Gods and spacemen in Greece and Rome - 1976

257 Pages·1976·1.931 MB·English

by  Drake, W. Raymond

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
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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 . . .?
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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
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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-
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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.
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