ANCIENT CAVE ART [2b]
Central India. July, 2014. While exploring caves in the region of Charama which are known to contain prehistoric artwork dating as far back as 10,000 years an Indian archaeologist, J.R. Bhagat, makes a stunning discovery.
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“The Indian government and Times of India had a major story about rock paintings found recently in Central India that seem to show these tall beings, and they do not seem to have a nose or a mouth, and nearby is this three-legged disk.” – David Childress (Author, Technology of the Gods) |
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“The Times of India actually proposed the idea, what if what we have depicted here are some type of extraterrestrials or at least some type of flying craft, because it’s the basis for much of the Hindu pantheon of gods.” – Giorgio A. Tsoukalos |
Ancient Hindu texts like the Vedas and the Puranas record stories about extraterrestrials existing on other planets, and the Mahabharata one of ancient India’s two major Sanskrit epics contains stories about gods coming to Earth in flying machines. Even the legends specific to this region tell of a mysterious race of beings known as the “rohela” who descended from the sky and abducted local villagers. Could the newly unearthed cave art be a visual record that extraterrestrials really visited here?
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“There was an obsession of ancient human beings to depict things that they saw, and I think they did it with carvings on caves because that’s what they saw.” – George Noory (Radio Host, Coast to Coast AM) |
But what is it about caves that made them the ideal canvases for ancient peoples to chronicle their experiences?
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“Caves are hugely significant in ancient mythology and legends, especially about the gods. They seem to be a kind of a luminal point, a boundary place where the gods and humans can meet.” – William Henry (Author / Investigative Mythologist), |
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“There is a whole hidden underground world of Planet Earth that we’re only just now beginning to discover, and we don’t know what’s there. We could be discovering all kinds of amazing things, and it’s possible that there are entire cities under the earth. Whole cavern metropolises that are talked about in legends.” – David Childress (Author, Technology of the Gods) |
But while ancient cave art often reveals the type of animals our earliest ancestors encountered and their means for hunting them, there is a surprising number of depictions of strange-looking figures and objects that defy any conventional explanation.
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“In Australia, the Wondjina people, they painted images on their caves which eerily looks like the so-called Greys of alien abduction lore today.” – Nick Redfern (Author, Memoirs of a Monster Hunter), |
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“You have the strange petroglyphs in the Hoggar Mountains of Southern Algeria. You’ve got strange rock art, too, in the American Southwest, and when you look at it, and even have the natives explain it to you, they say things like, ‘Oh, yes, he’s Martian god,’ or, ‘These are the star people coming from the sky.’” – David Childress (Author, Technology of the Gods) |
How do we explain so many different cultures across thousands of years and thousands of miles producing such consistent visual representations?
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“The ones that were discovered in some of the African caves, it’s too similar to what has been discovered on every continent for it to be complete coincidence. So, it’s this whole idea of the spark of initial inspiration. What is it that they witnessed, and could it be that they witnessed extraterrestrials?” – Giorgio A. Tsoukalos |
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“One of the more intriguing aspects of the cave paintings that seem to show aliens, is why are they inside caves? This has sort of given rise to the theory that maybe these aliens, perhaps, have permanent bases on the planet underground. Maybe ancient man saw them coming out of some of these caves and caverns and then realized there was a relationship between the aliens and the caves.” – Nick Redfern (Author, Memoirs of a Monster Hunter), |
In ancient times, caves were places of shelter, but is it possible our ancestors were also using caves to record and protect information about extraterrestrial beings who played a role in our existence? Perhaps the answer can be found halfway around the world, in the American Southwest.
The Grand Canyon. This epic, 277-mile-long, one-mile-deep fissure, exposes millions of years of geologic strata. Imprinted onto this dramatic landscape are petroglyphs that depict everyday life as experienced by the first inhabitants of the region. But in one of the most remote corners of the canyon is a small cave covered with artwork that mystifies experts. Some refer to it as the “Shaman’s Panel” because it appears to depict scenes of the supernatural.
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“All around the Grand Canyon are unusual sites and sacred sites, and then you have the Shaman’s Panel there in the Grand Canyon, which seems to show these long, tall extraterrestrial type figures.” – David Childress (Author, Technology of the Gods) |
Like the strange looking beings found in the cave in Charama, India, the figures depicted on the Shaman’s Panel are oddly elongated and are also thought to have been created as many as 10,000 years ago. And just as in Charama, the native Hopi people here also have detailed accounts of extraterrestrials who came down to Earth.
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“In the Southwest, the Pueblo Indians, such as the Zuni and the Hopi, believe that there is an entrance into an underground world and it is located in the Grand Canyon. And it’s this mythological underworld of caves and extraterrestrials, the ant people.” – David Childress (Author, Technology of the Gods) |
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“The Hopi have this concept of the ant people. The ant people are very thin. They have elongated heads. And the ancestral Hopi people did make pictures of these ant people which still survive today.” – Gary A. David (Author, The Orion Zone), |
Is it possible the rock art found here and elsewhere around the world is evidence that the earth’s first inhabitants had contact with otherworldly beings? And if so, might there be some significance to the fact that many of these strange petroglyphs are found in and around caves? Ancient Astronaut Theorists say yes, and suggest further evidence can be found by examining the ritualistic practices that continue to be performed inside caves even to this day.
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