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shwa     Schwas past is slightly blurred, barely it is generally held that the devotion has its roots in ancient Egypt. A small breakaway group are believed tohave gathered regularly to exchange news and, on occasion, personalised 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 home amongst the stars, disguised as animals with which they werefamiliar (the jackal, the cat etc). Some hieroglyphics have been uncovered byarchaeologists which, according to Schwa followers, are the originalinscriptions of members of the ancient religion, but have been wronglyinterpreted by UFO fanatics as proof that aliens built the pyramids. Thisleads non-believers to give little freight to what was "actually a true andproper religion".     Since those primitive days the religion has developed enormously, butthe biggest and most important advancements have only scrape up 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 North 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 purify across the world over a period of two years, and wouldresult in united international Schwa religion.     "I had just been transferred from (the University of) Wisconsin in the primarily part of that year," Krantz says. "I had attended regular meetings with more or less half a dozen other believers. We met one night each week 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 creators are actual living ,breathing beings, not spirits an analogy would be our superiority overcreatures which we created through gene technology, DNA splicing or whatever.     "At one of these meetings we decided 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 people thinking about what they could mean, andalso to bring the group together under an identifiable symbol - kind of like aflag."     The occupation fell to Adrian Blackwell, another art student whom Krantz sawoften outside of these meetings. "The idea for the sticker kind of came to mewhen I was on acid," Blackwell recalls, smiling.