1.4 Here be no dragons

• In virtually all ancient depictions of the gods, specifically Sumerian depictions, the gods are human beings with wings. This would have been the only way the ancients would have been able to depict a human being capable of flight.
• Many ancient texts refer to an aerial battle between gods and humans. These include the aerial battles of Indra as recorded in the Rig-Vedas, those described by Assyrian texts, Elijah's 'chariot of fire with horses of fire' and Ezekiel's  aircraft with wheels with eyes all around, fire and thunder (noise).
• To this day there is no accepted explanation for how the ancients were able to build the pyramids of Giza. Probably the best argument against the Egyptians having built this in 3000 BCE is that the fact that they somehow lost all knowledge of this technology. The ancient civilization seem to have had three outstanding technologies,

1. Their ability to cut and shape enormous blocks of stone.
2. Their ability to lift these blocks, some weighing up to 1000 tonnes (Figure 44), seemingly without effort.
3. Their ability to fly (who sliced off the mountain tops in Figure 45, how and for what reason?).

Figure 44. The 1000-tonne Baalbek stone [Sitchin Official Website]



Figure 45. Nazca lines on flattened mountain tops, Palpa, Peru [Von Daniken, Arrival of the Gods]

Central to all of these mysteries appears to be a substance called 'the fire of the gods'. The Greeks seemed to have been in possession of the formula for this liquid, referred to as Greek Fire:

"It was known to the Byzantines' enemies as a "wet, dark, sticky fire" because it stuck to the unfortunate object it hit and was impossible to extinguish. Enemy ships were often afraid to come too near to the Byzantine fleet, because, once within range, the fire gave the Byzantines a strong military advantage. The last recorded use of Greek fire was during the siege of Constantinople in 1453, after which the secret appears to have been lost."

This brings us to one of the greatest enigmas of modern times, namely what the origin of the 'dragon' folklore could have been.

It has already been shown that the group of Atlanteans who settled in Egypt were called Serpents (in some texts Marduk / Seth is referred to as The Great Serpent). In numerous Egyptian reliefs we find images of serpents with legs standing upright, as well as serpents with wings (Figure 46). The double-headed serpent may represent twins (Seth and Osiris?).



Figure 46. Serpents with legs (top) and wings (bottom) [Taschen, Description De l'Egypte]

In the Egyptian Book of the Dead it is described how the Serpents breathed fire onto the enemies of Osiris, and the Ureaus appearing on many Egyptian crowns was described as a 'fire-spitting' cobra. Figure 47 actually shows a flying sun disk with (fire spitting) cobras. In modern terms, the Serpents seem to have bombarded their enemies with a liquid similar to napalm, from the air. Early depictions of dragons all took the form of a serpent with wings (Figure 48), especially in the East, in contrast to the modern depiction of dragons.



Figure 47. Ureaus (fire spitting cobra) on flying sun-disk (aircraft)




Figure 48. Chinese flying serpentine deities [Duane & Hutchinson, Chinese Myths and Legends]

What could these aircraft have looked like? Figure 49 shows an upside-down image of what has been labeled 'Spiderman Chambers' [Cotterell, The Lost Tomb of Viracocha]. This looks very much like the modern flying toy shown in Figure 50, both matching Ezekiel's description of wheels within wheels (note the counter rotation propeller in Figure 50, a wheel within a wheel?).




Figure 49. Spiderman Chamber turned upside down - aircraft of a Watcher? [Cotterell, Lost Tomb of Viracocha]


Figure 50. Modern toy aircraft - rotating wheel with direction of exhaust flow, from 'eyes all around'?

Ezekiel mentioned 'eyes all around' the 'wheel'. This suggests that these aircraft were driven much like modern day jets (with accompanying 'noise' and 'thunder'), with the exhaust gases exiting as indicated in Figure 50. The elliptical opening of an exhaust obliquely angled with respect to the fuselage would look very much like an eye (Figure 51).  This concept of the ancient aircraft is supported by Chinese images of flying gods (Figure 52). The exhaust flames were coloured red for emphasis. Numerous of images of 'shamans' likewise confirm that the natives saw streaks of flames coming form these aircraft (Figure 53). The encircled shaman in Figure 53 corresponds to the skeleton shaman rock painting found in the Barrier Canyon (Figure 54). Note the serpent above the head of the latter.



Figure 51. Elliptical opening of an angled exhaust creating an 'eye'




Figure 52. Chinese deities in their aircraft, exhaust flames coloured red

[Duane & Hutchinson, Chinese Myths and Legends; Childress, Technology of the Gods]


Figure 53. 'Astronaut' rock paintings in British Columbia and California [Von Daniken, Signs of the Gods?]



Figure 54. Skeleton shaman with serpent in Barrier Canyon [Kelen et al, Sacred Images]

It is worthwhile to briefly take a deeper look into the description given by Ezekiel and then compare it to other ancient texts.

Ezekiel 11:4 And I looked, and behold, a stormy wind came out of the north, a great cloud, and a fire infolding itself, and a brightness was about it, and out of the midst thereof as the look of glowing brass, out of the midst of the fire.

1:5 Also out of the midst thereof, the likeness of four living creatures. And this was their appearance: they had the likeness of a man.

1:6 And every one had four faces, and every one of them had four wings.

1:7 And their feet were straight feet; and the sole of their feet was like the sole of a calf’s foot; and they sparkled as the look of burnished brass.

1:8 And they had the hands of a man under their wings on their four sides; and they four had their faces and their wings:

1:9 their wings were joined one to another; they turned not when they went; they went every one straight forward.

1:10 And the likeness of their faces was the face of a man; and they four had the face of a lion on the right side; and they four had the face of an ox on the left side; they four had also the face of an eagle.

1:11 And their faces and their wings were parted above; two [wings] of every one were joined one to another, and two covered their bodies.

1:12 And they went every one straight forward: whither the Spirit was to go, they went; they turned not when they went.

1:13 And as for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like burning coals of fire, as the appearance of torches: it went up and down among the living creatures; and the fire was bright; and out of the fire went forth lightning.

1:14 And the living creatures ran and returned as the appearance of a flash of lightning.

1:15 And I looked at the living creatures, and behold, one wheel upon the earth beside the living creatures, toward their four faces.

1:16 The appearance of the wheels and their work was as the look of a chrysolite; and they four had one likeness; and their appearance and their work was as it were a wheel in the middle of a wheel.

1:17 When they went, they went upon their four sides; they turned not when they went.

1:18 As for their rims, they were high and dreadful; and they four had their rims full of eyes round about.

1:19 And when the living creatures went, the wheels went beside them; and when the living creatures were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up.

1:20 Whithersoever the Spirit was to go, they went, thither would [their] spirit go; and the wheels were lifted up along with them: for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels.

1:21 When those went, they went; and when those stood, they stood; and when those were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up along with them: for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels.

1:22 And there was the likeness of an expanse over the heads of the living creature, as the look of the terrible crystal, stretched forth over their heads above.

1:23 And under the expanse were their wings straight, the one toward the other: every one had two which covered on this side, and every one had two which covered on that side their bodies.

1:24 And when they went, I heard the noise of their wings, like the noise of great waters, as the voice of the Almighty, a tumultuous noise, as the noise of a host: when they stood, they let down their wings;

The Hymns in the Rig-Veda list groups of gods as well as individual deities defeated by Indra [Sitchin, Wars of the Gods, following the translation by R. T. Griffith, The Hymns of the Rig- Veda]:

Thou slewest with thy bolt the Sasyti ...
Far from the floor of Heaven in all directions,
the ancient riteless ones fled to destruction ...
The Dasyu thou hast burned from the heavens.
They met in fight the army of the blameless,
then the Navagvas put forth all their power.
Like emasculates contending with men they fled,
by steep paths from Indra they scattered.
Indra broke through Ilibsa’s strong castles,
and Sushna with his horn he cut to pieces...


Thou slewest thy fighting foe with thy Thunder ...
Fierce on his enemies fell Indra's weapon,
with his sharp rushing Thunderbolt
he rent their towns to pieces.



Sitchin presents and discusses several translations of ancient Indian texts by others, e.g.:


“In the epic tale of the Mahabharata, the arrival of the gods for a wedding feast in a, fleet of aerial cars is described thus (we follow the translation of R. Dutt in Mahabharata, The Epic of Ancient India):

The gods, in cloud-borne chariots,
came to view the scene so fair:
Bright Adityas in their splendor,
Maruts in the moving air;
Winged Suparnas, scaly Nagas,
Deva Rishies pure and high,
For their music famed, Gandharvas;
(and) fair Apsaras of the sky. ...
Bright celestial cars in concourse
sailed upon the cloudless sky.


The texts also speak of the Ashvins (‘Drivers’), gods who specialized in piloting aerial chariots. ‘Swift as young falcons,’ they were ‘the best of charioteers who reach the heavens,’ always piloting their craft in pairs, accompanied by a navigator. Their vehicles, which sometimes appeared in groups, were golden-made, ‘bright and radiant .... with easy seat and lightly rolling.’ They were constructed on a triple principle, having three levels, three seats, three supporting poles, and three rotating wheels. ‘That chariot of yours,’ Hymn 22 of Book VIII of the- Rig-Veda said in praise of the Ashvins, ‘hath a triple seat and reins of gold - the famous car that traverses Heaven and Earth. The rotating wheels, it appears, served diverse functions: one to raise the craft - another to give it direction, the third to speed it along: "One of your chariot’s wheels is moving swiftly around; one speeds for you its onward course.”


Ezekiel’s description of the heavenly vehicles is therefore closely and independently matched by Vedic descriptions.


Numerous ancient drawings depict men with ‘radiant hair’, similar to those in Figure 53. This seems to confirm that the ancients remembered the flying aircraft as spewing distinct jets of fire. These aircraft must have been quite large, if the images of a giant 'bird' near a pyramid (Figure 55) are interpreted correctly.



Figure 55. Giant 'bird' between pyramids and behind a pyramid [Sitchin, The wars of Gods and Men]

To conclude, the concept of a fire-spewing flying dragon originated from the Serpent of ancient times being able to fly and dropping a burning liquid onto its enemies. The original scenario most likely was that the 'serpent' survivors of the Flood landed at Egypt and disembarked from their ships. Having settled, they assembled their aircraft and began surveying the surrounding areas. The first encounter the inland primitive natives would have had with the 'serpents' would have been most frightening - a thunderous 'bird' descending from the skies in a cloud of smoke and fire. The mythological Phoenix was a bird that died in flames, only to rise again from the fire. This would have been the way natives would have described the aircraft landing and taking off again. According to Sitchin, the name of this bird was the same as that of 'the contraption in which Ra landed on Earth'. The belief that the gods were 'fallen angels' must have originated from the first encounter of the natives with the strangers - they came down from the heavens. Finally, Figure 50 actually suggests the origin of the description of the strangers as 'watchers'. No doubt they soon learned that the 'gods' regularly took to the skies in their flying machines to observe what was happening below. Whenever they saw an aircraft in the sky above them, they would have interpreted its presence as them being watched by the 'watchers'.

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