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Technically those 'aliens' were humans too. Different species, same genera. We had interbreeding with them, though it's a small proportion of neanderthal and so
by adr1an 3y ago
Technically those 'aliens' were humans too. Different species, same genera. We had interbreeding with them, though it's a small proportion of neanderthal and some other species dna that were discovered.
- nextaccountic 3y agoI like to believe that we viewed them as close as another ethnicity, rather than a different species altogheter
- edgyquant 3y agoDoubtful. They were probably viewed as demons
- hutzlibu 3y agoPossible. The native americans had (have?) the word ghost to describe the europeans who conquered their land.
- kej 3y agoYou don't get 1.5-2% neanderthal genes in modern humans by viewing them as demons.
- edgyquant 3y agoAccording to whom? Doesn’t seem out of the question for people to both have viewed them as demons or monsters and for certain people to have mated with them
- nobody9999 3y ago>According to whom? Doesn’t seem out of the question for people to both have viewed them as demons or monsters and for certain people to have mated with them cf. The Gnarly Man[0][1] by L. Sprague de Camp. It's fiction, but addresses that facet of potential interactions between hominid species. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gnarly_Man https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gnarly_Man [1] https://www.galacticjourney.org/stories/600411gnarly.htm https://www.galacticjourney.org/stories/600411gnarly.htm
- NoZebra120vClip 3y agoGenesis 6:1-4 NABRE When human beings began to grow numerous on the earth and daughters were born to them, the sons of God saw how beautiful the daughters of human beings were, and so they took for their wives whomever they pleased. Then the LORD said: My spirit shall not remain in human beings forever, because they are only flesh. Their days shall comprise one hundred and twenty years. The Nephilim appeared on earth in those days, as well as later, after the sons of God had intercourse with the daughters of human beings, who bore them sons. They were the heroes of old, the men of renown. Numbers 13:32-33 They spread discouraging reports among the Israelites about the land they had reconnoitered, saying, “The land that we went through and reconnoitered is a land that consumes its inhabitants. And all the people we saw there are huge. There we saw the Nephilim (the Anakim are from the Nephilim); in our own eyes we seemed like mere grasshoppers, and so we must have seemed to them.”
- drpgq 3y agoSuccubus?
- dragonwriter 3y ago> You don't get 1.5-2% neanderthal genes in modern humans by viewing them as demons. Hostile othering of populations doesn't stop interbreeding among anatomically modern human subpopulations, so I doubt it would between other interfertile parts of the human family.
- nextaccountic 3y agoIt's not too unusual for a group to regard members of another specific hostile group as "demons". My point is that there are many other possibilities.