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by Vaughn
Greene
When I read of
Kenneth Arnold's sighting the world's first modern UFOs on
June 24, 1947, I was immediately interested. A few weeks after I
wrote Arnold, two friendly F.B.I. agents came for a
visit. Here was I, a 17-year-old punk, being interviewed by
investigators who were not very sympathetic. This only whetted my
appetite, and over the years I contacted some of the early flying
saucer buffs, including
Prof. Adamski, George Hunt Williamson, Kurt Von Zeissig,
Yukio Matsumura, Zecharia Sitchin, Meade Layne
and others.
When the Korean War came along, I went into the army. While stationed
in Japan, I began studying early Shinto legends and ancient
mythology. To my surprise, these early tomes were loaded with
references to aerial battles, underwater castles, exotic weapons,
TV, and flying dragons that flew 6,000 leagues a day. What
really impressed me were some prehistoric statues called dogu.
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From my previous
experience with the diving and aircraft industries, I felt sure
these things were depicting a diving suit, or a space suit, or a
combination of both. Dogus were made by a Neolithic people
called the Jomon, who were the first persons on
earth to make clay pottery.
Dating back as far
as 12,000 to 14,000 years per R-14 dating, the
earliest dogu were very crude. The last ones over
2,500 years ago showed a sharp, machine-tooled look.
I've found over 30
points of similarity to modern space suits on dogus,
including lenses, rivets, rubber cuffs, chest controls, safety
straps, communication lights, etc. Can this be mere coincidence?
Archaeologists are baffled by the dogu statues. They
resemble no other objects on earth. The science of archaeology in
Japan was started over 100 years ago by an American Professor
Morse. Since that time, the experts have called them sex
objects, funeral depictions, etc. The best explanation I think is
the word dogu which in Japanese means a tool. |
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Dogu statues are totally unique. There are no other
figures exactly like them in the ancient world. In years of research
since then, however, we have found indications that these same
astronauts were seen all over the world. The 7,000-year-old
drawings at Val Cominica, Italy, the prehistoric
Tassali, Sahara, and ancient Australian Aborigine sketches
all show helmeted, suited-up figures. There are statues, such as
the Tula giants in Mexico, the Tiahuanaco
space gods in Bolivia, the Cro-Magnon Venus cult
of Europe, which show similar features. Figurines of the
8,000-year-old Mohenjo Daro culture in India are
almost identical. The most remarkable similarity though, relates to
the
Kappa.
In Japan, the Kappa are popular mythological figures,
still seen in cartoons today. These mischievous creatures swam
underwater, had webbed feet (swim fins?), and flew around in shell
cars. The Kappa often came ashore and taught the
natives various advanced arts. What is remarkable about this is that
there are
at least three similar stories found around the earth:
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The ancient
Merovingian kings of France were visited by a half-human
Fisher King. This is partly the basis for legends of
Parsifal, the Spear of Destiny, and mysterious tools used by
the Knights Templar.
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A second legend relates to
the Oannes, half-human creatures seen in olden
Babylonia. These beings came out of the sea every day to teach the
world's first agriculture, mathematics, law, and astronomy. Every
evening they would dive back into the water. Drawings show them
wearing wrist watches and holding what looks like a rocket motor.
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A third group visited the
Dogon tribe of Mali, Africa. Notice the resemblance of
Dogon and Dogu. The oldest hot spring in Japan
is called Dogon. I have found, in checking, about a dozen words of
Dogon and Japanese which are virtually identical.
These visitors lived in an
artificial pool they brought with them. Like the Kappa
and the Fisher King, they had a bald spot on top of
their head which, some would say, is still observed with the
Catholic monks' tonsure. They told the
Dogon their ships came from a planet circling a dwarf star
near the star Sirius. Our astronomers did not locate
this star until 1952.
These beings were called the nommo. Note that the names
of these water-living creatures Nommo, Oannes,
and Kappa all have a double consonant. It is
interesting that Japanese mythology is full of stories about
underwater creatures (Umi Bozo) and others who engage in
aerial warfare (the Ashura). There are stories of underwater
castles seen on a clear day at the Inland Sea.
Underwater lights have been seen in Yasushro Bay for
over 1,000 years. In ancient times three suns appeared in the sky. A
saucer-shaped craft landed and a blonde woman was seen inside.
Japan's greatest saint Nichirin Diashonin was saved
from beheading when a meteor streaked over the frightened
executioners.
The Russians are well aware of dogus, and
Professor Kasantsev, also feels they are depictions of space
suits. Kasantsev, incidentally theorized that the 1911
Tunguska explosion was actually a nuclear-powered spaceship
that crashed on the Siberian tundra.
The Japanese reaction to all this is a bit puzzling. Hundreds of
dogus are dug up every year, yet virtually nothing is
mentioned about it. Yukio Matsumura, the early UFO
researcher and founder of the Cosmic Brotherhood Association,
has been under virtual house arrest. There are several Internet web
sites called dogu and Jomon, but I have found them to be
almost useless. In July 1997 a Japanese artist displayed in San
Francisco a statue which was obviously made to ridicule dogus. Why?
Does the government know something they don't want the public to
know? Is there some hidden knowledge about early Shinto
legends
which says the first emperor was the product of a sky god mating with
a human? And why has the Japanese government recently given 40
million dollars to start a UFO conference center?
Is this part of a campaign of misinformation?
The largest tomb in the world, over a half mile long, sits in Japan,
some would argue, like a huge space beacon. This keyhole-shaped
structure has never been opened, it is claimed. Is
there any relationship here with the recently discovered underwater
pyramids recently discovered off Japan?
As the old Latin saying goes, Quo vadis who goes there?
Vaughn M.
Green is author of "The Six-Thousand-Year-Old Spacesuit".
(for info about this book
"click"
HERE)
The richly illustrated
book contains a foreword by Zecharia Sitchin
and a recommendation by
Eric von Daniken.
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