Chariots of the Gods: 50th Anniversary Edition

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Though you feel sorry for the hapless millions who have actually religiously accepted this book as a treatise on human evolution and birth of civilization. There are some popular books that will disappoint you when you read them for the first time due to your expectations, but you will be totally impressed by them and the author's writing skills when you reread them after a few years. The Great Gatsby was such a book for me. It took me almost ten years after the initial read to understand its beauty. Then some books belong to the other end of this spectrum. They are the books you will love during your first reading when you were young but won't impress you that much after rereading them after a few years. It might be because when you are mature, you will start questioning the problematic parts of the book which you missed when you read it earlier. This book sadly belongs to the latter category. I can't find any reference to an unusual animal in the tomb of Udimu (better known as Den). However, exotic animal skeletons, included hippos, leopards, baboons and elephants, are common in early Egyptian tombs. These animals were either caught locally, or imported through trade.

Where did the narrators of The Thousands and One Nights get their staggering wealth of ideas? How did anyone come to describe a lamp from which a magician spoke when the owner wished? A UFO convention is heading for Manchester". About Winchester. January 5, 2017 . Retrieved March 27, 2017. Chariots of the Gods? spawned multiple sequels, including Gods from Outer Space and The Gods Were Astronauts. The theory in the original book is said to have influenced a variety of science fiction books, films, and television series. For instance, it is considered the inspiration for the History Channel television series, Ancient Aliens. [39]

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a b c d Lingeman, Richard R. (31 March 1974). "Erich von Daniken's Genesis". The New York Times. p.6.

The second school of thought is that the burning of the library of Alexandria destroyed many important documents and books regarding the construction of pyramids. It is said that some technologies mastered by the Egyptians were more advanced than those we possess today. The Gods Were Astronauts: Evidence of the True Identities of the Old "Gods" (Vega books, 2001) ISBN 1843336251

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Von Däniken also said that there were too many problems with their tools, and, according to him, the Egyptians had no prehistory so they could not have possibly built these large pyramids, even though there are pyramids in Egypt that were built before the Great Pyramid. Because he believed that there was no prehistory, von Däniken put forward that there is nothing known about how, when, or why these pyramids were built. [39] [40] The topics of aliens and ancient civilizations have been hot topics for conspiracy theory perpetrators for a long time now. We can see a similar discussion in this book. Ingray, G.M. (September 24, 1972). " 'Chariots' theory – how valid?". The Sydney Morning Herald . Retrieved March 20, 2017. Gerhard Mauz (9 February 1970), "Wie es unser Explorand sehr schön zeigt", Der Spiegel 5202660, no. 7, p. 98 The first draft of the publication had been rejected by a variety of publishers. The book was extensively rewritten by its editor, Wilhelm Roggersdorf (a pen name of the German screenwriter Wilhelm Utermann). [1] [2] Summary [ edit ] Statue from the late Jōmon period (1000–400 BCE) in Japan, interpreted by von Däniken as depicting an alien visitor. Von Däniken suggests that the Nazca lines (200 BCE – CE 700) in Peru could be "landing strips" for alien spacecraft

The film was re-edited and dubbed into English by Sunn Classic Pictures for release in the United States in 1973. [5] Reception [ edit ] A different TV documentary, Horizon Special: The Case of the Ancient Astronauts directed by Graham Massey, was released in 1977 and examined von Däniken's claims. [29] [30] [31] a b Clegg, Brian (June 5, 2007). "Review – Chariots of the Gods – Erich von Daniken". Popular Science. Archived from the original on October 21, 2011 . Retrieved March 20, 2017. I imagine an as yet unidentified form of energy which will one day make the incomprehensible comprehensible." Webster, Gary (1 March 2016). "Aliens or Egyptians – Who Really Built the Pyramids?". HopeChannel . Retrieved 3 November 2017.this is a recognised flaw in human reasoning, particularly important in things like chess. When you consider an option intently - a move in a game, a theory asking for belief, a politician - and eventually decide against that option, there's a strong tendency for you to immediately latch on to a new alternative option with limited scrutiny, even if you would never have accepted that option had you given it the same amount of thought you gave the first option.] and he asks this, incredulously, in exactly the same paragraph that he mentions that the first rising of Sirius each year occurs at more or less exactly the time that the annual Nile floods, the central fact of Egyptian culture and economics, begin. Yes indeed, for what possible reason could a civilisation count their year as starting from a regular, easily perceptible astronomical event that coincides with the most important economic period of the year, it's truly unfathomable. [Von Daeniken rules out the possibility of a connexion to the flooding, because Sirius doesn't necessarily predict the exact day of the first flood each year, and hence the calendar matching the flooding must be a coincidence. Presumably he also thinks that, because our solar calendar doesn't have the coldest day of the year fall exactly on January 1 each year, there can be no relation between our calendar and the passage of the seasons?]

Roughly about one third of his book is basically, “ they helped us, we can go out there and help others in the same way they helped us“. Could it be that God was an extra-terrestrial? What do we mean when we say that heaven is in the clouds? From Jesus Christ to Elvis Presley, every culture tells us of high-flying bird men who zoom around the world creating magnificent works of art and choosing willing followers to share in the eternal glory from beyond the stars. Can all these related phenomena merely be dismissed as coincidence?" a b c d e f g "Playboy Interview: Erich von Däniken". Playboy. August 1974. p.64. Archived from the original on 7 August 2012. a b c d Helaine Silverman, Donald Proulx (2008), "The "Mythological" History of the Geoglyphs", The Nasca, Peoples of America, John Wiley & Sons, pp.167–171, ISBN 978-0470692660, (...) many speculative explanations have been proposed for the function of the geoglyphs. The most notorious among these was put forth by Erich von Däniken (...) Jungfrau Park located near Interlaken, Switzerland, was opened as the Mystery Park in 2003. Designed by von Däniken, it explored several great "mysteries" of the world. [57]

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Story, Ronald (1980), The Space-gods revealed. A close look at the theories of Erich von Däniken (2ed.), Barnes & Nobles, ISBN 006464040X