Official science considers these figures to be Japanese. Apparently, on the grounds that they were found in Japan. However, the question is not as simple as it might seem. Now some researchers think that the figurines are not of Japanese origin, and they represent … aliens. We are talking about the famous dogu figurines.
THE MYSTERY OF JEMON CULTURE
Dogu are some of the oldest clay sculptures in human history. The oldest of them date back to the X-IV millennia BC. They date back to the Jomon period in Japan, which began in the Neolithic period and ended in the 1st millennium BC.
At the same time, the following fact is interesting: the manufacture of clay figurines (not only dogu) was widespread in historical antiquity, but then this tradition of clay creativity was suddenly and inexplicably interrupted between the 4th-5th centuries. AD almost everywhere, having existed for almost two and a half thousand years. And dogu figurines are no exception here, but a confirmation of this strange fact. But what caused the termination of "clay-making" is a mystery that cannot be explained by official science. However, she also cannot explain the dogu figures themselves - what they are, what they served for, who they portrayed and who created them.
At present, about 15 thousand dogu figurines have been found. The earlier ones have a flat shape, and they become voluminous in the III millennium BC. What their modern-type non-Japanese were doing is already clear. The Japanese inherited them. During the indicated time period, the Ainu existed on the territory of the current Japanese islands, as well as a mysterious culture, much later named after rope ornaments on ceramics - jomon. The people of the Jomon culture who created the dogu were not Japanese and were not Ainu. So far, no reliable connection has been established between their culture and the culture of the rest of the Asian continent. The found skeletons and bone remains of the "Jomon" indicate that they did not belong to the Mongoloids, and in general their origin is still a big mystery. Matching the "Jomon" people and made of dark clay dogu,unique in the Neolithic culture.
PEOPLE OR …?
Dogu amazes with a variety of forms. They have very distorted body proportions, most have an unusual face and an amazing head, for example, triangular or heart-shaped. The entire surface of the figures is cut with zigzags, circles, triangles and other "geometry".
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Among the dogu, there are images of animals, but, in general, the figurines still depict people or, at least, humanoid creatures. True, what gender? Some scientists, especially representatives of official science, believe that these are female figurines with pronounced "female" features: wide hips, breasts, pregnancy. Some of the dogu even “demonstrate” childbirth.
On this basis, the assumption is made that dogu, firstly, is a clay "illustration" of the era of matriarchy, when the fairer sex played a primary role in society and when the most important moments of life were associated with a woman: birth, life, fertility. And secondly, these are ritual accessories.
Of course, what kind of ritual it was - scientists are not able to answer, but they put forward enough hypotheses. One of the most interesting is this: the figurines were used as … healing devices. That is, they portrayed people suffering from any ailments. In such figures, priests, healers, or, perhaps, shamans transferred the illnesses of real patients, and then the figures were broken, thereby saving the sick from suffering.
Well, this version may be supported by the fact that many dogu have come down to us severely damaged, but deliberately or simply the destructive effect of time has affected - it is impossible to say for sure. And, besides, no "medicinal" version can explain the characteristic and mysterious absence of the right hand in a huge number of figures.
Another hypothesis suggests that dogu are specific amulets through which there was contact with natural elements or gods. Both those and others "dzemonians" tried to appease, "persuade", using somehow clay figurines. And there is also a version that dogu are images of space aliens, paleoastronauts, if you like. And this version has good reasons to be heard.
PORTRAIT OF ALIENS?
The fact is that some of the dogu in all their appearance resemble a man in a spacesuit. If you take a closer look at such a dog, you can see that a strangely shaped head is not just a head, but a helmet with round windows, too large to be human eyes. Moreover, sometimes such a window can be only one and on the whole face, or it is located at the back, or even there may be no windows at all. The slots on the "lenses" in such clay helmets are, in fact, a sun visor or visor, which is also found in modern helmets.
It has been noticed that almost all dogu near the mouth and cheeks have three round protrusions - it is completely incomprehensible for what they are needed in the image of an earthly person and very understandable when it comes to spacesuits - such protrusions could play the role of "sockets" for connecting cables of intercom or breathing hoses. Sometimes the dogu figurine is like a skeleton, which lacks the hands and feet. It is possible that this is an image of an empty spacesuit.
A special issue is the female "breast" on some figures. For supporters of the "alien" version, this is not a chest at all, but buttons to control a spacesuit. And in general, they say, for a female figure, dogu are still terribly disproportionate. This time. Secondly, there are clay figurines dating from the same time, but at the same time completely "human". And, finally, the elements of the images on the dog have been repeated for almost 6 thousand years. During this time, much that has changed (people, cultures, clothes, customs, climate, etc.) more than once, and therefore the invariability of the details of the mysterious statuettes indicates that they served as an image of not people at all, but something else.
An interesting fact: NASA specialists twice, in 1964 and in 1990, conducted research on the dogu to see if the details of the costume of the figurines match the real spacesuits. And it turned out that the details and drawings of the "decor" on the dogu strikingly coincide with the details of real space suits, and you can even determine what function they perform from them! So most researchers were inclined to think that dogu are some kind of creatures in spacesuits.
YOU HAVE AN ORDERED SUIT?
The sophisticated and sophisticated design on most of the figurines gave rise to a version of the "national costume". Say, this is not a spacesuit, but a national costume. Or a tattoo or embroidery depicting … a snake. According to the Ainu mythology, the snake was the “lord of the sun” and a characteristic image of solar cults. A serpent coiled in a spiral symbolized the solar disk, and a snake crawling in a zigzag manner symbolized lightning. But there are no connections and parallels between the Ainu and the Jomon people. And the triangular head and the absence of limbs can in no way be an "element" of the costume.
If it comes to that, the details of the national costume could be borrowed from the "aliens", and not vice versa, because the national costume appeared later.
If the dogu is considered “documentary” images of paleoastronauts, then a natural question arises: are there any hints or indications in the legends and myths that in ancient times there were visits to representatives of alien civilizations and their contact with the local population?
Imagine exist. The "Jomon" themselves did not leave any written evidence, but their "heirs" - the Japanese - have numerous myths about flights to the sky and the "sons of the sky". There are also images on the space "theme". For example, a drawing in the tomb of Chin San, dated 2000 BC, which depicts a king raising his hand in a greeting gesture in front of seven flying discs. The Japanese also have a legend about a fiery dragon flying from heaven, in which there are clear echoes of memories of the interstellar ships of ancient astronauts.
And there is also a legend in Japanese mythology about the inhabitants of the deep sea, which were called kappa. These kappa had fins and flippers and possessed important knowledge that they passed on to people. Surprisingly, this myth may have found real archaeological confirmation. Not so long ago, underwater ruins of some ancient buildings were found off the coast of Japan. Then maybe the dogu depict people in underwater, not space suits?
However, there is another surprising coincidence. Figures from Japan are called dogu, and in Africa, on the land of Mali, the Dogon tribe lives, who also have very detailed legends about the visits of space aliens called nommo. Dogu and Dogon - don't they have the same root? And yet, how to explain the fact that in Japan there is an ancient thermal spring called … Dogon?
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