Chariots of the Gods: 50th Anniversary Edition

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Von Danikens ideas have been the inspiration for a wide range of television series, including the History Channel’s hit Ancient Aliens.

von Daniken's space-faring Gods and rewriting of human history have had a profound influence on both alternative archaeology and popular culture. After some time, even the most gullible reader will feel that this is (to borrow from Wodehouse) "pure apple-sauce". 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? 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.But now that the ancient alien theory has been explored more fully - and made into an entire television series - this book falls flat. the narrators of the Thousand and One nights drew on their own imagination, and on a rich heritage of folk tales. As with all of the other works in this genre, there is a strong undercurrent of ethnocentrism and racism implicit in these arguments. 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 .

It's amazing that with arguments to poorly presented that this book seemed to have such an affect on American culture in the early 70's. Unsolved Mysteries of the Past (German: Erinnerungen an die Zukunft: Ungelöste Rätsel der Vergangenheit; in English, Memories of the Future: Unsolved Mysteries of the Past) is a book written in 1968 by Erich von Däniken and translated from the original German by Michael Heron. Ultimately this book is worth reading so that you can observe all the twists, turns and sidesteps the author goes through to try and convince you.HAVING BEEN TO EL CASTILLO AT CHICHEN ITZA,MEXICO MYSELF, IT IS VERY OBVIOUS TO ME THAT THESE ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS SUCH AS THE MAYANS POSSESSED TECHNOLOGIES FAR ADVANCED OF WHAT WE BELIEVE THEM TO BE CAPABLE OF. Dit boek was zo populair, en ik had er al zoveel over gehoord, dat ik vond dat ik het moest gelezen hebben. It shows the sheer absence of clear, scientific thought among the masses and the adherence to half-truths, myths and conspiracy theories.

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. 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.

I think for us to stand here on one infinitely insignificant world among countless billions (or trillions) in the "known" universe and state "we are it and we are the best" is ridiculous beyond my ability to put into words. If you're interested in this topic, you can skip this book and read up on it in more recent books and by viewing the Ancient Aliens series on the H2 and/or Netflix. What I do know is that any civilization advanced enough to visit us would be so far beyond us at this point that it is perfectly feasible that they would be able to do so undetected (as we already have stealth technologies that evade our own detection to a large degree and we are centuries, if not millenia from deep space travel).