Tamahu, all of that is just your opinion and that of those sects or groups you seem to be affiliated with.
This is what I have come to think happened and which some will say it is also just my opinion, in which case they might be right, but the evidence is
still there, at least in ancient lore.
One of the civilizations that we know about and almost have their original texts and history intact, is that of the Hindu.
Reading their Vedic scriptures we see evidence that they had been very advanced a long time ago, and that according to their texts, nuclear wars
seemed to have put them and most of the Earth back to the stone age once more, also extreme natural disasters helped to erase most of the evidence of
these past technologies and ancient cities.
The vedic scriptures say that the Gods and Godesses possesed better craft or discus extremely more advanced than the vimanas the Indians had.
These kind of stories, the ones that say some entities which seemed to have visited the Earth and which ancient people called Gods/Godesses, is not
just found in one place or culture, but all over the Earth. It is not too hard to see the connection between the same aerial ships that we still see
these days which can defy every law of nature we know of.
Even the Celts talk about these ancient beings which came from the sky. According to legend, the Tuatha De Danaan or the children of the Godess Danu,
came from the stars. Althou the origins of the Tuatha De Danaan seems to be mythical, as there are many descriptions on how they appeared on Erie,
like almost every other ancient story, if you come to read many of the passages of these people's texts, you might see that they were trying to
explain something that the Celts themselves did not understand, as well as most ancient cultures.
In the Magical Stone of Tara, Conn of the Hundred Battles is said to have watched the skies every evening to make sure that no hostile aerial beings
would descend upon the lands of Eire.
"One evening Conn repaired at sunrise to the battlements of the Ri Raith or Royal fortress at Tara, accompanied by his three Druids, Mael, Bloc, and
Bluicné, and his three poets, Ethain, Corb, and Cesare; for he was accustomed every day to repair to this place with the same company,
for the
purpose of watching the firmament, that no hostile aerial beings should descend upon Erin unknown to him."
Excerpt taken from.
www.sacred-texts.com...
Erin and Erie were some of the ancient names of Ireland.
The Druid Amergin gave the name of Erie to Ireland after one of the daughters of the kings of the Tuatha asked the Druid to name the island after
her.
According to the Celtic texts, there were giants in Ireland called fomorians before the Tuatha De Danaan and before the Celts fought the Tuatha in
Erie.
If you want to use the bible, even there you find references of giants existing in Earth before men and after, but supposedly God created men and not
giants to rule over the beasts and everything on the Earth....
"006:004 There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare
children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown."
Excerpt taken from.
www.talkorigins.org...
The Greeks and Romans also mention that before the Gods, even before Zeus himself there were the Titans. Actually according to legend Zeus was a son
of two titans, Uranus and Gaea. I think this was a way for the greeks to explain that the Titans existed in the Earth before the Gods made their
appearances.
Many of these ancient stories point out that before men and the Elohim or Gods, there were other races on Earth, races of giants. Perhaps the
descendants of these giants are what some cultures call sasquatch, or Big foot or the abominable snow man in the himalayas or yeti, etc.
So, the first race to ever exist on Earth was probably not even human, as according to all legends humans came much later than these ancient races.
You also have to take into account that many cultures say that the Gods who were their forefathers came from different star systems.
To the Dogon tribe it was Orion. To the Native Americans was the Pleaiades, to the Celts, Dôn's Court which was Cassiopea, from where the Children of
Dôn or Danu came from, etc.
Most ancient cultures talk also of some sort of war between demons and angels in the heavens, as well these demons angels/Gods and Godesses came to
visit Earth one time or another.
To some, it might seem farfetched to put all these stories together and come to the conclusion that this is part of the true history of Earth, but
that's exactly what I think happened. Now, appart from these ancient stories there are many different theories about these ancient ebes. In here is
where it gets complicated.
[Edited on 28-4-2004 by Muaddib]