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ago. Berosus, an ancient Babylonian priest, recorded the fascinating legend of Cannes, a remarkable creature who came up out of the waters of the Persian Gulf to educate early man. This legend "more nearly fulfils some of our criteria for a genuine contact myth’, Dr Carl Sagan states in his Intelligent Life in the Universe. Berosus presumably ‘had access to cuneiform and pictographic records dating back several thousand years before his time’. His work was translated into Greek and Latin and found its way into English in 1876. He quoted from Apollodorus, describing Oannes as a fishlike animal capable of speaking to men. The account explains: This being in the daytime used to converse with men but took no food at that season; and he gave them an insight into letters and sciences and every kind of art. He taught them to consctruct houses, to found temples, to compile laws, and explained to them the principles of geometrical knowledge. He made them distinguish the seeds of the earth and showed them how to collect fruits».. When the sun set, it was the custom of this Being to plunge again into the sea and abide all night in the deep; for he was amphibious. Moses, of course, had another kind of encounter when he climbed to the summit of Mount Sinai and received orders and taws from the entity who settled there in a glowing cloud. A central legend of the Hopi Indians concerns the Kachina Clan: a group of beings who were not people but 'spirits sent to give help and guidance, taking the forms of ordinary people*, according to Indian historian Frank Waters. The Hopi believe they came originally from a Red City in the south and that their tribe was guided into what is now the southwestern United States by the Kachina Clan. These spirit beings taught the Hopis occult wisdom very similar to the occult beliefs of the Europeans and Africans. Finally they departed, saying, The time for us to go to our far-off planets and stars has not come yet. But it is time for us to leave you. We will go by our powers to a certain high mountain, which you will know, where we will await your messages of need... We are a spirit people, and we will not be seen again by you or your people. But you must remember us by wearing our masks and our costumes at the proper ceremonial times. Those who do so must be only those persons who have acquired the knowledge and the wisdom we have taught you... The indigenous natives of the Americas, Africa, and the Pacific all adopted ceremonial dress patterned after the garb of the ultra-terrestrials, Just as the robes and trappings of the early churches o£ the white man were patterned after the dress of the angels and gods who allegedly visited them. Traditionally, only the witch doctors and students of the arcane wisdom of the elementals were permitted to wear these garments and masks. The carefully laid out procedures for the ceremonies and rites of these early peoples were all dictated by these parahuman spirits. For thousands of years they quite literally had the entire human race dancing to their tunes. The impact of these beings upon the human race is indisputable. A// human art began as part of our urge to pay tribute to them. The arts of painting and sculpture, the arts of drama and dance, and of course, the art of storytelling, were all products of that urge. The Vfon-djina are supposedly a parahuman group who resided in Australia thousands of years