Alien abductionДЄlien abduction narratives sometimes allege contact with reptilian creatures. Historian Edward Guimont has argued that the reptilian conspiracy theory, particularly as expounded by Icke, drew from earlier pseudohistorical legends developed during the colonisation of Africa, particularly surrounding Great Zimbabwe and the mokele-mbembe. Barkun asserts that 'in all likelihood', Doreal's ideas came from 'The Shadow Kingdom', and that in turn, 'The Emerald Tablets' formed the basis for David Icke's book, Children of the Matrix.

These creatures also appeared in Doreal's poem 'The Emerald Tablets', in which he referred to Emerald Tablets written by 'Thoth, an Atlantean Priest king'. In the 1940s, Maurice Doreal (also known as Claude Doggins) wrote a pamphlet entitled 'Mysteries of the Gobi' that described a 'serpent race' with 'bodies like man a great snake' and an ability to take human form. Lovecraft, and he, Howard and Lovecraft together laid the basis for the Cthulhu Mythos. Clark Ashton Smith used Howard's 'serpent men' in his stories, as well as themes from H.

Howard's ' serpent men' were described as humanoids (with human bodies and snake heads) who were able to imitate humans at will, and who lived in underground passages and used their shapechanging and mind-control abilities to infiltrate humanity. This story drew on theosophical ideas of the 'lost worlds' of Atlantis and Lemuria, particularly Helena Blavatsky's The Secret Doctrine written in 1888, with its reference to ''dragon-men' who once had a mighty civilization on a Lemurian continent'. Howard, in his story ' The Shadow Kingdom', published in Weird Tales in August 1929. Michael Barkun, professor of political science at Syracuse University, posits that the idea of a reptilian conspiracy originated in the fiction of Conan the Barbarian creator Robert E.

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