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"In the beginning God created heaven and earth."

That is how it has been translated, but the translation

is inaccurate. There is no man with a little education

who does not know that the text reads, "In the

beginning the gods mode heaven and earth."

To Voltaire, who wrote the above in his Philosophical

Dictionary, under "Genesis," I dedicate this book as a

tribute whose sincerity should be viewed with Voltairian

skepticism.

TIllS IS NOT SCIENCE FICTION:

Everything during the long journey. marked by births and

deaths, had happened according to plan. Fiftee~ couples

had left without hope of return, and there were still fifteen

couples as the spacecraft approached the planetary system

that was its destination: our planetary system-The Solar

System.

It had left a planet revolving around a star several hun-

dred light-years away. Its occupants, and their descendents,

were to become the gods whose memory is preserved in the

Myth of the Hrst Civilizations.

They arrived at their destination-Earth--about twenty-

three thousand five hundred years ago.

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CONTENTS

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HOW CREDIBLE CAN A "NOVEL" BE?

Made

With a few bones and a "novelistic" , approach,

Cuvier succeeded in reconstructing the paleo-

therium; starting from Homer's "poems," Schlie-

mann reconstructed history. An application of this

same method to the Bible leads to a coherent whole

that makes the narrative in Genesis plausible.

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SCIENCE AND ARTICLES OF FAITH

Thirty thousand years ago there were already a

million people on earth. Role of the tool and the

bourgeois outlook. Boucher de Perthes discovers

prehistory. The progress that began six hundred

thousand years ago. The little that we know.

Hypotheses on the initial spark of life. Articles of

faith disguised as science.

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The Novel of the Bible

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AND TIIE HOMINID BECAME MAN

The jargon of anthropologists. Outmoded concepts

are long-lived. False ideas. The strange civilization

of ants. All of the First Civilizations attributed their

knowledge to two-legged mammals who came from

the sky in flying machines.

' 4.

THE "FIRST CIVIUZATIONS"

What the " First Civilizations" are. Their common

myth of gods who -came from the sky. Other

societies and their divergent myths, 'without

mammalian gods. The limits of fictionalized history.

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FROM ART TO MAGIC

What is the function of art? Why is it associated

with the notion of progress in aU ages? Art and

magic

rituals.

The

practical

efficacy of magic.

FROM MAGIC TO METAPHYSICS

TO ASTRONAUTS

time. Contraction of time, quark energy, one-way

interstellar journeys.

From practical magic to metaphysical fear of death.

Spiritualistic cannibalism and its modern

confirmation. First writing, twenty-five thousand

years ago. Probability of a cataclysm engendered by

glaciation in about 21,500 B.C. Story of that

cataclysm in the Myth of the First Civilizations.

Possible confirmation on the moon.

13.

TWENTY-THREE THOUSAND YEARS

AGO

Twenty-three thousand years ago, the earth was

surrounded by opaque clouds. What we know about

the astronauts described in Genesis. Theoretical

theology.

14.

ARTIST'S CONCEPTION

CIVILIZATION AND MAMMALIAN GODS 47

The origin of a civilization as seen by humanists

and medievalists. The Cataclysm of the Myth in the

light of geological data.

Reliable and unreliable witnesses. Thirty bipeds in

our image. An arrival explained either by pure

chance or by the existence of a chain. The "bow of

the covenant." A scientist's illustration of a near o

certainty in the absence of direct proof.

THE GODS ARE OUR COUSINS

False ideas inherited from the nineteenth century.

We know as little about our ancestors of 21,000

B.C. as Columbus did about the "Indians" he

discovered. It is easier for us to understand the

"gods" in the Myth. Those "astronaut gods" are our

cousins.

15.

IN THE BEGINNING

Are planetary systems as uniform as salt crystals?

Quarks and the problem of energy. The biological

problem seems to be a false problem.

16.

BEGINNING OF THE FIRST DAY

The spaceship Phobos. Adonai and Shaddai, the

initiators of the expedition. Orbits of Pluto,

Neptune and Uranus. Possible stopover on one of

Jupiter's moons. In orbit around Mars. Scouting

expeditions to Earth and Venus. Distinction

between hypothesis and fiction. Development of a

plan.

WHAT VOLTAIRE KNEW

"There is no man with a little education who does

not know" ~hat 0e Bible relates the acts of gods,

wrote VoItrure. Did men of the Paleolithic preserve

the memory of a historical reality, or did they

foresee modern times by pure chance?

10.

AN INCURSION INTO THE "NOVEL"

17.

END OF THE FIRST DAY

An enormous hollow sphere. We are not alone in

!he universe. Those who refuse the possibility of

mterstellar travel, and those who demonstrate it.

The dilation of time. Voltaire's mistake.

"Days" 2160 years ago. Rational basis of the

hypothesis. Phobos and Deimos. Mars. A base on

Mars. Stabilization of the moon. Return of sunlight

to the earth. Absurdity of the usual versions of the

Bible, with their "experimenting" God. The Book of

lob.

11.

A FEW DROPS OF PSYCHOANALYSIS

The "psychological block" against aviation. The

same block against space travel.

18.

SECOND DAY

12.

A CHAPTER DEVOTED ENTIRELY

TO ABSTRACTIONS

Separation of the waters. Ludicrousness of the usual

interpretation. Man is formed and placed in Eden.

Restoration of the normal biological equilibrium.

Andre . Lichnerowicz's theoretical cosmology. A

speck of dust in the cosmos. The topology of space-

25.

THE PROBLEMS OF EXPERIMEN-

TATION

19.

THIRD DAY

Thirty astronauts from Theos in- the controlled

climate

137

Eden.

scientist's

paradise.

The

It would take thousands of years to obtain a human

breed as pure as the rats used in laboratories.

Mutations now conceivable. The impossibility of

sociology in Karl Marx's analysis. Experimenting on

men. Different meanings of "to eat."

conditioning of ants. Controlled mutations.

20.

FOURTH DAY

Without exegesis, the Biblical story is coherent.

Maps of the sky. The precession of the equinoxes.

Hipparchus discovered the precession in 128 B.C.,

but there are clear indications that it was known

,thousands of years earlier. A striking concordance

of facts.

26.

THE TREE OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF

GOOD AND EVIL

142

Reasons

for

accepting

the

historical

truth

Genesis.

21.

FIFTH DAY

109

27.

THE SIXTH DAY

143

From theory and experimentation, the Elohim go

on to restock the planet. Venus and our problem of

mutants "tomorrow." -Where could the Elohim have

come from?

A logically consistent reconstruction. Why did

Adam's presence in Eden became undesirable as

soon as he knew good and evil? Confirmation by

archaeology.

22.

SIXTH DAY

11 3

28.

THE REIGN OF THE SUPERMEN

148

The plan nears completion. Biological equilibrium,

in which "harmful" species are necessary. Man

fashioned in the image of the Elohim. From the

metaphysical societies of 30,000 B.C. to the

regression marked by the WUrm III glaciation. The

symbolism of Eve formed from a "rib." The most

rational interpretation.

The men expelled from Eden appear as priest-kings.

The "giants" of legend were "Managers." Probable

confusion between Celestials and Managers. The

"wars

of the

gods."

Cain

and

Abel.

Bovine

happiness. Noah.

29.

THE STORY OF NOAH

155

The same Hebrew word designates Moses's "cradle"

and Noah's "ark." Archaeological confirmation of

the Deluge. Noah is about to win his bet.

23.

ANALYSIS OF A GOD

121

Twelve thousand years is a long time to men, but

time does not exist for gods. Plato said that gods

"have no destiny." Men cannot understand them.

The six "days" from the viewpoint of the gods.

Alienation from Theos. Men destined to engender

gods.

30.

THE STORY OF NOAH, THE BOW,

AND THE ARCHERS

157

Noah's adventure: absurd in the nineteenth century,

logical to contemporaries of the Apollo program.

The promise of a "bow of the covenant," which is

not a rainbow, but a propulsive mechanism. The

" archer" in mythology.

24.

WHO MADE YOU A GOD?

132

"You will be gods": a promise contained in the

Tradition and the New Testament, and reaffirmed

by Meister Eckhart. "Pregods" and "premen."

Sacred books other than the Bible. Parable of the

dog who believed in conditioned men. The morality

of the gods.

31 .

NOAH AND HIS TWO SONS

160

The zodiacal symbolism of Noah's "three sons

minus one," and Christ's "twelve disciples minus

one."

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