Chariots of the Gods: 50th Anniversary Edition

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This book will hurt your feelings if you are from Latin America or Egypt as some of the ideas shared by the author might appear racist as it seems to devalue the achievements of their ancestors and put a black mark on their heritage. I imagine an as yet unidentified form of energy which will one day make the incomprehensible comprehensible. Throughout the book he underestimated the ingenuity of the people of the past and tries to create a image of them as being stupid and helpless.

The book is based on the hypothesis that many of the technologies of ancient civilizations and religions are derived from space travelers, who are accepted as gods. Today, documentaries espousing alien mythology can be found on most streaming platforms and are plentiful on YouTube.I have always been intrigued about the possibility of alien life, so, crazy as this guy is, its a fun subject.

many of the questions he brings forth are very valid questions even today for which I would love to hear good, rational explanations.We can't answer this question now as we still don't know whether all those written in the book are correct. In one Goodreads group which some of my friends belong to, they're having a discussion of the ethics of giving a book a one-star rating with no explanatory review; one person likened the practice to a drive-by shooting. Go check out Ronald Story's The Space-Gods Revealed: A Close Look at the Theories of Erich von Däniken. One often hears the bible and other works misquoted, or quoted to back up a statement or theory, so I took the trouble to reread the passages referred to, not because I disbelieved Von Daniken, but to confirm the exactitude of what he was saying. Von Danikens ideas have been the inspiration for a wide range of television series, including the History Channel’s hit Ancient Aliens.

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. Throughout the book I noticed that he would insert his theory into conversations about real science and drop in discussion by real scientists and yet not draw the distinction between the established idea and his idea. I have to clarify my rating here: One star for "scholarship" and five stars for entertainment value.The film was released in 1970 in West Germany and first appeared in the United States the following year. 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. Of the more than 3,000 lectures which Erich von Däniken has given in 25 countries, over 500 were presented at universities. Von Däniken maintains that these artifacts were produced either by extraterrestrial visitors or by humans who learned the necessary knowledge from extraterrestrials. Von Däniken's book, and much of his subsequent publications such as Gods from Outer Space and The Gold of the Gods, have drawn largely negative receptions from the academic mainstream despite being popular best-sellers.

It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 43rd Academy Awards in 1971. A great deal of our real history has been occluded by the irrational zealotries of past (and maybe not so past) religious and politcal authorities - an immeasurable shame. He lives in Switzerland but is an ever-present figure on the international lecture circuit, traveling more than 100,000 miles a year. except I accidentally opened it on a random page and felt the stupidity was too overwhelming not to comment on.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. Erich von Daniken has spent a lifetime gathering evidence to prove that, before the dawn of recorded history, our ancestors were visited by an alien race. a whole civilisation which is so far away, we cannot comprehend, we dismiss it all as a mythical superstitions. An alien astronaut preserved in a pyramid * Thousand-year-old spaceflight navigation charts * Computer astronomy from Incan and Egyptian ruins * A map of the land beneath the ice cap of Antarctica * A giant spaceport discovered in the Andes Includes remarkable photos that document mankind's first contact with aliens at the dawn of civilization.