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Graham Hancock – FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS

The flames of the Brahmastra-charged missiles mingled with each other and
surrounded by fiery arrows they covered the earth, heaven and space between and
increased the conflagration like the fire and the Sun at the end of the world ... All
beings who were scorched by the Brahmastras, and saw the terrible fire of their
missiles, felt that it was the fire of Pralaya [the cataclysm] that burns down the
world.
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And what of the Enola Gay which carried the Hiroshima bomb? How might
our descendants remember that strange aircraft and the squadrons of
others like it that swarmed through the skies of planet earth during the
twentieth century of the Christian era? Isn’t it possible, probable even,
that they might preserve traditions of ‘celestial cars’ and ‘heavenly
chariots’ and ‘spacious flying machines’, and even of ‘aerial cities’. If
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they did, would they perhaps speak of such wonders in mythical terms a
little like these:

• ‘Oh you, Uparicara Vasu, the spacious aerial flying machine will come
to you—and you alone, of all the mortals, seated on that vehicle will
look like a deity.’
5
• ‘Visvakarma, the architect among the Gods, built aerial vehicles for the
Gods.’
6

• ‘Oh you descendant of the Kurus, that wicked fellow came on that all-
traversing automatic flying vehicle known as Saubhapura and pierced
me with weapons.’
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• ‘He entered into the favourite divine palace of Indra and saw thousands
of flying vehicles intended for the Gods lying at rest.’
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• ‘The Gods came in their respective flying vehicles to witness the battle
between Kripacarya and Arjuna. Even Indra, the Lord of Heaven, came
with a special type of flying vehicle which could accommodate 33
divine beings.’
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All these quotations have been taken from the Bhagavata Purana and
from the Mahabaratha, two drops in the ocean of the ancient wisdom
literature of the Indian subcontinent. And such images are replicated in
many other archaic traditions. To give one example (as we saw in Chapter
Forty-two), the Pyramid Texts are replete with anachronistic images of
flight:

3 Ibid., p. 60.
4 Dileep Kumar Kanjilal, Vimana in Ancient India, Sanskrit Pustak Bhandar, Calcutta,
1985, p. 16.
5 Ibid., p. 17.
6 Ibid., p. 18.
Ibid.
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8 Ibid.
9 Ibid., p. 19.

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