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The greatest writers of antiquity agree that once there was a wonderful Golden Age on an earth ruled by ‘gods’. But it was destroyed by wars and cataclysms when Man degenerated through the Silver and Bronze Ages to our own Iron Age. Research into the classics reveals how the deities of Greece helped the valiant city of Athens defeat the invading armies of Atlantis in 10,000 bc. They inspired the Greeks and Trojans to fight for the beauteous Helen, surely a space queen. The literature of ancient Greece, its great plays and sublime philosophies show reverence for the ‘gods’, who intervened at Marathon and Salamis, sending flying shields to aid Alexander storming the walls of Tyre. The magic land of Italy still dreams of the Age of Saturn and the mysterious voices and apparitions which were manifestations of higher beings. Near Troy a UFO saved the army of Lucullus from destruction, omens from the sky foretold the murder of Caesar, men in white watched from the heavens as Hannibal ravaged Italy. Surely these and other supernatural phenomena add up to real evidence that a race with advanced knowledge was at work in the classical world. Here is that evidence, presented so that you can judge. First published in Great Britain by Sphere Books Ltd 1976 Copyright © W. Raymond Drake 1976 To my wife, Marjorie TRADE MARK This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out or otherwise circulated without the publisher’s prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser. Set in Monotype Times Printed in Great Britain by C. Nicholls & Company Ltd The Philips Park Press, Manchester CONTENTS 1 Invaders From Space .............................................. 7 2 Space Gods of Ancient Greece ............................... 11 3 The Golden Age ...................................................... 24 4 Ancient Athens ........................................................ 45 5 Spacemen in Ancient Greece .................................. 62 6 Helen of Troy .......................................................... 84 7 Space Literature of Ancient Greece ........................ 93 8 Spacemen in Ancient Italy ................................... 120 9 Spacemen in Ancient Rome .................................... 143 10 Space Chronicles of Ancient Rome ........................ 168 11 Space Gods of Scandinavia .................................... 203 12 The Cross ............................................................... 228 Bibliography........................................................... 239 Index ...................................................................... 248 Acknowledgements The author would like to express his sincere appreciation for the encouragement of John G. Williams of Abergavenny whose research into Stone Age history so brilliantly supports the theory that the gods achieved an advanced electrical civilisation. Chapter One INVADERS FROM SPACE Lightning flashed, night roared, Earth shook in sheets of flame spewing mushrooms of smoke to dim the stars. Electric blasts blitzed the mountain-peaks fusing the solid rock, waves of heat fired the forests. The world exploded. Those silver Spaceships winging down from the Moon ceased their destruction, descending warily over this wild scene they sought to land. Suddenly the mountain spat forth beams of light shrivelling the ships like moths; one solitary survivor in frantic turns evaded the heat-ray track- ing him and fled swiftly to Space. Deep within the hillside the besieged Giants did not rejoice, this raid had failed, there would be others with fusion-bombs to blast the bowels of the Earth. For ten savage years the planet had suffered assault from the skies waged with terrible nuclear weapons, mountain piled on mountain, continents quivered and crumbled to the ocean depths. Earth quaked in devastation, the fair lands of the West lay desolate. Invaders from the stars had overthrown the glorious civilisation of the Sun aided by treacherous wizards from their workshops underground. Earth’s last defender stood at bay in the lofty Caucasus defying attacks from the skies, the hope of the world. In his cavernous operations-room the Leader scanned the telescreen flashing scenes from the battle-fronts. The Giant’s eyes sorrowed as he saw the once-proud Empire die in defeat; the towers of Atlantis toppled to the sea, the Pacific fleet burned in the harbour of Tiahuanaco; in Italy the Imperial capital smoked in ruins, its aged Emperor im- prisoned on the island of Britain. From the blazing North- West hordes of refugees trudged towards the Middle Sea. The Leader’s ascetic features frowned. Why did God permit such suffering? Must the innocent always . . .? 7 Computers clicked, symbols glowing on the wall spelled grievous news. An atom-bomb in the last raid had wrecked the energy-plant charging the laser-light defences. The Leader sighed, then spoke into a microphone spurring his men to speed repairs. Time! He needed time. In subterranean laboratories his scientists were striving to control that primordial force which motivated the stars; soon he would free beloved Earth and carry the war to the planets to conquer Space. The Leader stood on a rock outside and watched the sun gild the mountain-tops in glory. He filled his lungs with the sweet dawn air and prayed to the Creator, who destined the affairs of men. The stars faded from sight, night fled before the wondrous splendour of a fresh day, from the sun- dappled valleys far below murmured the sounds and scents of awakened Earth reborn to new life. Such blessed tranquillity recalled those last days of peace. The Leader’s gentle face smiled in reminiscence as he recalled that daring mission to Jupiter which had provoked this war; when rebelling against Space Overlords he with his two brothers landed on that giant planet and stole the secret of solar fire to benefit mankind, that escape by Space- ship through the planetary patrols still thrilled his adven- turous soul. The outraged Jovians and their Allies promptly invaded Earth, assisted by rebels from the old regime who lived underground, their fantastic sidereal weapons blitzed the world. The peace-loving Emperor soon suffered defeat; his forces routed by Supermen from the stars. In that last battle both the Leader’s brothers were captured; the youngest still defiant was imprisoned on a mountain in Africa; the other collaborated with the Jovian King and married a beautiful physicist, who as dowry brought a nuclear-reactor, this exploded catastrophically, its deadly radiation decimating the world. Sirens howled. From the clouds swung a sinister Space- ship. The Leader swore as the enemy approached, the laser- rays, were out of action, the fortress sprawled defenceless. Was this the end of Man on Earth? Must the planet yield 8 to Aliens from Space? He gazed across yon sunlit hills, this radiant world he loved like a woman. Compassion for all humanity surged through his soul; for Earth he lived, for Her he died. The invader circled lower for final assault. From out of the Sun swooped a Scoutship, its blazing ray- guns ringed the assailant in flames and hurled it down to the valley exploding its nuclear-bombs. Before this hero landed the Leader recognised that swashbuckling Giant whose exploits in battle and boudoir were the scandal of the Universe. His mediation brought honourable truce; the Jovians appointed the Leader Governor of Earth to rebuild civilisation. For many years he taught men all the arts of peace until the long-prophesied comet from Sirius menaced the world. As the fiery dragon approached, the Jovian King massed the planetary fleets to launch sidereal rockets to shatter the comet’s head. Earth was spared total destruction but storms of fiery stones scourged the planet. Mankind degenerated to wicked- ness, the waters rose in mighty flood. The Giant rescued a man and a woman to start humanity again. Science-fiction? Fantasy of the future? This story forms the earliest history of our Earth told with tragic brilliance by Hesiod,1 Aeschylus,2 Ovid3 and all the classic writers of Greece and Rome. Greek legends relate how Cronus (Saturn) ruled Italy in a Golden Age; his rebellious son, Zeus (Jupiter), was reared by the Cyclops, who under Vulcan were said to have great factories underground. Zeus revolted against his father and aided by the Cyclops overthrew him. The Titans refused to submit to Zeus; the leader, Prometheus, with his brothers, Atlas and Epimetheus, stole fire from heaven in a hollow tube. Finally Zeus chained Prometheus to a rock in Caucasus where during the day an eagle devoured his liver, magically renewed by night. Hercules killed the eagle and freed Prometheus. Atlas was condemned to bear the sky on his shoulders; to Epimetheus was given Pandora created by Vulcan, who brought with her a box containing every human affliction; on opening it all the evils escaped to plague the world but left therein was Hope. Later Zeus fought a sky- 9 monster called Typhon, then he sent a great flood to destroy degenerate mankind. Prometheus made a huge box and saved his son, Deucalion, also his niece, Pyrrha, Pandora’s daughter, to carry on the human race.4 Memories of Prometheus’ heroic defiance of the Gods, appear to be world-wide. In India the Rig Veda mentions a race of priests called Bhrigus to whom Matarishvan brought the secret fire stolen from heaven.5 The Chinese extol the hero, Kun, who stole from the ‘Lord’ a ‘swelling mold’, magical soil which expanded and filled the dykes to hold back the floods. The ‘Lord’ angered at the theft had Kun executed at Feather Mountain, a darksome place in the Far North.6 Plutarch wrote that Cronus, Ruler of the Golden Age, was deposed by Jupiter and imprisoned in Britain; Diodorus Siculus7 described the ‘Arrow of Apollo’, which destroyed the Hyperboreans in their Land of the Blest. Celtic bards and Norse scalds sang of the same war in the skies with titanic blasts and the weary Gods retreating to the stars leaving the shattered Earth for Man to build again. The peoples of Antiquity marvelled at these brilliant civilisations illuminating the past, yet their souls with wondrous inspiration sought mystic communion in that transcendent secret wisdom of the Gods, the glorious Space- men, whose plaintive echoes still haunted those silent, shrouded, ancient Lands of the West. 10

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