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The Incans, Mayans, and Aztecs all believed that powerful gods influenced human life, nature, agriculture, rulership, and aided in the survival of societies. While they did not generally describe “beings from the sky” in the more modern sense of them being extraterrestrials, they knew these beings were not typical humans. They understood that the sky and beyond was the realm of gods. Those unseen places were where celestial forces and sacred beings could descend, communicate with humans, or act directly within the world in which they lived.

Incans

The Incans believed their entire civilization was guided by gods connected to the heavens. This especially was important about Inti, the sun god, who was one of their most important deities. The ruling emperor, the Sapa Inca, was considered a descendant or representative of Inti, which made political authority sacred. The Inca also honored Viracocha, who was a creator god. He was often associated with the sky, light, and the ordering of the world. In some of their traditions, Viracocha came to the Earth in a flying vehicle shortly after creation. He was vital in teaching and shaping their burgeoning society. This reinforced the belief that divine beings had visited with them directly to help prosper their civilization, their agriculture, to establish the patterns of their law, and to grant knowledge of how to operate their social orders with greater clarity.

Mayans

The Mayans had a complex cosmology in which the sky, stars, planets, and gods were deeply tied into their everyday lives. They believed their gods had the power to control their rainfall to affect their corn yields. The gods likewise controlled their fertility, times, seasons, and kingship. 

A major example is the god known as Itzamna. He was often linked to the heavens as his permanent home. He was said to possess great wisdom, and appeared in their creation stories. Kukulcán was another god that was traditionally depicted as a feathered serpent deity. He was closely associated with divine power and cultural order. Mayan rulers often claimed a special connection to the gods who came from the heavens and therefore performed specific rituals in order to communicate with gods and with their own ancestors. 

For the Mayans, religious aid from above came primarily through divine cycles, celestial signs, sacred knowledge. Their ritual contact with supernatural beings through these contexts were rather more important to them than trying to depend upon infrequent occasions of literally meeting with visitors from outer space.

Aztecs

The Aztecs believed the gods had created and sustained the world through sacrifice and divine action. Their society depended on maintaining favor with celestial and natural gods. Important deities included Huitzilopochtli, the sun and war god, Tlaloc, the rain god, and Quetzalcoatl, the feathered serpent associated with wisdom, culture, priesthood, and creation. Quetzalcoatl in particular was sometimes remembered in stories as a civilizing force. It was also Quetzalcoatl who was most often associated with departing in a vehicle and returning to the heavens. 

The Aztecs believed the gods had, in ancient times, come down from the heavens to promote their agriculture, warfare, timekeeping, and social systems. However, this was understood as religious concepts rather than as alien interventions provided to their individual rulers.

It is interesting that when the “modern” theories of visits from ancient astronauts were being developed in Europe and America, these cultures were simply wondering why it had taken us so long to reach these same conclusions!