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The Mystery of Ancient Flight.
 
 
 Categoric descriptions.

Did ancient peoples travel the skies in aircraft like we do today? Surely impossible? Well think again, because there is more than enough evidence to say it really happened. In fact ancient records are highly categoric on the subject.
 
   
 Chinese flying machines
Babylonian flight accounts.
Icarus and Daedalus.
Egyptian flying machines.
Colombian jet plane.
Indian flying machine.
Polynesian flight tradition.
Worldwide phenomenon.
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
Prehistoric Flight.

The history of flight may be considerably grander than we have ever dared imagine. Indeed a consistent wealth of evidence hints at the secrets of powered flight at a time now unimaginably distant. At the very least there is convincing evidence that hints at a much earlier age of aviation - one now completely forgotten.

Babylon.

Perhaps the earliest preserved record attesting to early aviation is a Babylonian set of laws named the Halkatha. This reportedly includes a passage which reads: "To operate a flying machine is a great privilege. Knowledge of flying is most ancient, a gift of the gods of old for saving lives."

Other Babylonian scripts like the "Epic of Etana" also contain references to the magical flight of Etana on the back of an enormous eagle. This eagle takes him higher and higher, and throughout the narrative there are remarkably authentic descriptions of the view that unfolds before them. This is obviously the account of someone familiar with flying. The sense of perspective, and patchwork of colour and haze, together with an accurate depiction of geographical features make this difficult to understand. Difficult that is unless the author, or someone close to him, had actually experienced the wonder of flight.

Accurate description.

In his book Secrets of the Lost Races, author Rene Noorbergen makes the following comment: "Whatever the vehicle of ascent may have been, the 'Epic of Etana' certainly supplies us with a very accurate description of the Earth's surface from various altitudes - descriptions which were not verified in our own era until the high altitude aerial flights of the 1950s, and the first space shots of the 1960s.

Question: Who made and recorded this observation in the ancient East before 2400 BC ?"

Missing lines.

In the same book Secrets of the Lost Races Noorbergen also mentions a 5000 year old Chaldean manuscript the Sifr'ala. This is believed to contain a detailed account of how to build an aircraft. An archaeologist who worked on its deciferment was astonished to discover text that speaks of "vibrating spheres, graphite rods and copper coils.." Writes Noorbergen: " on the subject of flight the writer comments on wind resistance, gliding and stability. Unfortunately many key lines of the text are missing, making any attempt at reconstructing the craft impossible."

Chinese flying machines.

Ancient Chinese texts also contain numerous references to experimental aircraft. Some of these have been documented to before the year 2000 BC.

In 1766 BC the Emperor Cheng Tang is believed to have ordered the construction of a flying machine that was subsequently destroyed lest anyone discover the secret of flight. In the 3rd century BC the Chinese poet Chu Yun made a detailed aerial survey of the Gobi desert, giving special praise to the durability of his craft over wind and sand storms.

Written records of oral traditions from Nepal also mention powered flight. They also acknowledge that the real secrets of flight were known only to the Yavanas. This is interpreted as the light-skinned people of the eastern Mediterranean, particularly Greece. This is highly significant because Greece has perhaps the best known account of the perils associated with early aviation.

Icarus and Daedalus.

The story of Icarus and Daedalus is almost exclusively looked at in terms of a colourful myth. A closer look at the story however reveals a great deal more.

In his work Metamorphoses, the Roman poet Ovid describes Daedalus as a highly skilled architect, the designer of the infamous Cretan maze. When this was complete he felt homesick, yet knew that king Minos would block his return, and that he was shut in by sea. His answer was to build a flying machine. As Ovid has him saying: " The king may block my way by land or across the ocean, but the sky, surely, is open, and that is how we shall go."

According to Ovid: "With these words, he set his mind to sciences never explored before, and altered the laws of nature."

Eventually two flying craft were made ready. One for Daedalus, and the other for his son Icarus. Daedalus made sure his son was aware of the rudiments of flight, and once in the air cast a watchful eye over him. Meanwhile on the ground the sight of these two flying machines excited considerable attention. Describes Ovid: "Some fisherman, perhaps plying with his quivering rod, some shepherd leaning on his staff, or a peasant bent over his plough handle caught sight of them as they flew past and stood stock still in astonishment, believing that these creatures who could fly through the air must be gods."

Exhilarating experience.

The two aviators then headed out from Crete across the Aegean Sea. For Icarus this was an exhilarating experience. In fact so overjoyed was he by the thrill of it all that he forgot his fathers instructions and soared further skywards, till the wax of the wings began to melt and he was "swallowed up in the deep blue waters, which are now called after him".

Today the Icarus legend is seen almost entirely in terms of poetic hyperbole. Yet surely we have here a testimony to early aviation. This was not after all a magical exploit. Daedalus was a master architect. He knew precisely how to fashion an aircraft and was also aware of its shortcomings. He realised there were things you just couldn't do, and these limitations - unlike many obvious myths - attest to its authenticity as an example of prehistoric aviation.

Egypt.

Tucked away in the Cairo Museum of Antiquities item number 6347, RM 22, was for many years considered just a small and insignificant artifact. This was after all no more than a tiny wooden plane discovered in a tomb near Saqqara in 1898. For many years it was kept in a basement storage area, where it was marked as 'bird object', and lay almost forgotten.

In 1969 however, Dr Kalil Messiha, an archaeologist, noticed the resemblance of the object to modern aircraft and decided to investigate further. A research committee was formed and the intitial findings were so impressive that the object was put on immediate display. Aerodynamic experts were later to testify that the model was remarkably airworthy, "indicating knowledge of principles of aircraft design which had taken European and American designers a century of airfoil experimental work to discover." Some experts noted similarities between the model and the lastest NASA developments in oblique-winged aircraft.

Dozens of examples.

Over the years dozens of such artifacts were discovered, all bearing testimony to an underlying knowledge of advanced aerodynamics.

But how could the ancient Egyptians have known of these things? Moreover was there a much larger working equivalent of this model that was now lost ?

Colombian jet.

These were all intriguing questions. Meanwhile another discovery of a miniature flying machine deepened the mystery still further. This was the so called Gold Jet from Colombia in South America. Considered to be well over a thousand years old, this tiny gold object was even more like a modern fighter plane. Thought to come from a pre-Incan culture, it measured just two inches long, yet posed enormous questions out of all proportion to its size.

Considerable attention.

Once again the Colombian plane artifact attracted considerable attention. For here was an ancient object bearing an unquestionable resemblance to a modern fighter plane. Aviation experts were particularly impressed. A test pilot Jack A. Ullrich noted that the shape of the wings and the tapering of the fuelage, implied that the original aircraft was jet powered and capable of supersonic speeds. Critics pointed out that the object could just as easily represent a bird or flying fish, and this was certainly a possibility. However the strongest clue that this was actually a depiction of a former flying machine came from the tail of the object. This triangular upright tail-fin had no equivalent in the animal kingdom. Moreover the resemblance to a modern fighter was complete even to the existence of an insignia on the tail fin. This was likened to the second letter in Hebrew alphabet - the letter beth.

The suspicion now grew that perhaps this amazing artifact did not after all originate in Colombia but was a Phoenician import from the Middle East.

Worldwide Phenomenon.

Whatever the truth, the reality is that ancient knowledge of flying machines was a world-wide phenomenon. Neither was South America limited to just this one artifact. Elsewhere on the continent at least six very similar artifacts were also discovered in Venezuela and Peru, and also in the Central American state of Costa Rica.

We must also remember that the vast linear markings in the desert around Nasca in Peru, could only really be viewed from the air.

If no one was capable of flight at that time, what was the point in constructing these vast linear networks? It just doesn't make sense!

The evidence however suggests that here as in Egypt and China, and the islands of Greece, flight had become a reality long before it was re-invented in our modern world. In fact wherever you go in the world there exist long standing traditions of pre-historic flight.

India.

India is another country with a particularly rich tradition of ancient flying machines. An ancient collection of sacred Hindu books, the Samaranga Sutradhara, contains at least 200 hundred stanzas concerning almost every aspect of flying. The International Academy of Sanskrit research conducted a special study into this work and published its findings in a book entitled Aeronautics, a Manuscript From the Prehistoric Past. What emerged was a knowledge of avaiation - machines, and equipment, that came astonishingly close to what we know today.

These ancient texts speak of the flying machines as Vimanas. They possessed "carefully welded joints", and were heated and driven "by controlled fire from the iron containers..." . This sounds remarkably like modern jet powered planes, even down to the noise that they made. This was like "the roar of a lion", by which the whole thing was set in motion so that "the traveller sitting inside the Vimana may travel in the air, to such a distance as to look like a pearl in the sky"!

For books dealing with the topic of Vimana aircraft please turn to the book column on the right where you might need to scroll up the page till the right topic is found.

Polynesian traditions.

In the Polynesian Islands of the South Pacific we find yet more references to early flight. Here local legends talk of a fair skinned people who arrived from the west aboard "shining boats", that "flew above the sea"! Other island groups of the Pacific have similar legends of "flying canoes" that bring with them people from afar.

Evidence - What evidence?

To many the enormous bulk of this evidence is conclusive enough. Indeed the inescapable conclusion is that thousands of years ago a form of aviation did once exist. A form of transport that enabled people to travel to and fro about the world much like we do today! But if so, where are the remains of these machines? We hear no mention of them being found at archaeological sites, and presumably if they had existed we should have found some trace of them?

Age of Atlantis.

The answer to this is that many of these machines were extant during the pre-catastrophe era. This was the age of Atlantis - a time, that like our own was reputed to have attained a high level of technological achievement. Then came the massive disaster that wiped it all away. If things like jet planes had existed in those times they would have been completely obliterated. Any surviving remains would have rusted and decayed. In time there would be no evidence they had ever existed. None that is except for a few artifacts from a much later culture, and written records that bore witness to this amazing era of prehistoric aviation.


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« Reply #1 on: June 28, 2007, 06:40:40 pm »






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"The Vedas, ancient Hindu poems, thought to be the oldest of all the Indian texts, describe Vimanas of various shapes and sizes: the "ahnihotra-vimana" with two engines, the "elephant-vimana" with more engines, and other types named after the kingfisher, ibis and other animals.

Unfortunately, Vimanas, like most scientific discoveries, were ultimately used for war. Atlanteans used their flying machines, "Vailixi," a similar type of aircraft, to literally try and subjugate the world, it would seem, if Indian texts are to be believed. The Atlanteans, known as "Asvins" in the Indian writings, were apparently even more advanced technologically than the Indians, and certainly of a more war-like temperment. Although no ancient texts on Atlantean Vailixi are known to exist, some information has come down through esoteric, "occult" sources which describe their flying machines. Similar, if not identical to Vimanas, Vailixi were generally "cigar shaped" and had the capability of manuvering underwater as well as in the atmosphere or even outer space. Other vehicles, like Vimanas, were saucer shaped, and could apparently also be submerged.

According to Eklal Kueshana, author of "The Ultimate Frontier," in an article he wrote in 1966, Vailixi were first developed in Atlantis 20,000 years ago, and the most common ones are "saucershaped of generally trapezoidal cross-section with three hemispherical engine pods on the underside." "They use a mechanical antigravity device driven by engines developing approximately 80,000 horse power." The Ramayana, Mahabarata and other texts speak of the hideous war that took place, some ten or twelve thousand years ago between Atlantis and Rama using weapons of destruction that could not be imagined by readers until the second half of this century. The ancient Mahabharata, one of the sources on Vimanas, goes on to tell the awesome destructiveness of the war: "...(the weapon was) a single projectile charged with all the power of the Universe."   
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What does VonDaniken say?




                     




 

Vimanas - The Ancient Indian Astronaut Connection




Written by Colin Mulligan



I first remember reading about vimanas, i.e. highly advanced ancient Indian flying machines, in Chariots Of The Gods, the first international best-seller of the controversial author Erich Von Daniken. Down the years I have come across several other interesting references to vimanas elsewhere, too. It wasn't , however, until I recently received an e mail from an Indian reader of my article Ancient Astronauts, that I recalled just how very intriguing these vimanas and, indeed, many other references to space travel and fantastically advanced technology in ancient Indian texts are. To this end, the following piece is intended to take a fresh look at vimanas and, moreover, explore the Indian ancient astronaut connection in general.

It is generally reckoned that the present form of the great Indian national epic, the Mahabharata, dates from between the 4th century BC and the 4th century AD. According to Indian tradition The Mahabharata, a collection of around 80,000 couplets, was first gathered together by one Vyasadeva, possibly a incarnation of Vishnu. Vyasadeva's 's disciple Vaicampayana is said to have first recited The Mahabharata for the king Janamejaya some hundred years later.

Very simply, The Mahabharata tells the story of the long war between the Kauravas and the Pandavas. This war was apparently willed by the ancient Indian Gods with the intention of easing the problem of over-population in the world. In his English translation of Krsna – The Supreme Personality of Godhead., His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedenta Swami Prabhupada tells us that the Mahabharata was gathered together by the great sage Vyasadeva in order to bring Krishna consciousness to “ those less intelligent ( like women, labourers and the mercantile class)”. And further informs us that In the Mahabharata “Krsna is presented in His different activities”. , and perhaps more importantly for us here, that the “Mahabharata is history….”

                                   


It is in the Mahabharata that we hear about Bhima who “flew with his vimana on an enormous ray which was as brilliant as the sun and made a noise like the thunder of a storm”. And in the same great ancient Indian epic we also hear about the great warrior Arjuna's ascent to Indra's heaven. Importantly, Arjuna is, we are told, a mortal. However, during the telling of his particular adventure we are told of his ascent to heaven in a car that travels upwards to the clouds with a noise like thunder. Whilst travelling to heaven Arjuna apparently also sees flying cars that have crashed and are out of action and other flying cars that are stationary, whilst others fly freely in the air.


Interestingly in the Mahabharata we also find information about the terrible weapons belonging to the ancient Indian Gods that, in the light of our present day knowledge, do sound uncannily like nuclear weapons. In his best-selling book According To The Evidence, Erich Von Daniken tells us how he found evidence of such terrible weapons held by Indian Gods in Book 8, Musala Parva:

The unknown weapon is radiant lightening, a devastating messenger of death, which turned all the relations of Vrishni and Andhaka to ashes. Their calcined bodies were unrecognisable. Those who escaped lost their hair and nails. Crockery broke without cause; birds turned white. In a very short time food was poisonous. The lightening subsided and became fine ash.

Like Von Daniken says, It really is very difficult not to consider such provocative passages in the light of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Could it really be possible, as Von Daniken infers in According To The Evidence, that the ancient Indian Gods held the terrible and awesome power of an atom bomb? And if they did, were such lethal weapons of destruction let loose on the earth in the dark and distant past, perhaps causing the a terrifying and ancient nuclear war?

In the Ramyana, often cited as the second great Indian epic after the Mahabharata , we are told about vimanas that fly at great heights with the aid of quicksilver and a great propulsive wind. These vimanas could apparently travel vast distances and manoeuvre upwards, downwards and forwards. In his first great best-seller Chariots Of The Gods Von Daniken quotes form a translation of the Ramyana by N. Dutt (1891):

“At Rama's behest the magnificent chariot rose up to a mountain of cloud with a tremendous din…” The tremendous noise apparently caused by the ancient Indian flying machines are certainly reminiscent of similar phenomena in the Bible and other ancient texts from around the world.

                                         

Interestingly, in another of his books, The Gold Of The Gods, Von Daniken presents us with a photograph of an old Indian bas-relief which is, he tells us, a depiction of a vimana that was easily identified by Sanskrit scholars. He presents the picture of this ancient Indian vimana, or flying machine, next to a prehistoric drawing found high up on a rock face in the Sete Cidades. In Daniken's opinion the Sete Cidades drawing is “identical in style and layout” with the ancient Indian bas-relief.

In a similar vein to the above mention of awesome and devastating mention of weapons in The Mahabarata, The Ramayana also seems to make mention of such weapons, too. For instance in the tale of ‘Rama and Sita' the king promises Rama that if he succeeds in bending a certain immensely powerful bow, he will have his daughter, Sita, the princess born from the earth. “Straight away the King gave the orders: five thousand well-built men strained to drag the eight-wheeled iron cart which contained the divine weapon. Try, commanded the devout king, and effortlessly Rama seized the bow and drew it. He bent it to such an extent that he broke it and the sound that the string made in breaking struck fear in everyone who witnessed it. My daughter, said the king, will be the prize won by your strength”.

Also in The Ramayana is the account of one of Rama's comrades, the King of the Apes. This King of the Apes could apparently not only evolve into a giant or shrink into a midget at will, but he is also a brilliant and fearless pilot of an obviously tremendously powerful flying machine of some kind. As Von Daniken recounts from the original text:

When he begins his flight from the mountains, the tops of the cliffs break, the foundations of the mountains shake. Giant trees are stripped of their boughs and broken, a shower of wood and leaves falls to the ground. The mountain birds and animals flee to their hiding places.

Furthermore this same King of the Apes mentioned in the ancient Indian text The Ramayana, could also apparently lift off in his flying machine from within built-up cities. He did not, by all accounts, need a runway like most modern aircraft in order to take-off:

With burning tail he swings himself up over the rooftops and kindles vast conflagrations so that the tall buildings and towers collapse and the pleasure gardens are laid to waste.

References to other intriguing flying machines also appear In The Second Chance – The Story Of A Near-Death Experience by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. A Second Chance is actually based upon an ancient book of Eastern Wisdom called Srimad-Bhagavatam and aims to show us how we can employ the techniques of meditation to overcome the obstacles of materialism. It basically tells the story of Ajamila, a debauched criminal, who at the moment of his death is saved from a terrible judgement and punishment by four beautiful figures who arrive to save him by the divine grace of Lord Krisna. It's on page 140 of The Second Chance that we find the following interesting passage:

“Upon seeing the Visnudutas, Ajamila gave up his material body at Hardwar on the bank of the Ganges. He regained his original, spiritual body – one appropriate for an associate of the Lord. Accompanied by the order-carriers of Lord Visnu, he then boarded an airplane made of gold. Passing through the airways, he went directly to the abode of Lord Visnu…”
                                          

What I believe is especially fascinating about this particular passage is although it appears to talk of a spiritual journey by Ajamila, the journey itself is clearly based in the material world, with clear references to actual places and the like. Hence, for example, the mention of “Hardwar on the banks of the Ganges” and also the “airplane made of gold” that passes through “the airways”. The text on page 140 of The Second Chance is, by the way, illustrated by a beautiful plate (plate no. 7) of Ajamila, now pure and fully Krsna conscious, boarding a “spiritual” airplane that will take him back to the kingdom of God.

Finally, again in According To The Evidence, Von Daniken tells us that it is possible to read in the ‘Rama and Sita' section of the Ramayana all about how the villainous Rawana kidnaps the beautiful heroine Sita in an aerial car that is like the sun. Rawana flies Sita in his aerial car that is like the sun high over woods, valleys, and high mountain tops. Hearing about the kidnapping of his lovely wife, Sita, Rama cries : “ Fly out the aerial cars at once”. And immediately he sets off and challenges Rawana to aerial combat. In the perusing battle to get Sita back, Rama uses an heavenly arrow to shoot down his enemy, who eventually dives into the depths. Rama manages to save Sita and she climbs into her husband's heavenly flying machine which at Rama's behest, rose up to a mountain of cloud with an enormous noise.

Reading passages like this, can it really be possible that Von Daniken is right when he says that “Only an illiterate could overlook the fact that flying cars were described in ancient Indian texts”? Perhaps, all in all, the very least that can be said is that ancient Indian epics such as the Mahabarata and the Ramayana are certainly compelling reading for anyone interested in discovering more ancient astronaut connections in world literature.

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