Continuing with Bramley's 'The Gods of Eden'...

..THE IDEA THAT human beings are a slave race owned by an extraterrestrial society is not a new one. It was expressed thousands of years ago in mankind's earliest recorded civilizations. The first of those civilizations was Sumeria: a remarkably advanced society which arose in the Tigris-Euphrates River valley between 5000 and 4000 B.C., and flourished as a major civilization by 3500 B.C. * Like other ancient societies which arose in the Mesopotamian region, Sumeria left records stating that humanlike creatures of extraterrestrial origin had ruled early human society as Earth's first monarchs. Those alien people were often thought of as "gods." Some Sumerian "gods" were said to travel into the skies and through the heavens in flying "globes" and rocketlike vehicles. Ancient carvings depict several "gods" wearing goggle like apparel over their eyes. Human priests acted as mere intermediaries between the alien "gods" and the human population. * Until recently, ancient Sumeria was thought to be the site of mankind's earliest city. Excavation has revealed a city in Jericho (near modern day Jerusalem) built as long ago as 7000 B.C. Almost nothing is known about that city.

Not all Mesopotamian gods were human like extraterrestrials. Some were obvious fabrications, and fictitious attributes were often ascribed to the extraterrestrial human like gods. Once the blatant fictions are stripped away, however, we discover within the Mesopotamian pantheon a distinct class of beings who do indeed fit the "ancient astronauts" mold.

In order for me to better discuss these "high tech" "gods," * it will be necessary for me to invent a new term. * For a detailed analysis of the apparent "high tech" nature of many ancient Sumerian gods, I recommend Zecharia Sitchin's five books, The Twelfth Planet, The Stairway to Heaven, The Wars of Gods and Men, The Lost Realms, and Genesis Visited. They are published by Avon Books of New York.

The word "god" alone contains too much undeserved awe. Historical and modern-day testimony indicates that these "gods" are as "human" in their behavior as you or I.

The term "ancient astronaut" pigeonholes them into the distant past when, in fact, they appear to have maintained a continuous presence all the way up until today.

The label "extraterrestrial" is too broad.

I cannot name the "gods" after any star or planet from which they might hail because I will not speculate as to their place of origin. Furthermore, it is conceivable that the alleged ownership of Earth may have changed hands over the millennia, in the same way that ownership of a corporation can pass among different owners without the public being aware of it.

That leaves me to invent a new label based upon the "gods' " apparent relationship to the human race. For lack of anything better, I will simply refer to them as the "Custodial" society, meaning that specific extraterrestrial society (or succession of societies) which appears to have had ownership and custody of the Earth since prehistory. For brevity, I will often refer to them simply as "Custodians." https://exploringrealhistory.blogspot.com/2021/04/part-2-gods-of-edenthe-gods-of-eden.html