Oct 7, 2022 07:14 PM
(This post was last modified: Oct 7, 2022 07:24 PM by C C.)
https://bigthink.com/the-past/did-extrat...ent-sumer/
EXCERPTS: . . . Astrophysicist Carl Sagan considered the possibility that ancient humans may have recorded visitations from extraterrestrials. [...] Numerous ancient writers tell of a creature named Oannes, rising from a part of the Persian Gulf that bordered Babylonia, whose “whole body… was like that of a fish; and had under a fish’s head another head, and also feet below, similar to those of a man, subjoined to the fish’s tail.”
According to the legend, Oannes bestowed upon the early Sumerians “insight into letters, and sciences, and every kind of art. He taught them to construct houses, to found temples, to compile laws, and explained to them the principles of geometrical knowledge.”
[...] While the tale is intriguing, Sagan recognized that there's no concrete evidence that aliens ever visited the ancient Sumerians... (MORE - details)
EXCERPTS: . . . Astrophysicist Carl Sagan considered the possibility that ancient humans may have recorded visitations from extraterrestrials. [...] Numerous ancient writers tell of a creature named Oannes, rising from a part of the Persian Gulf that bordered Babylonia, whose “whole body… was like that of a fish; and had under a fish’s head another head, and also feet below, similar to those of a man, subjoined to the fish’s tail.”
According to the legend, Oannes bestowed upon the early Sumerians “insight into letters, and sciences, and every kind of art. He taught them to construct houses, to found temples, to compile laws, and explained to them the principles of geometrical knowledge.”
[...] While the tale is intriguing, Sagan recognized that there's no concrete evidence that aliens ever visited the ancient Sumerians... (MORE - details)
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