AN ALIEN GENESIS

 

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PROLOGUE

Since the human race evolved it has faced many challenges and survived many disasters some of which have challenged its very existence. Wars fought initially between tribes and then between nations have ravaged populations killing millions of innocent non-combatants caught up in the carnage initiated by greedy despotic psychopathic leaders who have risen to power with the support of emotionally deluded followers keen to share in the spoils. In recent history, the major conflicts have been initiated mostly due to greed, a hunger for territory wealth and power, but in earlier history religion was the prime cause in most conflicts. It seems that the wheel of history has turned and that we are once again to suffer through a period of terror and conflict conducted in the name of the one god who is the same supreme being worshipped by the followers of the three major monotheistic religions of today, namely the Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, I list these in the order of their appearance, not their followings today.

This book is in essence a fictional rewrite of the history of modern man beginning around 60,000 years ago and explores the possibility that the development of the race homo sapiens sapiens and of their numerous religions was strongly influenced from that time onwards by the intervention of an alien race which radically changed the course of history, this intervention lasted till sometime around 600 BC. The middle chapters in this book are based in part on the Book of Genesis, you will recognise many of the characters. The latter part of the book is a rewrite of the period from the birth of Jesus till the death of Muhammad, the character’s and timeframes here are historically correct. The motivations of the main characters are my interpretation of how and why monotheistic religion became a catalyst for the barbaric atrocities that have been perpetrated in the name of one God.

Be warned, you may find this book offensive or heretical, I make no apologies for that, this book is written with one main purpose in mind and that purpose is not to deny the existence of a supreme god, it is an attempt to make the religious fanatics in our communities question the truths behind the doctrines of hate that they follow and perhaps to influence the course of their future actions.

I too believe that there exists an entity or an intelligence that created our universe, what I refuse to believe is that man was created in the image of this supreme being, surely, if there is a God, that belief is the ultimate heresy that one can commit. To believe that you stand next to God in the hierarchy of the universe, you, a puny human who needs to eat, drink, and to defecate merely to stay alive. A creation of god, yes, in his image, I for one am not bold or arrogant enough to make that claim.

To all you brave, fanatical soldiers of the Lord seeking martyrdom and a seat in the kingdom of heaven I issue this challenge.

Put aside your fears, come out of your hiding places, take off your balaclavas and show your faces to the world. Lay down you AK47’s for awhile, stop stirring your witches brew of home made explosives and let your next intended victims live a few hours longer while you take the time to read this book. Perhaps somewhere in the dim dark recesses of your mind a spark of sanity survives. having resisted the years of brainwashing you have been subjected to, and the gentle breath of reason may fan that spark into glowing embers that will feed upon growing seeds of doubt and burst into flame, a flame that will burn away the hatreds with which you have been indoctrinated leaving you free to enjoy the normal earthly pleasures instead of embracing death as a way to enter paradise, a paradise promised to you by some religious zealot who claims to represent a deity whose existence can never be verified.

Do you dare risk this challenge or does your faith and courage fail you.

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FOREWORD

Have you ever read the Book of Genesis and wondered at the extreme ages of the early patriarchs who still, it is claimed, begat and begot when they were over nine hundred years old?

Have you ever looked at the spectacular geological formations on our planet’s surface and wondered how they could possibly have been formed as a result only of the forces built up by continental drift, that slow annual fifty milli-metre relative movement of the continental plates as our scientific establishment insists they were?

Have you ever wondered why your own body is in some ways as well adapted to living in an aquatic environment as a land based one?

Have you ever wondered, as the scientific fraternity of anthropologists do, what that unknown event was that happened fifty to sixty thousand years ago and triggered a change in the evolution of the human species? For two million or more years man had been a nomadic hunter-gatherer living in small groups and following the animal herds which supplied him with food and clothing, then, suddenly he took his first teetering steps towards becoming modern, so called civilised man.

Are you curious as to why the earliest traces of civilisation date back to only 8000 B.C. and why were they found on a high mountain plain in Turkey rather than on fertile river flats or coastal plains where one would logically expect civilisations to begin?

Would you like to know the origins of the great civilisations that make up our earliest known history, the Sumerians, Egyptians, Minoans, Ancient Greeks, the Romans and many others?

Instead of blindly following accepted dogmas do you question their veracity, do you like to test the boundaries of logic that the establishment has imposed upon us?

If you have answered yes to just one of the above questions then I believe you will enjoy this book for it may provide you with the clues that will enable you to answer those questions. I make no claim that it is anything other than a work of fiction but in this book I have embraced some of man’s ancient myths and legends, some unaccepted scientific theories, existing objects and places, and events both actual and fictional to write an alternative prehistory of man from 55,000 B.C. until Herman Cortes invaded Mexico in 1519 A.D.

I hope you are entertained by this story.

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PLANET EARTH 55,000 B.C.

The giant spacecraft drifted into an equatorial orbit which it was destined to maintain for the next fifty-five thousand years. Soon after entering the solar system the suns magnetic field had made the continued operation of the space drive hazardous and it had been shut down so the ship is trapped forever in Earth’s gravitational field. Power is now generated by the enormous solar panel which stretches between the six hundred metre diameter outer ring housing the particle accelerator which had fueled the space drive and provided power inside the three hundred metre diameter sphere of the hull. The journey from its’ home planet Oceania had taken more than one thousand years, the crew numbered fifty all of whom had been born in space and the ship was the only home they had ever known.

The vista from the ship’s portholes is hauntingly beautiful, glittering ice caps cover both polar regions, there are snow covered mountain ranges, vast oceans with island chains surrounded by magnificent coral reefs, huge lakes and mighty river systems, forests and verdant plains, over the planet large weather systems march endlessly onwards. It is a seeming paradise to these would-be colonists, but it is a flawed paradise, hundreds of millions of years ago the planet and a huge meteorite had collided causing the crust of the planet to crack and since that time the pieces of the crust have been constantly moving relative to each other and so reshaping the configuration of the continents and the oceans. The movement is slow, only twenty-five to fifty millimeters a year and for millennia the effects of this movement was relatively benign, but by one million eight hundred thousand years ago the continents had moved into an asymmetrical position around the planet’s north pole and this had set in motion seemingly endless cycles of destruction. The ice ages had begun.

The new arrivals were looking at a planet very similar to today’s Earth but there was a subtle difference, Greenland was centered over the north pole and Little Antarctica in the south was ice free. A massive northern ice cap had been forming for twenty-five thousand years and the sea level was sixty meters lower than it is at present, the planet was experiencing an ice age which would last for another forty-six thousand years.

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PLANET OCEANIA

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PLANET EARTH

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