Tech of Civilization X
A cosmic essay by Tim O'Neill
[The following essay was originally published in The Fenris Wolf 4 in 2011, written by long time Fenris contributor Tim O’Neill. If you would like a hard copy of the book, please go here.]
The Technology of Civilization X and the Astral Machine
(Illustrations by Rev Elder Mech)
Legends of an incredibly ancient and wise civilization existing tens of thousands of years before the Sumerians, Babylonians, Egyptians or Greeks have a long pedigree, reaching back to Plato’s story of Atlantis in the Timaeus and Greek legends of Hyperborea. The Egyptians spoke of others who had preceded them; the “Gods” who had built such astonishing anomalies as the Great Pyramid and the Sphinx. The ancient Egyptians understood that they had no ability to construct such things.
Beginning in the 1960s, Erich Von Däniken and then Zecharia Sitchin among many others believed that the wonders of this very ancient world were built by or under the influence of extraterrestrials. Atlantis became a spaceport and Hyperborea a landing pad.
Long before the ancient astronaut thesis, during the 1920s, the legends of incredibly ancient Lemuria, the Atlantis of the Pacific, were advanced in a series of books by James Churchward. Richard S. Shaver’s tales of Elder Gods, ancient Mantong languages and degenerate Deros operating Elder God ray machines emerge from the atavistic strata of a time around 12,000 B.C. His tales of Elder Gods leaving Earth because of deadly radiation from the Sun speak to worldwide myths of primeval chaos and the Wars of the Gods. He refers specifically to their machines and rays, their control of human genetics and their manipulation of flesh to evolve more quickly. H.P. Lovecraft’s Mythos speaks of creatures so ancient as to defy imagination with battles between more human Elder Gods and eldritch indescribable Great Ancient Evil ones. Charles Fort collected clippings of anomalies revealing technological objects far too old to have possibly existed and of an archeology depicting a mankind very different from the one in the textbooks. In his books, there were giants in those days. The legends persist and have been growing every year.