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In February, 1967, the well-known National Geographic Magazine, USA, published a story about the small tribe of the Ainus, who live on the Japanese island of Hokkaido. The Ainus still claim today with complete conviction that they are the direct descendants of 'gods' who came from the cosmos, Apollo is pictured flying over the sea on a vase which is kept in the Vatican and dates to the sixth century B.C. Apollo is sitting, playing the lyre, on a kind of shell with three long legs. The construction is drawn through the air by three massive eagle's wings. In the park-cum-museum of Villahermosa, Tabasco (Mexico), stands a neatly carved monolith on which a snake, or rather a dragon, taking up three sides of the colossus, is depicted. Inside the animal sits a man with bent back and raised extended legs. The soles of his feet are working pedals, his left hand rests on a 'gear-lever', his right hand carries a small box. The head is enveloped in a closely- fitting helmet that covers brow, ears and chin, leaving only the face free. Directly in front of his lips is an apparatus that can be identified as a microphone. Clothing and helmet of the sitting figure fit tightly together. On a broad copper chisel, sharpened on one side, that was found in the Royal Cemetery at Ur, one can make out, reading from top to bottom: five balls, a small box like a loudspeaker, two absolutely modern rockets, which lie next to each other and emit rays at the rear, several dragon-like figures and a pretty accurate 'copy' of the Gemini capsule. The artist who made the engravings more than 5,500 years ago must have had an enviable imagination! Senor Gerardo Niemann (Hacienda Casa Grande, Trujillo, Peru) has two remarkable clay vessels in his private collection. One vessel is 8 1/2 ins high and represents a kind of 'space capsule’ on which motor and exhaust are as clearly recognisable as on the relief of the rocket-driving god Kulkulkan at Palenque. A dog-like animal with gaping jaws crouches on the capsule. The second clay vessel shows a man who is using the index fingers of both hands to operate a kind of calculating machine or switchboard. This vessel is | ft 4 ins high. Both artefacts were found in Chicama Valley on the north coast of Peru. and they repeat it in their myths. No, we are not at the end, we are only at the beginning of the great discoveries pointing out of the past into the future.