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"In fact, we cannot explain hardly anything about how civilization began. We simply find a very complex urban society when we uncover the ruins of earliest settlements anywhere in the world and we make up fairy tales to avoid asking ourselves hard questions about the origins of these ruins. It is at this point that I could well believe the theory of the ancient astronauts as bringers of culture and technology. This makes as much sense" (Vine Deloria Jr., Leslie Marmon Silko, George E. Tinker – God Is Red A Native View of Religion Fulcrum Publishing (2003))