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These false envoys and overlords imposed taxation, enforced slavery and sacrifice, and generally lived off the labor of the hybrid Earth people. The indigenous people of Earth did not rebel immediately against these foreign oppressors. Strong assertive leaders, it seems, were needed after the destruction of Tiamat and the subsequent ter- restrial calamities. The false ones promised consolidation, order, safety, and privilege. They instigated hierarchic control, the division of labor, merit-oriented advance, and induced conditions that inevitably lead to man’s disconnection from nature. Necessity fostered the worst of tyrannies to descend on prehistoric humanity. Humankind would not just create or accept such structures as a matter of course. It takes extraordinary circumstances for the millennia old, symbiotic “umbilical” connection to the planet of origin and to the universal order to be occluded and for humankind’s chthonic sen- sibility and natural love to become sublimated and directed away from its prime source and object into purely pragmatic power-relations. It is logical to assume that these incongruent and deviant patterns have not arisen merely as a matter of course, as a consequence of the erstwhile organic evolution of our species, as modern intellectuals advocate. We feel that it is more consistent with the facts to posit some external interference. And there are many myths, legends, and sagas that conceal, behind the wide and complex panoply of euphe- misms and allegories, allusions to this very predicament. From the presence of the aliens and from their overt dominion, we have the creation of competitive sports, tests of prowess, and the exaltation of the muscular skills. There also came the pursuit of aggressive warfare and the conquest of other tribes and nations. There came the division of people into superior and inferior groups. We must ask — are such habits intrinsic to Earth humans? Are they productive? Would they not be more commensurate with the agenda of those bent on weakening the populations of the Earth, on embroiling them in futile and destructive wars, on arousing aggressive instincts, which cause so much systemic and social despair? From their presence, came the reality of ritual murder and human sacrifice to further instill fear and provide sustenance to the gods of the “Underworld” (sic, night sky). This accounts partly for why once great and benign civilizations, peaceful and respect- ful of nature, suddenly descend into debauchery and civil strife. There was a time when their tribe possessed the whole Earth and were strong and numerous, and rich; but a day came when a people rose up stronger than they and defeated and 19 Old World Disorder In the legends of the Tahoe (California) Indians, for instance, we read of the strife: Atlantis, Alien Visitation, and Genetic Manipulation