Chariots of the Gods: 50th Anniversary Edition

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I have to admit that it was seriously entertaining though, mostly in imagining who it was who played the practical joke on Däniken each time he sticks his neck out on an imagined 'fact'. Immediately recognized as a work of monumental importance, Chariots of the Gods endures as proof that Earth has been visited repeatedly by advanced aliens from other worlds. A 2004 article in Skeptic magazine [20] states that von Däniken plagiarized many of the book's concepts from The Morning of the Magicians, that this book in turn was heavily influenced by the Cthulhu Mythos, and that the core of the ancient astronaut theory originates in H. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. 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.

The hostility to intellectuals and their attempts to control (in this case I think through hubris rather than malice?Von Däniken suggests that some ancient structures and artifacts appear to reflect more sophisticated technological knowledge than is known or presumed to have existed at the times they were manufactured. I LOVE THAT IF YOU GET NOTHING ELSE FROM THIS BOOK,IT IS VERY THOUGHT PROVOKING AND ALLOWS YOU TO EXAMINE ON YOUR OWN,THE AGE OLD QUESTIONS OF, ARE WE ALONE? 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 not ashamed to say that there was a time when I took Erich von Däniken seriously (now, stop the sniggering, it's not funny! except I accidentally opened it on a random page and felt the stupidity was too overwhelming not to comment on.

It is not fair to bash a work for inacuracies from the viewpoint of the 21st century, Of course there are inacuracies! Erich von Daniken has held countless lectures and discussions at public forums and educational institutions. The series was translated into 12 languages and the first four volumes were translated into English and released by Methuen Children’s Books.

From his books two full-length documentary films have been produced: Chariots of the Gods and Messages of the Gods. Most incredible of all, however, is von Daniken's theory that we ourselves are the descendants of these galactic pioneers--and the archaeological discoveries that prove it. 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.

One must fully experience and understand what the sacred texts that Daniken speaks of and quotes from in his in his books. In 1993, von Däniken produced a 25-part series titled Auf den Spuren der All-Mächtigen (Pathways of the Gods) for German television station, Sat.To sum up the belief the author, in the past, aliens visited pre homo sapien man, bred with the women and came back later to check up on us and breed a bit more. For instance, it is considered the inspiration for the History Channel television series, Ancient Aliens. It involves the hypothesis that the technologies and religions of many ancient civilizations were given to them by ancient astronauts who were welcomed as gods.