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Ancient Shuttle Craft
A physical object, one that can move about, station itself upon a mountain, rise and take off, shrouded in a cloud of dark fog, radiating a brilliance-this is how the Bible describes the Kabod-literally, "The Heavy Object"-in which Yahweh moved about. It also describes what we nowadays call, out of ignorance or disbelief, a UFO-an Unidentified Flying Object. In this regard it will be helpful to trace the Akkadian and Sumerian roots from which the Hebrew term had derived. While the Akkadian Kabbuttu meant "heavy, weighty," the similar-sounding Kobdu (paralleling the Hebrew Kabod) meant "Wing-holder"-something to which wings are attached, or perhaps into which wings can retract. And the Sumerian term Kl.BAD.DU meant "to soar to a faraway place.'' In one instance, in which a deity's throne is described, the adjective HUSH-"red glowing"-is used to describe the "Far Soaring" object. We can only speculate whether the Kabod looked like the winged "Divine Black Bird'' of Ninurta, the wingless (or with wings retracted) bulbous vehicles depicted in the murals of Tell Ghassul (see Fig. 72 - or as the rocket like object that Gilgamesh had seen rise from the Landing Place in Lebanon (an ascent which, reversed for a descent, reads almost like the description provided in Exodus chapter 19). Might it have resembled an American shuttle craft (Fig. 104a)? We wonder, because of the similarity to it of a small figurine, discovered a few years ago at a site in Turkey (the ancient Tuspa). Made of clay, it shows a flying machine that combines features of a modern shuttle craft (including the engine exhausts) with the cockpit of a single-seater plane (Fig. 104b). The partly damaged image of the "pilot" seated in the cockpit, as well as the totality of the artform, bring to our mind Mesoamerican depictions of bearded gods accompanied by rocket like objects (Figs. 104c, 104d). The Archeological Museum in Istanbul, which has been keeping this figurine, has not put it on display; the official excuse is that its ''authenticity'' has not been established. If it is authentic, it will serve not only to illustrate ancient ''UFOs" but also to add light on the links between the ancient Near East and the Americas. |
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