Cosmonautics of the ancients

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

Even the latest achievements of military science - stealth aircraft, vacuum bombs, geomagnetic and weather weapons - still only vaguely resemble the weapons that our distant ancestors had …

There are no predecessors who lived five, and maybe fifteen or twenty-five thousand years ago - when, according to all the canons of modern science, only a society of primitive hunters and gatherers using stone tools existed on Earth, and this time was called the Late Paleolithic or early stone century …

Planes and nuclear bombs from primitive savages who did not know metal? Where did they get them, and why? How could they use them? Against whom were the weapons used to destroy entire nations? After all, then there were no states and cities on Earth!.. Against the same hunters and gatherers, like them, who lived in a nearby cave? It hardly sounds ridiculous and ridiculous. Then against whom?..

It is much easier to imagine that at the time when aircraft were used and destructive weapons were used, there were simply no savages. Perhaps they lived somewhere - in forests, caves. But in the society of that time, they were assigned a secondary and inconspicuous role. And the people who reached the highest scientific and technological progress, who built big cities and created powerful states, ruled the ball. Being at a higher level of development than our society, they used aviation, waged fierce wars with each other and roamed the vastness of the Universe, sending spaceships to other planets and even to other galaxies.

Surely, some of the readers will call all this nonsense. Well, everyone is entitled to their point of view. A couple of years ago, too, much of what I told you about and what else I just want to share seemed incredible. But time passes, new data appear, and our worldview changes in accordance with this. And even now the question for me is not: is it fiction or true, because I have long understood that everything stated in Indian legends is a reflection of the events that actually took place on Earth. Although strongly modified, distorted, but still a reflection. Even though veiled by many generations of storytellers and scribes, sometimes unconsciously, because the ancient chroniclers could not otherwise convey what they had never seen and never touched, sometimes deliberately, for the sake of the customs of the era in which they lived, or in order to hide the grains of the most valuable knowledge from the uninitiated.

During the time that has passed since the writing of the first article on aircraft, I have studied a large number of new publications and primary sources. In the process of examining them, extraordinary pictures appeared in my mind's eye. They represented the former inhabitants of our planet, who sometimes looked alike, and sometimes did not at all look like people. I traveled through the mysterious Hyperborea and walked through the city of the gods - Amaravati, saw air fleets from light aircraft operated by Gandharvas and Apsaras, and Indra himself showed me the weapons of the gods to his son Arjuna.

At the distant Kailash in the city of Alak, I visited the one-eyed giant, the three-legged god of wealth, Kubera, and saw his formidable guard of giants Yakshas, multi-armed Rakshasas and Nairrits, who guarded the approaches to the treasures hidden in the dungeons.

I was on the battlefields, where the gods and demons fought first, and then their human descendants - the Pandavas and Kauravas. I still see mountains of mutilated corpses and a scorched earth, scorched by the heat of the weapons of the gods, on which nothing has grown for many, centuries. Even now, before my eyes, there are ominous visions of cracks in the earth's crust and gaping chasms filled with seething magma, earth trembling underfoot and crumbling mountains, and then - a huge wave that crumbled and washed away everything around, leaving behind only a dead lifeless desert.

After the devastation that took place on Earth, nothing remained of the former powerful civilizations: earthquakes, lava flows, a giant wave that circled the globe several times, huge glaciers ruthlessly destroyed everything that is called the cultural layer. Only earlier deposits remained, in which the remains of hunters and gatherers who lived before the era of progress, who had so much confused our history and who again entered the historical scene after the last grand cataclysm that occurred, according to the most frequently occurring dates, about 12 thousand years ago, remained.

This short introduction to the article was written for a reason. My goal is to make you understand that this time I will not express my surprise at where such unusual knowledge from ancient people came from. As a little three-year-old man would say about this, “from there”. Yes, exactly from there - from the world in which they lived, which was destroyed and perished during a global catastrophe; But knowledge - the echoes of that distant time - miraculously survived. Perhaps, ancient manuscripts have survived in underground shelters, as Plato wrote about. Probably, together with them, some eyewitnesses of the events of that distant time were able to survive the catastrophe. Ancient knowledge has come down to us in the form of numerous legends about flying vehicles, about destroying all living weapons, about the wanderings of demigods and mortals through star systems. So let's just see what the oldest books on Earth tell us, many of which were written long before the time of Plato and Julius Caesar, and no one doubts their authenticity.

Alien conquest of the Earth

Ancient Indian texts are full of references to distant worlds, stars, planets, flying cities plowing the Universe, celestial chariots and carriages, overcoming huge distances at the speed of thought. Half of the human race in them generally traces its lineage from aliens from the Cosmos - Adityas, who in Indian legends are called demigods, and Daityas with Danavas, who belong to demons. Both those and others in appearance differed little from people, although, apparently, they were taller.

This is how the conquest of the Earth by Adityas, Daityas and Danavas is described in the first book of the Mahabharata:

“The holy sages describe what happened this way. Once the divine tribe of Adityas, governing the Universe, were at enmity with their cousins-demons, Daityas, and once … the Adityas inflicted a complete defeat on them …

Leaving their combat positions on the higher planets, … the daityas … decided that they would first be born on a small planet Earth … and so effortlessly subjugate our tiny planet to their power. Having become the masters of the Earth, they intended to challenge the divine Adityas in response and thus enslave the Universe.

… Daityas … entered the bosom of earthly queens and … were born among members of royal families. With age, the Daityas began to manifest themselves as powerful and proud monarchs …

… Their number in this world has increased so much that … The Earth was unable to bear the burden of their presence. But, despite this, they continued to flood the land, and they became more and more."

In order to save our planet from the invasion of Daityas with Danavas, “Lord Indra and other demigods decided to descend to earth … The celestials began to descend to earth in a continuous succession … in serpentine guise and various other creatures that devoured people alive”.

As you can guess from the excerpts from the Mahabharata quoted above, daityas, danavas and adityas flew to Earth from some other inhabited planets, and possibly from other star systems. Most likely, they used spaceships for their movement in Space, which they delivered in large numbers to Earth. There were really a lot of such ships, and they performed different functions: from intergalactic flights to flights in the Earth's atmosphere.

Flying cities of gods and demons

Indian legends have brought to us the names of two outstanding designers of spaceships. They were the skilled artist and architect of the Danavs, Maya Danava, and the architect of the gods, Vishvakarman. Maya Danava was considered the teacher of all Mayavas who were capable of invoking sorcerous powers.

Flying cities were considered the main creation of Maya Danava. According to the Mahabharata, Srimad Bhagavatam, Vishnu-parve and other ancient Indian texts, he built many splendidly decorated cities, which had everything for long-term residence of people (or demons). The third book of the Mahabharata, for example, speaks of the flying city of Hiranyapura. This city, soaring in the sky, was seen by the descendant of the Adityas, the son of the god Indra Arjuna, when he traveled in an air chariot through the heavenly regions after the great victory over the inhabitants of the depths of the sea, the Nivatakavachas.

“Arjuna said:

“On the way back, I saw a huge and amazing city, capable of moving anywhere … Four entrances with watchtowers over the gates led this wonderful, inaccessible miracle [city] …”.

On this journey, Arjuna was accompanied by a Gandharva pilot named Matali, whom he asked what this miracle was. Matali replied:

“In this marvelous, floating in the air [city] … the Danavs live - Paulom and Kalakei. This great city is called Hiranyapura, and it is guarded by powerful demons - the sons of Puloma and Kalaki. And they live here … in eternal joy, without anxiety … and the gods cannot destroy them."

The great city of Hiranyapura could move freely in the sky and in open space, float on water, dive under water and even underground.

Another creation of Maya Danava was the "iron flying city" Saubha (Skt. Saubha - "prosperity", "happiness"), presented to the king of the Daityas, Salva. According to the Bhagavata Purana, "this unapproachable ship … could fly anywhere." Neither aditya devas, nor demons, nor people could destroy it. He could influence the weather and create tornadoes, lightning, become visible and invisible, move through the air and under water. Sometimes it seemed that many ships appeared in the sky, and sometimes not a single one was visible. Saubha was seen now on the ground, now in the sky, now landing on the top of a mountain, now floating on the water. This amazing ship flew across the sky like a fiery whirlwind, not for a moment remaining motionless.

A similar flying ship-city Vaihayasu (Skt. Vaihauasa - "in the open air"), presented to the commander-in-chief Bali Maharaja, the son of the Daitya king Virochana, is mentioned in the eighth canto of the Srimad-Bhagavatam:

“This splendidly decorated ship was built by the demon Maya and is equipped with weapons suitable for any battle. It was impossible to imagine and describe it. For example, he was sometimes visible, and sometimes invisible …, like a moon rising from the horizon, illuminating everything around."

In the Shiva Purana, Maya Danava is credited with the authorship of the creation of three "flying cities, intended for the sons of the Daitya or Danav king Taraka:"

“Then the extremely wise and skillful Maya … built cities: gold for Tarakashi, silver for Kamalaksha and steel for Vidyumali. These three excellent, fortress-like cities regularly served in heaven and on earth … So, entering the three cities, the sons of Taraka, mighty and valiant, enjoyed all the joys of life. There were many kalpa trees growing there. There were elephants and horses in abundance. There were many palaces … Air chariots, shining like a solar disk … moving in all directions and like moons, illuminated the city."

Another "great architect of the Universe" and the builder of flying ships, the architect and designer of the gods (adityas) Vishvakarman (Skt. Vicyakarman - "all-creating") is credited with the construction of a flying ship donated by Indra to Arjuna:

“The chariot was supplied with all the necessary equipment. Neither gods nor demons could defeat her, she emitted light and made a low rumbling noise. Her beauty captivated the hearts of everyone who saw her. This chariot … was cooped by the divine architect Vishvakarman; and its outline was as hard to distinguish as the outline of the sun. On this chariot, shining brightly with its splendor, Soma defeated the wicked Danavas "(" Adiparva ").

Another creation of Vishvakarman is the huge flying chariot Pushpaka (Skt. Puspaka - "blossoming"), which consistently belonged to the serpentine god of wealth and treasures Kubera, the leader of the Rakshasas Havana and the earthly incarnation of the god Vishnu - Rama.

Visvakarman also appears to have built large "flying public houses" from which the adityas exercised their control. From them they also watched the course of the battles. For example, here is an excerpt from the "Mahabharata", which tells about the airy palace for meetings of Shakra (Indra):

“The majestic and luxurious palace of Shakra, which he conquered with his exploits, he nocmpole for himself … with the splendor and splendor of fire. It stretched one hundred yojanas in width and one hundred and fifty yojanas in length, airy, moving freely, and rising five yojanas. Dissipating old age, sorrow and mouth, ailment, free from disease, auspicious, beautiful, with many rooms, bedrooms and places to rest, lively and decorated with magnificent trees growing everywhere in this estate … where the Lord of the Gods sat with Sachi (the wife of the god Indra).

In addition to the described and others similar to them, large spaceships and interplanetary stations (I will not be afraid to call the flying cities of gods and demons with these words), there were celestial chariots and smaller air crews. Judging by the numerous episodes from the Mahabharata, Bhagavata Purana, Shiva Purana and other ancient Indian texts, there were a lot of both in the old days.

To confirm this, I will cite two passages from the Mahabharata:

“… Matali pierced the firmament (and found himself) in the world of the wise.

He showed me … (other) air chariots …

On a chariot harnessed with bullocks, we ascended higher and higher …

… Then the self-propelled worlds, the worlds of the divine rishis (we passed), Gapdharvas, apsaras, gods, magnificent lands ….

“At this very time …

A mighty sound arose, from the inhabitants of heaven (it came), from the firmament …

Raju of gods, conqueror of enemies, on air chariots shining with the sun

Many Gandharvas and Apsaras accompanied from all sides."

About the same accumulation of air chariots is mentioned in the fragments from the 8th century Jain text "Mahavira Bhavabhuti" mentioned in my first article, collected from more ancient texts and traditions, and in the "Bhagavata Purana":

“The air chariot, Pushpaka, brings many people to the capital of Ayodhya. The sky is full of huge flying machines, black as night, but strewn with yellowish lights ….

"… O unborn, o blue-necked … Look at the sky, which has become so beautiful, because the rows of white, like swans, air ships float on it …".

To the stars. Space flights of gods and mortals

In the "Mahabharata", "Srimad Bhagavatam", "Vishnu Purana" and other ancient Indian texts, space travel by air ships is repeatedly described by gods, demons, heroes (born of gods and mortal women) and various mythical creatures:

“I was a famous vidyadhara named Sudarsana. I was very rich and handsome and flew everywhere in my airship ….

"Citraketu, the lord of the Vidyadharas, set off on a journey across the vast expanses of the Universe … Once, wandering in the heavens on his dazzlingly shining airship, he arrived at the abode of Shiva …"

“Rushing through space, Maharaja Dhurva saw one after another all the planets of the solar system and saw on his way the demigods on celestial chariots.

So Maharaja Dhurva passed the seven planetary systems of the great sages known as saptarishis - the seven stars of the constellation Ursa Major …”.

A descendant of the Kuru dynasty, King Vasu could travel outside the Earth in the upper regions of our Universe, and therefore in those distant times he became famous under the name Upari-chara, "Wandering in the upper worlds." Unlike the vidyadharas, the siddhis could travel in space without the aid of flying machines. And here is how Vasu got his aircraft from Indra:

“I am rewarding you with the rarest gift - to know about everything that happens within this universe. I also grant you a crystal heavenly ship - the delight of the gods. This amazing ship is already on its way to you, and soon you, the only one among mortals, will step on board. So, like one of the gods, you will travel among the higher planets of this Universe."

Another hero of the Mahabharata, Arjuna, also flew through Space in an air chariot presented to him by Indra:

“And on this sun-like, miraculous divine chariot, the wise descendant of Kuru flew up. Becoming invisible to mortals walking on earth, he saw thousands of wonderful aerial chariots. There was no light, no sun, no moon, no fire, but they shone with their own light, acquired through their merits. Because of the distance, the light of the stars is seen as a tiny lamp flame, but in reality they are very large. The Pandava saw them bright and beautiful, shining with the light of their own fire … ", Another traveler in the universe was the sage Kardama Muni. Having married the daughter of King Svayambhuva Manu - Devahuti, and having received a "wonderful flying palace", he and his wife set off on a journey through various planetary systems:

“So he traveled from one planet to another, like the wind that blows everywhere, without encountering obstacles. Moving through the air in his magnificent, radiant castle in the air, which flew, obedient to his will, he surpassed even the demigods …”.

Principles of Universe Travel

In addition to flying cities and celestial chariots, which, most likely, were spaceships, interplanetary stations and flying vehicles, horses of a special breed deserve special mention. This is how they are described in the Mahabharata:

“The horses of the gods and Gandharvas exude a heavenly fragrance and can gallop with the quickness of thought. Even when their forces are depleted, they still do not slow down … The horses of the Gandharvas can change colors at will and race at any speed they want. It is enough just to mentally wish that they immediately appear before you, ready to carry out your will. These horses are always ready to fulfill your desires."

Richard L. Thompson in his book Aliens. A look from time immemorial”showed that these are some“mystical horses”, the properties of which are based on the laws governing subtle material energies. These laws were well known to scientists of antiquity, but modern specialists know almost nothing about them. After analyzing ancient Indian primary sources, Thompson came to the conclusion that the horses of the Gandharvas "galloped" along certain "roads", called "The roads of the siddhas", "The roads of the stars" and "The ways of the gods" … The fact that they could cover great distances in a short time was due to the fact that the roads of the Siddhas also obeyed the laws governing subtle energies, and not the laws governing ordinary, gross matter.

On the same roads, according to R. L. Thompson, could (and now can!) Be transferred and a gross human body, subject to mystical forces - siddhas, called prapti and mano-java. According to the "Mahabharata" and other ancient Indian texts, these forces were perfectly mastered by the inhabitants of the planetary system Siddhaloka - siddhi. Therefore, they could move freely in space without flying vehicles.

On the basis of what laws did the "flight" of "horses", chariots and people along the roads of the Siddhas take place? Based on the laws governing subtle material energies. These laws could force gross matter (such as the human body) to act in violation of the ordinary laws of physics.

In other words, there was a "dematerialization" of the gross human body, machines and mechanisms and their "reassembly" in other parts of the Universe. Such travels, apparently, could only take place in certain stellar corridors, tunnels, or, as we called them at the beginning, roads, within which space and time were, as it were, "folded". But this is a topic for another serious conversation, which goes far beyond the scope of this article.

Map of the paths of the gods

Based on the analysis of the text of Vishnu Purana, RL Thompson established which road Arjuna was driving. Here is an excerpt from his book “Aliens. A look from the depths of the centuries :

“The Bishnu Purana says that the Path of the Gods (Devayana) lies north of the Sun's orbit (ecliptic), north of Nagavitha (nakshatra of Ashvini, Bharani and Kritika) and south of the stars of the seven rishis. Ashvini and Bharani are constellations in Aries, north of the ecliptic, and Krittika is a constellation adjacent to the constellation Taurus, known as the Pleiades. Ashvini, Bharani and Krittika belong to a group of twenty-eight constellations called nakshatras in Sanskrit. The seven rishis are the stars of the Bucket in the Big Dipper. Based on this information, we can form a general idea of the Path of the Gods as a road stretching through the stars in the northern celestial hemisphere.

Another important heavenly road is the Path of the Pitas (or Pitra-yana). According to the Vishnu Purana, this road runs north of the Agastya star and south of Ajavithi (three nakshatras of Mula, Purvashadha and Uttarashadha), without crossing the path of Vaisvanara. The region of the pitas, or Pitraloka, in the Vedic literature is called the abode of Yama, a deity who imposes punishments on sinful human beings … mandala, planetary system, which includes the Earth.

The nakshatras Mula, Purvashadha and Uttarashadha partly correspond to the constellations of Scorpio and Sagittarius, and it is believed that Agastya is a star called Kanopis. Thus, according to the descriptions in the Vishnu Purana, we can imagine where Pitraloka and the road leading to it are located, using the celestial landmarks familiar to us."

Well, unfortunately, the time has come to put an end to my short story about the amazing Indian legends about flying machines and weapons of gods and demons.

The origins of these legends are lost in times so remote from us that we are. humankind living on Earth today is not able to name even an approximate date of their compilation. It is only known that most of them were included in the ancient Indian manuscripts written in the 3-2 thousand BC. e. - X century. n. e., and according to some sources, even earlier - in the IV or VI millennium BC. e. There are even more fantastic versions that the authors of some books, such as the Vedas (Rig Veda, Samaveda, Atharva Veda, Yajurveda), Nimalatpurana, were snake-people - nagas, and the time of the events described in the legends was behind us for many millions of years.

Be that as it may, now I can say with certainty only one thing. In very ancient times (tens of thousands or, perhaps, millions of years ago) intelligent beings lived on Earth, which far exceeded modern people in their knowledge. They ruled states, lived in cities and towns, flew to other planets, and the spaceships they created roamed the vastness of the Universe. Our planet was densely populated and it was inhabited by different, unlike each other, peoples who fought with each other. As a result of the wars between them, there was so much destruction and devastation on the Earth that they “tore out” whole pages from the Book of its history.

In the words of the ancient Greek philosopher Plato, only "a dead lifeless desert" remained on Earth. Hundreds or thousands of years later, life revived on the planet and primitive hunters and gatherers entered the historical arena, whose remains are usually found by archaeologists and geologists. But the ancient knowledge was preserved. Most likely, some representatives of the ancient highly developed races, who became kings and priests, also survived in underground shelters.

Having become acquainted with Indian legends (and not only with Indian ones), it is impossible to reason otherwise. Therefore, it is not clear to me how it could have happened at all that many modern researchers do not pay due attention to them. Either they simply remain in the dark about this most valuable layer of literature, or they prefer to consider everything written to be nothing more than fiction and a fairy tale.

The main arguments of the supporters of the traditional theory of human evolution that we still do not have the material remains of such ancient and powerful civilizations (in contrast to the finds of bones and household items of primitive hunters and gatherers) are not so unshakable at the first attempt to bring even the shortest list of these residues. The ruins of Tiahuanaco and Saxauman in Bolivia and Peru are more than 12 thousand years old, Ica stones depicting animals extinct 150-200 thousand years ago, slabs, columns, figurines, vases, pipes, nails, coins and other objects in strata from 1 up to 600 million years old, numerous rock paintings and seals depicting horned people, traces of humanoid creatures in sediments aged 135-250 million years in Texas, Kentucky, Nevada and Turkmenistan, an iron hammer from the Lower Cretaceous deposits of Texas …

Perhaps scientists are simply avoiding the question of what all these findings actually represent. After all, none of them fit into the framework of the theory of the origin of life, which is still taught in schools and universities.

But something else is also possible. There are influential forces that are not interested in the promulgation of such ancient knowledge. Therefore, they are in a hurry to declare all the finds made as a play of nature, skillfully made forgeries and anything else - just not genuine discoveries. And the finds themselves disappear without a trace and … settle in top-secret laboratories, leaving the majority of scientists and ordinary people in ignorance and bewilderment.

Why and why? Let's think together about the answer.

A. V. Koltypin