(My reading of chapters one and two can be found here.)
Bonus reading material: IS THE VATICAN EASING HUMANITY TOWARD ALIEN DISCLOSURE?
This morning, after reading a few more chapters of Nephilim Stargates by Thomas R Horn, I just had a hunch, you know? I thought, does he have any connection to Art Bell?
Sometimes it’s nice to be right. I’ve just found Tom Horn on “Coast to Coast” where he and Bell discuss these Stargates, among other things. Not that I want to increase the views he gets on these, but if you want you can listen to him talk about his work and other books by authors he’s published through his own house, Anomalos Publishing (likely the only way he’d get his strange ideas into print). He’s also CEO of Raiders News Network which looks like the Quote Mines of King Blogger, because damn! The stories in there.. I feel like a kid at Christmas, what surprise should I unwrap first?
Oh right, I need to finish this book. Moving on then.
I’m shaking my head at some of his theories. He really appears to be of the belief that any reference to a supernatural being or event, from Sumerian text or Gilgamesh or bible verses are evidence that intelligent beings from another world have been here and, contrary with the Prime Directive, fucked with the very nature of our beliefs during our world’s most primitive and superstitious ancient times. Not that I’m declaring primitive means stupid or anything. Any civilization that rose to a power we can still study today had some clever heads involved. It’s just that Horn seems to think all the clever heads were alien ones.
Chapter three gets into various creation myths and their similarities. Now, as far as I’m concerned, the entire book of Genesis is a set of mismatched beliefs that were borrowed from earlier cultures. That completely explains the reason the Bible and the Epic of Gilgamesh seem to tell almost the same flood story, even though the Epic was set down in clay by the ancient Sumerians centuries before the authors of Genesis were getting creative.
Horn has a funny sentence in here about scholars (left anonymous) who postulate that Gilgamesh was not only King of Uruk, but that stories of his “superhuman status as a demi-god” (p.32) might have basis in reality. Then, he quotes himself for two pages, because he is his best source for this shit, apparently.
He finally gets into the Stargate theory, as well. A quick Google of “Sumerian Stargates” gets us a whole plethora of conspiracy theory-style sites declaring such things as the belief that stargates are under the sand in Iraq and the USA wants to acquire them before 2012 for their own nefarious purpose. The gates, according to Horn, were once guarded by giant stone statues carved to look like creatures scary enough to keep the baddies from trying to come through the arches from the Other side, wherever it is. This supposedly explains all the strange Sumerian art that appears to include space men and flying saucers.
Which reminds me, remember when Pope Benedict claimed there were aliens? Here’s another related story told by Zecharia Sitchin (whom Horn references at the back of his book) about his discussions with Monsignor Corrado Balducci, a high Vatican official and theologian.
Which leads me down another tangent (sorry) – Angels and Aliens: is there a heavenly relationship? The World Net Daily article I first used to write about this book doesn’t mention aliens at all, just angels. When I took a Philosophy of Angels course in university, this topic was discussed, that as the superstitions of religion waned, events and visions that would have once been attributed to angelic or godly influence became close encounters with aliens instead. The more technologically advanced we become, the more we believe in technologically advanced visitors. Von Daniken and his ilk like to point to Ezekiel’s Wheels as proof there were visitors with sufficient advancement to make old Zeke think he was trippin’. Had to call them angels, or Elohim, or Nephilim or Seraphim because what else could they be to the devout except messengers from God?
I think Horn does the Ancient Egyptians a great disservice in this chapter (still #3), attributing all their amazing mathematical genius to alien architects. Like they couldn’t have measured and calculated so precisely without extra-terrestrial help. Basically, Horn winds up declaring the Egyptians were stupider than termites.
WTF, you say. I say, did you know Australia has magnetic termites that align their giant mounds so they match north/south polarity? It’s assumed to be a means of regulating temperature. But maybe termites have their own gods and religions that require it. We don’t know… We do know, however, that their structures are amazingly strong and durable, to a point where Zambia has taken note of their value:
Engineers are mimicking the technology of termites to build cheap, durable, environmentally friendly and desperately needed road infrastructure in Zambia and, in the process, providing jobs at grassroots level.
The almost indestructible nature of termite mounds and the realisation that this technology could be adapted to build roads even more hard wearing than those made from asphalt came at the cost of a broken limb.
“The idea came from my best, best friend, a South African named Henry Halle, who, in his garden, tried to kick those [termite] hills away. On his third try he broke his leg,” said Kim Anderson, a Danish national working in the Zambian capital, Lusaka. “After that he came to me and said, ‘This is something! We need to replicate this technology for construction.’”
Anderson, a regional manager for a Danish air service company, secured financing from the European Union and the Danish government for a road construction pilot project in South Africa, based on termite technology, and a recent initiative in Zambia.
It is not the first time that termite technology has been used to build man-made structures: the Eastgate shopping centre in the Zimbabwean capital, Harare, was modelled on termite mounds, using the design for energy-saving ventilation
Now, how green is that? Isn’t that amazing, that people would look to the very bugs that destroy man-made structures for inspiration on how to build better things? I’m completely floored, I can’t write anymore.
