... "Asclepius became the god of medicine and was so skilled in surgery that he could even "raise the dead". He had two phials of the blood of the Medusa which could be attached to the body with ‘golden bands’. The contents of one of these could kill someone, and the contents of the other could revive a dead person. This, of course, mimics the effect of a modern anesthetic which places the patient in a death-like state from which he later recovers."

... "Orthrus/Sirius is the brightest star in the heavens and also the sixth-closest star to earth. It is surprising that the Greeks referred to it as two-headed because powerful telescopes show that the star is actually a tightly coupled pair of stars. Orthrus "committed incest with his mother", and this wild claim surely refers to the fact that the smaller of the two Sirius stars is presently ejecting matter into the other one."

... "In the Epic of Gilgamesh, when the hero spurned the love goddess Inanna, she asked her brother, the sun god, to destroy his city of Uruk with the ‘bull of heaven’: "With the snort of this bull, pits were opened and into them fell 200 young men of Uruk".

We know from other Sumerian texts that ‘young men of Uruk’ simply means ‘soldiers’. Since the translation of the very difficult Sumerian language is not precise, we can rewrite the above quotation as: "With a sudden loud noise, craters opened up and swallowed 200 soldiers" without changing it.

Now the meaning becomes clear and we can guess that these ‘bulls’ were flying vehicles, similar to war planes, and that the ‘pits’ were craters caused by exploding missiles which also killed hundreds of soldiers. A ‘snort’ is just too good of a description of the launching noise of a modern missile weapon."