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Ancient Aircraft?

Before once again considering the remarkable Abydos glyphs and the implications of the translations, we should look at yet another anomalous discovery, this time made at a tomb in Saqqara, which is approx 40 miles south of Giza. In 1898 an object was discovered that, like many other such finds, due to a lack of both imagination and in this case knowledge, was labelled as a model bird and placed in the basement of the Cairo Museum. The find, which was made approximately ten years before the Wright brothers' historic flight, was small, made of wood and when viewed with modern eyes clearly depicts a high-winged aircraft rather like a child’s glider. Many decades later in 1969 the small ‘model bird’ was noticed by Dr Khalil Messiha, a physician and aero-modeller, who identified its strong similarity to a glider. He was particularly interested in the shape of the wing, which as with some modern aircraft is made with an anhedral (down curved) configuration. This of course caused quite a stir and after investigation by a specially convened committee the model was re-housed in the prestigious Central Hall of the museum and labelled as an ‘ancient model aeroplane’. There it remained until quite recently when, for no obvious reason, it was withdrawn from display and no one appears to know of its whereabouts, and even the findings of the committee whose deliberations brought it to prominence have vanished. In all fairness this can and does happen in museums throughout the world as exhibits lose their appeal and are replaced by alternative offerings, but does not however normally include the records of the removed articles.

Fortunately, Egypt is not the only country where such anomalous artefacts have been uncovered; many so-called ‘insects’ have been exhumed from graves and tombs in South America. Even a cursory look at these objects, which are much smaller than the Saqqara ‘bird’ and cast in precious metal, chiefly gold, reveals that they look nothing like insects, but, instead, they closely resemble delta wing fighter aircraft. One of the men, Peter Belting, who carried out an evaluation on the properties of these small objects created precisely scaled-up models of the ‘insects’, attached suitable engines to them and to the delight of all the interested parties they flew. However, many dissenting voices have been raised claiming that both the Saqqara ‘bird’ and the South American ‘insects’ were exactly that, a model bird complete with a beak and eyes and representations of small flies and beetles. Yes, as well they might, considering that the people who created them would have been totally overwhelmed by the appearance of any kind of flying machine and would, quite naturally, have altered its appearance slightly to accommodate their own ideas of what could and could not fly, so why not a beak and eye. Actually, when the insects are viewed one wonders why the protestors should hold such an orthodox stance when the small metallic artefacts clearly show a vertical tail, a feature not present on any insect whether flying or otherwise: it is also clear that the ‘bird’ has a vertical tail.

In fact the opposite situation also occurs when the pilots and crew of military aircraft adorn them with images; the use of images of a sharks jaw with teeth was commonplace on the nose of fighters during the Second World War and still is today, especially on the Fairchild A10 ‘Warthog’, which mounts a fearsome multi-barrel cannon on its nose. Although we are assured from some quarters that the wooden model flew, as indeed did the scale replicas, other sources say that it did not. They said that the wings were too short relative to the body size, and although there was a tail fin there were no tail wings etc, etc. Once again yes, this might well be the case, but has anyone considered how a modern jet fighter stays in the air with its stubby wings etc. Sheer thrust and momentum is what keeps it in the air, in fact some cutting edge, highly manoeuvrable fighters are inherently unstable in fight and require the continual monitoring of on-board computers permanently linked to dozens of adjustable flight control surfaces on the wings to keep them in the air. They are easy to fly using the computers, but are nigh on impossible for a pilot alone who could simply not process the voluminous data required: evidently flying by ‘the seat of your pants’ is no longer an option in today’s war planes.

The Beginning

Perhaps the answer to this puzzle lies much further back in time to the era when the country of Egypt was a golden, near magical empire governed by an elite coterie of Gods called the Ennead. Bearing in mind the repeated use and apparent significance of the number nine in the Abydos Glyphs, this rarefied council comprised nine deities; Isis, Geb, Nut, Set, Atum, Tefnut, Shu, Osiris and Nepthys and each had discrete functions in the daily life of the Egyptian people. Indeed, since the country was run as a theocracy, the pharaoh was elevated to the status of a priest-king, a divine entity in his own right who had contact with the Ennead. Although the worship of many of these gods fell into disuse, in some cases it continued in other forms and not just in Egypt. It has been persuasively argued that Isis, far from being an isolated, half forgotten goddess consigned to the hazy mists of the past, found a form of rebirth and renewal as Mary the Mother of Christ with whom she shares many attributes. In her own belief system she was known as the ‘Queen of Heaven’, ‘Mother of God’ and ‘Star of the Sea’, these titles were appropriated and bestowed on Mary by the early Christian church.

The Djed, the Council of Nine and the Ennead

We also find a connection between the Ennead, en masse, and an allegedly extraterrestrial group calling itself ‘The Council of Nine’. At this point we should perhaps return to the presence of Osiris in the Ennead and also the existence of a symbol intimately connected with Osiris, and that is the Djed Pillar, (in some version of the story, the Djed is said to be a representation of the backbone of Osiris). The appearance of the Djed Pillar, when viewed with modern eyes, gives the appearance of some form of insulator with the presence of four ‘flash guards’, although according to tradition it was considered as an emblem of stability. The presence of the four ‘flash guards’ (if that is what they are) seems to indicate that the pillar may be some kind of tool or device, perhaps even a key designed for use with powerful energies, perhaps the energies that would be required to operate a time gateway? This interpretation refers to another of the traditional properties of the pillar, that of the ‘tree of life’ but with reference to four dimensions, the fourth, as in our understanding of physics, being one of time. This is a theory that sits particularly well when one considers the mythos surrounding Abydos and its anachronistic carvings. Also significant is the account that, following the murder of Osiris by his brother, Set, his body was dismembered into fifteen sections and hidden throughout Egypt. Isis, the wife/sister of Osiris searched for and found fourteen of the pieces; the fourteenth was his head with lay at Abydos. There she assembled his body parts and raised him from the dead but without his phallus which was not found. In spite of the entirely understandable enmity between Osiris and Set, they are both still a part of the Ennead.

Although the identity of the Ennead is reasonably well established, the identity of the Nine is less so. At one level they, through accounts channelled by various psychics and other sensitives, announced that they are the beginning and the end, the alpha and omega and the nine principles of the universe, in other words some kind of gestalt (group) intelligence. While at the other end of the scale, they/it, appear to be some kind of fully sentient super-computer. One further connection between the Ennead and the Nine is the fact that one of the spokesmen for the Nine is named ‘Ra’, who was of course the Egyptian sun god. Early in the channelling sessions Ra was referred to only by the initial letter ‘R’, although finally he/it became known by the rather uninspiring and prosaic name of ‘Tom’.

While the subject of the Nine has spawned several books in its own right, most notably ‘The Only Planet of Choice’ by Phyllis V. Schlemmer and the messages contained in Schlemmer’s book, as with most channelled information originating from so called extraterrestrial entities, including the ‘space brothers’ and ‘beings of light’, are mostly ones of well-intentioned advice to the human race. They also resolutely promote ‘green’ issues, which of course is no bad thing and this was long before they became the contentious issue that they are today. It is interesting to note just how many prominent figures became involved in either spreading, or were powerfully influenced by their philosophy including Gene Rodenberry the creator of Star Trek. It is possible that Rodenberry’s contact with the Nine influenced his choice of material while contributing to the show, but on a much deeper level perhaps one of the best known of these personalities is the mystic and philosopher, Professor James J. Hurtak.

Reassessing the Nine

Dr Hurtak, who claims to have been in contact with the Nine since 1973, promotes their teachings in his internationally famous work, ‘The Keys of Enoch,’ which was first published in 1977; he also alleges that they have upon occasion actively intervened in the affairs of the human race. While a fascinating and portentous document it has to be said that most of what the book contains is not particularly accessible to the casual reader. Nevertheless, it is through this document, which contains a total of sixty-four ‘keys’, that Dr Hurtak created a powerful groundswell throughout the New Age movement where he achieved a near messianic following.

It is probably not coincidental that the subheading of the book includes the terms, ‘Brotherhood of Light’ and ‘People of Light’ and one of the verses (or Keys) alludes to ‘Host of the Living Light’ and the ‘Light of Righteousness’, it also comments on the use of a ‘spectra’ (all my emphasis) of coloured light to break down the barriers of time and consciousness. Are these deliberate references to the existence of the so-called extraterrestrial ‘beings of light’? Significantly, Dr Hurtak also accepts the existence of alternate universes and multidimensional realities and presumably the means to access them. All this becomes increasingly odd yet strangely relevant and familiar and is another example of just how interrelated various aspects of this subject become; like many researchers all one has to do is open the slightest chink in the armour of orthodoxy, be persistent and not take ‘No’ for an answer.

The Nine (or the supercomputer) evidently live on board a sentient spacecraft called ‘Spectra’, which also appears to be mentioned in Dr Hurtak’s work, although not as a proper name and apparently in a slightly different context, but I do not believe its inclusion to be an accident. If Dr Hurtak’s interpretations are correct, does he infer that the ‘interference’ mentioned in connection with the Nine may have involved actual armed conflict in the far distant past between human beings using 21st century weapons and an unknown extraterrestrial enemy? Did the Nine assist on the side of humanity; or rather more worryingly does the translation of the glyphs indicate that the extraterrestrial enemy was in fact the Nine? If this is the case then it is possible that the Nine are not the altruistic group that they at first appear to be; unless of course as suggested they were in league with human beings against a common enemy. This scenario is born out when one considers the positive nature of Osiris, who, as a ruler, is credited with civilising his people and turning them away from barbarity and cannibalism; even so, why the presence of modern looking equipment? Perhaps the Nine/Ennead did not possess the necessary equipment to fight such a war, or perhaps their code of ethics did not allow them to enter directly into armed combat so they, in effect employed mercenaries recruited from the present era.

Epilogue

The evidence seems to be there, and it pops out from a variety of sources, a bit here and a bit there; the depiction of modern looking fighting machines, the relevance of Abydos, Osiris and another world, the curious link between the Ennead and the Nine, the repeated references to the number Nine in the translations of the Abydos glyphs, many little pieces making a much bigger picture. Certainly there seems to be a difference regarding the mechanism by which the contact may have been made, although there might still be a connection, but what is rather heartening is the realisation that since we have found apparent evidence of this then the conflict must have been successful otherwise it would not have been inscribed to commemorate the event.

While some of what is written here is speculative, it is based on readily available (and it has to be said consistent) data. We are already aware that there is work underway trying to develop a method of warping and bending space and with it time and this is only what we know about, for it is anyone’s guess what is currently underway in the concealed laboratories funded by lavish ‘black project’ budgets. Projects that might look like the wildest kind of science fiction, but as we creep ever closer to the ‘theory of everything’, which is the ‘Holy Grail’ of theoretical physicists everywhere, then literally nothing is impossible and who knows, perhaps, as the Abydos Glyphs suggest, the conquest of time has already happened.

Sources and References

The Alien World: ed. Peter Brooksmith Pub Black Cat ISBN 0-7481-0143-8

The Stargate Conspiracy: by Lyn Picknett and Clive Prince pub Little, Brown and Company ISBN 0-316-64861-2

Genisis: by David Wood pub The Baton Press, ISBN 0-85936-180-2

Posted 26th June 2008

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