Four Eyed Cyclops

Throughout humane history humans have populated their world with thousands of gods (like Zeus), goddesses (like Hera – Mrs. Zeus) and demigods (like Hercules, son of Zeus, but not of Hera), along with a lot of affiliated assortment of beasties, often times half-human, half-something else (usually animal), or else humanoid with affiliated ‘defects’ like the one-eyed Cyclops or the Medusa. Add to that zoo, our monotheistic God and affiliated hangers-on, like angels, etc. What are we to make of this menagerie?

Postulate One: All of these beings are mythical and imaginary. To be honest, that’s the most likely scenario, altho of course millions of Christians, Muslims, and Jews would have one survivor from the deity zoo – God. However, if thousands of gods don’t exist, then isn’t it logical to assume that thousands and one, gods plus God don’t exist?

Assuming neither the gods nor God exists – then we play the ‘what if’ game…

‘What if’ no deities subsist or have ever existed?

Then billions of people, over thousands of years, have expended trillions of in the end wasted hours in prayer, attending church, observing/attending respective religious rituals, expended in religious/Biblical study, door-knocking, preaching, discussing, arguing, going on pilgrimages, etc.

Then all those religious rituals, the do and do not rules that govern things with regards to food, dress codes, ceremonies, relationships, sex, and etc. at long last have been meaningless.

Then millions of people have been tortured, murdered or executed, imprisoned, ridiculed, humiliated, exiled, and hated for no reason.

Then billions of dollars have been expended on cathedrals rather of say hospitals; Bibles rather of textbooks; educating priests rather of medical doctors, nurses and scientists.

Then for those formally educated and qualified in religious studies, spending entire careers preaching, etc. they have wasted their lives in devotion to an invisible friend(s) that has all the reality of Casper, the Friendly Ghost.

Then multi-millions of animals have been sacrificed and offered up to a supernatural being(s) that doesn’t exist.

Then you can’t blame all your aches and pains, your bad back and creaky joints, on a good deal of all knowing great intellectual designer(s), who apparently bioengineered you (from dust or a rib or whatever) while simultaneously failing Bioengineering 101. I mean placing the feed tube right next to the breathing tube was a disaster waiting to happen, as evidenced by all those people who choke to death each year. And how numerous women have passed from physical life giving birth because the compatibility amidst the birth canal and the size of the baby, well just wasn’t! A divinely invented humane wouldn’t be flawed and have need of eyeglasses or a hearing aid. God wouldn’t manufacture a humane with jaws to little to grant for wisdom teeth. As to the appendix organ, that’s just another oops.

Postulate Two: Some or all of these beings subsist and are related with the realm of the supernatural.

Assuming both supernatural God and gods exist…

1) Both might subsist rather independently from each other in space, in time, or both. One doesn’t know in regards to the existence of the other.

2) Both might subsist as independent entities (not of the same family) in the same time and space, but choose to have no interactions.

3) Both might subsist as independent entities (not of the same family) in the same time and space frame and interact.

4) Both might exist, but God is just one of the gods. That is, there is no independence amongst God and the gods; they’re all kin.

5) God and the gods do not get along, be it #3 or #4. But while the gods are silent on God, God doesn’t overly love His god kin, since He instructs us not to have any other gods before Him!

God or the gods: who comes first?

1) In terms of humane history, the gods existed before God. Polytheism existed prior to monotheism.

2) Therefore, the gods, if responsible for all things created, produced God. Monotheism is subservant to polytheism. God answers to the gods.

3) If God came before the gods, and God is the supreme creator, then God produced the gods. Polytheism is subservant to monotheism. The gods answer to God.

4) However, if God devised the gods, God is ultimately jealous of the gods (as per His Commandments), and accordingly of His own creation. God, being all-knowing, foresaw this, but did it anyway. That’s illogical.

Assuming God exists and the gods don’t – well, that’s gorgeous much the status quo today. What few believers still subsist in worshiping Zeus, Jupiter, Odin and associates aren’t sufficient to cause any resurgence in polytheism.

Assuming the gods exist, and God doesn’t – well, a substantial share of the inhabitants of Planet Earth over the past various millennia have got a large total of collective egg on their faces. Much of the ‘what if’ given above applies evenly well. However, in one sense, the gods make more sense than God. Contrast the following. There’s this God, your invisible friend who art in heaven, which is also invisible and a place you may not travel to. Contrast that vis-à-vis the Greek gods say, who were visible to and interacted (i.e. – mated usually) with the mortal Greeks. Further, they lived right next door up on Mount Olympus, a place you could in truth climb up and visit. I mean the gods are practically your next door neighbour. How could the Greeks get something that apparent so wrong? Maybe they didn’t – get it defective that is. So who is more likely to be mistaken, the monotheist who has never seen God or heaven, or the Greek polytheist who has their gods living in the neighbourhood? Who has more credibility?

Postulate Three: Some or all of these beings subsist but do not reside in the realm of the supernatural. Perhaps they are terrestrial flesh-and-blood natives! But if they are terrestrial flesh-and-blood life forms, they are extinct now, which is, as far as we’re practically concerned, the same as their non-existence in the original place. There’s no fossil proof for any of the assumed mythological beasties (like the Minotaur – half bull; or satyrs – half goat; or centaurs – half horse; or a sphinx – half lion), or tombs or gravesites for the gods, goddesses or demigods with actual bodies in them. That might not be surprising seeing as how they (gods and goddesses and demigods) are supposed to be immortal.

Postulate Four: Some or all of these beings subsist but also do not belong to the realm of the supernatural. Since they aren’t terrestrial, they ought to be extraterrestrial.

If there is any historical proof for a god, gods or The God, then that proof could just as effortlessly be evenly interpreted as proof for the existence of extraterrestrial intelligence(s), whose purpose(s) or objective(s) may not be all that evident or even benign.

What would an extraterrestrial ‘god’ (‘sky being’ might be a good synonym in a lot of cases) do that a bona-fide supernatural god wouldn’t do – or vice versa? I’ll be damned if I recognise the answer to that, and it’s probably an unanswerable question. It’s at least not illogical to equate a god, goddess or demigod with an extraterrestrial or extraterrestrial intelligence. Any sufficiently modern (extraterrestrial) technology is just the supernatural to entities that are too primitive yet to recognise what innovative engineering science is. A television set or jet airplane to somebody living 2000 years ago would be pure magic.

Taking another approach, I’d imagine a theoretical modern extraterrestrial being or race, like the gods, don’t have traits that are self-contradictory, different from God (or the idealized conception of God). The gods are not depicted as all-powerful (just powerful); not all-knowing (yet knowledgeable); not omnipresent; and hardly all-loving. The one attribute ordinarily attributed to the gods is immortality as brought up earlier, even though that doesn’t mean they can’t be bumped off. They’re immortal, but not invincible or invulnerable. To a human, specially persons living thousands of years ago, immortality could evenly translate to and mean a very, very long lifetime (akin to numerous of the life spans given to a select few in the Biblical texts). Now very long life spans is something one might desire when postulating getting ET from there (wherever there is – someplace out there among the stars) to here (Planet Earth).

Is there any suggestive proof to associate and equate the gods with extraterrestrials? Well, aspect could be a clue. Our modern world is full of images from ancient times of entities or beings that wouldn’t be out of place in any “Star Trek” or “Star Wars” movie. Translated, whatsoever these images represent, they most surely aren’t your every day terrestrial species you’re likely to see in a zoo. I mean you have all seen figures depicted as gargoyles – unquestionably not terrestrial beasties. Nor are the gorgons likely to be terrestrial. Many of the gods, like say the ancient Egyptian ones, while humanoid, are anything but humane in appearance. Lots of beings, creatures depicted as rock or cave art around the world appear very other-worldly. For example, the Tassili frescoes in the Sahara, a heap of going back to 6,000 BC, are very suggestive of ET. One was genuinely dubbed by an archaeologist ‘the outstanding Martian god’, altho there’s no actual proof to connect the effigy with the Red Planet Mars. The puzzling statues on Easter Island are very closely humane but just weird sufficient to be distinguishable – close but yet odd. You may ask this logical question – are demons actually supernatural, or just rather ugly and potentially nasty aliens?

Even the very well known arch sceptic (when it came to UFOs and ‘ancient astronauts’), the late Dr. Carl Sagan was impressed sufficient by a combining of ancient text translations coupled with images on ancient cylinder seals to suggest that this might be a bona fide contact among extraterrestrials and humans. The ‘this’ had to do with strange appearing beings who brought noesis to the ancient Sumerians. Images depicted on later cylinder seals related such beings (who look rather unworldly) with the stars and stellar planetary systems.*

Last, but scarcely least, is, as brought up above, one of the interactions amongst the gods and people is sex – by trickery, by force, by any means reasonable or foul, oftentimes with disastrous aftermaths – as demigod Hercules, or Medusa could testify to. In innovative UFO lore, sex or sex-related themes, even though of the more impersonal kind, is a mutual theme in abduction cases. Whether or not there’s any connect I don’t know, but it’s an interesting ‘virgin’ area for further research.

Conclusions: All the gods and God and all their affiliated supernatural baggage are total inventions of our fertile imaginations, OR, a good deal of or all of those gods (probably including God) are actual flesh-and-blood extraterrestrial entities. The middle ground, faith in the supernatural, gods and/or God with actual magical powers, is not genuinely a creditable option, IMHO.

*Sagan, Carl & Shklovskii, I.S.; Intelligent Life in the Universe; Holden-Day, San Francisco; 1966; p.455-462.

Four Eyed Cyclops Picture

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