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After an in-depth examination of the mummification phenomenon around the world, a utopian idea became clearer in von Däniken's mind that when the gods fulfilled their promise and returned to Earth, they would awaken those who have lived for thousands of years. Waiting for the mummies of their powers. The mummies of the most remote ages stare at us, as incomprehensible as mysterious bodies that unleash magic powers that have hitherto been devoid of credible explanation.In ancient times, various ethnic groups mastered embalming technology, but today's archaeological discoveries show that prehistoric people believed in rebirth in the afterlife and in the restoration of the body.If those who believe in the restoration of the physical body and even the restoration of the physical body from afar are really in the ancient world of ideas, then such a statement is really acceptable!

If our ancestors believed in spiritual restoration alone, they would hardly have given the dead such care.However, finds from Egyptian tombs provide example after example of ready-made embalmed bodies for physical restoration. What is shown by superficial phenomena and what can be seen by examples may not be all absurd!Historical records and legends do provide evidence that the gods promised to return to Earth from their home planet, awakening the regeneration of preserved flesh.Perhaps that is why the arrangements for the embalmed bodies in the burial chamber had such practical considerations, and accounted for life there.Otherwise, part of the servants of the dead is undoubtedly the living body buried with it, which may mean that all preparations are made for the continuation of the old life in the new life.The tombs are built so robustly that they seem to be able to withstand an atomic bomb; they can also withstand the storms of all ages.The burial of valuables, namely gold jewelry and precious stones, will definitely be able to cope with the economic crisis after the resurrection of the body.This is not a discussion of the later practice of embalming mummies.Here is just a question to study: Who instilled the idea of ​​bodily resurrection into the minds of pagans?Where did the first bold idea arise: that human cells must be preserved alive in order for a corpse preserved in a place where ten thousand yuan was lost to be resurrected thousands of years later?

So far, the mystical psychology of the resurrection has only been studied from a religious point of view.Surely the Pharaoh, who knew the nature and habits of the gods better than his subjects, could not have conceived these—perhaps utterly absurd fantasies: I must build myself a tomb.It has survived thousands of years; is it located so far above the earth that it can be seen?The gods promised to return to earth to wake me up... (or maybe in the distant future the doctor will have a way to revive me...) ■Prospects for Immortality Physicist and astronomer Robert C.W. Edingal, in his 1955 book "Prospects for Immortality," foreshadowed a path to how cryopreservation might be possible for twentieth-century humans , From the perspective of medicine and biology, the metabolic process of human cells can be slowed down to a minimum level to survive.Such an idea may seem like a utopian fantasy for the time being, but in fact today, every large specialized hospital already has a bone bank, which stores frozen bone all year round, and restores its function when surgery and transplantation are needed.Fresh blood - as it has been done everywhere - can be preserved for an unlimited period of time at minus 195 degrees Celsius, and yes, the storage capacity of living cells is nearly indefinite at the temperature of liquid nitrogen. ——Was there a Utopian idea in the pharaoh's mind?But now it is about to become a reality.

The following scientific research results have to be read twice before people understand the extraordinary meaning of the results: In March 1963, biologists at the University of Oklahoma in the United States determined that the skin cells of the Egyptian princess Mina were alive!You know, Princess Mina has been dead for thousands of years! In many places, mummies have been found so well preserved that they seem to be alive.In the Incas, glacial mummies have survived for thousands of years, and theoretically, they are alive today.Is this a utopian fantasy? In the summer of 1965, Russian television showed two dogs that had been frozen for a week.On the 7th day, people thawed them again, please see: they lived happily as before!

It is also no secret that the Americans, in their ambitious space program, are seriously studying the problem of how to freeze future astronauts on long journeys to distant planets... Edin, who is often mocked today Professor Ge, who has predicted a far future world where people will neither be burned nor eaten by worms - in that future world, the corpses are kept frozen in refrigerated cemeteries or cold rooms , Waiting for the day when advanced medicine can rule out the cause of death, and then regenerate their corpses.Whoever thinks of this utopian fantasy to the end sees a frightening vision of an army of cold-frozen soldiers, thawed as needed in times of war, and marched off to battle.What a frightful vision!

What on earth do mummies have to do with our hypothesis of alien astronauts in the distant past?Are we far-fetched pulling evidence? We have to ask: How did people in ancient times know that after a certain treatment of human cells, life will be delayed by trillions of times and continue to live? ! ■The concept of resurrection Most peoples in ancient times mastered the technology of embalming corpses, and the wealthy among them also used it.We are here not to delve into the facts that are already in hand, but to unravel the mystery: Where did the idea of ​​the resurrection, the idea of ​​bodily reduction and regeneration, come from?Is this notion entirely an accidental thought of a king or a certain chief?Or maybe a powerful ruler watched the gods dispose of their corpses in an intricate manner, preserving them in bomb-proof, embalmed coffins?Or did some gods (i.e., astronauts) impart their knowledge to a resurrected wise prince, showing him how to revive a dead body according to a special treatment?

This discursive motive requires a reason in keeping with the needs of the time.Hundreds of years later, human beings will master the initiative of space navigation with a degree of perfection that is unimaginable today.Travel agencies will offer interstellar travel, listing precise departure and return times in their program listings.The premise of realizing this perfect travel is of course that all disciplines keep up with the needs of development, and the overall goal cannot be achieved only by electronics and cybernetics; the medical and biological circles will explore various methods and make their contributions to greatly prolonging the process of human life .Today, the field of space research is at full strength to achieve this goal.The conclusion of the utopian fantasy: Have alien astronauts of ancient times mastered knowledge that we must recapture today?

Have extraterrestrial intelligent beings figured out what is necessary to dispose of human bodies so that they can be resurrected after 1,000 years?Perhaps the gods were wise enough, as they always were, to "preserve" at least a history with all the knowledge of their time?What exactly do we already know about the distant past?Such a consulting activity has been realized by the gods who have been reborn by the reduction of the body, is it not possible? The first well-formed mummies appeared, and thus a fashion developed over the course of hundreds of years. Suddenly everyone is going to be resurrected after death; suddenly everyone feels that if they just behave like their ancestors, they will be born again someday.Those high priests who have knowledge of this resurrection really work hard to promote this belief, because their class will benefit a lot from it.

■Alien Belief We know that a Sumerian king or a biblical character is too old to be biologically possible. We ask whether it is possible that these intelligent beings are extraterrestrial astronauts who travel near the speed of light and experience time drift, so that their age is greatly extended relative to our planet. If we assume that these people were mummified or frozen, maybe we can find clues to understand the reasons for the unimaginable age of the people mentioned in the scriptures and historical materials?According to this theory, it is believed that the alien astronauts frozen the kings or chiefs of the earth-as the legend tells, put them in an unnatural sleep, and waited until the visit to the earth was over, conceivably, accepting aliens. The priests instructed by the star astronauts and dispatched by him have a task, and they will use the method of mummification to make the living dead again, and put them in the big temple again for protection, waiting for the gods—the day when the alien astronauts will come. return.

impossible?ridiculous?Most of the people who take this attitude are the pretentious confidants of nature, the ones who raise the most tedious objections.Hasn't nature herself provided striking examples of this "hibernation" and of that resurrection? Some fish are frozen into ice cubes, thawed at the right temperature, and swim happily in the water again.Plants, caterpillars and beetle larvae not only go through the process of biological hibernation, they also show their beautiful new appearance in spring. Let's be our own devil's apologists: Did the Egyptians learn mummification from nature?

If this is the case, there must be a kind of butterfly fanaticism or scarab fanaticism, or at least traces of them.Taking this line of thought is a dead end!There are hidden tombs with huge coffins containing mummified bulls.However, it is unlikely that the mummies of big bulls taught the Egyptians the tricks of hibernation.There are more than 5,000 mausoleums of different sizes 8 kilometers away from Hejia City, and they are all from the first and second dynasties.The tombs testify that the technique of mummification is more than 6,000 years old. In 1953, Professor Emory discovered a large tomb of a pharaoh (possibly Uagis) during the First Dynasty in the ancient cemetery in northern Saqqara.Outside the main tomb there are 72 other tombs, arranged in three rows, containing the bodies of servants who seemed willing to accompany their king into the new world.No trace of violence could be seen on the bodies of 64 young men and 8 women.Why were these 72 servants sealed in their tombs and died? The belief in a second life in heaven is the most acceptable and at the same time the most concise explanation of this phenomenon.In addition to burying jewelry and gold with the pharaoh, people also buried food, oil and condiments—obviously considered as rations there.In addition to tomb robbers, later pharaohs also opened tombs.Thus the Pharaoh found in the tombs of his ancestors such well-preserved stores that the dead neither ate them nor carried them to heaven. When re-sealing the tomb, people will put new food and supplies into the tomb, take anti-theft measures to seal the tomb, and then use various methods to lock the tomb.The belief appears to be clear, people believe in a resurrection in the distant future, not in an immediate heavenly resurrection. ■Existence and Hypothesis In June 1954, a mausoleum was discovered in Saqqara again, and a box containing jewels and gold jewelry was placed horizontally in the tomb chamber, indicating that the tomb had not been stolen.The coffin does not have a lid, but instead has a sliding lever that can be closed with it. On June 9, Dr. Goneem ceremoniously opened the coffin. There was nothing in it, nothing at all.The mummies quietly disappeared without even taking their own treasures? The Russian Ludenke discovered the tomb of Kurgan V 80 kilometers away from the Mongolian border.It is a stone mound lined with wood.All the burial chambers are filled with permafrost ice so that the contents of the tomb are stored in a frozen environment.One of the chambers contained the embalmed body of a man and a similarly preserved body of a woman.They had everything they would need if they were to be resurrected in the future: bowls and plates of food, clothing, jewelry, and musical instruments.All frozen and well preserved, including the naked mummies! People have identified the symbols in a tomb, which are some quadrangular symbols, each symbol has 6 square pictures in 4 rows, and the whole can be said to be a replica of the stone carpet in the Assyrian palace in Ninewe, Iraq today!Strange images like the sphinx, all of them have complex horns on their heads and wings on their backs, which are clearly visible, and their posture is like flying into the sky. With the archaeological discoveries in Mongolia, it is almost impossible to say anything about the motives for expecting a second spiritual life.The method of freezing used in the tombs there—for such a method is involved in a wood-walled, ice-filled tomb—was used for mortal life, and it was perfectly adapted.Why did the ancients think—and this question haunts us moderns again and again—that a corpse as prepared by them met the conditions for supposed resurrection?This remains a mystery for now. In a certain place in China, there is a rectangular mausoleum measuring 14 by 12 square meters, which contains the bones of 17 men and 24 women. The bones here also do not have the characteristics of violent death.There are glacier tombs in the Anden Mountains in western South America, ice tombs in Siberia, group and individual tombs in China, Sumer, and Egypt, and mummies have been unearthed in northern high latitudes and South Africa.The dead are carefully prepared for resurrection in the age to come; the corpses are equipped with what is necessary for new life; and all the tombs are designed and built so solidly that they can withstand thousands of years of ups and downs. Is it all just by chance?Is it just a sudden thought in the mind of the ancestors?Of course it was a strange idea!Or is there an ancient promise of bodily restoration unknown to us?Who can make such a promise? In Jericho, Jordan, a group of graves from one year ago were excavated, and a head made of plaster was found 8,000 years ago.This is also surprising, since this people is said to have no knowledge of pottery at all.Elsewhere in Jericho one finds rows and rows of houses: the walls slope inward at the apex above, like domes. The powerful carbon 14 can be used to date organic matter, and it provides data as far back as 10,400 years in our subject matter.This scientifically measured figure agrees fairly well with what was passed down by Egyptian priests, who said that the precursors of their priesthood had been performing their duties for more than 110 million years.Is this just a coincidence? The prehistoric stones of Roussac (Poitou, France) reveal a unique set of finds: drawings of figures, resolutely fashionably dressed, wearing hats, jackets or shorts.Abbe Breyer judged these pictures to be reliable, and his interpretation overturned all prehistory.Who actually carved these stones?Whose imagination is so fertile today to imagine a fur-clad caveman who painted twentieth-century figures onto walls? In 1940, the magnificent Stone Age murals were discovered in the Lascaux Grottoes in southern France. It can't help but make people think of two questions: How to solve the lighting in the grottoes when the artists of the Stone Age were engaged in hard creative activities?Why decorate the cave walls with these marvelous pictures? Those who regard these two problems as tedious may then point out to us a contradiction: Stone Age cave people were uncivilized and primitive, and they could not paint a large number of exquisite pictures on the walls of their caves; If these murals were made, why shouldn't they be able to build huts to inhabit?The most intelligent minds believe that animals have been capable of building nests and shelters for millions of years.Obviously, the idea that modern humans of that era had mastered the same skills is not in this category of thought! Professor Kusrov found a tomb about 12,000 BC deep in the ruins of Karakuta in the Gobi Desert. It was not far from the place where the strange sand grains were glazed, which was a phenomenon that could only be produced due to the intense action of blazing heat. Inside the coffin lay the bodies of two rich men, and the mark of a vertically divided ring was found on the lid. In the Subi Mountains of Indonesia on the west coast of Borneo, people discovered a group of caves that were expanded like cathedrals, and they were distributed in a criss-cross pattern like a grid.Cultural remains in the cave indicate that the construction dates to about 38,000 BC.Among these amazing unearthed cultural relics are textiles, they are pure and soft, we can't imagine how primitive people can make such objects today!Questions, questions, questions... these things are not hypotheses, they exist in abundance: caves, tombs, coffins, mummies, ancient maps, buildings and technological achievements Huge eccentric architecture and historical materials from different and unconventional sources etc. The first doubt creeps into archaeological thought patterns, but gaps must be broken into the undergrowth of past epochs; milestones must be reset, even where it is possible to redefine a series of immutable sources. One thing is clear: we do not doubt nearly 2,000 years of history!We speak only of the remotest antiquity; only of the deepest secrets of past ages, which we spare no effort to reveal by asking new questions. Nor can we specify the numbers and data, pointing out when the alien intelligent beings visited from space and began to affect our earthlings in the primitive stage.But how dare we doubt the hitherto dated dates of remote antiquity!We estimate that we have largely arbitrarily valid reasons for Upper Paleolithic dating methods, including the evangelistic carbon-14 dating, to be at odds with ages beyond 5,600 years. There are big discrepancies.Because the older the material to be investigated, the less reliable radiocarbon dating becomes.Some serious researchers have even told us that they find carbon-14 dating to be of little use, since one can do whatever one wishes with it when determining organic matter between 3 and 5 years old. of age. We must listen to these serious opinions in a limited way - at any rate, it is undoubtedly worth looking forward to the emergence in the short term of a second method of dating based on the most modern measuring instruments, and it will coexist with the carbon-14 method. of.