Chariots of the Gods: 50th Anniversary Edition

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What we have is a book-long rant of a crackpot enthusiast who cannot even get his mythology correct. The book was adapted as a German documentary film, Chariots of the Gods, produced by Terra-Filmkunst.

In my opinion, I feel that these kinds of things being told to us is just another way to brainwash people into thinking that it's non-existent.Myths should be examined not from the point of view of art, but from the point of view of science, and from the point of view of space.

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. While managing director of a Swiss hotel, he wrote his first book, Chariots of the Gods, which was an immediate bestseller in the United States, Germany, and later in 38 other countries. AS SEEN ON ANCIENT ALIENS - Now in a beautiful 50th anniversary edition with a new foreword and afterword by the author, this is the groundbreaking classic that introduced the theory that ancient Earth established contact with aliens. Maybe it was a side-effect of my mother's crazy theory, which she narrated to me again and again, that the Pushpaka Vimana in the epic Ramayana was a real aeroplane; and the sights described as Rama, Lakshmana and Sita flew back to Ayodhya from Sri Lanka was really written from first hand accounts. Von Däniken maintains that these artifacts were produced either by extraterrestrial visitors or by humans who learned the necessary knowledge from extraterrestrials.Neither this nor any other discredited evidence, however, has been removed from subsequent editions of Chariots of the Gods? Most incredible of all, however, is von Dä niken's theory that we ourselves are the descendants of these galactic pioneers--and the archeological discoveries that prove it. The worldwide bestseller was followed by forty more books, including The Eyes of the Sphinx , Twilight of the Gods , History Is Wrong , Evidence of the Gods , and Odyssey of the Gods . I AM A BELIEVER AND AS A TOPIC THAT HAS NOT BEEN WIDELY DISCUSSED OR TAKEN SERIOUSLY BY THE EVERYDAY HUMAN BEING IT IS ENCOURAGING TO KNOW THAT I AM NOT ALONE IN MY WONDER,BELIEF,AND INTEREST.

When he, in between these topics, dismisses the Theory of Relativity on the grounds that "19th century mathematicians" proved that trains were impossible because passengers would die when the train reached 21 miles an hour. As a young gastronome, he began writing articles before eventually authoring his international best seller Chariots of the Gods. In the sagas, apparently, the Earth is "remarkably" described as a disc or ball (what should they have described it as!It is the equivalent of skimming through a text book that, for instance, says that a particular event in history happened one way while there are many other books that say the event happened differently with each book stating its own either biased or credible theories, while walking away and claiming that you know everything that happened based upon one book and your own opinions.