Returning God – Frank Hurley (15 Oct. 1885 – 16 Jan. 1962)

Real X-File ID: 2144

Report Date: 01/12/2017

Country: Papua New Guinea

Place: Kaimari Island

Fingerprints: Unexplained phenomenal occurence

Existing Facts Sources: Book

Summary Report: 

When Frank Hurley, an Australian photographer, came to a native tribe in Papua New Guinea he arrived by aircraft. Every following day, the natives paddled in their canoes to the water airplane and sacrificed a pic on the nose of it. They natives believed, that Mr. Hurley is the long expected god, which once in a mystical time promised to return in a far future.

Links: https://www.kopp-verlag.de/a/der-goetter-schock


Facts Source Details:
Details of Book:  Der Götterschock (German),Erich Däniken, von,Bertelsmann,01/01/1992
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Exerpt from Erich von Dänikens book “Der Götterschock” (not available in EN):
We do not know the time when the technologically inferior tribes experienced their first contact with a different culture. But we can prove that such events remained in the memory of the tribes. A convincing example of this is provided by an expedition to Papua New Guinea led by Frank Hurley undertook in a flying boat in the 1920s. Hurley, his photographer Lang, and an interpreter took off from Port Moresby along the coast and crossed primeval forests with huts from a prehistoric world. Finally they ventured a landing at the village of Kaimari [49]: “… We flew over villages whose inhabitants had fled into the thicket, as the great flying devil approached, whizzing through the low clouds … The landing went smoothly, but … to our dismay Lang and I found that we were evidently regarded as supernatural beings and the airplane became an object of worship and fear…”
The interpreter struggled to understand until he realized that the brave warriors referred to the airplane “as a devil that flew down from heaven” or as a “boat-owning-two-gods.” The natives had already had a bad experience with an airplane in some past. When, nobody knows. A Flying expedition before Hurley is not known. From which ancient ancient aviators did the fear of the natives originate? To appease the newly descended “God Hurley”, the “savages” paddled out to the flying boat in a canoe every evening. There they sacrificed a pig, which was laboriously hoisted onto the nose of the airplane. The clever Hurley removed the animal carcass in the dark of the night. For the natives, however, this was proof that “Boat Belongs to Two Gods” had accepted the sacrifice. Unfortunately Hurley forgot to describe what he and his small crew did at night with the smut.
Frank Hurley could not resist the temptation to feel at least a little bit like a god. During the tumultuous ceremony surrounding the healing of a sick man, he ignited half a pound of Flash powder:
“… I threw the packet on the fire and departed; the crowd, who did not quite trust my powers as a magician, gathered around it, while the fire slowly consumed the outer wrapping. Then the powder flared brightly with a dull bang. It was as if a star rocket had gone off in the middle of the people. Like rockets, the torch fires shone upward, and a cry of scream of horror. Frightened out of their wits, the natives were dispersed at the same time. The drums fell silent …”
Gods – devils – returned ancestors – absurd imitations of technologies and a flood of contradictory traditions, who is supposed to make sense of it? Fortunately, there are bridges, on which one can march leisurely from the present into the past. And even yesterday’s snow can easily become today’s black ice.

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