The
Chinese Odes repeatedly refer to Kings Wen and Wu as having "gone
up on high,"1
and the desire is expressed that their successors should continue
to resemble those great men in their conduct, and as a result obtain
from Heaven the same blessedness which they had enjoyed.
A tradition of legendary character ascribes the invention of the Chinese
writing to Ts'ang Chi, a minister of Huang-ti - the Yellow Emperor
(27th century B.C.) - however the origin of the script remains mysterious
and cannot be traced beyond Kings Wen and Wu, but Kings Wen and Wu
"having gone up on high" is quite suggestive. At those times when
Kings Wen and Wu flew back into the sky, the Chinese already had a
well defined system of writing as well as an outlined monotheistic
religious system, untainted by idolatry of which no trace can be found
in their history; this proves that long before the fifth millennium
they already had a stable and evolved civilization which, it can be
asserted, still shows its roots in Lao Tze, Confucius2
and Mencius and hence its influence, as well, into the present day.
There is actually a marked tendency to find UFOs and aliens in the
Hindu epics, in the Bible and other ancient literature on both sides
of the oceans, so here perhaps we have the most ancient reference
of aliens from outer space; in China, that is, Kings Wen and Wu who
disappeared in the ky. (But see: Huang-ti
Extraterrestrial Emperor.)
While personally all but erudite concerning China, hence these lines
belong to the kingdom of the castles in the air, a thought crossed
my mind: aliens landed in China, (notwithstanding reasonable doubts
concerning aliens) at least so far away from Confucius as Confucius
is far away from us but could not communicate or be understood by
those ancient populations and the only way to get through this impasse
was by drawing ideograms which the Chinese (distinct from the aboriginal
- non Chinese - populations) could understand and assimilate, and
that set the roots of their ideographic system of writing. And, whence
this knowledge: "the Shang Chinese were apparently the first people
in the world who could, and deed, consistently express any number,
however large, with only nine digits; and they were regularly doing
this some two thousand years before the Hindus3
learnt to do the same thing with numerals we now call Arabic."4
As the Chinese would say, "am I looking for bones in the egg?" Is
it really a grotesque theory? Somewhere I read that Chinese is the
simplest language on earth: is it an alien's language?
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1
- The Original religion of China, by John Ross - 1909 - p. 27 -
Published by Forgotten Books, 2013 - www.forgottenbooks.org - Downloaded
from forgottenbooks.org.
2 - Confucius adopted and perfected the system of social
and religious laws established by the Emperors Wen and Wu - The
Wisdom of China - Edited by Lin Yutang - A Four Square Book - 1963
- p. 326.
3 - However, they did not have a "zero"; the lack of such
a symbol was one of the serious drawbacks also of Greek mathematics.
The West is indebted for it to the Arabs, who, having obtained it
from the Hindus, passed it on to European mathematicians in the
latter part of the Middle Ages. Interestingly, the "zero" must have
come about from the Hindus' esoteric doctrines, since its Sanskrit
name is "sunya", that is, the void. Sunya, being
the pilgrim's ultimate goal, plays a most important part in Hindu
and Buddhist esoteric doctrines.
4 - Joseph Needham - Science and Civilization in China,
Vol. 5 - Cambridge University Press - 1980 - p. 463.
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