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the caves ten times before the sunriga, When at ast they understocd the sign language of the Dropas, they reslized that tha newcomers had peaceful mt- Another Ham hieroglyph expresses regret over the loss of the tribe's own spaceships during a denger- ous landing im high mountains, and the failure to build ner ones. ia the opinion Chiness archagologists, the Bayan-Kare-Ula he@oglyphs are so mysterious that their interpretation “and use for scientific research require the yvimos! care. To obtain further iformation, the discs were scraped free ef adhering rock particles and sent to Moscow for atudy. Scientists tharge made two import- ant diremvesiag The disea tere fanaa fa cantoin at GiSheverss. see Gels Were Ma io Sika & large smount of cobalt and other metals ~ ¢ shaking discovery. Further thvestigation revealed that the tises vibrate in an unueval rhythen, as H they carried an electric charge or were part of an electric circuit: Tia V2,000 peer-old discs remain a challenge to schence. . Legends of ancient Ching gay thal amall, gaunt, valiow-faced man. came down from the clouds. But sarithly tibeemen felt s revulsion for the visitors, vhose enormous beads. and extremely thin, wank vodies made them book ugly, and “some people an ast horas” beat then. Reality seems to confinn the legends. in koma of te Bayan-Kare-Ula caves archaeologists and spael- alogists have found 12,000 year-old vestiges of raves and skeletons. The remains baleng to furan cings wilh huge craniums and underdeveloped skel- tong. The Chinese expeditions which Discovered secies ‘of wpe." But to far asi is known ape: do nat sty each other in graves or write hieroglyphic sym- ale. on stone discs. What makes the iseve doubly involved is that the nar walle of the caves ace Covered in many places th pictures. of the rising pun, the moon, and the are, epaced by ¢ saultituds of peatsized dets (poas- wtiny pictures} which seem to be approaching the rth ie 9 mountain ares. ESTIAL EGGS. “eeuvier legend has it that the ancient inhabitants Par: were born from bronze, agld and allvar saqs SS. Ser Si ortac, gprs. mena are. Se eS ich had tailen trom heaven. The tele is cited but i without comment in Jean Elises Reclie" famous ok “La. Terre.” \ variant of the egg legend is featured in the sous Tassili frescoes, which were found in the wt of the Sahara by e Franch Heutenant named wand. Shortly afterwards the place wae examined & Franch eapedition led by Henri Lotte, who later te The Search for the Frescons of Tassili. in ition to pictures. of animals and hunting scenes, frescoes. depict strange figures dressed in what tm fhe wpacesuite and spherical helmets. The seis. are definiiely attached to the suits, which <@ we associations with citudl headdress oF hunt- az? ing gear. Nor is there any association with the benit ors who, as some acholars acsume, weed ostrich egg- ehalls for helmets. Lotte called the anigmatic figures Martians. Oascribing the ancient drawings on the cave walls the French explorer says thet one of them depicts "a man appesring from an egg-shaped object cov- ared with concentric circles. The object resamblec an egg, or possibly a snail.” So the Peruvian legend and the Tassili irescoes | team. te have much ia common, Bul the parallel does mot ond there. Ai a later date, in yet another pert of the world, the same subject wee treated by ancient Greek acuiptors, certain of wham portrayed Caster and Pollux of Dioscuria, as well ag Helen and Neme- ie vith, vemeontes wl ome ahatis ae Meats boot 2. SH, Silt FSMmnanis or Syg-sisus ti Gas wees, Tor according te Greek mythology they arose irom celestial eggs. How did the odd idga of man's birth from en ego take shape? Perhaps by analogy with birds av fish? But why falling from the eky? One Latin American. legend says thal egos dropped down from the sky on dandelions! The absence of any exigting inter. pretation of this art leaves tha door open fow must aeem a fanisslic apsumption: that the of the calastial eggs, fike any other myth could have originated trom Vonafde Top impress an actual event. An ancient man may once have @ container with a human being in ft descend the sky, and imagined thai the visitor was amerging from a celestial egg. F Fa gh “VISITING CARDS” OF SPACE TRAVELLERS. Ouring excavations at differant timas in Japan archasologists. found figurines tdogu) dapicting a kind of human or anthrapeld in odd-looking "space suite" and with helmets wholly covering their heads. Ga the helmets ware visible marke of something hike elit-type glasses, breath-filtters, entennss, tearing wide and even nightsight devices. Reviewing the latest Soviel space achievements, the German magazine Freie Wall in iseue No. 12, 1966, printed a aelection of rock drawings and phot- egraphs of dogu under the humorous title, "Visiting Cards?", declaring thal such drawings and figurines eight be construed as: proof that the Earth was once visited by epace beings. Many similar rock pictures have been discovered throughout the world. There are pictures. of epace- man on cave walls in the Val Comonique, the Swiss Alps, in Australia, close to Fergane and near the city of Navoi, in Soviet Gentval Aaia. Puzzles that may have staried with « space visit are contained in legends and myths. Legends of Au etralta, the Near East, South and Central Amarice and the Far Exst all tell of the descent of gods from the sky. They offer tood for thought. JHE STAR OF BETHLEHEM. Tie phrase “Star of Bethishem™ is twenty cant- wries old. Some regard it as a product of sheer