I've Been Abducted by Aliens! / Topher Grace

Mutant, Glad to hear you respect anthroplogists. The following article was written by noted anthropologist professor C. Scott Littleton on the alien topic. My answer to his findings follows.
Art

DIVINE REBELS, ALIEN DISSIDENTS!

By C. Scotty Littleton

I am not a ufologist. I've never investigated a UFO sighting, nor a crop
circle, cattle mutilation, or an abduction. Nor, to the best of my conscious
knowledge, am I an "experiencer." Twice, when I was young and again a few
years ago, I've observed flying objects that didn't fit any categories with
which I'm familiar.[1] But I've never had a significant "missing time" episode
or other indication that I've been a "guest" aboard an alien ship.

Yet for more decades than I care to remember, I've watched the serious UFO
literature--including works by investigators such as Jacques Valleé, Budd
Hopkins, John Mack, David Jacobs, Timothy Goode, Linda Moulton Howe, Jenny
Randles, Raymond Fowler, Stanton Friedman, Bruce Maccabee, the late Allen
Hynek, and Don Ecker of UFO Magazine , to mention a few--grow into an impressive
body of data and theory. It is a literature that can no longer be ignored by
responsible social scientists, including cultural anthropologists like
myself. Thus, I've decided to "come out of the closet," as it were, and assert
my belief that the UFO phenomenon is real--despite the carefully orchestrated
attempts by our own and other governments to deny its existence, and the
skeptics and debunkers who do their best to make persons who take the
phenomenon seriously appear ridiculous.

The implications of the UFO phenomenon for anthropologists--or for anyone
who would make rational sense out of the human condition--are profound. If
Valleé, et al. are correct, humans have been the genetically exploited "lab
rats" of one or more extraterrestrial civilizations, whose technological
sophistication (evincing Sir Arthur C. Clarke's assertion that "Any sufficiently
advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic") has allowed them to
maintain a clandestine hegemony over this planet for at least the past 13,000
years.[2]

With apologies to the "British Raj," which held hegemony over India from
the late seventeenth century to 1947, I've come to conceive of this
extraterrestrial presence as the "Alien Raj." Yet that may be a grossly
oversimplified picture of the nature of human-alien interaction, especially in ancient
times. The "Alien Raj" seems not to have been--and may still not
be--monolithic, any more than was the British Raj, even in its
nineteenth-century heyday.

Almost every ancient mythology includes at least one rebellious deity, one
who willfully violates the divine "rules." For the most part, such figures
are what anthropologists call "tricksters," that is, gods or heroes who gain
their ends by cleverness, stealth, and liberal applications of magic rather
than by sheer divine power. Tricksters are typically reprimanded and/or
severely punished for their actions, which, more often than not, involve efforts
to transmit elements of divine wisdom or "technology" to mortals.

This article focuses on three trickster deities: (1) The Old Testament
figure Lucifer, the "Light-Bearer," who, in defiance of Yahweh, brought
self-awareness to Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden; (2) the Greek deity
Prometheus, who rebelled against the authority of Zeus and gave fire to mankind;
and (3) the ancient Mesoamerican god Quétzalcoatl, the "Feathered Serpent," known
to the Maya as Kukulkan, who was forced into exile because of his efforts
on behalf of mankind.

I posit that these and other trickster deities (e.g. the Old Norse god
Loki, who built Valhalla but later turned against the supreme god Odin, and the
pan-Polynesian god Maui, for whom the island is named) are mythological
reflections of one or more extraterrestrial dissidents who rebelled against the
Alien Raj's "Prime-Directive"-type policy of non- interference in human
affairs--except when it suits the aliens' immediate agenda--and were punished
for their actions by the Raj.

* Lucifer

The best-known, albeit most misunderstood, of my three examples is Lucifer,
the "Fallen Angel" who rebelled against the divine authority of Yahweh and
was exiled from Heaven. Soon thereafter, disguised as a serpent, he tricked
Adam and Eve into becoming fully sentient, that is, over and above an
immediate awareness of their sexual natures. This violated God's policy of "non-
interference" in the newly-created humans' affairs, and Lucifer remained an
outcast as far as the supreme--and eventually monotheistic--Hebrew deity was
concerned.

I suspect that in this story's earliest version, Lucifer, like Prometheus,
also gave Adam and Eve the secret of fire-making, as is suggested by his
name. Note, although they were eventually conflated, Lucifer should be
distinguished from Satan, who entered the Hebrew tradition much later and is
derived from the ancient Zoroastrian entity Angra Mainyu, the "Lord of Darkness,"
who was believed to be in permanent conflict with Ahura Mazda, the "Lord of
Light and Goodness." (This latter conflict may also reflect the alien
presence, more specifically a conflict between two or more ET species who, some
6,000-7,000 year ago, seem to have fought what amounted to a colonial war for
possession of Earth.[3])

In the fully developed Hebrew religious tradition, the sexual aspect of
Lucifer's "gift," together with the defiance of divine authority, assumed a
disproportionate importance, and thus, unlike Prometheus, the Hebrew
"Light-Bearer" remained a negative figure, an exile deserving his fate. Thus,
ironically, the ancient Hebrews came to interpret the mythology surrounding this
pro-human figure in much the same way the Alien Raj regarded the behavior of
the dissident who inspired it: a clear violation of the rules that could not
go unpunished.

* Prometheus

A member of the Titans (the elder dieties in ancient Greek tradition),
Prometheus defected and sided with the younger Olympian gods, headed by Zeus.
(Again, we have the theme of an ancient conflict that probably has alien
overtones.) But after the Olympians defeated the Titans and banished their
leader (Zeus's father Kronos) to subterranean Tartaros, Prometheus (whose name
means "Forethought") grew uneasy with Zeus's intentions toward the
newly-created humans. Zeus, the chief Olympian, forbade Prometheus from carrying
fire from Heaven and teaching mortals how to use it. Prometheus defied his
sovereign and did so anyway. As a result, humans became more than mere dumb
animals, just as Lucifer's "gift" permitted Adam and Eve to emulate their creator,
at least to a degree.

Enraged, Zeus chained the rebellious god to a mountain top, where an eagle
pecked his liver. A colleague, Elizabeth Barber, suggests that this is a
metaphor for a volcanic eruption in which the eagle's black wings are the
spreading plume of smoke and the god's blood is the red-hot lava flowing down
the mountain side. Her interpretation may also be correct, as most mythology is
multi-layered; once it was clear that the rebellious gift-giver from the
sky was punished, human imagination took over, and the symbolic association of
Prometheus's torment with a particularly devastating volcanic eruption took
shape.

In time, Zeus's rage abated, and Prometheus came to occupy a heroic
position in ancient Greek religion as humanity's chief divine benefactor. This
is in stark contrast to the Lucifer myth, nevertheless, the tales are strikingly
similar. Indeed, together with R. J. Werblowksi and several other scholars,
I suspect there is a historical connection between these two figures, and
that they reflect a common Near Eastern account of a rebellious,
"light-bearing" pro-human deity who descended from the sky bearing
knowledge--technological and otherwise--and was punished and/ or exiled by his
"divine"--that is,
alien--superiors for his actions on behalf of humanity.

* Quétzalcoatl

My third example of a "pro-human" deity that seems to derive from a
dissident alien prototype is the Mesoamerican "feathered-serpent" god
Quétzalcoatl, called Kukulkan by the Maya, who is described as a culture- bearer. A
relatively benign deity, at least by the bloody standards of Mesoamerican
mythology, Quétzalcoatl, like Lucifer and Prometheus, came to earth to teach his
human devotees all manner of useful arts and wisdom.[4] Like the other two
divine rebels, by doing so, he angered his fellow gods and was forced into
exile, although vowing to return at some future time--a motif implicit in the
other two mythologies (Prometheus returned after Zeus pardoned him, and
Lucifer's eagerness to return, albeit negatively valued, permeates the
Judeo-Christian tradition).

Two elements of the Quétzalcoatl mythology are relevant. First, his
"feathered-serpent" image. Several UFO abductees, including Nebraska Highway
Patrolman Herbert Schirmer and Betty Andreessen-Luca, have reported seeing
winged serpents emblazoned on the abductors' uniforms. Although this element is
absent in the Lucifer and Prometheus mythology, Lucifer's reptilian alter ego
in the Garden of Eden is noteworthy, and the winged-serpent figure does exist
in ancient Greek tradition in the image of the Caduceus (although it's
associated with Asclepias, god of medicine, rather than with Prometheus).

Nevertheless, I suspect the image of a winged or feathered serpent is an
important and deep-rooted alien symbol, one that may reflect a very ancient
extraterrestrial totemic identification that predates the Alien Raj. Thus, one
may expect both dissidents, like the prototype of Quétzalcoatl, and the
more "establishment" type aliens who abducted Schirmer and Andreasson-Luca, to
display it.

The second relevant element in the Quétzalcoatl mythology is the idea that
he is fair-skinned. This was one reason Moctezuma initially accepted
Hernando Cortes as Quétzalcoatl redux.[5] (Among the alien physical types
reported by abductees are the so-called "Nordics": blond, blue-eyed humanoids who
sometimes appear in charge.[6] ) Although Cortes and his fellow Spaniards
didn't entirely match this human type, the dissident alien prototype of
Quétzalcoatl could have been a Nordic, and the fact that the Europeans were
generally fairer than Mexicans may have led Moctezuma and his people to believe that
the god had returned. Of course, they soon realized that Cortes and his
rapacious comrades were far from divine, but by then it was too late; the
Conquest was a fait accompli.

This may be a lesson for us humans, especially for those "New-Agers" who
have seen fit to deify our alien colonial masters.

* Rebel God and Alien Prototype(s)

We have a pattern: A divine being (Lucifer, Prometheus, Quétzalcoatl, and
other trickster figures) defies his superiors in the pantheon (Yahweh, Zeus,
Huitzilopochitli) and attempts to assist humans. After transmitting some
divine lore (self-awareness, the secret of fire-making, writing, etc.) he is
punished by his superiors, either physically or by exile. It seems extremely
probably that this widespread theme reflects an actual event (or series of
events) of some 5,000-odd years ago, one that involved an abortive rebellion
against the non-interference policy of the Alien Raj.

Do alien dissidents still exist? One can only wonder, although some
abductees/contactees do report being given information that has proven useful.
My friend Jack Sarfatti, a post-quantum physicist, asserts that he received an
alien "phone call" in 1953 which predicted that he'd make an important
breakthrough in 1973. And it happened. Could this phone call have been made by
an heir to Prometheus or Quétzalcoatl?

If a dissident movement persists within the Alien Raj, we must contact it
and obtain some of that magical technology, and the science behind it. It
would appear to be the only realistic way to consider overthrowing the Raj's
oppressive hegemony. Only when we discard the notion that our extraterrestrial
"visitors," as Whitley Strieber has dubbed them, exist on some higher
"spiritual plane" than ourselves can we make rational sense of a phenomenon that
has such a profound, albeit clandestine, impact on our existence.

As yet, no hard, incontrovertible evidence exists that my three divine
"suspects" were mythological reflexes of ancient alien dissidents. But I submit
that the "soft" evidence supporting both the presence of an Alien Raj, and
my above hypothesis, is persuasive enough to warrant close collaboration
between anthropologists specializing in comparative mythology and folklore, and
serious students of the UFO phenomenon.

We anthropologists must overcome the "they shouldn't exist, therefore they
don't exist"skeptical mindset frequently encountered in academia, and
systematically examine UFO abductee accounts and their congruence with mythology
and folklore.

* Footnotes ...

1. Circa 1936 or 1937, when I was three or four years old, I watched what I
later came to think of as a "flying French horn"--this was at least a
decade before the phrase "flying saucer" entered the lexicon--drift slowly
across my nursery window after waking up from an afternoon nap. A half-century
later, in March of 1990, while vacationing at the southern tip of Baja
California, I woke up at 3:00 a.m. one morning and watched a bright point of
light perform a variety of maneuvers over the ocean, including 90-degree turns,
that no aircraft I'm aware of can perform. After about three minutes, just as I
was about to wake up my wife, the object simply winked out.

2. Exactly how long the aliens have been here is still an open question.
The appearance of lenticular, or discoid images on cave walls in Southern
France and elsewhere in the late Upper Paleolithic (ca. 13,000 years ago), lends
credence to this date, but their arrival could have been earlier--perhaps
as far back as 25,000 years ago if some ambiguous African petroglyphs are
depictions of alien beings. Some investigators assert aliens have been here for
hundreds of thousands of years, and were responsible for hominid evolution,
or at least that of anatomically modern Homo sapiens. However, other
researchers, such as David Jacobs (personal communication), assert that the
alien presence hardly dates back more than a century.

3. Except perhaps to say that Charles Fort's eighty-odd-year-old
observation "That once upon a time, this earth was No-Man's land, that other
worlds explored and colonized here, and fought among themselves for possession..."
now appears remarkably prescient!

4. There may be a purely historical dimension to some of the mythology
surrounding the "Feathered-Serpent." We know that a brilliant Toltec prince
named Topilzin Quétzalcoatl, who reigned at Tula (ca. A.D. 850-900) and is
credited with introducing a variety of useful arts and knowledge, was removed
from power by a jealous faction in the ruling dynasty and forced into exile.

5. Additionally, by sheer chance, the year in which the Conquistadores
arrived, 1519, marked the end of a 52-year Aztec calendric cycle, at which time
miraculous events were supposed to happen, including the return of figures
like Quétzalcoatl.

6. My own view here coincides with that of David Jacobs, who suspects that
the Nordics are more probably what he calls "late-stage" human-alien
hybrids, and thus not the dominant alien species. Nevertheless, they do seem
fully integrated into the Alien Raj, at least culturally, and it's not impossible
to suggest that one or more of them became disenchanted with "establishment"
policy re the "natives" and rebelled against the Raj.

http://www.theufochronicles.com/2007/06/divine-rebels-ali...

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I answered Professor Littleton on this subject before in the following
Email exchange.

Art Greenfield

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Hi Art,

First of all, I'm thoroughly familiar with the full text from which I
took Charles Fort's "I think we're property." It's one of the
epigraphs in my novel (the other is "Clarke?s Law"). And yes, I agree
with Fort that we've been "fought over" in the past, just as the
British and French fought over control of India in the 18th century.
Indeed, there's an abundance of mythological (and some archaeological)
evidence?the Titanomachy in Greek mythology, the war between Odin, et
al., and the Frost Giants in Scandinavian myth, and the conflict
between Lucifer and Yahweh in the Old Testament, to mention but a few
examples, that two distinct alien societies fought a devastating
"colonial war" for hegemony over this planet some seven or eight
thousand years ago, and that there was almost certainly a great deal
of "collateral damage." One set of combatants could well have been the
Reptoids; the other probably the Grays. I strongly suspect that this
war ended in something of a stalemate, although it?s also possible
that the Reptoids beat the Grays and thus became the dominant alien
species, at least on this planet.

But, and this is a very big "but," I see no clear evidence that either
the Reptoids or the Grays have used Earth as a source of food. Nor is
there clear evidence that the "Alien Raj," as I call it, has ever
allied itself with any specific human community. To be sure, they?ve
exploited a variety of planetary resources, including water and
electric power, and human DNA has been harvested systematically, both
to produce hybrids and for reasons that are not yet clear, for
millennia. Moreover, on several occasions since 1950, representatives
of the "Alien Raj" appear to have contacted the leaders of the U.S.
and other technologically advanced nations, and agreements seem to
have between worked where by, in exchange for some high-tech
"trinkets," they received carte blanche to abduct human "subjects,"
mutilate animals, etc. But this is hardly an alliance. Rather, it?s
more analogous to the Dutch "buying" Manhattan Island.

I sincerely doubt whether the aliens, of whatever variety, are out to
harm us intentionally, any more than ethical human researchers
intentionally harm their lab animals. Sure, on occasion some creatures
must be sacrificed if a research project is to be successful; the same
probably holds for the "Alien Raj." In short, IMHO, they're neither
"angels," who are here to help us achieve a higher level of
"spirituality," a word I detest, nor "demons," which regularly eat our
flesh. Rather, their behavior seems more akin to that of a consortium
of human naturalists and enlightened entrepreneurs, who are managing a
wilderness area. They periodically band "subject" animals so as to
trace their migration routes, and, at the same time, carefully exploit
the region's resources in such a way as to cause minimal damage to the
local flora and fauna. Of course, not all such persons are
enlightened, as Bush?s callous attitude toward the environment
abundantly demonstrates, and I?m sure there are some Bush-like aliens
who couldn't care less about us and out habitats. But the "Raj's" basic policy for the last ten millennia or so seems to have been
fairly benign, all things considered.

Of course, I don't like being a "colonial subject," any more than
Gandhi, et al. like being subjects of the British Raj. And I wish we
could figure out an effective way to throw off the alien yoke. But at
the same time I really don't thing they've been eating us, making
alliances with counties like North Korea, or subliminally
"controlling" the left in the country, whose antagonism to Bush and
his insane war is extremely well founded.

Cheers,
Scotty
C. SCOTT LITTLETON, Ph.D.
Professor of Anthropology, Emeritus

Hi Scotty,

I find it rather amusing that you used one of Charles Fort's quotes,
but overlooked his quotes that have a bearing on the subject at hand.
There is an interesting premise written by Charles Fort in 1931. Fort
was one of the first ufologists and a paranormal investigator
extraordinaire and wrote extensively on the subject in the 1920s and 30s:
"I think we are property. I should say we belong to something; that
once upon a time this Earth was no-man's land, that other worlds
explored and colonized here and fought among themselves for
possession, but now it's owned by something; that something owns this
Earth--all others warned off."
--Charles Hoy Fort in 1931
Another troubling statement of Charles Fort: "I believe we are fished
for. It may be we're highly esteemed by super-epicures somewhere."

Epicure-a person who has cultivated tastes, as in food or wine; a
connoisseur. The Reptoids living amongst the Maya had a taste for
fresh human hearts. We need to take action to insure they will no
longer come here for a hearty meal.

Observe the Reptoid God eating human hearts. You will notice he has
three-toed Raptor feet, just like the footprints from the Reptoid
wearing the invisibility/zoom suit encountered at the Skinwalker
Ranch. Observe the fashionable head gear. The Mayan artists have
faithfully reproduced a long range antenna array. That system beats
cell phones all to hell. They just need a craft parked in hover mode
above to keep in touch with each other.

No, I am not saying we copied their antennae.

You being an anthropology prof, I thought you were supposed to know
"where all the skeletons were buried," culturally and mythologically
speaking. It's even in your job description:
Scott is a cultural anthropologist who teaches courses in comparative
mythology and folklore, the anthropology of religion, cognitive
anthropology, and Japanese culture. He has published extensively on
Indo-European mythology and the origin and distribution of the
Arthurian and Holy Grail legends, and has done ethnographic field work
in a Tokyo neighborhood, with emphasis on the local Shinto shrine
festival.

Now I know they had the same "dragons" in the Orient, even though in
the modern world they are considered to be quaint myths. Well, the
myths have come back and bit us in the ass. Myths don't leave fresh
Raptor footprints at the Skinwalker ranch..
I must agree with you that previously, our Repto Sapien cousins did
have a Raj-like system that subjugated all major Earth cultures. Their
images in the form of statues and temple paintings, etc., are found in
virtually every major ancient Earth culture.
It was not like the British-Raj.

They were not practicing colonialism in a quest for minerals,
materials, cheap labor, or financial tribute. The only raw material
they needed and wanted from Earth was raw meat. Carnivorous Reptoids,
the food chain, oh my. I think it is very amusing that you think I am
a right-winger because I point out the perfidy of the useful idiots
who just happen to be leftists, communists, nazis, and worse. After I
realized how the Reptoids used political movements to start wars as a
harvesting tool, I became apolitical, and am in fact working on
designing a private business corporate-type organization that would
replace all political parties and movements, be run as a profitable
entity that paid its own way, and actually paid all citizens dividends
while it carried out all governmental functions. No more taxes. No
more expensive nonproductive bureaucracy. Would you like that? No more
bitter elections. No more left or right. The Reptoids couldn't divide
us using politics or state religions to cause wars for meat anymore.
No more "cannon fodder = Reptoid fodder." You mentioned "stupid war."
All wars are stupid. War, what is it good for? Is it evil or not? Why
do the same groups like communists and Muslim Jihadists keep starting
wars? Take the communists, please. LOL The communists have been the
"Useful Idiot" hand puppets of the Repto Sapiens since 1917 and the
Jihadists since Mohammed. Whether the Repto Sapien's entire food
gathering operation is evil or not is another matter. Instigating wars
amongst our people so the Reps can retrieve dead meat is analogous to
our ancestors stampeding buffalo herds over a cliff so that they could
gather meat.

Logistically, it's the easiest method to satisfy demand that the
Reptoids can use here.

Logistics:1 : the aspect of military science dealing with the
procurement,maintenance, and transportation of military matériel,
facilities, and personnel.
2 : the handling of the details of an operation.

Otherwise, they would have to personally take on the
logistics of our own cattle and meat-packing industry. They would have
to breed, raise, feed, transport, and slaughter "cattle" (us) using
their own personnel and operating their own farms,
transportation system, and meat-packing plants. That industry is very
labor intensive. Ask a cowboy or meat cutter. It is hard dirty work. I
know. I worked as a meat cutter for two years. The Reps just found a
way to get us to do all the dirty work and slaughter ourselves for them.

All the Reps have to do is pick up dead bodies from battlefields.

Our murdering each other in war for no good reason is evil. The Repto
Sapiens causing it to happen, technically, is not evil because
they are doing it for food gathering purposes, just like we slaughter
our own cattle. It is the equivalent of us getting cows to slaughetr
each other so that all we have to do is go pick up the meat that we
will be using for food. The food chain is not evil. The way the Reps
do it to us is kind of unfair to us. We are capable of raising
sufficient cattle to meet the Reps periodic food needs every 50 years
when their migration fleet stops by. That is what I am working for. WE
raise food for them, and trade it to them in exchange for trade goods,
technology, knowledge, etc, that we can use. However, they are
hardheaded and set in their ways so we will need to negotiate from a
position of military strength on a parity with them. They are not
stupid and understand the true purpose of war.

Art