Many ancient cultures have perpetuated traditions of wise serpentine beings who retreated into an underworld of massive caves. Let us suppose that some of these technologically advanced entities from Genesis I made a decision, after allowing the world to “cool down” for several thousand years after a prehistoric nuclear war, to begin interacting with new developing lifeforms on Earth. Let us suppose, further, that, upon the emergence of humankind's earliest ancestral relative, they made a decision to guide the gradual evolutionary process of Homo sapiens and to initiate a program of genetic engineering whereby they would accelerate the physical and intellectual development of certain of the bipedal creatures.

Exceedingly patient, detached, almost emotionless in its approach to scientific projects, the reptilian race experimented with skin pigmentation, facial and body hair, height, weight, and intelligence in their efforts to improve developing humankind.

The serpent is almost universally recognized as a symbol of the waveform of energy, a sperm-symbol representative of life. Nearly every ancient culture has its legends of wise Serpent Kings who came from the sky to advance the beneficent and civilizing rule of the Sons of Heaven. upon Earth-e.g., Quetzalcoatl, the "feathered serpent" of the Incas, who descended from heaven in a silver egg. The awesome respect that our ancestors had for these wise serpentlike humanoids could surely have been retained in our collective unconscious today.

Almost "overnight" the primitive human tribes that for centuries had been contented to fight and club their way around the Mesopotamian valley became skilled in the arts of civilized living. They left the risky rewards of hunting and gathering to become farmers, tending the soil and irrigating the land. They became experts in metals, ceramics, and hundreds of other skills. They constructed permanent homes, temples, towers, and pyramids where scant decades before there had been only crude tents and huts.

Berossus, the Babylonian priest-historian, credits Oannes, an amphibious half-man creature that emerged from the Persian Gulf as the teacher of enlightenment who nursed the once primitive Sumerians into creating the cradle of civilization and who guided them in writing the first love song, formulating the first school system, compiling the first directory of pharmaceutical concoctions, fashioning a balanced law code, and instituting the first parliament. Sumerian astronomers became so accurate in their science that their measurements on the rotation of the Moon is off only 0.4 from modern, computerized figures. Before the advent of Oannes, Berossus stated, the Sumerians "lived like beasts in the field, with no order or rule."

Was the mysterious Oannes simply the symbol of the advent of sudden civilization--or was he among the survivors of a strange and alien world that existed on this planet for hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of years before Sumer? And does his kind retain an interest in our continuing evolutionary saga?

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