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Date: 2001-08-13 18:04:58

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The space station crashed on the planet.  The humans that survived the ape attacks fled to the jungle.  Remember, only 20 years or so after being finger-painting chimps they had the ability of speech and reason. This is a remarkable advancement in such a short period of time. Imagine what they could do in 100, 200 years! There is a problem though. The humans are bigger and can procreate faster, posing a potential danger for them in the future.

POTA is not earth. The large apes and horses were brought there by the POTA apes to keep the humans in check. How? Beats me but these were smart apes with a space station filled with technology, knowledge, and a never-ending power source.  Forget the argument that they needed a hand-print to get access ? they?ve seen the humans do it a thousand times, they know what needs to be done, so they could either keep a couple of severed hands around or they enslaved a human or two.  It would not be unreasonable to believe that they could modify a pod. Given the way space travel/time travel works, they could populate POTA relatively (no pun intended) quickly.

So the POTA apes start to bring back apes and horses, initially from the 19th century, around the time of Lincoln. They train these apes and genetically engineer them, though not to the extent that they themselves were engineered ? no one wants an ape as smart as they are, only bigger.  They also create the Forbidden Zone mythology so the earth-apes do not have access to their ?god-like? technology.

As the earth-apes evolve on POTA their culture is based on what apes do best ? they mimic what they know, which is 19th century humans. Hence things like a chandelier, organ grinder, slaves, etc. Also note the absence of electricity, motor vehicles, and other later human advances which would surely be known to the POTA apes.  As time goes on the POTA apes bring back more earth-apes but now from the 20th century, with artifacts.  One of these apes mates with Semos, which starts the Thades bloodline.  The Thades descendants are genetically superior so their superiority over the other earth-apes is a given. They have knowledge of the real history of POTA.  I know this sounds WHACKED but consider this:

I believe that the name Thades comes from Authedes.  Authedes originates from Gnosticism, a religious movement that threatened Christianity early on. The term Gnosticism comes from the Greek word ?gnosis?, which means ?Revealed Knowledge?!
In Gnosticism, Authedes was a lesser deity to the ?original, unknowable? God. Authedes was known to create ?emanations? which has been defined as ?divine procreation.?  Coincidence? Or is Burton even shrewder than given credit for.

How we get from here to Marky Mark landing on the Washington Mall in the 1970?s with Ape Lincoln?  Working on it :)