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"Native American UFO Legend"

AMERICAN INDIAN LEGENDS ON UFOS AND ABDUCTIONS

Source: Myths of the Cherokee, U.S. Government Printing Office Nineteenth Annual Report of the U.S. Bureau of American Ethnology 1900

This is exact text. Commentary follows.

“There are different opinions about the stars. Some say they are balls of light. Others say they are human. But most people say they are living creatures covered with luminous fur or feathers.

"On night a hunting party camping in the mountains noticed two lights like large stars moving along the top of a distant ridge. They wondered and watched until the lights disappeared on the other side. The next night, and the next, they say the lights again moving along the ridge, and after talking over the matter decided to go on the morrow and try to learn the cause. In the morning they started out and went until they came to the ridge, where, after searching for some time, they found two strange creatures about so large (making a circle with outstretched arms), with round bodies covered in find fur or downy feathers, from which small heads stuck out like the heads of a terrapin. As the breeze played upon these feather showers of sparks flew out.

"The hunters carried the strange creatures back to the camp, intending to take them home to the settlements on their return. They kept them several days and noticed that every night they would grow bright and shine like great stars, although by day they were only balls of gray fur, except when the wind stirred and made the sparks fly out. They kept very quiet, and no one thought of their trying to escape, when, on the seventh night, they suddenly rose from the ground like balls of fire and were soon above the tree tops. Higher and higher they went, while the wondering hunters watched, until at last they were only two bright points of light in the dark sky, and then the hunters knew that they were stars."

Commentary:

1. The description of two bright lights moving along a distant ridge is typical of many modern UFO reports.

2. The size of the objects was large. (Making a circle with outstretched arms.)

3. They had round bodies. This again is typical of many reports of "saucer" objects seen at close proximity.

4. We do not know the meaning of "small heads stuck out like the heads of a terrapin." Many reports describe upolas, turrets, or other appurtenances.

5. The were covered in fine fur or downy feathers. "By day they were only balls of gray fur." Many reports describe a silvery or gray metallic surface observed during daylight. The Cherokee would naturally compare from their familiarity with flying creatures. The word "fine" shows the sleekness of the surface.

6. "As the breeze played upon these feather showers of sparks flew out." Again, many reports show rotating lights, or other strange lighting effects. Compare with Ezekiel 1:13.

"In the midst of the living creatures there was something that looked like burning coals of fire, like torches moving to and fro among the living creatures; and the fire was bright, and out of the fire went forth lightning."

7. The phrase "living creatures" describes the startling intelligent movement of the objects and their behavior. Both the Cherokee and Ezekiel use the same phrase. The Urantia Papers describe seraphic transports as living intelligent beings.

8. The description of the objects being carried back to camp by the hunters is an Indian interpolation. The difficulty with it is seen in the phrase, "They kept very quiet, and no one thought of their trying to escape." This suggests that the hunters were either within the objects or were not allowed to leave the vicinity of the objects, and were kept in restraint for several days. The restraint would be typical of modern abduction reports, but there is nothing in the account to otherwise explain this remark.

9. The subsequent behavior of the objects is further confirmation of modern reports. The statement that "They suddenly rose from the ground like balls of fire and were soon above the tree tops," repeats current descriptions in identical language.

"In the old times the people used to dance often and all night. Once there was a dance at the old town of Sakwiyi, on the head of the Chattahoochee, and after it was well started two young women with beautiful long hair came in, but no one knew who they were or whence they had come. They danced with one partner and another, and in the morning slipped away before anyone knew that they were gone. But a young warrior had fallen in love with one of the sisters on account of her beautiful hair, and after the manner of the Cherokee had already asked her through an old man if she would marry him and let him live with her. To this the young woman had replied that her brother at home must first be consulted, and they promised to return for the next dance seven days later with an answer, but in the meantime if the young man really loved her he must prove his constancy by a rigid fast until then. The eager lover readily agreed and impatiently counted the days.

"In seven nights there was another dance. The young warrior was on hand early, and later in the evening the two sisters appeared as suddenly as before. They told him their brother was willing, and after the dance they would conduct the young man to their home, but warned him that if he told anyone where he went or what he saw he would surely die.

"He danced with them again and about daylight the three came away just before the dance closed, so as to avoid being followed, and started off together. The women led the way along a trail through the woods, which the young man had never noticed before, until they came to a small creek, where, without hesitating, they stepped into the water. 'They are walking in the water; I don't want to do that.' The women knew his thoughts just as though he had spoken and turned and said to him, 'This is not water; this is the road to our house.' He still hesitated, but they urged him on until he stepped into the water and found it was only soft grass that made a fine level trail.

"They went on until the trail came to a large stream which he knew for Tallulah river. The women plunged boldly in, but again the warrior hesitated on the bank, thinking to himself, 'That water is very deep and will drown me; I can't go on.' They knew his thoughts and turned and said, This is not water, but the main trail that goes past our house, which is now close by.' He stepped in, and instead of water there was tall waving grass that closed above his head as he followed them.

"The went only a short distance and came to a rock cave close under Tallulah falls. The women entered, while the warrior stopped at the mouth; but they said, 'This is our house; come in and our brother will soon be home; he is coming now.' They heard the low thunder in the distance. He went inside and stood up close to the entrance. Then the women took off their long hair and hung it up on a rock, and both their heads were as smooth as pumpkins. The man thought, 'It is not hair at all,' and he was more frightened than ever.

"The younger woman, the one he was about to marry, then sat down and told him to take a seat beside her. He looked, and it was a large turtle, which raised itself up and stretched its claws as if angry at being disturbed. The young man said it was a turtle, and refused to sit down, but the woman insisted that it was a seat. Then there was a louder roll of thunder and the woman said, 'Now our brother is nearly home.' While they urged and he still refused to come nearer or sit down, suddenly there was a great thunder clap just behind him, and turning quickly he saw a man standing in the doorway of the cave.

'This is my brother,' said the woman, and he came in and sat down upon the turtle, which again rose up and stretched out its claws. The young warrior still refused to sit down. The brother then said that he was just about to start a council, and invited the young man to go with him. The hunter said he was willing to go if only he had a horse; so the young woman was told to bring one. She went out and soon came leading a great uktena snake, that curled and twisted along the whole length of the cave. Some people say this was a white uktena and that the brother himself rode a red one. The hunter was terribly frightened, and said, 'This is a snake; I can't ride that.' The others insisted that it was no snake, but their riding horse. The brother grew impatient and said to the woman, 'He may like it better if you bring him a saddle and some bracelets for his wrists and arms.' So they went out again and brought in a saddle and some arm bands, and the saddle was another turtle, which they fastened to the uktena's back, and the bracelets were living slimy snakes, which they got ready to twist around the hunter's wrists.

"He was almost dead with fear, and said, 'What kind of horrible place is this? I can never stay here to live with snakes and creeping things.' The brother got very angry and called him a coward, and then it was as if lightening flashed from his eyes and struck the young man, and a terrible crash of thunder stretched him senseless.

"When he at last came to himself again he was standing with his feet in the water and both hands grasping a laurel bush that grew out from the bank, and there was no trace of the cave or the Thunder People, but he was alone in the forest. He made his way out and finally reached his own settlement, but found that he was gone so very long that all the people thought him dead, although to him its seemed only the day after the dance. His friends questioned him closely, and, forgetting the warning, he told the story; but in seven days he died, for no one can come back from the underworld and tell it and live."

COMMENTARY

For myself, personally, this little story was highly revealing. I have done considerable research into abduction reports; I was intrigued by the elements which lie concealed herein.

The story contains pieces which, on their own, no one would recognize, and which are buried within the Cherokee attempts at rationalization, but when compared against other reports, offer keen insights.

I shall not attempt to analyze how the Cherokee developed their rationalization. I shall concentrate on those elements which offer instruction to us.

ANGELS

"Two young women with beautiful long hair came in, but no one knew who they were or whence they had come."

I guess we could say this exactly portrays the traditional view of "angels," although the Bible occasionally describes them as "young men," Mark 16:5. Angels have traditionally been classified as female.

An important element of the modern abduction reports is the "sexless" constitution of the abductors. They appear to be neutral. If the young Indian brave saw them as women it may have been because of this sexless appearance.

"Her brother at home must first be consulted."

A week "later in the evening the two sisters appeared as suddenly as before."

We do not know if the account is accurate. Was the interest of the young Indian brave piqued by a first visit? Or was this the Indian method of rationalizing the story of someone who was taken away surreptitiously?

WALKING THROUGH WATER

The following repetition also may be an embellishment upon the story.

'They are walking in the water; I don't want to do that.' The women knew his thoughts just as though he had spoken and turned and said to him, 'This is not water; this is the road to our' house.' He still hesitated, but they urged him on until he stepped into the water and found it was only soft grass that made a fine level trail."

When they came to the large river, "The women plunged boldly in, but again the warrior hesitated on the bank, thinking to himself, 'That water is very deep and will drown me; I can't go on.' They knew his thoughts and turned and said, 'This is not water, but the main trail that goes past our house, which is now close by.' He stepped in, and instead of water there was tall waving grass that closed above his head as he followed them."

In both cases they walk "through" water which appears to turn into grass as the Indian brave steps into it.

I must say that I was reminded of the Exodus account. I give it here in full.

Exod 14:19-29 - Then the angel of God who went before the host of Israel moved and went behind them; and the pillar of cloud moved from before them and stood behind them, coming between the host of Egypt and the host of Israel. And there was the cloud and the darkness; and the night passed without one coming near the other all night. Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD drove the sea back by a strong east wind all night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided. And the people of Israel went into the midst of the sea on dry ground, the waters being a wall to them on their right hand and on their left. The Egyptians pursued, and went in after them into the midst of the sea, all Pharaoh's horses, his chariots, and his horsemen. And in the morning watch the LORD in the pillar of fire and of cloud looked down upon the host of the Egyptians, and discomfited the host of the Egyptians, clogging their chariot wheels so that they drove heavily; and the Egyptians said, "Let us flee from before Israel; for the LORD fights for them against the Egyptians." Then the LORD said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand over the sea, that the water may come back upon the Egyptians, upon their chariots, and upon their horsemen." So Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to its wonted flow when the morning appeared; and the Egyptians fled into it, and the LORD routed the Egyptians in the midst of the sea. The waters returned and covered the chariots and the horsemen and all the host of Pharaoh that had followed them into the sea; not so much as one of them remained. But the people of Israel walked on dry ground through the sea, the waters being a wall to them on their right hand and on their left."

You may note that the Indian brave walked on a dry level trail, while the Hebrew people walked on dry ground.

As with the Indian embellishment we do not know how much the Bible account was embellished by later Jewish scribes. Did Moses really have the power to command the waters? Or did the scribes assign to him a power which belongs only to divine agencies? How much of the Egyptian discomfiture and drowning in the water was true, and how much later wishful thinking of the scribes? We cannot say. But the clear parallel of the Cherokee story with the water parting to become tall waving grass, and the Hebrew story of the water parting as a wall on both sides, is evident. In fact, it is uncanny.

TELEPATHY

One of the notable aspect of the phenomena prevalent throughout the modern contact or abduction reports is the "telepathic" abilities of the celestial agents. They can read our minds. Our fascination with this ability pervades the UFO and Abduction literature. But here it is in the Indian account. Again, we see information buried in the planetary record which only now opens to our understanding.

THE CAVE

"The went only a short distance and came to a rock cave close under Tallulah falls."

I don't know about a "rock cave under Tallulah falls." I do know that more than one person has reported being within a seraphic transport and a long cylindrical room or "cave."

If we now bring in Betty Andreasson's report (The Andreasson Affair, Prentice Hall, 1979) we again find revelations opened to us.

The author, Raymon Fowler, described her experience: "A door flashed open and they entered an enclosed corridor that reminded Betty of a subway tunnel."

In Betty's own words:

"We are going through - like an underground corridor, all hollow - into another opening where it is light. And it's like a track we're going on, like a track. We are still walking, gliding - or something."

She was asked about the track, how wide it was, and its composition. She said less than a foot wide, but she was unsure of its substance.

Fowler enters his comments again: "The three emerged into a curiously shaped compartment like a half cylinder or Quonset hut. Four glasslike chairs lined each side of the room. The escalator-like track ran between the peculiar chairs."

Note that Betty had two escorts, just as did the Indian brave.

Betty believed they were in an underground "tunnel"; the Indian brave believed he was in a "cave."

BALD HEADS

'This is our house; come in and our brother will soon be home; he is coming now.' They heard the low thunder in the distance. He went inside and stood up close to the entrance. Then the women took off their long hair and hung it up on a rock, and both their heads were as smooth as pumpkins. The man thought, 'It is not hair at all,' and he was more frightened than ever.

Another amazing element of this account is the "bald heads." The "little gray men" are described without body hair or sex identification. They, too, are reported with large, round, bald heads.

THE TURTLE SEAT

This is one of the more curious parts of the Indian account. What sort of object did the "woman" insist was a seat, yet the Indian brave believed was a turtle?

Betty Andreasson continues:

"And there're - there is some, like uh, glass ... uh ... plastic? Clear plastic seats on the side. And there're lights that come up. And there're - one, and two, and three, and the fourth one looks different. They're on two sides, and there's something in the middle and it encloses somehow with glass. The glass things swung upward, or held up somehow."

Fowler said, "The alien beings brought Betty to sit in one of the strange chairs."

"They said, 'Would you please be seated?" "What is this going to do?" Betty asked. "Please be seated," he said. "We will not harm you."

"I sat down in this thing and they put this glass around me, whatever - plastic? Clear plastic or clear glass."

Betty included many drawings in the book about her experience. In the drawings of these "seats" she showed them as contoured to human form, with a clear "plastic" or "glass" covering that fits over the person who sits in the seat.

Now to continue with the Cherokee account:

"Then there was a louder roll of thunder and the woman said, 'Now our brother is nearly home.' While they urged and he still refused to come nearer or sit down, suddenly there was a great thunder clap just behind him, and turning quickly he saw a man standing in the doorway of the cave."

“This is my brother,' said the woman, and he came in and sat down upon the turtle, which again rose up and stretched out its claws. The young warrior still refused to sit down."

Note that Betty hesitated to sit in the "seat," and questioned its purpose, as did the Indian brave. In other reports I showed that this was used to "dematerialize" the human in preparation for transport through space.

Now we can understand why the young warrior described it as a "turtle." It was a seat with a covering which swung down over the person who sat in the seat. When the contoured covering rose up the Indian brave thought the turtle was rising up and stretching out its claws. Yet he was urged to sit in it.

The Cherokee story does not tell us the resolution of the refusal by the Indian brave. Apparently they must have finally persuaded him, for he was taken away to a council.

TRACKS OR RAILS

"The brother then said that he was just about to start a council, and invited the young man to go with him."

In Betty's case it was a council on a celestial sphere in the presence of the Creator.

"The hunter said he was willing to go if only he had a horse; so the young woman was told to bring one. She went out and soon came leading a great uktena snake, that curled and twisted along the whole length of the cave. Some people say this was a white uktena and that the brother himself rode a red one. The hunter was terribly frightened, and said, 'This is a snake; I can't ride that.' The others insisted that it was no snake, but their riding horse."

Here we have apparent confusion in the Indian story. I was puzzled about the "uktena" snake, and then suddenly realized what it meant. It was the "track" or runway which carried the party along the corridor and into the "cave" or cylindrical room. The intriguing part was the way the different human witnesses reported according to their cultural orientations. Betty saw it as a "track" running through the "tunnel" and cylindrial room, while the Indian brave saw it as a "snake" running the entire length of the "cave."

FEAR

To continue with the Indian account:

"The brother grew impatient and said to the woman, 'He may like it better if you bring him a saddle and some bracelets for his wrists and arms.' So they went out again and brought in a saddle and some arm bands, and the saddle was another turtle, which they fastened to the uktena's back, and the bracelets were living slimy snakes, which they got ready to twist around the hunter's wrists."

I have no idea what these elements mean in the story. As far as I am aware there are no comparisons in other reports. It is obvious that the Indian brave is terrorized by his surroundings, and did not have the benefit of technology to draw upon for comparisons, as we do today. Perhaps they wished to physically restrain him.

The great fear many feel about the strange activities and phenomena unfolding around our planet today has caused us to cast God and his celestial agencies into hellish scenarios. But these human devisings to explain unknown and fearsome events are strictly human. They are far amiss of a proper grasp of heavenly realities.

We do not know if the full purpose of the "abduction" was ever reached. If he met in "council" with other universe personalities the story does not say.

"He made his way out and finally reached his own settlement, but found the that he was gone so very long that all the people thought him dead, although to him its seemed only the day after the dance."

Another notable feature of reports is the expansion or contraction of time awareness. The activities which attended the Betty Andreasson abduction would have taken far longer than the few hours she could have been gone during the night of her abduction. Many modern reporters share in this displacement of time.

"His friends questioned him closely, and, forgetting the warning, he told the story; but in seven days he died, for no one can come back from the underworld and tell it and live."

Barney Hill, (The Interrupted Journey, Dell Publishing, 1966), was deeply disturbed by his experience. He became "spiritual" and showed an compelling interest in the heavens. He too died a few years after revealing his story to Dr. Benjamin Simon. Many other persons have also shown deep spiritual and psychic disturbance.

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