Does Ancient Scriptures Speak of Beings That Visited Us, From Other Worlds By Space Vehicles?

The Old Testament





- there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven. (2 Kings 2:11).











- And Yahweh was going before them by day in a pillar of cloud, to lead them in the way, and by night in a pillar of fire, to give light to them, to go by day and by night. (Exo 13:21)











- Yahweh lands on Mt Sinai. And on the third day, it being morning, it happened. There were thunders and lightnings, and a heavy cloud upon the mountain, and the sound of a ram's horn, very strong! And all the people of the camp trembled And mountain of Sinai was smoking, all of it, because Yahweh came down on it in fire. And it's smoke went up like the smoke of a furnace; and the mountain quaked exceedingly. (Exodus 19:16-18).











- And the spirit lifted me up, and I heard behind me the sound of a great tumult, saying, Blessed be the glory of Yahweh from his place; and the sound of the wings of the living creatures touching each other to the other; and the sound of the wheels along with them; and the sound of a great tumult (Ezekiel 3:12).














- Yahweh comes down on the high places with a great heat: For behold, Yahweh is coming out of his place, and will come down and walk on the high places of the earth. And the mountains shall melt under him, and the valleys shall cleave themselves as wax before the fire, as waters poured out on a steep place (Micah 1:3-4).





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The Mahabhrata:





The gods, in cloud-borne chariots bright celestial cars in concourse sailed upon the cloudless sky.








Vaicampayana said: "After the Lokopalas had gone away,


Arjuna - that slayer of all foes - began to think,


O monarch, of the car of Indra!


And as Gudakeça gifted with great intelligence was thinking of it,


the car endued with great effulgence and guided by Matali,


came dividing the clouds and illuminating the firmament


and filling the entire welkin with its rattle


deep as the roar of mighty masses of clouds.











Swords, and miscrias of terrible forms,


and maces of frightful description,


and winged darts of celestial splendor,











and lightnings of the brightest effulgence,


and thunderbolts,











and Tutagudas furnished with wheels


and worked with atmospheric expansion


and producing sounds loud as the roar of great masses of clouds,


were on that car.











And there were also on that car


fierce and huge-bodied Nagas with fiery mouths,


and heaps of stones white as the fleecy clouds.











And the car was drawn by ten thousand horses of golden hue,


endued with the speed of the wind.











And furnished with prowess of illusion,


the car was drawn with such speed


that the eye could hardly mach its progress.











And Arjuna saw on that car the flag-staff called Vaijayanta,


at blazing effulgence, resembling in hue the emerald or the dark blue lotus,


and decked with golden ornaments,


and straight as the bamboo.











And beholding a charioteer decked in gold seated on that car,


the mighty-armed son of Pritha regarded it as


belonging to the celestials. [...]











Matali the charioteer of Cakra, hearing these words of Arjuna,


soon mounted the car and


controlled the horses. [...]











Arjuna blazing like the sun itself,


ascended the celestial car.











And the Kuru prince, gifted with great intelligence, with a glad heart,


coursed through the firmament on that celestial car effulgent as the sun


and of extraordinary achievements.


And after he had become invisible to the mortals of the earth,


he behold thousands of cars of extraordinary beauty.











And in that region


there was no sun or moon or fire to give light,


but it blazed in light of its own,


generated by virtue and ascetic merit.











And those brilliant regions


that are seen from the earth in form of stars,


like lamps (in the sky) - so small in consequence fo their distance,


though very large - were beheld by the son of Pandu,


stationed in their respective places, full of beauty


and effulgence and blazing with splendor all their own. [...]











These, O son of Pritha, are virtous persons,


stationed in their respective places.


It is there whom thou hast seen, O exalled one,


as stars from the earth!"





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Egyptian mythology:





As an imperishable star; Flies who flies! He flies away from you, O men! He is no longer upon earth; he is in the sky! He rushes at the sky like a heron. He has kissed the sky like a falcon. He has leapt skyward like a grasshopper. (Frankfort, 1948).











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Native American Mythology





taken heavenward by the god of the speaking stone.

Does Ancient Scriptures Speak of Beings That Visited Us, From Other Worlds By Space Vehicles?
I have no definitive answers on that... no one possibly could.


I too have the 'wonderings' though.


I wonder if some of the passages come from someone trying to explain what to them was the unexplainable at that time.


Mountains quaking, smoking and melting... the sounds of very loud ram's horns... "waters" pouring from the steepest heights...


I can't help but wonder if Mt Sinai erupted.. earthquakes and storms shook and flashed...


In an attempt to explain, they attributed these things to a higher being... a God or beings from another world.


Pondering such passages is fascinating!


Thank you for asking.
Reply:Ask they people who wrote them to get your answer.
Reply:Absolutely not. It should be completely obvious that these are all far more ambiguous than that. I will go so far as to agree that Ancient Scriptures speak of Beings That Visited Us, From Other Worlds, so long as we are not specific about what a world is -- whether it means a planet or just some different environment.





Supplying one explanation for so many phenomena which most likely do not have one cause is a bit like doing a very short version of one of Lin Carter's sword and sorcery novels -- the hardcore type with the guy with the sword, the sexy girl and nobody wearing many clothes except the wizards.





Carter had an awesome erudition about these sources, and he drew on them, but he was a rationalist and never pretended he was writing anything but commercial romances. He felt that made him better than some people. While I am not a rationalist, I agree.