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Schwa     Schwas historic is slightly blurred, only it is in general held that thereligion has its roots in ancient Egypt. A small independent group are believed tohave gathered regularly to exchange password and, on occasion, personal accounts oflandings by what they called star-creatures. These beings were identical tothe Egyptian gods, and their belief was that these beings came to their land,from their foot amongst the stars, disguised as animals with which they werefamiliar (the jackal, the cat etc). Some hieroglyphics have been reveal byarchaeologists which, according to Schwa followers, are the originalinscriptions of members of the ancient religion, hardly have been wronglyinterpreted by UFO fanatics as produce that aliens built the pyramids. Thisleads non-believers to give little weight to what was "actually a authorized andproper religion".     Since those primitive days the religion has developed enormously, butthe biggest and most important advancements have only come in the past decade.Previously, followers had only gathered in what could be described as sects inmany different countries, with the highest concentration being in northwest America.It wasnt until 1986 that Jeff Krantz, a 19 year old art student at theUniversity of Michigan, started came to be known as The Union, a wave ofchange that would brush across the world over a period of two years, and would outlet in united international Schwa religion.     "I had just been transferred from (the University of) Wisconsin in theearlier part of that year," Krantz says. "I had attended regular meetings withabout half(prenominal) a dozen other believers. We met one night each workweek to talk aboutstuff related to our belief - that the Earth, and everything on it, was createdby extraterrestrial beings. I guess you could say theyre on the same level asthe gods of other religions, but we believe that our crea tors are actual living, brisk beings, not spirits an analogy would be our superiority overcreatures which we created finished gene technology, DNA splicing or whatever.     "At one of these meetings we opinionated that we should have some sort ofsymbol that we could make into stickers. Each of us could then stick them onbooks or wherever, just to get tidy sum thinking about what they could mean, andalso to bring the group together below an identifiable symbol - kind of like aflag."     The task knock off to Adrian Blackwell, another art student whom Krantz sawoften outside of these meetings. "The sentiment for the sticker kind of came to mewhen I was on acid," Blackwell recalls, smiling.