At all times, the religious consciousness of people connected the emergence of intelligent life on Earth with a certain heavenly source. Almighty gods lived on cosmic luminaries, giving enlightenment to man. Nowadays, drawing attention to numerous coincidences in the cultures of ancient peoples who could not have contacted each other in any way, many researchers began to develop the theory of paleocontact, which makes it possible to explain such patterns by the arrival of aliens on Earth. A well-known researcher of ancient religions and the author of several books on alternative history Andrew Collins offers his version of the source from which primitive people could have received a tremendous impetus for their lightning-fast, by historical standards, evolution. Leaving aside the fantastic hypothesis about aliens, Collins is nevertheless convinced: intelligence, like life, came to Earth from deep space...

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