A. The Technological Motivation
From the
Judeo-Christian traditions of the Fall of Lucifer, to the Hindu
epics with their legends of titanic wars of the gods and wanton
slaughter, to the Sumerians, Babylonians, Assyrians, Egyptians, and
Greeks of antiquity, to the Aztecs, Toltecs, and other indigenous
nations of North and South America, and to the Teutonic tribes of
northern Europe and Scandinavia, almost every culture in the world
has a tradition of the warfare, and in many cases of the revolt, of
the gods. The struggles and battles are epic in their scale, cosmic
in the degree of their slaughter, and titanic in their scale of
destruction. The weapons with which they were fought are so
far-fetched — or advanced — that they were literally described in
almost magical science fiction terms: the “thunderbolts” or
“arrows” or “darts” of the gods; they were “the divine
weapons.”
Many of these stories
contain common elements, however, that in spite of the supposed
isolation of these cultures from one another, appear to indicate a
shared source or sources for their legends. And one of the
strangest common elements to many of these legends concerns the
theft or usurpation of some object or objects of power belonging to
one god or set of gods, by another god or set of gods. And quite
often, these objects of power are “magic stones,” or “power
crystals.”
Thus, we come to one
of the strangest motifs in the already strange hypothesis of a
real, but very ancient, interplanetary war: What was the motivation
for this cataclysmic cosmic warfare? What were these objects? And
most importantly, what happened to them and to the “gods” and/or
“people” that wielded them? As will be seen, one motivation of the
war in many traditions is for the control of these technologies of
power.