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The Aeneid is not a retcon of anything but a sort of retelling of the Iliad and the Odyssey that involved Rome. That sort of retelling can be a problem in some cases. For instance, the early Byzantine historian Procopius tried to imitate the style of Thucydides to the point that some people have pro...

"Retcon" is short for retroactive continuity , and it is a technique for resolving discrepancies in serial fictional works. What is less well-known is how well the concept works for various theological apologetics. Addition. Of features that clarify parts of the existing story world, usual...

One has to be careful about average longevity figures in premodern societies. Infant mortality was high in such societies, and comparable to what one sees in the less-developed present-day areas. If 1 out of 2 babies died before reaching 1 years old, then the average longevity at age 1 is nearly a f...

Angels of Mons also discusses those alleged apparitions. As far as anyone can tell, it started with a story by journalist Arthur Machen: Machen, who had already written a number of factual articles on the conflict for the paper, set his story at the time of the retreat from the Battle of Mons in Au...

Interesting. That's Babylon 5. Here is how George Adamski introduces Kalna and Ilmuth (ITSS): Then, as I stepped through the doorway into this lux­urious lounge, my attention instantly was absorbed by two incredibly lovely young women who arose from one of the divans and came toward us as we entered...

Here are some more. Howard Menger in From Outer Space To You (1959) describing his first contact: But one day in 1932, when I was ten, I saw something even more beautiful than the surroundings. There, sitting on a rock by the brook, was the most exquisite woman my young eyes had ever beheld! The war...

TRUMAN BETHURUM The Iron Skeptic - Truman Bethurum Abduction and Sexual Encounter of Antonio Villas Boas (NSFW -- close encounters of the sexual kind) From the first link, Suddenly a “mumbling around the truck” awakened him. The mumbling was unintelligible. Bethurum looked out the window and saw “e...

Later, in Inside the Spaceships (1955) George Adamski describes going aboard a huge cylindrical interplanetary spaceship that has flying saucers as its shuttlecraft. He met two of its crewwomen who were then off-duty, two women whom he found indescribably beautiful: The one who had brought me the wa...

This was something that I thought of when considering some UFO contactees' descriptions of their human(oid)-ET contacts. They sometimes seem angelic, almost as if they'd be considered angels in past centuries. I'll quote some descriptions. From Desmond Leslie's and George Adamski's book Flying Sauce...

I'd like Francesco Sizzi's Dianoia Astronomica . It contains his rebuttal to Galileo's discovery of Jupiter's four big moons. It contains an astrology-based argument that those moons could not possibly exist (my paraphrase of his text): In the macrocosm, there are seven planets: two favorable ( bene...