Were the Pleiadians regarded as gods in ancient times? Almost every reference to the Pleiades — throughout the world and across distinct and separate cultures — reveres the Pleiades and their inhabitants (the Pleiadians, no matter what name is used) as godlike beings.
These ancient records — from around the world — that reference the Pleiadians were “lost” in the 19th century and often earlier.
I’m currently conducting research, to find those records of the Pleiades and the Pleiadians, in books and manuscripts on dusty shelves in libraries in the U.S., the U.K. and Ireland.
In my first book on this subject, The Pleiadians Files: Hidden and Ancient Records, I quote The angel-messiah of Buddhists, Essenes and Christians, by Ernst von Bunsen.
In his 1880 work, von Bunsen talks about the symbol of a T (or an upside-down T, in some cultures) and a dot or comma (or loop indicating it), and its connection to spirituality, particularly the Pleiades.
The following is from my book:
This symbolism is visible everywhere.
In Egypt we find the well-known ‘ key of the Nile’ in the hand of Isis, denoting simply the supreme power exercised by that divinity.
The same symbol in China denotes the supreme Lord or Ruler of the Universe, and is, in fact, a part of the expression used to signify ‘ God.’
We have here, then, one of the earliest inventions of man by which is denoted something ‘ above,’ that which is visible to the eye, or ‘ heaven.’
When solar-symbolism took the place of fire-symbolism, the sun’s disc took the place of the fiery tongue, and thus originated the so-called handle-cross of the Egyptians, the symbol of life.
As symbol of life it is represented without the circle under the nostrils of a Pharaoh, whilst a line connects the Tau-cross with the sun or solar disc. Thus was expressed in an Egyptian figure or symbol, similar to one of the Chinese, how the God whose symbol was held to be the sun, breathed into the nostrils of man ‘ the breath of life.’
The Papal crozier has exactly the same form.
The reversed Tau-cross, symbol of the lower world, with the Chinese perhaps the most ancient of the two, may be regarded as having referred in the first place to the horizontal balance of aboriginal times.
That connected the two determining single stars on the horizon, like Aldebaran and Antares, by Indians called ‘rohin’ or red, no doubt because the rising and the setting sun made them appear red.
According to this hypothesis, the vertical line of this symbol would date from a later time, and would point to the vertical balance, formed by the culminations of these determining stars.
These three points in the sphere formed the very ancient holy triangle, which in the Holiest of the Holy in the Jewish Temple was represented by the Shechina in the midst and above the two Cherubim, and which later was connected with the Divine Trinity in Unity.
If the astronomical origin of this Oriental symbolism is proved, as also its introduction in the West in preMosaic times, it may be unhesitatingly asserted that the connection of Zeus-Chronos by Pherecydes with that part of the earth which was nearest to ‘ heaven,’ points to the above astronomical symbolism.
…The light hemisphere seems to have been originally regarded as the spiritual world ; but special constellations, later the sun, were regarded as the dwelling-place of the God who causes the order in the universe, and as centre of the spiritual world.
This symbolism enables us to suggest that Pherecydes – the first person to write in Greek about nature and the gods — may have regarded as dwelling-place of Zeus-Chronos the Eastern determining star of aboriginal times, Aldebaran in Taurus, or the Pleiades in the same constellation.
…Since the seven sons of Zeus-Chronos and of Rhea, according to Phoenician legend were, as we showed, connected with the Pleiades, this constellation, inhabited according to Old-Babylonian and to Hebrew tradition, by the God Sibut-Sebaot, appears indeed to have designated the part of the earth which was conceived to be nearest to heaven and the dwelling-place of Zeus.
For the Pleiades stood once nearest to the most ancient equinoctial points observed, and the parts of the sphere determined by the latter mark those points on the horizon where the path of the sun appears to touch the path of the fixed stars, and at the same time the equator, and thus the earth.
This explanation is finally confirmed by the fact to which Pherecydes refers, that Zeus-Chronos was the creator of fire and then of the earth, as if the creator of heaven and earth, whilst the Pleiades, as already said, were regarded as the locality where fire originates.
No matter what the Pleiadians were called, they’ve been recognized as superior beings and sources of knowledge from mankind’s earliest days on this planet.
Seeing these records about the Pleiadians has confirmed my belief that there is indeed more to the story than we’ve been led to believe.