ANCIENT AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINALS [8b]
In 2015, documentary filmmaker Damien Nott released an archive of over 2,000 UFO images taken over the skies of Australia in the previous three years.
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“Australia is certainly a hot spot for UFO sightings. We’ve had a phenomenal growth in the reporting of UFO sightings by the general public, especially since the advent of the Internet. But all evidence shows that UFOs have definitely been visiting Australia for tens of thousands of years. We’ve had records engraved on cave artwork by the Australian Aborigines, which goes back thousands of years.” – Duncan Roads (Editor, Nexus Magazine) |
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“Australia is one of the most mysterious continents and the Aboriginals have all kinds of ancient stories of sky gods coming down. These are probably some of the oldest stories of extraterrestrial intervention that we have on planet Earth.” – David Childress (Author, Technology of the Gods) |
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“Australia was something of a last frontier long after America was settled. Well, it was 1770 that the British explorer Captain Cook actually came across Australia, and it wasn’t until 1788 that it was really settled – that was the East Coast of Australia – settled by convicts. That’s what the British brought from their prisons.” – Jonathan Young, Ph.D. |
Today, the area of Sydney that the British first settled is a bustling metropolis. And Australia has become one of the most popular tourist destinations on Earth. But hidden behind this modern façade is nearly 2.5 million square miles of undeveloped and sparsely populated land known as the outback. And while Australia is a relatively new land to the Western world, for the nearly 700,000 people that call the continent their ancestral home, it has a history that dates back tens of thousands of years.
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“There is something very, very special about Australia. Here we have a situation where this huge land mass has been pretty much cut off from the rest of the world for 40,000 years. And we don’t really find that in many other places in the world.” – Tok Thompson, Ph.D. (Prof. of Anthropology, USC) |
But what was happening on this island continent for the tens of thousands of years that it existed in isolation?
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“When the first Europeans arrived here, they didn’t have much knowledge in regards to the sky world, where our people had much ancient knowledge of the star system and the constellation of the stars. Our knowledge and wisdom is so old.” – Kevin Gavi Duncan (Aboriginal Elder) |
Anthropologists have dated the existence of the Australian Aboriginal people back 60,000 years, making it the most ancient continuous culture in the world.
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“The Aboriginal peoples of Australia, are one of the world’s very, very oldest cultures. No other cultures in the world can compare with the Australian cultures. They have knowledge that’s been around for a lot longer than really any of our knowledge has been around.” – Tok Thompson, Ph.D. (Prof. of Anthropology, USC) |
The Aboriginal people have no official written language. Art, music, and oral storytelling are how they pass their histories and sacred knowledge to future generations. Their past is encoded on various rock walls scattered across the continent.
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“Our oral traditions, our stories that are passed down from generation to generation, the wisdom and knowledge that have been given to us by our god, they’re 10,000 or more years older than the Stonehenge in England. They’re 20,000 or 30,000 years older than the pyramids of Egypt.” – Kevin Gavi Duncan (Aboriginal Elder) |
These ancient traditions are all strongly tied to Australia’s connection with the stars, and with the beings that are said to have come down from them. As evidence, Ancient Astronaut Theorists point to the caves of the Northwest Kimberley region that contains depictions of visitors called the Wandjina, the sky heroes of one of Australia’s indigenous clans.
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“The Aboriginals have all kinds of ancient stories of Wandjina figures, or great heroes and sky gods who manipulated the continent and created the rivers and mountains, and fought amongst each other, and then they left. If you look at these Wandjina figures in the cave art, they have big white faces. They have really no mouth to speak of. They have very large, black eyes, and there’s a field around their heads that’s like a space helmet, perhaps. So, in many ways these Wandjina figures look exactly like Grey aliens. And you have to wonder, then, if the cave art is depicting extraterrestrials.” – David Childress (Author, Technology of the Gods) |
Could these images really be depicting extraterrestrials that visited Australia in the ancient past? And if so, do the indigenous people living in Australia today still have insight into the meaning behind this ancient rock art?
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“We all have stories of people in crafts coming from the stars, going to the stars, and so on. In order to keep them, pass them down to next generation, we carved them, we painted them, we sang them. We danced them in stories to guarantee that they passed down. So, when the visitors left, we didn’t forget about them. And we never forget about the things that they passed down to us, and the knowledge they passed down.” – Gary Simon Jagamarra (Aboriginal Elder & Healer) |
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“Australia is one of the few places where we still have living mythologies, where we can talk to the people whose story has been passed down over thousands of generations. And they talk of teachers having descended from the sky, and bestowed any and all of knowledge to mankind. So, this, to me, is an incredible treasure trove for the Ancient Astronaut Theory.” – Giorgio A. Tsoukalos |
Might the indigenous people of Australia, who carry an oral tradition that dates back tens of thousands of years, really hold secrets of humanity’s past that the outside world has yet to discover? Perhaps more evidence can be found by examining the depiction of one of their most important Sky Gods.
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