People have always been interested in the question: are we alone in the universe? Are we a growth apart from everyone else, or are we a part of some civilization, by mistake or specially brought to Earth to carry out some important mission?
Perhaps we, like our distant ancestors, are just guests on this planet, and our homeland is somewhere far away. Traces of this information are reflected in our myths and legends. After all, if we consider the description of possible options for the paradise of religions existing in our time, then the contrast with the surrounding world causes just bewilderment.
The idea that we have an unearthly origin runs like a red thread through the legends of many peoples who inhabit our planet.
Skeptics will immediately object with several seemingly "unkillable" arguments. Indeed, life on Earth has exactly the same structure. The transmission of hereditary information during cell division is absolutely the same in all organisms that inhabit our world - from the simplest bacteria to the highest mammals. In addition, the conditions for life on Earth are exactly what we need; in other conditions we cannot exist.
It seems that everything is logical and correct, but this theory has some questions that do not allow us to unequivocally agree with it. For example, the existing species diversity, explained by the classical science of evolution, still does not fit into the so-called "evolutionary picture". Why? Because there is no evidence for the existence of transitional species.
A continuation of this interesting fact is the sudden appearance of Homo sapiens on the surface of our planet. Humanity appears as if from nowhere. The first facts of its existence date back to the fortieth millennium BC and are found in all eras after, however, until that time nothing has been found: no remnants of tools, no rock paintings, no remains or burials.
But there is a mass of evidence that directly indicates that before the appearance of our species on Earth, there already existed, if not civilizations, then at least cultural communities consisting of other fairly highly organized creatures. Moreover, there is a mass of direct and indirect evidence of a by no means friendly relationship between these creatures and humans.
One of these facts is the existence of Neanderthals. These creatures, despite the outward similarity, were significantly different from us. The differences were not only biological; the culture and way of life of the Neanderthals was not at all like ours.
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Neanderthals existed long before our Cro-Magnon ancestors. The dating of the finds of the Neanderthals includes 200 and 300 thousand years of history. And now, with the advent of the Cro-Magnons, in less than 2-3 thousand years nothing remains of the Neanderthals. How could this happen? After all, these creatures were no more stupid than you and me; it is possible that even smarter, since their brains were larger than ours. And if you look at what we have achieved in just ten thousand years, you can imagine what the Neanderthals could have achieved in 300 thousand.
The excavations of most Cro-Magnon sites contained a huge number of Neanderthal bones, bearing traces of stone knives and teeth of our distant ancestors. Against this background, the find from Sungiri looks quite innocent: a "box" for storing ocher, used by a Cro-Magnon artist, made from the tibia of a Neanderthal. And so on and so forth. All these facts allow us to assert that our ancestors had a fairly long conflict with the Neanderthals, from which they emerged victorious.
Some scientists admit the idea that our planet is generally a field for experiments, or part of a global program of colonization of the Universe by some huge Super Civilization. And people, that is, we are the children of this civilization, for whom conditions are created on lifeless planets that are close to the natural conditions of their existence, after which these planets are populated.
It is very possible that during the colonization of the Earth "something went wrong", and a conflict arose between the creatures already living on it and space "tourists", that is, our distant ancestors. The conflict was of such a scale that both civilizations slipped into the Stone Age and finished off the last enemies not with atomic blasters, but with stone cudgels … The consequences of the conflict were so large that it took our ancestors, who had won it, more than 30 thousand years, to master agriculture … That is, we are talking about the loss of all the achievements and benefits of civilization that they had. And not only benefits, the most important value was lost - information about the world around us, about technologies, about the goals of this very mission, in the end.
There is not a single culture, not a single people on our planet that does not mention two important phenomena in their epics: the coming of the gods from heaven and the worldwide flood. These two events, in one form or another, are present in the oral work of almost all the peoples of the Earth. Naturally, they have different forms of narration and call their characters differently, but the general direction of thought is about the same.
However, why should we consider that only an organism similar to us could be a competitor of man in the struggle for our planet? Why do we see the manifestation of civilization only in anthropomorphic creatures? There are many species on our planet that are capable of forming fairly large and developed communities. And the fact that at the present time we can observe them only in their "animal", bestial manifestation should not mislead us.
What do we know, for example, about the life of cetaceans? About the life of great apes? After all, science relatively recently discovered the complex language of dolphin communication and the presence of abstract thinking in monkeys. Who knows, perhaps tens of thousands of years ago, their distant ancestors were not just the dominant species, but also the keepers of the previous one, before human civilization?