Reptiloids
Reptilians are fictional beings who play a role in science fiction and fantasy literature, in pseudosciences and conspiracy theories . They are described as human-like intelligent life forms that are descended from reptiles or reptile-like aliens , or are otherwise reptile-like. Some people believe that reptilians control the politics of many countries. The right-wing esoteric journalist David Icke is one of the most prominent proponents of this conspiracy theory .
Science fiction and fantasy
According to US political scientist Michael Barkun , the idea of evil human-like reptilians goes back to the story The Shadow Kingdom , which Robert E. Howard published in 1929 in the pulp magazine Weird Tales . In it, the protagonist , Kull , who comes from Atlantis , has to fight contortionists who can change their shape and who want to gain control over humanity from their shadowy realm. Other authors from the same magazine took up the motif and popularized it: HP Lovecraft (1890–1937) integrated Howard's contortionists into his Cthulhu myth in his story The luminous Trapezoeder (1936) and also adopted the place name; Clark Ashton Smith (1893-1961) also made use of both myth and reptilians. In the Marvel Comics at the beginning of the 1970s they appeared as opponents of Conans des Cimmerier , who had also sprung from Howard's literary imagination. In the fantasy film The Magic Arch (1981) contortionists of the Draikian Empire are the antagonists.
Reptilians play a role again and again in science fiction. In the television series V - The Extra Terrestrial Visitors (1983–1985) and the remake V - The Visitors (2009–2011) tell, for example, how people defend themselves against an invasion by reptilian aliens. The confrontation with a hostile reptilian race, the Dracs, is also the focus of the film Enemy Mine - Beloved Enemy from 1986. In the uplift universe of the American author David Brin (* 1950), the Soro are depicted as four meters long, egg-laying aliens who are hostile to people. In the series Star Trek the reptilian occur Gorn on in the series Star Trek: Voyager in the episode "Distant Origin" the "Voth" by the Hadrosauriern from the Cretaceous of the earth descended in the series Star Trek: Enterprise the Xindi reptilians, and in the Doctor Who series the Silurians , who come from the Silurian earth. In the SF novel series Perry Rhodan there is the reptilian people of the Topides, with whom the people (Terrans) come into conflict in the first story cycle of the multi-volume series.
Ufology
Dulce Base
Reptilian aliens appear in Ufological texts addressing an alleged underground base in Dulce , New Mexico . In 1979, Paul Bennewitz (1927–2003), an Albuquerque businessman , claimed he had eavesdropped on radio communications between alien spaceships and a terrestrial station in New Mexico. This soon turned into a narrative of aliens (initially Grays , later increasingly reptilians) who had acquired the right to use the underground base at Dulce in a secret contract with the CIA ; this treaty was broken by the reptilians - there are reports of hair-raising experiments on kidnap victims and of exchanges of fire with American security agencies. According to Michael Barkun, these speculations are based on the one hand on secret underground nuclear protection bunkers , as they were built in several places in the USA during the Cold War . On the other hand, he sees traces of the aforementioned fantasy literature as well as the teachings of the theosophist Helena Blavatsky (1831-1891), according to which the inhabitants of Atlantis had created a global system of underground corridors that remained intact after its demise.
David Icke
A conspiracy theory by the British right-wing esotericist David Icke assumes that reptilian aliens from the constellation of the dragon and their descendants can take on human appearance and control politics. To do this, they would need human blood, which would explain reports of vampirism and mass ritual abuse of children. According to Icke, the most senior politicians are reptilians or influenced by them. Your goal is the New World Order . Icke is convinced that many "powerful" and influential people are reptilian beings and part of a secret pyramid-like organizational structure, at the top of which is an association called the "Babylonian Brotherhood". Members of the English royal family (especially Queen Elizabeth II ), William J. Jefferson , Bill Clinton , Hillary Clinton , Barack Obama , George HW Bush and George W. Bush are said to belong. Sumerian kings and Egyptian pharaohs were also reptilians.
additional
In the summer of 2019, the conspiracy-theoretical YouTube channel NWOFakten explained the tremor that German Chancellor Angela Merkel had repeatedly suffered on official occasions, saying that playing the national anthem would have disrupted the "frequency" with which reptilian aliens would control them remotely.
See also
literature
- Tyson Lewis, Richard Kahn: The Reptoid Hypothesis. Utopian and Dystopian Representational Motifs in David Icke's Alien Conspiracy Theory . In: Utopian Studies 16, 1 (2005), pp. 45–74.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Michael Barkun: A Culture of Conspiracy. Apocalyptic Visions in Contemporary America . University of California Press, Berkeley 2013, p. 122.
- ↑ Michael Barkun: A Culture of Conspiracy. Apocalyptic Visions in Contemporary America . University of California Press, Berkeley 2013, pp. 111-115.
- ↑ Michael Barkun: A Culture of Conspiracy. Apocalyptic Visions in Contemporary America . University of California Press, Berkeley 2013, pp. 106-109.
- ^ Manfred Dworschak: World power paranoia . In: Der Spiegel from September 7, 2019, p. 98 f.