mantle into orbit around the earth, resulting in a debris ring that eventually coalesced into the moon. There
is reason to believe that the point of impact was where the Pacific Ocean is now. Now, what happens if that did not happen near the early formation
of the earth as the theory supposes, but happened after that last great civilization visited Sirius. Very few would have survived, but those that did
would certainly have remember the greatness that was their civilization, and the story of the epic journey would have devolved into myth and legend.
Maybe the debris ring was the “bow” that God put in the sky promising never to flood the earth again. And now you may ask, where did the Sirians
come in? Maybe they had limited space travel capabilities when they were visited, and the contact gave them the inspiration to develop the ability to
travel to our system. Maybe it took several of our generations to develop the technology, and when they finally arrived, the civilization that they
expected to find was gone, and they took it on themselves to help us rebuild that civilization. And maybe, just maybe they are out there right now,
waiting to renew that relationship formed so long ago.
I have to apologize for the length of this entry, but it’s a pretty detailed subject- and admittedly it leads to a lot of supposition. Any opinions?