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UNVOICED TESTIMONY:
VISITORS IN THE DAWN TIME
by Scott Corrales
"...some of the cave...entrances are considered
"evil,"...local farmers will not...come close to them...within one of
these "evil" points of access is an ancient petroglyph of what could
only be, astounding though it might seem, a representation of the helicoidal
structure of DNA..."
The branch of UFO research which could rightly deserve the
appellation of "paleoufology" constituted a controversial field of
investigation during the 1970's, when authors like Otto Binder, Richard E.
Mooney and Erich Von Daniken... wrote extensively on human/alien interaction at
the dawn of recorded history and even earlier. Proof of the existence of
"gods" or "ancient astronauts" could be found everywhere,
and to judge by the conclusions found in the books of the time, it seemed that
every major engineering project in antiquity had been "farmed out" to
alien contractors! Paleoufology lost its appeal and languished in obscurity
until the works of Zechariah Sitchin thrust it once again into prominence.
Clearly, there is still a great deal to learn about this aspect of the
phenomenon.
Guatemalan researcher Oscar Rafael Padilla, an
attorney and Ph.D who has dedicated 30 of his 51 years to the research of the
UFO phenomenon is also the compiler of an extraordinary taxonomy of
extraterrestrial creatures, composed by taking into consideration such
characteristics as the existence -- or lack of -- hair, eye type, body shape and
similarities to the human body, among others. One of the species portrayed
in Clasificaci�n Exobiol�gica de Entidades Extraterrestres (Exobiological
Classification of Extraterrestrial Entities), is characterized by its large head
and eyes in relation to the thinness of its body. The being has been classified
as belonging to the family Homidia (due to its resemblance to humans), order
Primates (due to its walking on two extremities), subclass Euteria (since they
are allegedly placental mammals). Padilla also believes that this particular
variety of non-human entity played a significant role in ancient times.
Dr. Padilla recalls a very curious stele that was on
display in Guatemala's Museum of Anthropology and Archaeology until its removal
in 1990, when it was transferred to Japan for scientific study, according to his
own research. The stele portrayed the figure of a being with enormous ears,
three-fingered hands, elongated legs, no feet, and two strange filaments on its
head which, in Padilla's opinion, constitute "antennae".
Scientists have dismissed Dr. Padilla's allegedly alien
as a colorful primitive depiction of an imaginary monster -- very much like our
own science-fiction beasts -- and left the matter at that. But there is growing
evidence throughout South America that ancient artisans depicted certain things
we now know to be fact much too clearly.
Brazilian UFO researcher Jean Alencar has noted that
the mythology of this country is replete with descriptions and statuettes of
beings endowed with the power of flight. The legends of Brazilian natives, like those of other countries,
detail experiences of gods or travellers from the sky who descended to earth
when humans were little more that animals to instruct them in the arts of
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