Ra's altar table was for Carla's benefit

[Questioner]

Thanks for the citation. I did a web search and found this:

You may remember that it was October of 1973 that one of the most publicized purported abductions took place.

Charles Hixson, 42, and Calvin Parker, 19, shipyard workers in Pascagula, Ms. were sitting on the end of a dock fishing. The time was seven p.m. and the date was October 11th, 1973.

Under hypnosis they revealed that some sort of fish shaped spacecraft approached the dock and they were taken up into the craft and examined. Officers said Parker reported he passed out when the three creatures emerged from the craft. He said he did not regain conscienceness until he was released back on the dock. Hixson estimated he and Parker were inside the unidentified craft for fifteen to twenty minutes. He told officers that he was placed on some kind of table and examined from head to foot with what he described as some kind of electronic eye. These men described the spacemen as silvery skinned creatures with big eyes, pointed ears and noses with just an opening for a mouth. They had hands like crab claws. Hixson and Parker also said the creatures had wrinkled skin and made a buzzing, humming sound.

Obviously this encounter was not based on any attempt to help Hixson be comfortable, through use of the elements of his existing religious or philosophical beliefs.