(Ancient Bloodline) [AI slop to fuel speculation:] Life 1.9 million years ago: ancient aliens teach prehistoric humans how to survive? It was not by violence but by farming, cooperation, and controlling base instincts.
What ancient civilizations said about giants existing on earth
Legends of ancient races of giants (asuras in Buddhism and other Dharmic traditions) are shared among cultures that span across multiple continents around the world. They are also included in the most popular religions on earth. The ancient Greeks describe giants included among Greek gods. There are many different words used to describe races of massive humans, such as the "Nephilim" of the Jewish-Christian Bible. Descriptions of red-haired, six-fingered giants are shared by different Native American groups in North and South America, such as those in the USA and Peru.
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Akasha devas are the "shining ones" from the celestial worlds, the heavens, who from time to time visit humans, who note their grace, elegance, and orderliness. What do they say when they visit humans? They are able to communicate directly and telepathically, by mimicking human languages, and by archetypes and dance. Some ships or vimanas pulse lights, colors, shapes, and frequencies to send their messages down. Bali, Indonesia, retains a Hindu dance tradition from India (kathak), which seems to be the stylized body language and interpretive dancing of female devas (devis) and apsarasdepicted on the bas relief walls of Borobudur, the largest excavated Buddhist temple in the world as well as the ornate Angkor Wat in the jungles of Buddhist Cambodia. - Wisdom Quarterly
Legong Semarandhana in Balerung stage, Peliatan
(Bernard Marchal) Marchal is an amateur videographer and a simple tourist. His channel has no commercial purpose. He often travels to Indonesia, in particular to the Hindu island of Bali.
As he is passionate about video and Balinese culture (Hindu ceremonies, traditional dances, and music), he often films events and shows he attends. It is his way of recording memories of his stays and, more importantly, making known the rich culture of the island.
Legong Semarandhana on Balerung stage, Peliatan, Tirta Sari. Dancers: Aan Devita and Nitha Suwitri. Recorded Nov. 23, 2018.
This dance was filmed on the Balerung stage, in the small town of Peliatan (near Ubud, Bali), where world famous Balinese dances and gamelan music began.
Indeed, the first international tour of Balinese artists in the US and Europe in 1952 brought together a group from Peliatan led by A. A. Gede Mandera.
Since that time, Peliatan has remained one of the historic centers of Balinese dance and music. Two groups of the famous 1952 troupe are Tirta Sari and Gunung Sari, which give shows for visitors every week. Tirta Sari on the Balerung stage on Friday evenings and Gunung Sari on Saturdays.
Many of the best dancers in Bali learn their art in Peliatan. Legong Semarandana is a dance that developed in Balinese royal courts.
The narration refers to a long Javanese Hindu poem, a myth about the origins of love and passion between humans, embodied by the couple in love: Semara, the god (deva) of love, and Ratih, the moon goddess, interpreted by two twin dancers who perform a choreography symbolizing their harmony.
Lord Shiva then intervenes, furious to have had his meditation disturbed by the couple [because what god wouldn't be furious to be disturbed by humans and their behavior on earth].
Semara tries in vain to pierce him with arrows [like Cupid is said to do in Western mythology]. Lord Shiva, who takes on the appearance of the terrible Rangda, curses the desire that forces him to create the mortal world and intends to reduce the two lovers to ashes.
Apologies for any inaccuracies in the story summary and thanks in advance to anyone who can correct or complete the explanation.
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The Mighty Ancient Sumerians, the Anunnaki and biblical figures appropriated by the Hebrews and other Semites into their histories and myths.
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Early Christians: YAHWEH (the Old Testament God) is actually the DEVIL
(Gnostic Informant) (Wiki) In the Platonic, Neo-Pythagorean, Middle Platonic, and Neo-Platonic schools of philosophy, the demiurge is an artisan-like figure responsible for fashioning and maintaining the physical universe.
The Gnostics adopted the term demiurge. Although a fashioner, the demiurge is not necessarily the same as the Creator figure in the monotheistic sense, because the demiurge itself and the material from which the demiurge fashions the universe are both considered consequences of something else.
Depending on the system, they may be considered either uncreated and eternal or the product of some other entity.
The word demiurge is an English word derived from demiurgus, a Latinized form of the Greek δημιουργός or dēmiurgós.
It was originally a common noun meaning "craftsman" or "artisan," but gradually came to mean "producer" and eventually "creator."
The philosophical usage and the proper noun derive from Plato's Timaeus, written circa 360 BC, where the demiurge is presented as the creator of the universe.
The demiurge is also described as a creator in the Platonic (c. 310–90 BC) and Middle Platonic (c. 90 BC–AD 300) philosophical traditions. In the various branches of the Neoplatonic school (third century onwards), the demiurge is the fashioner of the real, perceptible world after the model of the Ideas, but (in most Neoplatonic systems) is still not itself "the One."
In the arch-dualist ideology of the various Gnostic systems, the material universe is evil, while the non-material world is good.
According to some strains of Gnosticism, the demiurge is malevolent, as it is linked to the material world.
In others, including the teaching of Valentinus, the demiurge is simply ignorant or misguided.
The first and highest aspect of God is described by Plato as the One (Τὸ Ἕν, "To Hen"), the source, or the Monad.
This is the God above the Demiurge that manifests through the actions of the Demiurge. The Monad emanated the demiurge or Nous (consciousness) from its "indeterminate" vitality due to the monad being so abundant that it overflowed back onto itself, causing self-reflection.
This self-reflection of the indeterminate vitality was referred to by Plotinus as the "Demiurge" or creator.
The second principle is organization in its reflection of the nonsentient force or dynamis, also called the One or the Monad. The dyad is energeia emanated by the one that is then the work, process, or activity called nous, Demiurge, mind, consciousness that organizes the indeterminate vitality into the experience called the material world, universe, cosmos.
Plotinus also elucidates the equation of matter with nothing or non-being in The Enneads [9], which more correctly is to express the concept of idealism or that there is not anything or anywhere outside of the "mind" or nous (c.f. pantheism).
The figure of the Demiurge emerges in the theoretic of Iamblichus, which conjoins the transcendent, incommunicable “One,” or Source.
Here, at the summit of this system, the Source and Demiurge (material realm) coexist via the process of henosis.
Iamblichus describes the One as a monad whose first principle or emanation is intellect (nous), while among "the many" that follow it there is a second, super-existent "One" that is the producer of intellect or soul (psyche).
The "One" is further separated into spheres of intelligence: The first and superior sphere is objects of thought, while the latter sphere is the domain of thought. Thus, a triad is formed of the intelligible nous, the intellective nous, and the psyche in order to reconcile further the various Hellenistic philosophical schools of Aristotle's actus and potentia (actuality and potentiality) of the unmoved mover and Plato's Demiurge.
Gnosticism presents a distinction between the highest, unknowable God or Supreme Being and the demiurgic "creator" of the material, commonly identified as Yahweh, the God of the Hebrew Bible.
Several systems of Gnostic thought present the Demiurge as antagonistic to the will of the Supreme Being: This being's act of creation occurs in an unconscious semblance of the divine model and thus is fundamentally flawed or is formed with the malevolent intention of entrapping aspects of the divine in materiality.
Thus, in such systems, the Demiurge acts as a solution to (or, at least possibly, the problem or cause that gives rise to) the problem of evil.
or literally "shining ones," but their classifications vary depending on the plane of existence they are found on. Messengers are just one lowly rank known as gandharvas (Pali gandhabbas), whereas the higher-ranking gods, demigods, and godlings are called akasha-devas (celestial-deities) and brahmas(divinities). For some strange reason they are all, as a class, just "light beings." Some live on earth as woodland fairies (nats) and dryads, or walk among humans as shapeshifters and messengers, or reside at the tops of large trees in miniature palaces in the air. The king of the gods (devas) is a being named Sakka (Sakra, Indra, which, interestingly, seems to share a name with the Scythians orIndo-Sakas of Sakastan, the Buddha's clan, Indo-Scythians, where Scythian, Shakya, and Saka are essentially equivalent terms, and the Buddha epithet is Shakyamuni, "the Sage of the Shakyas"), equivalent to the Catholic St. Michael, who is only king of the devas in the Realm of the Thirty-Three and the Realm of the Four Great Sky Kings, the two lowest "heavens" in the Sensual Sphere.
The 9 Ranks of Angels
(The Generalist Papers) According to some groups within the Abrahamic religions, there are many different types of angels. Let’s look into the angelic hierarchy put forward by the Medieval Catholic Church.
SOURCES
Summa Theologica by Thomas Aquinas (translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province).
On the Celestial Hierarchy by Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite
Angelic Spirituality: Medieval Perspectives on the Ways of Angels by Steven Chase
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Biblically accurate angels are creepy
(Hochelaga) July 31, 2020. Ever wonder why angels described accurately in the Bible look so creepy? Instead of angelic humanoids of great beauty, the Bible depicts bizarre animal-human hybrids (chimeras), fiery winged beasts, and wheels made of eyes. It's uncertain, but most believe that they are descendants of mythical beasts across the ancient Near East. #creepy#angel#bible#biblical
Ancient Astronaut Archive, 5/19/18; Pat Macpherson, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
Anunnaki Gods of Ancient Greece
ne of the most entertaining and enticing aspects of ancient Greek culture is its elaborate mythology that involves gods (devas in Buddhist terms), titans (asuras), heroes, deeds, and mortals, all of which colored the physical world with elaborate stories and personalities. Myths and legends permeated ancient Greek thought, enriching its literature and art. But were these "myths" accounts of actual beings during that time? And were these "beings" actually the Anunnaki of Nibiru? Website: ancientastronautarchive.com
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Ancient Egyptian deities [called devasin Buddhism] are the "gods" and, of course, goddesses worshipped in ancient Egypt.
The beliefs and rituals surrounding them formed the core of ancient Egyptian religion, which emerged sometime in prehistory.
The gods Osiris, Anubis, and Horus (Wikipedia)
Deities represented natural forces and phenomena, and the Egyptians supported and appeased them through offerings and rituals so that these forces would continue to function according to maat, or "divine order."
After the founding of the Egyptian state around 3100 BC, the authority to perform these tasks was controlled by the pharaoh, who in a power grab claimed to be the gods' representative and managed the temples where the rituals were carried out.
The gods' complex characteristics were expressed in myths and in intricate relationships between deities: family ties, loose groups and hierarchies, and combinations of separate gods into one.
Deities' diverse appearances in art—as space aliens, animals, humans, hybrids, objects, and combinations of different forms—also alluded, through symbolism, to their essential features.
Maat, Goddess of Wisdom
In different eras, various gods were said to hold the highest position in divine society, including the solar deity Ra, the mysterious god Amun, and the mother goddess Isis.
The highest deity was usually credited with the creation of the world and often connected with the life-giving power of the sun.
Some scholars have argued, based in part on Egyptian writings, that the Egyptians came to recognize a single divine power that lay behind all things and was present in all the other deities.
Yet, they never abandoned their original polytheistic view of the world, except possibly during the era of Atenism in the 14th century BC, when official religion focused exclusively on the impersonal sun god Aten.
Gods were assumed to be present throughout the world, capable of influencing natural events and the course of human lives.
People interacted with them in temples and unofficial shrines, for personal reasons as well as for larger goals of state rites.
Egyptians prayed for divine help, used rituals to compel deities to act, and called upon them for advice. Humans' relations with their gods were a fundamental part of Egyptian society. More
This video on Greek mythology explains the beginning of the gods/goddesses, monsters, and mortals. It includes Greek devas such as Zeus, Cronus Gaia, Hades, Hera, and many more. It also covers the Olympian war between the Titans (Buddhist Asuras) and the Olympians.
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"Mrs. Robinson, are you trying to seduce me?" Jonas Brother Nick Jonas, 25, HOOKING UP (having sex with) with Demi Moore, 55: Hot or NOT? Scott Disick and Sofia Richie are probably the most well-known older guy/younger gal celebrity couple in Hollywood right now -- with a 15 year age gap between the two. However, actress Demi Moore is reportedly dating boy toy Nick Jonas, who is an entire 30 years older than him. Ashton Kutcher-Kunis is p*ssed! Is it hot, love, lust, a passing trend, the new norm, or gross? More power to them.
The thing about a cougar's appetite, Demi, is that one can't get enough of the baby bottle.
The Human Genome Project was completed in 2003 and was set up in order to discover more about our "human blueprint." Some scientists believe that human DNA did not originate on planet earth.
More DNA, gods!
Scientists have found that 97% of the non-coding sequences, also known as “junk DNA,” can not be explained by evolutionary processes described by Darwin. Many modern humans (Homo sapien sapiens) have Neanderthal DNA, a human species that went extinct at least 30,000 years ago. But that is just a small percentage.
However, that being the case, does it not make sense that if aliens have been visiting Earth for thousands of years, there is a good possibility that they have been manipulating our DNA to trigger our advancements. Consider the number of people who claim they have been abducted: They describe various types of ET aliens (akashadevas) -- short and tall Greys, tall blond Pleiadians (Nordics, who gave Scandinavians their good looks), Reptilians (Nagas), Draconians/GreekTitans (Asuras) -- who operated on them. Today let’s explore these 6 SIGNS you may have alien coded DNA.
What was your first clue? Not my skull I hope. The advanced technology maybe.
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Humanity would welcome the discovery of ET [extraterrestrial visitors] despite fears of an alien invasion, predict psychologists.
We can terraform any planet to life.
Psychologists believe we would be positive about finding out aliens were real.
Scientists looked at responses to five "alien" announcements in the last 50 years.
NASA believes there are dozens of worlds that could harbor alien life.
The space agency believes alien life will be found in the next few decades.
What do "they" look like?
From ET to Spock, we've always toyed with the idea of extra-terrestrialturned life -- but how would [earthling] humans react if it actually out to be true?
Psychologists believe we would be positive about finding out we were not alone, according to a study that looked at people's responses to five key "alien" announcements since 1967 -- and they appeared to be largely positive.
So now you know? Katy, too. We're Stars.
This is despite warnings from scientists such as Stephen Hawking who say we should "be wary" about answering alien signals.
Michael Varnum, a psychologist at Arizona State University is trying to anticipate how humans would react if a discovery like this came back positive.
"One of the initial questions [of the initiative] that we're curious about is how might we respond if we discover evidence of extraterrestrial life," he told The Washington Post.
Published online on a preprint server, the paper looks at the psychological reactions to extraterrestrial life... More
COMMENTARY
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Aliens created these bodies and made humanoid life on our planet possible, only we don't call them aliens but "gods" and "demigods" or devas in Buddhism and Hinduism and Jainism, angels and archangels in Christianity/Catholicism, Elohim and Nephilim in Judaism, and Islam, Zoroastrianism, Mithraism, Ancient Egyptian, Greek, Roman, and every other religion in the world.
Artist Alex Grey's DMT-vision of Adam and Eve and the Serpent in the Garden of Eden.
Discussion of the sutra, "A Buddhist Genesis," begins at Minute 44:00. See Part 2 of SUTRA
(Bhante Punnaji) Ven. Punnaji, Ph.D.AGGAÑÑA SUTRA, Part 1: Sutra Study Class by Ven. Dr. Punnaji Mahathera at the Buddhist Maha Vihara on August 4, 2014.
In brief, according to the Agganna Sutra (Columbia University), the Buddha explains that human life on began when devas ("shining ones") with the power of flight descended onto this plane, this world (loka), which as the Human Plane is only one of many similar worlds.
These beings then devolved to the present day, along the way losing their self-luminosity and other qualities over millions of years. The principal cause of this devolution and decay has been karma, their personal and collective behavior, their unprofitable actions and the impact of those actions on their descendants.
Verify it yourself.
But life is cyclical, small cycles within larger cycles, rather than uniformly downhill. We are told things are better now than before in history. The fact is that by going further back, things are worse. They improve and decline, decline and improve with a downward trend Then they dissolve, remain chaotic, and begin again in a kind of golden age that lasts a long time then slowly begins to decline again, cyclically getting better and worse as it goes.
This is in accord with the Vedic view in India that was known before the historical Buddha. There is NO need to take this as an "article of faith" because it can be personally verified by meditation (purification of the mind by serenity, absorption, and the application of mindfulness for the development of direct insight). Humans, even today, are capable of enlightenment/awakening.
The many "gods," devas or brahmas, tampering and tinkering with this current colony, this "generation" and its many human and other species over the aeons, set this planet in motion as a going concern.
This is what Indian histories and mythologies affirm. According to the Buddha, in a discourse called "A Buddhist Genesis" or Aganna Sutra, life on Earth began when flying beings of light (devas, lit. "shining ones") came down onto the planet and found it delightful, a kind of "Eden" or garden planet.
They stayed so long and ate of the garden that they lost their self-luminosity, telepathic powers, and finally their morality (sila) -- in consequence of which lifespans shortened and their karma caused physical differences to appear on the planet: the kinds of foods available, sicknesses came about, harmful customs developed.
Just as Micheal Cremo (Forbidden Archeology) explains with reference to ancient Vedic, Hindu, and Brahminical sources, Buddhist texts agree: we are not currently evolving after "the fall" but devolving. Things are getting worse, life is getting shorter -- not in a perfectly linear way but in smaller cycles within larger cycles. This is now a Decadent Age, a Kali Yuga, long after a Golden Age.
We think we live longer than a few decades ago and therefore the farther we go back, they must have lived much shorter lives. The fact is that, as the Jewish and Christian bibles declare, human lifespans were much longer in the past.
In fact, according to Buddhist sources, lifespans in the future as in the past, cyclically, human lifespans grow to 80,000 years. We can't imagine, but it's all relative. A life of only 900 years, as the Bible brags about must not have been all that long ago, relatively speaking.
The Earth or life on it is not 6,000 years old as calculated by some literal Christian interpreters. It is hundreds of millions of years old on a planet that is billions of years old in a galaxy and universe that on the one hand is timeless and on the other of such length as to stagger the mind, calculated not in earth-years but in various kinds of "aeons" (kalpas).
(BhantePunnaji.com) The Evolution of the Universe [is devolution]
Human life rises to great technological heights and falls again, and then the cycle repeats. That is why there are such ancient marvels all around us. In fact, science shows this, though scientists do their best to be apologists for the status quo and the gatekeepers of academia and the mainstream media. Buddhism is very science-friendly. Science is always changing its views.
Science dictates what constitutes "acceptable" theories as yet unproven, sometimes unproveable, often gained and guided by outside influences like funding and craving for fame and influence, popularity and past wrong views. Science does not live up to its unbiased ideals but suffers from its many human frailties and rarely admits it.
Later a new theory comes into vogue, also wrong, and no one can say any different. New evidence gets interpreted in different ways or hidden or falsified, and no theory can account for all of it. We would rather go with the Buddha's accounts because he was someone who knew directly -- and it is possible for us to know directly (which is what meditation, insight, and enlightenment make possible).
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ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico - A man charged with murder, sexual assault [of a child], and other counts in the death of an 11-year-old girl on the largest American Indian reservation changed his pleas to guilty Tuesday in a case that prompted calls to expand the Amber Alert system and the death penalty to tribal communities across the U.S.
May 11, 2017: The Damanhur cult [of Italy] reveals they have unlocked the secret of time travel. The "Time Project" leader warns travel to the recent past is not safe, because it might adversely change current events. It is safer to travel deep into history.
Thirty miles from the home of the Shroud of Turin, the tiny, sleepy Italian village of Baldissero Canavese was able to keep secret for 15 years the underground location of the commune of Damanhur. At the foothills of the Alps underneath an innocent-looking suburban home in Northern Italy, hundreds of hippies are living in a paradise under the earth.
"Stop police brutality" - for once and all
The Damanhur Federation was founded by Oberto Airaudi and his 24 disciples, named after the Egyptian city that hosted a temple dedicated to Horus the sky god, represented as a man with the head of a falcon. Airaudi also went by the name of "Falco" or the Hawk, based on the tradition of the cult that members adopt animal names. According to Falco this all started when he was a ten year-old child. He had visions of a great Temple filled with people living together harmoniously. As a man he had a successful career as an insurance agent, when in the back yard of his home on a hot August night, Oberto told his believers he was waiting for a sign. A falling star streaked across the sky. He said to his friends, "We start digging now."
They used only hand tools -- hammers and picks. Beginning in 1978 and working around the clock, for the next 15 years these laymen carved out an underground complex with no architectural plan, except for the sketches made by Falco. It now descends five stories into the earth in a giant series of chambers connected by hundreds of yards of tunnels. One room is a four-sided pyramid covered in mirrors with a glass dome. The ceiling of a room called, "The Hall of Spheres" is covered entirely in gold leaf. Other ceilings, walls and floors are done in intricate mosaic murals.
Very early on, the collective of Damanhur also was involved in other new age projects. They believe that plants can sing, and they developed equipment to allow humans to hear the melody. One probe is attached to a leaf. Another probe is inserted in the soil between the roots. Electric conductivity is measured and a converter assigns musical notes to the electrical impulses.
The underground Temples became public knowledge when a former member sued to regain his possessions from the group. Italian police and the public prosecutor came knocking at the front door in 1993, demanding to be shown the subterranean temples -- which were constructed without a single building permit. "Otherwise," they warned, "we will dynamite your hillside." Falco replied, "Your threats are unnecessary," and he led authorities through the secret door to the complex. The officals were dumbstruck by expansive vaults 25 feet in height. Worldwide headlines helped the Damanhur Federation to turn their commune into a tourist attraction. The government declared the sanctuary to be The 8th Wonder of the Modern World.
The cult revealed that in 1997 they unlocked the secret of time travel. "Time Project" leader, Gnomo Orzo, says it is safer to travel deep into history than it is to travel to the recent past, which might adversely change current events. Orzo confirms the device is a machine. Its purpose is to channel and magnify a person's own psychic energy.
The current population of the neo-hippy commune is between seven and eight hundred souls. They have their own schools. They issue their own currency, the Credito, equal to the value of the Euro. They invented their own sacred language. But they no longer hide anything. They welcome visitors, and they welcome new citizens.
Citizenship
There are different classes of citizenship at Damanhur. The "Class C" citizen is not required to live on site. Class B citizens contribute money and must live there at least three days a week. Class A citizens share all personal property with the commune and live on site full-time. Only the Class A citizens are eligible to make use of the time machine.
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Legends of ancient races of giants (asuras in Buddhism and other Dharmic traditions) are shared among cultures that span across multiple continents around the world. They are also included in the most popular religions on earth. The ancient Greeks describe giants included among Greek gods. There are many different words used to describe races of massive humans, such as the "Nephilim" of the Jewish-Christian Bible. Descriptions of red-haired, six-fingered giants are shared by different Native American groups in North and South America, such as those in the USA and Peru. 
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