Myths are our Ancestors’ Words for Technologies They Witnessed But Could Not Name.
By Sasha Alex Lessin, Ph.D. (Anthropology, UCLA), MA, Counseling Psychology, University for Humanistic Studies
Introduction: MYTHS REPORT OBSERVATIONS OF SOCIETIES’ TECHNOLOGY AND COSMOLOGY
Ancient peoples described what they saw and heard using the concepts and vocabulary their world offered. When advanced visitors—whether from other planets or inner Earth—appeared with technologies far beyond human understanding, our ancestors recorded those encounters in the only language they had: story, metaphor, symbol, “myth.” Revisionist anthropologists like me have concluded that myths are not fiction. They are eyewitness descriptions, passed orally from generation to generation, later stylized into epics, scriptures, and sacred histories.
MY PATH: ETHNOGRAPHER TO ETHNOLOGIST
I began as a young ethnographer, living in Pacific Island communities in Fiji and Tonga and writing Sawana: A Tongan Village in Fiji for my doctoral dissertation.
I taught Anthropology, Counseling, Comparative Religion, Comparative Governance Systems, and Tantra at the University of Hawai‘i, the University for Humanistic Studies (at the Hawaii, San Diego, and Anchorage campuses), Leeward Community College, and Maui Community College.
I studied Voice Dialogue, Holotropic Breathwork, psychedelic-assisted therapy, and past-life therapeutic modalities. My teaching extended across the San Diego, Maui, and Alaska branches of the University for Humanistic Studies.
I immersed myself in communities practicing tantra and polyamory and later co-founded, with Janet Kira Lessin and Dave Doleshal, the World Polyamory Association.
APPRENTICESHIP WITH ZECHARIA SITCHIN
My life changed when I apprenticed myself to Zecharia Sitchin, with whom my wife, Janet Kira Lessin, also studies. I absorbed every fragment I could find of Earthlings’ suppressed and forgotten histories—including the off-planet influences that shaped civilizations. I continue to integrate my anthropological with ancient astronaut studies, mythic texts, archaeology, UFOlogy, Sumerology, and cross-cultural theologies.
ETHNOLOGY—THE OLD ANTHROPOLOGIST’S ART OF SEEING PATTERNS
At 85, I continue as an ethnologist—an elder anthropologist who sees the big picture. I honor my lineage:
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Alfred Kroeber
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Walter Goldschmidt
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M.J. Smith
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Donald Newman
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Raymond Firth
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And Sumerian scholar Zecharia Sitchin
I keep alive the anthropological spirit: curiosity, pattern recognition, compassion, and the duty to share what we learn.
“MYTHS” ARE NOT MYTHS
Academics dismiss miracles, sky chariots, psychic feats, and god-wars because they cannot fit such accounts into tenure-safe categories. So they label them “myth,” gaining access to Wikipedia pages and professional acceptance.
But these “myths” were observation reports—descriptions of beings with technology and psychic abilities so advanced that Bronze Age and early Iron Age peoples could only express them symbolically.
Consider:
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Jonah “swallowed by a whale” → a submersible vehicle
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Vimanas → flying craft
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“Dragons” or “fiery serpents” → metallic aerial craft
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Jericho’s walls falling → targeted sonic weaponry
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Gods descending on clouds → aerial landers
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“Magic carpets” → energy-supported flight platforms
These are translations of technology into the metaphor systems available at the time.
THE ANUNNAKI ARE PEOPLE—NOT GODS
Revisionist anthropologists like me regard “gods” and their miracles as historical accounts of the Anunnaki—humanlike beings possessing:
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advanced flight technology
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weaponry
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long lifespans
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genetic science
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psychic abilities
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mastery of energy fields
They were not divine—they were technologically superior colonists.
Our ancestors described what they saw. Later generations ritualized these accounts into sacred traditions.
For a detailed list of these beings and their overlapping names across cultures, see ANUNNAKI WHO’S WHO at http://wp.me/p1TVCy-1PE
I ADVOCATE PEACE, JUSTICE & PARTNERSHIP
I stand for:
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welcoming migrants
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supporting Native Americans, Black Americans, Latinos, Hawaiians, and refugees
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a ceasefire
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a peace treaty
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Palestinian relief
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partnership over domination
I continue to teach at 85, speaking out for compassion, justice, and egalitarian governance—not the domination patterns that have afflicted humanity since the Anunnaki age.
CONCLUSION
“Myths” are humanity’s earliest anthropology—reports of what people witnessed but could not fully explain. To honor our ancestors, we must read their words as data, not fairy tales.
REFERENCE
Lessin, Sasha Alex. “Anunnaki Who’s Who.” Aquarian Media / EnkiSpeaks Publishing.
http://wp.me/p1TVCy-1PE
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