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"swifter that thought." The car had lights on its side and emitted a reddish hue.® In the Mahabharata there is a story of the arrival of the gods for a wedding feast in their aerial cars. "The gods in cloud-borne chariots, came into view the scene so fair... bright celestial cars in concourse sailed upon the cloudless sky." Throughout the world a number of ancient carvings and paintings have been discovered which convince some researchers that ancient peoples were visited by sophisticated flying machines and creatures which fit modern descriptions of extraterrestrial entities. According to Weldon and Levitt there are numerous cave paintings and carvings that suggest the visitation by unusual humanoid creatures and flying disks, cylinders, and ovals: "Granite carvings in a mountain cave in China's Hunan Province show figures with large torsos standing upon cylinder-shaped objects in the sky. Below them, pictured on the ground in the carvings, are other similar figures (the artists?)... . Some 72 caves throughout France and Spain show drawings dating from around 13,000 B.C. of a variety of oval and disk-shaped objects resembling at least the shapes of today's UFOs." "A petroglyph near Mishongnovi on Second Mesa shows flying saucers and travel through space. The arrow on which the dome-shaped object rests, stands for travel through space. The Hopi maiden on the dome shape represents purity. Those Hopi who survive Purification Day will be taken to other planets. We, the faithful Hopi, have seen the ships and know they are true. We have watched nearly all our brethren lose faith in the original teachings and go off on their own course. Near Oraibi was closely shown the Plan of Life, and we are gathered here to await our True White Brother."" In the central Kimberly district of Australia a rock painting was discovered which depicts the mythical mouthless gods of creation, Vonjinda, the object of worship by ancient natives of that region. With their large oval heads and oversized eyes, the resemblance to modern extraterrestrials called "Grays," the aliens depicted in Steven Speilberg's blockbuster movie, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, is striking. =~ Throughout the world's religious texts we find a number of common threads regarding ancient visitations of beings from the heavens. In the mythology of the Greek and Roman 31 ANCIENT RENDERINGS According to Hopi Indian Chief Dan Katchongva, THE MINGLING OF MEN AND "GODS"