Jasper, Iām answering your question under my song. I donāt believe in ancient aliens either ā at least not in the usual sense. What I believe is that those āancient aliensā were actually us, essentially in the same form we exist in now. I follow the idea of planetary mitosis. I believe the planets of our Solar System did not simply form from a cloud of dust. I believe they are born inside the Sun, one after another, and then gradually move outward as they grow. In that sense, Earth is currently going through a kind of planetary youth. Planets grow and mature, and whatever primary element dominates inside the developing planetary core determines what kind of giant that planet eventually becomes. Jupiter became a gas giant. Earth, when it eventually reaches the stage and position Jupiter occupies now, would become more like a steam giant. And the process continues: new planets keep being born from the Sun, just as I believe our Moon came out of the interior of Earth, and Jupiterās moons came out of Jupiter itself. The problem is that I believe our Solar System is broken now. Something happened that interrupted the natural life cycle of the planets. Jupiter got in the way. I believe there was once a fifth planet from the Sun, where the asteroid belt is now. Jupiter destroyed or consumed that planet, grew enormously, and effectively blocked the normal outward progression of the system. To me, the ancient myth of Zeus rebelling against Cronus is a memory of that event ā Jupiter rebelling against the older planetary order. And as for us, I donāt know where humanity originally came from. But I believe we moved from planet to planet as each one gradually became less suitable for life. I think we may have come from worlds that existed even farther out than Pluto and have since broken apart or disappeared. So when I talk about ancient gods, fallen descendants of gods, or ancient civilizations, I donāt imagine visitors arriving from some distant star. I think we are those descendants. I think humanity has been moving through this planetary cycle for an unimaginably long time, repeatedly being thrown backward by planetary catastrophes as the Earth grows and changes. Every few hundred years, maybe two or three hundred, another major catastrophe knocks civilization backward again. Then we rebuild. And every new cycle convinces itself that it has reached the absolute peak of civilization, when in reality we may simply be moving through another turn of the same downward spiral. Sorry if this sounds a little scattered ā Suno isnāt exactly built for comments this long. š But hopefully I managed to explain the basic idea: I donāt think the ancient āaliensā were somebody else. I think they were us.
