Who Were The Star People Mentioned By Ancient Cultures Around The Globe?

Or the reverse, aliens inspired all the religions.
Even though SciFi, you ever read Childhoods End by Arthur C. Clark?
There is even a more recent movie production.
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Basically that was the premise was that humanity was guided by a higher intelligence

Even the 2001 movie series used that premise.

Too many folks wish to separate ancient myths and religions with science, when there may actually be a kind of symbiotic relationship between them.
Any god would have to be a scientist for creation to even happen.
 
How do you know they didn’t make any advanced structures? The fact they didn’t leave any advanced structures behind proves little.

Perhaps they came and made contact. Taught mankind of that time some basic science to give us a start and then left taking all their high tech with them.
Ok, so there are no advanced structures and no advanced equipment left behind. Then why should we assume any aliens were here at all?
 
Even though SciFi, you ever read Childhoods End by Arthur C. Clark?
There is even a more recent movie production.
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Basically that was the premise was that humanity was guided by a higher intelligence

Even the 2001 movie series used that premise.

Too many folks wish to separate ancient myths and religions with science, when there may actually be a kind of symbiotic relationship between them.
Any god would have to be a scientist for creation to even happen.
You have to separate science from religion. Science is about facts, and religion is about faith. Even if god exists and he knows all the science, that doesnt mean science is connected with his religion. The bible isnt a science book, so clearly they arent connected.
 
Ok, so there are no advanced structures and no advanced equipment left behind. Then why should we assume any aliens were here at all?
You can assume whatever you want and I can assume whatever I want.

There is no doubt that a number of ancient “myths” talk of star people. Myths often are based on factual events. For example there are also lots and lots of flood myths.

 
No matter where you look, ancient legends, mythologies and written accounts mention beings that came down from the heavens and came in contact with ancient mankind thousands of years ago.

Referred to as the 'star people', these beings are considered by many mainstream authors and Ancient Astronauts theorists as flesh and blood aliens.

One of the most incredible accounts of star people can be found in Native American history and folklore.

And while stories of intelligent beings visiting Earth from a distant place in the Cosmos date back as far as history can look back, spanning across countless cultures and different continents, mainstream scholars pay little to no attention at all, when dealing with such subjects.

History before history mentions beings not from Earth, called,



...different names describe the same beings that came down from the heavens...

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People had imaginations back then too.

Imagine in 3,000 years people looking back at Harry Potter and saying "they could fly on broomsticks back then... magical"
 
You can assume whatever you want and I can assume whatever I want.

There is no doubt that a number of ancient “myths” talk of star people. Myths often are based on factual events. For example there are also lots and lots of flood myths.

Since when do "myths" count as evidence of anything? You think Noah's Ark really happened? Pfff... :laugh:
 
Since when do "myths" count as evidence of anything? You think Noah's Ark really happened? Pfff... :laugh:
I stated myths are often BASED on actual events.

There was a flood. Then there was a story about a man and a boat full of animals in a number of different cultures and places.

it was a great story and story tellers love good stories.

Google “list of flood myth.”
 
The invention of agriculture and sky/sun gods happened almost simultaneously in every part of the world.

Invention of agriculture (or, more accurately, food production) developed independently in many places around the world as different people transitioned from hunter gatherers to more sedentary societies.

Hunter gatherers had religions and faith in deities. Religion didn't start with agriculture. Even societies that never developed beyond hunter-gatherers, like Australian Aboriginals) But, the availability of excess that came from stationary food production allowed the creation of a non-productive priestly class (as well as non-productive ruling classes) that were forced to codify their beliefs in order to maintain their ability to share in the food without sharing in its production.
 
Invention of agriculture (or, more accurately, food production) developed independently in many places around the world as different people transitioned from hunter gatherers to more sedentary societies.

Hunter gatherers had religions and faith in deities. Religion didn't start with agriculture. Even societies that never developed beyond hunter-gatherers, like Australian Aboriginals) But, the availability of excess that came from stationary food production allowed the creation of a non-productive priestly class (as well as non-productive ruling classes) that were forced to codify their beliefs in order to maintain their ability to share in the food without sharing in its production.
Hunter-gatherers worshiped earth spirits whom they felt walked among them. Agriculture brought forth distant, jealous, capricious sky gods who needed a lot of worshiping and sacrifice to give the rain.
 
Hunter-gatherers worshiped earth spirits whom they felt walked among them. Agriculture brought forth distant, jealous, capricious sky gods who needed a lot of worshiping and sacrifice to give the rain.

Australian Aboriginal's greatest pantheon were The Wandjina, who came down from The Milky Way during dreamtime ... the dreamlike state of The Universe before creation of The World.

Wakan Tanka of the Sioux Indians (and many others) was a celestial god who lived in the heavens.

Ororun, worshiped by hunter-gatherers of Eastern Africa was a celestial god who literally ran the entire universe.

Hunter-gather deities were not simply terrestrial animal and nature spirits.
 
Australian Aboriginal's greatest pantheon were The Wandjina, who came down from The Milky Way during dreamtime ... the dreamlike state of The Universe before creation of The World.

Wakan Tanka of the Sioux Indians (and many others) was a celestial god who lived in the heavens.

Ororun, worshiped by hunter-gatherers of Eastern Africa was a celestial god who literally ran the entire universe.

Hunter-gather deities were not simply terrestrial animal and nature spirits.
I'm looking for a reasonable answer to OPs question that does not involve aliens. The invention of agriculture at the end of the ice age fundamentally transformed spirituality and led to the prevailing belief that gods lived in the sky and occasionally came down to earth. I was not aware that this was somehow controversial.
 
I'm looking for a reasonable answer to OPs question that does not involve aliens. The invention of agriculture at the end of the ice age fundamentally transformed spirituality and led to the prevailing belief that gods lived in the sky and occasionally came down to earth. I was not aware that this was somehow controversial.

Agriculture didn't fundamentally change religion ... it fundamentally changed religion's organization and gave it political power that could have never existed in a hunter-gatherer society.

The belief in deities, terrestrial, or non-terrestrial, has been part of every known human society that we know about.

The concept of 'alien' deities is relatively new to us. The Greeks and Romans didn't just name the planets after their gods, they believed the planets WERE their gods.

It took centuries, and the discovery of the telescope, the learn that planets were literally earth-like objects the moved around the sun just like us. That is the beginning of a believe in extra-terrestrial people.

The idea that planets (and other stars with planets) could be the home of other people (even people with god-like powers) is a concept literally inconceivable to pre-telescope societies.
 
metalwolf the ancient cultures/people did not know shit about anything....they thought the Earth was flat/etc

Actually, as far back as 5,000 years ago, thinking people knew The Earth was round.

Only a small percentage of today's "technologically advanced" people can understand the non-Euclidean geometry required to prove the roundness of The Earth.

99.9% of people alive today only know The Earth is a spheroid because that is what they were taught in school. They accept it purely on faith.
 
Actually, as far back as 5,000 years ago, thinking people knew The Earth was round.

Only a small percentage of today's "technologically advanced" people can understand the non-Euclidean geometry required to prove the roundness of The Earth.

99.9% of people alive today only know The Earth is a spheroid because that is what they were taught in school. They accept it purely on faith.
you know what I mean----witches/miracles/CUTTING OUT HEARTS to please the gods!!!!!!!!!!!
 
you know what I mean----witches/miracles/CUTTING OUT HEARTS to please the gods!!!!!!!!!!!

People accept what they are told. Without fundamentally understanding the science behind it, they will accept ANYTHING they believe comes from a knowledgeable authority.

People believed in witches because the "learned men" told them witches existed. They cut out the hearts of human sacrifices because "learned men" told them that would make the corn grow.

Today, the list of things we believe without understanding why we believe them, only because "learned men" tell us it is true, is considerably larger than that of ancient man.

In many way, we are much more gullible than ancient man EVER was. Anyone who has objectively observed the panic and destroyed lives brought about by "learned men's" response to a bad flu season will understand this.

"If you believe in things you don't understand then you suffer ... Superstition ain't the way."

-- Stevie Wonder
 

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