Foreword
This is a fictional piece I have for two reasons, to exercise my creativity and for thought provocation. My personal creativity is essential for my personal critical thinking and ability to maintain an ability to understand the perspectives of those persons with whom I do not have a shared history. I hope the thought provocation created by this will in some minor way promote diversity of thought and some minor form of critical thinking.
The Interview
Before I share this story with the world I must apologize to my priest, my family, God, and the world. The details of the interview I am about to share with you happened over sixty years ago. I was sworn to secrecy and still am but what are they going to do to a man whom has cancer, is coughing up blood, and will be dead in a week? You see, I am a good man and want to be remembered for doing good things but some secrets must be known to the world. The interview I am about to share is from my time as a cameraman for Don Catchers. Let us begin.
Meeting ‘Wayne’
“What is all this cloak’n’dager shit Burt? We get dragged to the middle of Iowa, forced to change into these ridiculous cover-alls, forced to leave our belongings behind and abandoned in front of this shed. Is Barbara fucking with us again because this isn’t. . . “ just then the shed door opened.
“Gentlemen please follow me,” stated a short portly woman. She was wearing the same clothing but had a patch of a purple skull on the shoulder. “My name is Wayne. Watch your head as you step in. Please close the door behind you, we have very specific environmental control requirements. Thank you.” It was very dark and crowded. “You both ready to lose your humanity?”
The Descent
Knowing We Don’t Know
As the elevator slowly squeaked to a stop there seemed to be static in the air. I could feel energy running through me.
“Alright ‘Wayne’” Don said making air-quote gestures, “I have been in old war bunkers and mines before. Are you going to tell me why a bunch of cement is so secret?”
“You are a feisty one, I am glad we chose you over Barbara. My name isn’t normally ‘Wayne’ but it is today. Please follow me, we are going to that room. You, why are you so quiet?”
“I am just here to ensure Don receives what he needs to be successful. I am his advocate and represent the network.”
“That’s all fluff, he’s just here to make sure the fans love me. He is my assistant.”
Stepping Into Madness
As we stepped into the room we were immediately greeted by a dark purple opaque skull. A shiver instantly crawled up my spine and made the hair on my neck stand up.
“Isn’t she the most beautiful thing you have ever seen? She is why you are here.”
“Is that a crystal skull? I have done stories on crystal skulls. Let’s go Burt, we are leaving. Please have a cab waiting, it is a long way up.”
“Did your interviews ever uncover the language hidden inside the skull?”
Don half-turned “Do you actually have something I can use or is this just more bullshit?”
A huge smile nearly ripped Wayne’s face in two, “haha, that’s why I am such a fan. You cut right to the point. Sit, we have a bit to cover.” We both sat down, I across the room from the two of them.
A young lady who couldn’t be more than twenty-three came in and set-up a camera with a tripod. “I am ready. Whenever you both would like to begin.”
“Thanks Duke, please begin recording. Mr. Catchers please ask me ‘What can you tell me about why I am here.’”
“What can you tell me about why I am here?”
The interview
The Skull
“Mr. Catchers, this is the most fascinating discovery in the history of humanity. The only problem is humanity doesn’t have a history, there are no humans. There were never humans.”
“Ok, this is clearly a joke. A not funny joke. Clearly you exist, I exist, they exist” Don pointed at me and Duke, “this is the most absurd” Don was standing now and turning toward the door.
“Yes! We are human but we aren’t at the same time. It all has to do with Cuneiform like inscriptions in this skull!” Wayne firmly pointing at the purple skull.
“Tell me more about the skull,” Don still standing with one hand on the door knob.
“We have developed a way to use super low frequency sounds to vibrate layers of the skull incrementally until we reached the center. There are over four hundred layers. Each layer is composed of fourty-three unique sets of symbols that are in groupings from one to six symbols.”
Don had a hand clasped over his mouth as he slowly walked to a chair and sat. “Fourty-three symbols? There’s nothing on Earth known in history to have that” he almost mumbled.
“Exactly, and with the advancements in computing technology through the sixties we have made sense of these groupings over the past fifty-seven months. We don’t have a lot but we have enough to change the history of the world.”
“Okay, hold on, hold on a minute. This can’t be real. Why would you. . . why, why me? Why are you telling me?”
A Language Discovered
“Don, we are past that. Please ask, “Can you please explain in plain terms what you are talking about.”
“What the hell are you talking about?”
“Well Don, we have discovered a language hidden in over four hundred unique layers which create the skull. It took us more than four years using the most advanced computers in the world but we are beginning to understand that language and it isn’t human.”
“So you are telling me aliens traveled to Earth to plant treasure boxes of information in the shape of human skulls?”
“No! Well, yes, but no. Here is what we know.”
The Religion of Venus
“At some point Venus was exactly like Earth in atmospheric and biological composition. There were two superpowers at war and the technology they were using was causing irreparable harm to the planet by terraforming the atmosphere. “
“Wayne, tell us more about the people, the culture, the superpowers,” Don was regaining his composure and returning to his stoic persona.
“We don’t know many things. We know one culture was name ‘Yahwehmolina’ the other ‘Hasatanata’ and they were fierce enemies.”
“My Hebrew is a little stale but those sound a lot like,”
“God and Satan! They are the ancient names of God and Satan! We have a written text that predates everything else we have ever found, it has a language that is not native to Earth, and it lists the names of God and Satan as the leading powers on Venus.”
Don’s blue sleeve darkened as he wiped the beads of sweat from his forehead. He had a cigarette in his mouth now. “Venus?”
Two Powers One Planet
“Yes Don, yes. It turns out these two powers, Yahwehmolina and Hasatanata realized they were destroying the planet and took drastically different responses. Yahwehmolina was a culture of exploration and extroversion and Hasatanata a culture of introspection and pleasure. As the end of inhabitability grew near Yahwehmolina utilized their advanced space capabilities to leave. Hasatanata used their advanced technology to transfer the consciousness of their entire population into some form of . . . I don’t think we have a word for it, but it is some form of machine that uses physics to draw some form of hidden energy from the universe.”
The Hasatanata
“Space travel, hidden universe energy, Venus, That’s a lot. Let’s stay with Venus for now. Please continue.”
“We do not have the technology to reach Venus but NASA has developed something they are calling ‘Mariner two’. Apparently it will be able to take some pictures of Venus and help us determine if there is a possibility of the Hasatanata technology. Could you imagine the potential of a machine that sucks energy from nothing?”
“Is that why we are here? Have we developed some new type of alien power plant?”
“No, no, nothing that amazing yet. Let’s turn our attention from the Hasatanata to the Yahwehmolina.”
The Yahwehmolina
“The space explorers?”
“Yes, the Yahwehmolina were the race of Venusians that eventually gave birth to humanity.” Wayne turned to Duke, “Bring in the Skull.”
Duke set this very odd looking skull on the table. It looked like a human skull and didn’t at the same time.
“This is ‘Star Child’. It is the skull that most closely matches what we believe the Venusians looked like. It is only about 800 years old. This clearly indicates humans either evolved from of mated with Venusians.”
“So we don’t know if humans are from Venus then?”
Getting Biblical
“Not exactly. What we have been able to discern is that the bible is pretty accurate. The Venusians did create a safe-haven for a pair of early humans. They used some form of technology to create a paradise oasis that was safeguarded by some form of technological barrier. Outside the barrier the Venusians killed all of the major hostile life forms. Great giant reptiles that could swim, fly, and walk. Yahwehmolina is the reason dinosaurs went extinct.”
Extinction of Dinosaurs
“A meteor didn’t kill the dinosaurs?”
“It may have, there certainly is plenty of evidence to suggest that. We don’t actually know how they did it. We do known that once the dinosaurs were extinct the Yahwehmolina moved from their biological space vehicle to the surface of the Earth. Their space vehicle was dying and they wanted to survive.”
The Children of the Gods
“So Venusians and Humans lived together and intermingled? Weren’t early humans frightened by the sudden appearance of an advanced race that descended from the sky?”
“Yes, they called the Yahwehmolina ‘Gods’ and worshiped them. The pair of humans in the oasis were the first. But when those fist chosen humans accessed the advanced technology of the Yahwemolina they were cast out. They somehow accessed a vast power cabling system and caused great damage.”
Leaving Eden
“They took fruit from the forbidden tree. . . ” Don half whispered to himself, now sitting on the edge of his chair and leaning far forward.
“If by ‘fruit’ you mean technology and by tree you mean ‘power grid’ then yes. Then they were cast out of the Yahwehmolina society. As time went by the human population grew and the Yahwemolina population waned. Eventually the ‘children of angels and gods’ walked among the men and women of earth. There even seem to be indications there was inter-species breeding.”
Inter-species Breeding
“Inter-species breeding?”
Wayne pointed at ‘Star Child’. “Eventually the Yahwehmolina stopped the inter-species mating. It appears there were laws created because of the fear there would be paradoxical evolution. There was a fear that two lines of evolution would be created. There would be advanced earthlings and earthlings that evolved more naturally over a far greater period of time.”
“Are you saying some humans are less evolved than others?”
“No, nothing like that. If anything, we are the advanced humans and baboons are the natural evolution.”
Are Humans Baboons?
“So we should be baboons?”
“No, we should be living on Venus, the home of our ancestors. The birthplace of all earth-based human cultures, religions, and existence.”
“What about hell then? How do you explain Heaven and Hell if all religion is a bastardized historical understanding of how we came to be?”
“I know this is a lot to take-in and is more than any human can accept in an hour, or a day, or even a year or ten years.”
“It sure the hell is,” Don was calm, cool, and direct, “How do you expect anyone to believe you are not a total nut?”
Heaven
“Back to Heaven and Hell. Heaven is very closely related to the name of the biological space vessel used to move the population from Venus to Earth. It was abandoned and left in orbit. A giant ball that has had thousands of years to take abuse and be covered by space dust.”
“The mood is ‘heaven’?”
Hell
“It was, and Hell is a lake of fire. When I think of a fire I think of flames and hot gas. When I think of a lake I think of a highly viscous solution. What has a highly viscous solution of flaming gas?”
“Venus?”
“Bingo Don, Bingo! Venus is the literal incarnation of hell. The Yahwehmolina must have described the atmosphere of Venus to early humans. As stories are told and embellished through the generations the Yahwehmolina became the good guys that came from heaven and the Hasatanata are the evil beings who live in a lake of fire.”
Prove It
“Holy shit, but can you prove it.”
“We have it, it is all here in this crystal skull. As you know, this isn’t the only one. It is only a matter of time before others know too. We are not human, we are Venusian. At least, we are in part.”
Advanced Technology?
Not Probable
“Are there any technologies we can use to end hunger, create world piece, do anything at all meaningful now, here and now?”
Wayne looked at Duke who frowned and looked at the floor. “We are here to talk about history, not future. We have been given insights into how Venus was destroyed by technology. We know that such an incredibly advanced culture must have provided some way for us to avoid our own destruction but we haven’t found it yet.”’
Expectations for the Future
“Yet? Do you expect to find some form of advanced technology contained in the skull?”
“The skull itself is advanced technology. We have no ability to create anything that comes close to holding the amount of information this skull has. We have barely scratched the surface of the secrets that will be revealed. If humanity were about to go extinct and we wanted to put the entirety of our knowledge in a collection for storage I am sure we would include some form of blueprint for how we created our technology. I am sure we would and I am sure they did too. We just need to keep digging.”
“So, no advanced technology?”
“No, we have not found any advanced technology yet.”
Signing Off
“What you have found is nothing short of astronomical though. I have no idea how people will react when they find out what you have discovered. Do you have anything to say directly to the people viewing this?”
“People of the future, I am sure you are viewing this decades maybe even centuries after it was recorded. There is no way the people in my time are ready for this type of revelation and the powers which control the governments wouldn’t let it be released either. I hope those of you who are able to view this have understanding that we did the best we could in our time. I do not know the world as it exists in your time but we are doing our best to make it better for you based on the science we have today. Shit, I bet you all have your own space vehicles and take vacations in Venus’s, Mars’s, and Jupiter’s orbits. Ahh Jupiter. . . Anyway, I hope by the time you see this we will have made some great discovery that has caused an end to world hunger and global peace. God bless my country, my family, and my friends. Haha, ‘God Bless’, it seems so odd to say now. From the past, I wish the best to the future. Thank you and goodbye.”
Duke shut off the camera.
Final Goodbye
Now that I have had a chance to share this interview with you I can claim my peace. I have had a heavy burden on my very soul for over six decades and how I feel lightened. It is time for me to go now. “Jenny, please take me to my bed. It is time for me to sleep.”
From the Author
Thank you for reading this work from the desk of Anthko.