UFOs, Bigfoot, Lost Continents and more in the wide, wild world of the 1970s paranormal paperbacks ... and beyond!
‘‘Tengu’’ are vampires that rage in the air. Each lives on his own mountain peak. Were they remnants of the old Gods? The giant Tengu “‘So Jo Bo’’ appeared to Ushi-Kawa and taught him the art of writing. These proud beings are divided in two groups. The ‘‘Officers'' wear red robes, have long noses, and long, matted hair. When Admiral Perry first landed in Japan, he was drawn by a Japanese artist like a Tengu. Other Tengu—the ‘‘soldiers’’—have bird heads (space helmets?) and wings. Tengu hold secret conventions in remote mountain valleys, like those the early Jomon inhabited.
The ‘exceedingly long nose’ of the ‘winged creature in human form’ no doubt referred to some headpiece with breathing apparatus, for to some Extra-terrestriala our oxygenated atmosphere may be poisonous; we are reminded of Oannes, a Being with the body of a fish, who according to Berossus taught the Babylonians the arts of civilisation, his likeness to a fish probably denoted the Stranger was wearing a Spacesuit, perhaps one of those Jomon Dogu ‘pressure suits’ reproduced in the various statuettes found all over Japan? Since the long-nosed winged creature gave rise to a superstition it would suggest that his manifestations in the mountains of Japan were not infrequent throughout several centuries showing regular surveillance of the Children of the Sun.
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"Société is the periodically published journal of Technicians of the Sacred, The International Religious and Magical Order of Société, La Couleuvre Noire, and The Neo-African Network, and Ordo Templi Orientis Antiqua. It is dedicated to the preservation and practice of Voudoun and other Neo-African religious systems, its magic, art and culture."
An edifying series of schematics from one Kenneth W. Behrendt, as detailed in the essential history Phenomenon: Forty Years of Flying Saucers, ed. by John Spencer and Hilary Evans. Behrendt has written extensively about purported and theorized UFO technology:
And on the back cover, an ad for the VHS release of the disclosure doc UFO'S Are Real, from 1979. All the stars of '80s disclosure/MJ-12 drama are out tonight, it seems!
From Fate, Volume 42 - Number 1, January 1989.
