Aboriginal: "That was a ship like that!.."
The fact that in the distant past of the Earth here, on our planet, representatives of an extraterrestrial civilization have already arrived on their ships, is evidenced not only by a number of artifacts (including symbolically depicting "ancient astronauts" and their ships, whose shape is transmitted by ancient figures and temples), but also an extensive mythological and cultural layer. The isolated mainland Australia was no exception …
Let us cite the myth of the Australian aborigines recorded by Catherine Langlo-Parker, which tells about the origin of the constellation of the Southern Cross: “At the very beginning of time, the heavenly master created two men and one woman, teaching them to eat plants. When the drought hit, the first people began to starve.
One of the men killed a marsupial rat. He and the woman began to eat animal meat, while the other man, despite all the persuasions, did not touch the unusual food, although he was mortally hungry. Having quarreled with his comrades, he "went towards the sunset." His companions soon finished their meal and followed him. “Approaching the edge of the valley, they saw their comrade on the other side of the valley, by the river. They shouted for him to stop, but he ignored them and kept walking until he came up to a large white eucalyptus.
Here he fell dead to the ground, and next to him people saw a black creature with two fiery eyes. It lifted the dead man up a tree and threw it into the hollow. While hurrying through the valley, the people heard such a deafening thunderclap that, struck, fell to the ground. When they got up, they were surprised to see that a giant eucalyptus was uprooted from the ground and rushing through the air towards the southern side of the sky. They noticed fiery eyes sparkling from the tree …”Finally, the tree stopped near Warrambool, or the Milky Way, which leads to where the heavenly gods live. Gradually the tree disappeared from sight, and only four sparkling fiery eyes saw people. Two belonged to the spirit of death Yovi, the other two were the eyes of the first dead person."
Langlo-Parker adds: "For the tribes of this part of the country, the Southern Cross is still known as Yaraan-do - the place of the white eucalyptus.." This is the story allegedly happened to the ancestors of the indigenous people of the Australian continent. However, part of this myth depicts a completely non-mythical event that is not difficult to recreate: let's say, three were walking through a deserted area, and suddenly they see in the distance something high, direct, light. "Big White Eucalyptus" - how else could the Australian aborigines describe the rocket ship at the start? An indication of color is especially valuable, since the hull of space rockets is indeed coated (for thermal insulation) with white paint. One of the Australians, coming close to the launch pad, either from hunger or from fear, loses consciousness, and a crew member drags him through the hatch ("hollow") into his ship.
The ship ("tree") starts. Both the terrible roar and the sight of a flying tree (the accuracy of the figurative comparison in this situation could be enhanced by the similarity of the flames at the end of the rocket with powerful roots) - all this plunged the involuntary spectators into a state of shock and forced them subsequently, through myths, to convey the remembered event …
As we remember, in a number of myths of other peoples of the Earth, the takeoff and landing of spaceships were accompanied by a roar, crackling, noise and light effects (“fire arrows”).
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