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Εισβολή απ' το διάστημα
Με το βιβλίο "Εισβολή απ' το διάστημα" οι εκδόσεις "Νότος" ολοκληρώνουν τη δίτομη παρουσίαση του έργου και των θεωριών του Έριχ φον Νταίνικεν, που εγκαινιάσθηκε με το βιβλίο "Επισκέπτες απ' το σύμπαν".
Με το δίτομο αυτό έργο, που κυκλοφορεί για πρώτη φορά στην Ελλάδα, οι εκδόσεις "Νότος" προσφέρουν στο πλατύ και εκλεκτό αναγνωστικό κοινό του Έριχ φον Νταίνικεν, κάτι που πραγματικά έλειπε:
Μια σφαιρική παρουσίαση του έργου, των θεωριών και των οραματισμών του συγγραφέα, μια έκδοση ενημερωμένη με όλες τις νεώτερες ανακαλύψεις του, από τότε που κυκλοφόρησαν τα πρώτα του βιβλία.
Και τα δύο βιβλία απευθύνονται σε παλιούς και νέους αναγνώστες του Νταίνικεν και επιτρέπουν την καλύτερη γνωριμία με το συγγραφέα και την πληρέστερη κατανόηση του πρόσφατου έργου του, Αποδείξεις: Αυτοψία σε πέντε Ηπείρους",
Την επεξεργαοία του κειμένου του "Εισβολή απ' το διάστημα" επιμελήθηκε ο συνεργάτης του Νταίνικεν Βίλχελμ Ρόγγερσντορφ, που έκανε την επιλογή των σπουδαιότερων θέσεων και θεωριών του συγγραφέα και τις ενημέρωσε με τις νεώτερες ανακαλύψεις ερευνητών και επιστημόνων.
Ο Βίλχελμ Ρόγγερσντορφ έγραψε και τη συναρπαστική βιογραφία του Έριχ φον Νταίνικεν στο τέλος του βιβλίου.
Με το δίτομο αυτό έργο, που κυκλοφορεί για πρώτη φορά στην Ελλάδα, οι εκδόσεις "Νότος" προσφέρουν στο πλατύ και εκλεκτό αναγνωστικό κοινό του Έριχ φον Νταίνικεν, κάτι που πραγματικά έλειπε:
Μια σφαιρική παρουσίαση του έργου, των θεωριών και των οραματισμών του συγγραφέα, μια έκδοση ενημερωμένη με όλες τις νεώτερες ανακαλύψεις του, από τότε που κυκλοφόρησαν τα πρώτα του βιβλία.
Και τα δύο βιβλία απευθύνονται σε παλιούς και νέους αναγνώστες του Νταίνικεν και επιτρέπουν την καλύτερη γνωριμία με το συγγραφέα και την πληρέστερη κατανόηση του πρόσφατου έργου του, Αποδείξεις: Αυτοψία σε πέντε Ηπείρους",
Την επεξεργαοία του κειμένου του "Εισβολή απ' το διάστημα" επιμελήθηκε ο συνεργάτης του Νταίνικεν Βίλχελμ Ρόγγερσντορφ, που έκανε την επιλογή των σπουδαιότερων θέσεων και θεωριών του συγγραφέα και τις ενημέρωσε με τις νεώτερες ανακαλύψεις ερευνητών και επιστημόνων.
Ο Βίλχελμ Ρόγγερσντορφ έγραψε και τη συναρπαστική βιογραφία του Έριχ φον Νταίνικεν στο τέλος του βιβλίου.
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Erich von Däniken
284 books887 followersGreek: Έριχ φον Νταίνικεν
Born on April 14th, 1935, in Zofingen, Switzerland, Erich von Däniken was educated at the College St-Michel in Fribourg, where already as a student he occupied his time with the study of the ancient holy writings. 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.
Von Däniken's books have been translated into 28 languages, and have sold 60 million copies worldwide. From his books two full-length documentary films have been produced: Chariots of the Gods and Messages of the Gods. Of the more than 3,000 lectures which Erich von Däniken has given in 25 countries, over 500 were presented at universities. Fluent in four languages, Erich von Däniken is an avid researcher and a compulsive traveller, averaging 100'000 miles each year to remote spots of the Earth. This enables him to closely examine the phenomena about which he writes.
Von Däniken is a member of the Swiss writers association, the German writers association, and the International PEN-Club.
Born on April 14th, 1935, in Zofingen, Switzerland, Erich von Däniken was educated at the College St-Michel in Fribourg, where already as a student he occupied his time with the study of the ancient holy writings. 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.
Von Däniken's books have been translated into 28 languages, and have sold 60 million copies worldwide. From his books two full-length documentary films have been produced: Chariots of the Gods and Messages of the Gods. Of the more than 3,000 lectures which Erich von Däniken has given in 25 countries, over 500 were presented at universities. Fluent in four languages, Erich von Däniken is an avid researcher and a compulsive traveller, averaging 100'000 miles each year to remote spots of the Earth. This enables him to closely examine the phenomena about which he writes.
Von Däniken is a member of the Swiss writers association, the German writers association, and the International PEN-Club.
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June 9, 2016
کتاب دیگری از نویسنده کتاب«ارابه خدایان» که اون کتابو هنوز نخوندم و اما این کتاب:
«او معتقد است در گذشته های دور،فضانوردانی از سیارات دیگر با فضانوردی بنام «هیروگلیف» به ملاقات اجداد ما آمده اند و چون ماشین آنها دچار مشکلی شده و نتوانسته اند برگردند، و در نتیجه در زمین ماندنی شده اند و به انسان ها تمدن و راه و روش زندگی را آموختند،اما نیاکان ما که بسیار ابتدایی و وحشی بودند،آنان را خدایان فرض کردند و به پرستش آنان پرداختند و هزاران فرقه خرافی با رنگ و بوی مذهبی را بوجود آوردند و اینگونه از درک وجود خدای راستین بدور ماندند و زندگی خود را به کجی ها آلوده کردند.
هیچ کس نمی داند که نیاکان ما ناگهان دارای هوش، و استعداد شدند
« ما از گذشته هایی دور یک جفت تکاملی زندگی کرده ایم، که بدون هیچ مقاومتی مارا به سوی آینده ای که بنظر من چون از قبل تعیین شده برده است.
این گذشته خدایان(فضانوردان)،برای ما ترسیم کرده اند. و هم اکنون در وجود ما فعال است و روزی امروز می گردد. تمام اکتشافاتی که در آینده انجام می گیرند،در قسمتی از حافظه انسان که به یاد نمی آید،قرار داده شده و منتظر است تا دوباره کشف گردد.»
« مدارک:
در ژاپن قبیله ای بنام« آنیوس» در جزیره «هوکایدو» زندگی می کنند که هنوز ادعا دارند که از نسل بی واسطه خدایان(فضانوردان) که از کهکشان به روی زمین آمده اند و این اعتقاد را در افسانه هایشان نیز تکرار می کنند.
۲-نقشی از «آپولو»خدای موسیقی و شعر و پیشگویی و پزشکی یونانیان و رومیان بر روی گلدانی کشیده شده که وی را در حال پرواز بر فراز دریا نشان می دهد.این گلدان در موزه واتیکان نگه داری می شود
و متعلق به ۶۰۰ سال قبل از میلاد است.
۳-وجود سنگ های غول پیکر و کتیبه هایی که در پرو و ژاپن و مصر پیدا شده اند،که بزرگ بودن آنها و نیز نحوه و تکنیک نقاشی و طراحی روی آنها بسیار عجیب است. »
« وجود موجودات نیمه حیوان-نیمه انسان. وجود پری دریایی، انسان های عنکبوتی،انسان های پرنده،هیولاهای چند سر، ردپای قوچ مصری،همه نسانه عای این موجوداتند.
مطلب دیجری که در این کتاب آمده است، عقیده متفاوت یهودیان نسبت به خلقت آدم و حواست که در کتاب «تلمود»یهودیان آمده است که مار در خلقت آنها سهمی داشته است.
افلاطون نیز در «مهمانی»مینویسد که در روزگاران گذشته جنس سومی بنام دو جنسه ها یعنی هم زن و هم مرد وجود داشته است.
طبق گفته دانکیکن٬ در موزه «لوو»٫«بریتانیا» تصاویری برجسته از موجودات نیمه حیوان ، نیمه انسان وجود دارد. در حالی که اساسا جفت گیری بین انسان و حیوان به دلیل اینکه تعداد کروموزم های آنها یکسان نیست،غیر ممکن است. ولی نویسنده این آمیزش انسانهای اولیه با حیوان را خطای انها میداند و آن را گناه اول مینامد که همین گناه اول باعث به تاخیر افتادن تکامل انسان ها شده است.»
« داستان آفرینش انسان: طبق گفته های نویسنده در کتاب پیدایش فصل دوم آن ، زن از مرد آفریده شده است.«خداوند آدم را به خواب عمیقی برد، و یکی از دنده هاش را برداشت و جای آن را با گوشت پر کرد و از آن دنده، زنی سرشت و اورا پیش آدم آورد.»
اما ایرادات کتاب:
۱_ هر چه به آخر کتاب نزدیکتر میشویم،نویسنده هرچه سوال دینی و آفرینشی و درباره خدا و خلقت او دارد را میکند،دریغ از پاسخ روشنی به آنها
۲_ عدم کیفیت مناسب عکسها
۳_عدم آدرس دهی خوب منابع،جایی که در خیلی جاها فقط یک اسم از منبع آورده میشود،بدون هیچ آدرسی.
۴_زیاده گویی مخصوصا در آخر کتاب
۵_در بعضی جاها هم اصلا منبعی داده نمیشود.
در کل کتابی است که باید بدنبال منابع دیگری برای رد یا اثبات گفته های آن رفت.»
«او معتقد است در گذشته های دور،فضانوردانی از سیارات دیگر با فضانوردی بنام «هیروگلیف» به ملاقات اجداد ما آمده اند و چون ماشین آنها دچار مشکلی شده و نتوانسته اند برگردند، و در نتیجه در زمین ماندنی شده اند و به انسان ها تمدن و راه و روش زندگی را آموختند،اما نیاکان ما که بسیار ابتدایی و وحشی بودند،آنان را خدایان فرض کردند و به پرستش آنان پرداختند و هزاران فرقه خرافی با رنگ و بوی مذهبی را بوجود آوردند و اینگونه از درک وجود خدای راستین بدور ماندند و زندگی خود را به کجی ها آلوده کردند.
هیچ کس نمی داند که نیاکان ما ناگهان دارای هوش، و استعداد شدند
« ما از گذشته هایی دور یک جفت تکاملی زندگی کرده ایم، که بدون هیچ مقاومتی مارا به سوی آینده ای که بنظر من چون از قبل تعیین شده برده است.
این گذشته خدایان(فضانوردان)،برای ما ترسیم کرده اند. و هم اکنون در وجود ما فعال است و روزی امروز می گردد. تمام اکتشافاتی که در آینده انجام می گیرند،در قسمتی از حافظه انسان که به یاد نمی آید،قرار داده شده و منتظر است تا دوباره کشف گردد.»
« مدارک:
در ژاپن قبیله ای بنام« آنیوس» در جزیره «هوکایدو» زندگی می کنند که هنوز ادعا دارند که از نسل بی واسطه خدایان(فضانوردان) که از کهکشان به روی زمین آمده اند و این اعتقاد را در افسانه هایشان نیز تکرار می کنند.
۲-نقشی از «آپولو»خدای موسیقی و شعر و پیشگویی و پزشکی یونانیان و رومیان بر روی گلدانی کشیده شده که وی را در حال پرواز بر فراز دریا نشان می دهد.این گلدان در موزه واتیکان نگه داری می شود
و متعلق به ۶۰۰ سال قبل از میلاد است.
۳-وجود سنگ های غول پیکر و کتیبه هایی که در پرو و ژاپن و مصر پیدا شده اند،که بزرگ بودن آنها و نیز نحوه و تکنیک نقاشی و طراحی روی آنها بسیار عجیب است. »
« وجود موجودات نیمه حیوان-نیمه انسان. وجود پری دریایی، انسان های عنکبوتی،انسان های پرنده،هیولاهای چند سر، ردپای قوچ مصری،همه نسانه عای این موجوداتند.
مطلب دیجری که در این کتاب آمده است، عقیده متفاوت یهودیان نسبت به خلقت آدم و حواست که در کتاب «تلمود»یهودیان آمده است که مار در خلقت آنها سهمی داشته است.
افلاطون نیز در «مهمانی»مینویسد که در روزگاران گذشته جنس سومی بنام دو جنسه ها یعنی هم زن و هم مرد وجود داشته است.
طبق گفته دانکیکن٬ در موزه «لوو»٫«بریتانیا» تصاویری برجسته از موجودات نیمه حیوان ، نیمه انسان وجود دارد. در حالی که اساسا جفت گیری بین انسان و حیوان به دلیل اینکه تعداد کروموزم های آنها یکسان نیست،غیر ممکن است. ولی نویسنده این آمیزش انسانهای اولیه با حیوان را خطای انها میداند و آن را گناه اول مینامد که همین گناه اول باعث به تاخیر افتادن تکامل انسان ها شده است.»
« داستان آفرینش انسان: طبق گفته های نویسنده در کتاب پیدایش فصل دوم آن ، زن از مرد آفریده شده است.«خداوند آدم را به خواب عمیقی برد، و یکی از دنده هاش را برداشت و جای آن را با گوشت پر کرد و از آن دنده، زنی سرشت و اورا پیش آدم آورد.»
اما ایرادات کتاب:
۱_ هر چه به آخر کتاب نزدیکتر میشویم،نویسنده هرچه سوال دینی و آفرینشی و درباره خدا و خلقت او دارد را میکند،دریغ از پاسخ روشنی به آنها
۲_ عدم کیفیت مناسب عکسها
۳_عدم آدرس دهی خوب منابع،جایی که در خیلی جاها فقط یک اسم از منبع آورده میشود،بدون هیچ آدرسی.
۴_زیاده گویی مخصوصا در آخر کتاب
۵_در بعضی جاها هم اصلا منبعی داده نمیشود.
در کل کتابی است که باید بدنبال منابع دیگری برای رد یا اثبات گفته های آن رفت.»
June 10, 2018
این کتاب به اسم خدایان آن سوی فضا به فارسی ترجمه شده ، باز هم در این کتاب اریک فون دنیکن مطالب تازه ایی و از عمق کتاب های قدیمی بیرون می کشه و به قولی رمز.گشایی می کنه
از کتاب هایی مثل عهد عتیق ، مهابهاراتا ، ازیان
تو کتاب مهابهاراتا حرف از اسلحه های آتشین زده شده
معمولا هواپیماها یا سفینه ها رو مردمون اون زمان به نام پرنده می خوندن و بمب هایی رو که می انداختن به اسم تخم می نوشتن
پرنده های آتشینی که تخم های مرگبار به زمین می انداختن یا حرف از مارهایی شده که آتش از دهانشون بیرون داده می شد شاید اشاره به لیزر باشه
اسلحه های باریک مانندی که لیزر ازش ساطع می شد
حتی در لوح های گیلگمش درگیری بین گیلگمش و یک موجودی بود که بنا به گفته انوکید نه انسان بود نه خدا !
و هر تیری که بسمتش پرتاپ بشه برمی گشت به طرف خود تیر انداز ، فون دنیکن میگه شاید این موجودی که نه انسان بوده نه خدا ، ربات بوده
من به شخصه خیلی از نظریات این دانشمند بزرگ و قبول دارم ولی هر نظریه ایی که ایشون میده با انتقادهای زیادی روبرو میشه
از کتاب هایی مثل عهد عتیق ، مهابهاراتا ، ازیان
تو کتاب مهابهاراتا حرف از اسلحه های آتشین زده شده
معمولا هواپیماها یا سفینه ها رو مردمون اون زمان به نام پرنده می خوندن و بمب هایی رو که می انداختن به اسم تخم می نوشتن
پرنده های آتشینی که تخم های مرگبار به زمین می انداختن یا حرف از مارهایی شده که آتش از دهانشون بیرون داده می شد شاید اشاره به لیزر باشه
اسلحه های باریک مانندی که لیزر ازش ساطع می شد
حتی در لوح های گیلگمش درگیری بین گیلگمش و یک موجودی بود که بنا به گفته انوکید نه انسان بود نه خدا !
و هر تیری که بسمتش پرتاپ بشه برمی گشت به طرف خود تیر انداز ، فون دنیکن میگه شاید این موجودی که نه انسان بوده نه خدا ، ربات بوده
من به شخصه خیلی از نظریات این دانشمند بزرگ و قبول دارم ولی هر نظریه ایی که ایشون میده با انتقادهای زیادی روبرو میشه
October 3, 2014
The author interprets ancient archaeology and scriptures as describing alien visitations. The problem with highly unacademic interpretation is that one may read anything one wishes into the material. This is exactly what the author does, with no citations. Highly uneducated guesswork and buffoonery.
September 9, 2014
This is a tale of two books. The first half of the book was more speculation on future space travel and von Daniken's opinions on the best vehicle model to travel through space. Some people might enjoy it, but I had a hard time getting through this, as I was hoping for more about the ancient texts, places, and people. That was what I received in the second half, as it dealt with ancient texts, mainly the Mahabharata and the Old Testament. For those people looking for Chariots of the Gods II, this is not it, but if you can get past the first half of sci-fi space travel and futuristic speculation, the second half does hold some very interesting ideas and interpretations drawn from the ancient texts mentioned above as well as a few examples drawn from the ancient Greeks.
December 1, 2020
The romantic idealist in me desires for the ideas proposed in books like these to be true. The rational realist in me knows that this pseudoscience is gobbledygook and borderline dangerous. Mr. von Daniken illustrates exactly why someone with just a little bit of knowledge can be more hostile to reason and logic than someone who is completely ignorant.
Take aways from this book:
Humans have not discovered anything. All of our knowledge, everything we have discovered, and anything we could possibly discover in the future was implanted by aliens millennia ago. We are essentially useless. Of course, one wonders, if such drastic measures must be taken to impart intelligence into animals - how did the aliens come to possess them?
The most logical type of spaceship is the perfect sphere and the aliens must have traveled in them, as here are several ancient depictions of spherical objects...oh, also here are several ancient depictions of "gods" in rocket-shaped spacecraft - which I previously spent some time explaining were absurd in my postulation that the sphere was the perfect and only type of spacecraft aliens would use.
Without aliens telling us otherwise, Humans just non-stop bone animals all over the place. Humans are insatiable machines of bestialities and if the aliens did not impart "morality" upon us, we'd bone away. Oh, also forget that I previously talked about how hybrid animals are infertile thus we can eliminate pests worldwide, but human-animal hybrids create entirely self-perpetuating races, hence all the ancient descriptions of them. Also, completely ignore that such human-animal hybrids are completely lacking from the fossil record. This ancient text states that they existed, so therefore they must have...
All ancient people all over the world completely lacked imagination and creativity. Every single thing described and/or created by an ancient person is a product of them completely attempting to recreate a real object that they themselves witnessed as realistically and proportionally as possible. Every culture describes themselves as descended from the gods or someplace special, thus they must be - 100% accurate. I mean, sure it could just be a way for a culture to identify themselves as special and thus above the other cultures around themselves...much like how the idea of "American Exceptionalism" exists and such...but no, no, that's crazy talk...
Also, even though I spend this entire book describing the "gods" as aliens, and even spent some time describing aspects of the Christian religion as mentioning these aliens as "god" and "gods," I am in no way saying that there is no Christian God or that Christianity is not 100% real...
I mean - the base hypocrisy and outright gaps in logic he not only presents but that he and others who believe him must follow/allow is just mind-blowing.
It's kind of a fun read, if you don't take it seriously and enjoy laughing at the absurdities contained therein.
Take aways from this book:
Humans have not discovered anything. All of our knowledge, everything we have discovered, and anything we could possibly discover in the future was implanted by aliens millennia ago. We are essentially useless. Of course, one wonders, if such drastic measures must be taken to impart intelligence into animals - how did the aliens come to possess them?
The most logical type of spaceship is the perfect sphere and the aliens must have traveled in them, as here are several ancient depictions of spherical objects...oh, also here are several ancient depictions of "gods" in rocket-shaped spacecraft - which I previously spent some time explaining were absurd in my postulation that the sphere was the perfect and only type of spacecraft aliens would use.
Without aliens telling us otherwise, Humans just non-stop bone animals all over the place. Humans are insatiable machines of bestialities and if the aliens did not impart "morality" upon us, we'd bone away. Oh, also forget that I previously talked about how hybrid animals are infertile thus we can eliminate pests worldwide, but human-animal hybrids create entirely self-perpetuating races, hence all the ancient descriptions of them. Also, completely ignore that such human-animal hybrids are completely lacking from the fossil record. This ancient text states that they existed, so therefore they must have...
All ancient people all over the world completely lacked imagination and creativity. Every single thing described and/or created by an ancient person is a product of them completely attempting to recreate a real object that they themselves witnessed as realistically and proportionally as possible. Every culture describes themselves as descended from the gods or someplace special, thus they must be - 100% accurate. I mean, sure it could just be a way for a culture to identify themselves as special and thus above the other cultures around themselves...much like how the idea of "American Exceptionalism" exists and such...but no, no, that's crazy talk...
Also, even though I spend this entire book describing the "gods" as aliens, and even spent some time describing aspects of the Christian religion as mentioning these aliens as "god" and "gods," I am in no way saying that there is no Christian God or that Christianity is not 100% real...
I mean - the base hypocrisy and outright gaps in logic he not only presents but that he and others who believe him must follow/allow is just mind-blowing.
It's kind of a fun read, if you don't take it seriously and enjoy laughing at the absurdities contained therein.
December 4, 2012
Gods from outer space was one of the craziest, eye opening experiences I've ever gotten from reading a novel. Von Daniken gets more crap from people in the scientific world than I've ever seen any author get, in any genre. There have been many allocations against von Daniken stealing peoples' ideas, thoughts, opinions, hypothesis and much more but none the less I loved this book. Whether his work or not, he goes into exact detail talking about every single phenomenon in this world today that scientifically couldn't have happened in that given time era. There were so many examples I had never even heard of that it made me feel uneducated for a moment. A quick example, he highlights Chile and all of the perfectly shaped spheres that are sporadically placed around the country. There are many problems with this happening: A. How did ancient humans in the 1800's sculpt a sphere perfectly that was bigger than them without any scientific technology? B. How in gods name did someone without a car, truck, tractor, crane or any moving vehicle get a ginormous sphere weighing over a ton into the geographical locations that they rest at today? these aren't just random fields they sit in today. There's one of these huge sphere's at the top of a mountain peak, there's one on a small piece of land that is completely isolated by a rapidly flowing river? Magic powers? I don't think humans have those. It's the details like those that scientifically can't happen based on our laws of physics, gravity and everything else so then my question is, how did it happen? This book makes me ask myself that with the turn of every page so all in all, I give it a 4 out of 5 just because of the speculation of information fraud.
June 25, 2015
Reading a von Däniken book is a fascinating insight into the inner workings of conspiracy theories. The author, a convicted fraudster and embezzler with no scientific background whatsoever, twists facts and straight up makes stuff up to fit everything into his weird and ever-changing theory.
I very much doubt that he would have had the success he did if Wikipedia had been around in the early days of his writing career, because today many of his claims are so easily refutable that is almost comical to read his books.
I very much doubt that he would have had the success he did if Wikipedia had been around in the early days of his writing career, because today many of his claims are so easily refutable that is almost comical to read his books.
August 7, 2012
This book series was written in the 1970s and relooks at the world through ancient eyes and pretty much talks about alien visits and how that would look. I'm a big fan.
March 25, 2018
I have been fascinated by such topics for a long time. Unexpectedly, this book brings plenty of amazing new things for me, from archaeological finds to incredible passages from ancient texts.
"But who has the courage to take the mysterious as reality?"
"But who has the courage to take the mysterious as reality?"
May 26, 2016
3.5 Stars
This is a following book to Chariots of the Gods?: Was God an Astronaut? by the same author. And he sure as hell asks some important questions regarding the visitations of 'gods' in our pre-history.
This second book, further provides documentations, speculations and explanations for us to not rule out the question of visitations by aliens pre-historically. This being unproven, the author demands further research be made archaeologically. However, as I see it, this being away from the mainstream and the author's involvement in the religious books, seeing and interpreting them literally as nothing but first-hand writings of what we would call as the fantastic, would bound to call on huge controversies if led in this day. That is probably the reason why no research is being conducted on these ideas, (although I do lack the knowledge if any research was conducted on this subject after the writing of this book), and modern scientific investigation has pushed this field into the area of pseudo-sciences.
Some of the topics dealt with are eye-openers, and may seem crazy to the narrow-minded: no wonder the relatively lower rating of this book !
A question of dilemma comes into my mind, when some dots are connected: Reading a book on a way of living (religious), and at some point reading the contradictory thoughts on what if that same religion was brought down upon this planet by aliens (god or God, whichever be applied, but not Spinoza's God) teaching us the rules of hygiene, medicine and technology.
Personally, I feel this is an important book to be read (better if read after its preceding book), not leaving any probability behind of what might have actually been, and that all the peoples of this planet may now be falsely following something that is not.
This is a following book to Chariots of the Gods?: Was God an Astronaut? by the same author. And he sure as hell asks some important questions regarding the visitations of 'gods' in our pre-history.
This second book, further provides documentations, speculations and explanations for us to not rule out the question of visitations by aliens pre-historically. This being unproven, the author demands further research be made archaeologically. However, as I see it, this being away from the mainstream and the author's involvement in the religious books, seeing and interpreting them literally as nothing but first-hand writings of what we would call as the fantastic, would bound to call on huge controversies if led in this day. That is probably the reason why no research is being conducted on these ideas, (although I do lack the knowledge if any research was conducted on this subject after the writing of this book), and modern scientific investigation has pushed this field into the area of pseudo-sciences.
Some of the topics dealt with are eye-openers, and may seem crazy to the narrow-minded: no wonder the relatively lower rating of this book !
A question of dilemma comes into my mind, when some dots are connected: Reading a book on a way of living (religious), and at some point reading the contradictory thoughts on what if that same religion was brought down upon this planet by aliens (god or God, whichever be applied, but not Spinoza's God) teaching us the rules of hygiene, medicine and technology.
Personally, I feel this is an important book to be read (better if read after its preceding book), not leaving any probability behind of what might have actually been, and that all the peoples of this planet may now be falsely following something that is not.
November 23, 2007
Ah, another Erik von DÄniken book. I'm still reading it, but it's basically the same as chariots of the gods. Dense, thick, sometimes hard to understand, but an experienced reader should be able to make their way through it, and understand what hes trying to say. Will update when done.
February 27, 2023
Cool as shit but i stopped at arround half because i knew everything from ancient aliens
January 4, 2016
Another crackpot theorist I used to love in my teens. Our ancestors are extra terrestrials, and the dim race memories are the basis for the Gods of various mythologies.
I remember that he mentioned that India had flight in the Puranic Era based on the stories of the Pushpaka Vimana from Ramayana; also some treatise written by an ancient sage.
I remember that he mentioned that India had flight in the Puranic Era based on the stories of the Pushpaka Vimana from Ramayana; also some treatise written by an ancient sage.
November 12, 2020
A great follow up read to Chariot of the Gods. The more of Erich's work I read, the more I want to read. I believe he touches on many truths which currently are unexplainable, but given that this book was written 50 years ago, i would say that the answers are known, but just not to us.
November 8, 2016
I was hoping for endearingly barmy, but instead just turgid and repetetive.
August 21, 2023
VON DÄNIKEN’S SECOND BOOK, WRITTEN FROM PRISON
Erich von Däniken wrote in the Introduction to this 1969 book, “I am convinced that our longing for the stars is kept alive by a legacy bequeathed by the ‘gods.’ Memories of our terrestrial ancestors and memories of our cosmic teachers are both at work in us. Man’s acquisition of intelligence does not seem to me to have been the product of a long and tedious development. The process took place too suddenly for that. I think that our ancestors received their intelligence from the ‘gods,’ who must have possessed knowledge that made the whole process a rapid one. Obviously we shall not find proofs of my assertion on the earth if we stick to the existing methods of archaeological investigation… This book is an attempt to provide new arguments for my theory… For too long we have failed to investigate our remote past with daring and imagination. It will not be possible to produce the last conclusive proofs in one generation… Perhaps questions of the kind that are also asked by Louis Pauwels, Jacques Bergier, and Robert Charroux will be answered in my lifetime.”
Significantly, he adds, “I should like to thank everyone who helped me write this new book. I wrote it during my imprisonment on remand in the Remand prison of the canton of Granbünden in Chur.” [He served time for several counts of fraud or embezzlement.]
He wrote in the first chapter, “Professor Charles Hapgood told me … that Albert Einstein, whom he had known personally, was in complete sympathy with the idea of a prehistoric visit by extraterrestrial intelligences… Professor Josef Samuilovich Shklovsky… assured me that we was convinced that the earth had received a visit from the cosmos at last once… Carl Sagan… does not exclude the possibility that ‘the earth has been visited by representatives of an extraterrestrial civilization at least once in the course of its history.’ And Professor Hermann Oberth… told me in these words: ‘I consider a visit to our planet by an extraterrestrial race to be extremely probable.” (Pg. 2-3)
He asserts, “I doubt if we shall be able to supply the missing link without investigating the theory of visits to our planet by extraterrestrial intelligences and checking whether these beings should not be held responsible for an artificial transformation of hereditary factors, for a manipulation of the genetic code and for the sudden appearance of intelligence.” (Pg. 16)
He suggests, “Between our present knowledge and the wealth of these memories there stands a barrier which only a few men manage to break through at fortunate moments…. I also believe that even behind the trendy behavior of the psychedelic pioneers, a primitive instinct is at work that drives them to seek access to the unconscious buy using drugs and exacerbating music.” (Pg. 50-51)
He predicts, “I suggest that unknown intelligences were able to do all these things in the dim mists of time. I suggest that the ‘gods’ left this knowledge behind when they visited earth. I suggest that discoveries, which still lie ahead of us in the board field of research, have been stored in the human memory since time immemorial and are only waiting to be summoned up again.” (Pg. 86)
He returns to the Nazca lines in Peru: “who made the pictures, and why did they make them so big that one can only get an overall impression of them from a great height, for example, from an aircraft? Did they already possess a highly developed system of surveying by means of which they transferred their small-scale plans to a gigantic scale with absolute accuracy?” (Pg. 104)
He elaborates about the statues on Easter Island: “The stone-tool theory may be valid for some of the smaller statues which originated in an age nearer our own, but in my conviction and the opinion of many visitors to Easter Island it can in no case be accepted for the excavation of the raw material for the colossal statues from the volcanic stone… So far no one has been able to produce even a tolerably convincing reason why a few hundred Polynesians who found it hard enough to win their scanty nourishment took such pains to carve some six hundred statues. No one has been able to give a clue as to the highly advanced techniques with which the stone blocks were freed from the hard lava. So far no one has been able to explain why the Polynesians---if they were the sculptors---endowed the faces with shapes and expressions for which there was no model on the island: long, straight noses, narrow-lipped mouths, sunken eyes and low foreheads. No one knows who the sculptures are supposed to represent. Not even Thor Heyerdahl!” (Pg. 117)
He argues, “The Old Testament texts are steps in the construction of a religion; they do not reflect an accurate historical unfolding of time. Comparisons with the literature of other ancient, and older peoples lead to the conclusion that the events chronicles in the Pentateuch could not have taken place in the period assigned to them by theologists. The Old Testament … contains a wealth of unsolved puzzles, which religious readers have been striving to solve for centuries, but it also contains too many facts that are irreconcilable with the concept of an almighty, good and omniscient god. The central problem is: How can an omniscient god make mistakes? Can we really call a god almighty who, after creating man, says that his work was good, but a little later is full of repentance for what he had done?... The same God who had created man decided to destroy His work. And He did it often. Why? The idea of original sin also seems inconsistent to me… God punished not only Adam and Eve for the Fall, but all their innocent descendants as well. Yet their children’s children had no part in the Fall… Nor do I understand why almighty God later allowed His own innocent Son to be put to death in a gruesome way in order to forgive the whole world for its sins. When I ask such questions, I am not trying to denigrate or doubt the great religions. I only point out these contradictions because I am convinced that the great God of the universe has absolutely nothing in common with the ‘gods’ who haunt legends, myths, and religions, and who effected the mutation from animal to man.” (Pg. 155-156)
He asks, “From time immemorial all religions have promised that we would find the ‘gods’ if only we looked for them, and that once we have found them, we would go to heaven and eternal peace would reign on earth. Why should we not take this promise literally? Perhaps we are making a mistake when we interpret the concept ‘heaven’ as other-worldly, never-ending state of bliss. Perhaps ‘heaven’ simply meant the ‘universe[? Surely we ought to seek the ‘gods,’ and the messages they left, here on earth, instead of hoping for them somewhere in an interminable eternity? May not these ‘gods,’ whom mankind has longed for and prayed to in all ages, have left behind technical instructions which would enable us to meet them in the universe?” (Pg. 165)
He concludes, “I think it is our duty to examine both apparently fantastic interpretations of traditional old texts and factual stone evidence with the greatest scientific care. Once we have absorbed all the messages left behind by the ‘gods,’ flesh and blood encounters with astronauts form distant stars will lose their terror because we shall know that these beings have something in common with us: They, too, experienced the day of their creation at some point intime.” (Pg. 166)
Probably owing to von Däniken’s imprisonment, this book contains little ‘new’ material, rather than elaborations on material from his first book.
Erich von Däniken wrote in the Introduction to this 1969 book, “I am convinced that our longing for the stars is kept alive by a legacy bequeathed by the ‘gods.’ Memories of our terrestrial ancestors and memories of our cosmic teachers are both at work in us. Man’s acquisition of intelligence does not seem to me to have been the product of a long and tedious development. The process took place too suddenly for that. I think that our ancestors received their intelligence from the ‘gods,’ who must have possessed knowledge that made the whole process a rapid one. Obviously we shall not find proofs of my assertion on the earth if we stick to the existing methods of archaeological investigation… This book is an attempt to provide new arguments for my theory… For too long we have failed to investigate our remote past with daring and imagination. It will not be possible to produce the last conclusive proofs in one generation… Perhaps questions of the kind that are also asked by Louis Pauwels, Jacques Bergier, and Robert Charroux will be answered in my lifetime.”
Significantly, he adds, “I should like to thank everyone who helped me write this new book. I wrote it during my imprisonment on remand in the Remand prison of the canton of Granbünden in Chur.” [He served time for several counts of fraud or embezzlement.]
He wrote in the first chapter, “Professor Charles Hapgood told me … that Albert Einstein, whom he had known personally, was in complete sympathy with the idea of a prehistoric visit by extraterrestrial intelligences… Professor Josef Samuilovich Shklovsky… assured me that we was convinced that the earth had received a visit from the cosmos at last once… Carl Sagan… does not exclude the possibility that ‘the earth has been visited by representatives of an extraterrestrial civilization at least once in the course of its history.’ And Professor Hermann Oberth… told me in these words: ‘I consider a visit to our planet by an extraterrestrial race to be extremely probable.” (Pg. 2-3)
He asserts, “I doubt if we shall be able to supply the missing link without investigating the theory of visits to our planet by extraterrestrial intelligences and checking whether these beings should not be held responsible for an artificial transformation of hereditary factors, for a manipulation of the genetic code and for the sudden appearance of intelligence.” (Pg. 16)
He suggests, “Between our present knowledge and the wealth of these memories there stands a barrier which only a few men manage to break through at fortunate moments…. I also believe that even behind the trendy behavior of the psychedelic pioneers, a primitive instinct is at work that drives them to seek access to the unconscious buy using drugs and exacerbating music.” (Pg. 50-51)
He predicts, “I suggest that unknown intelligences were able to do all these things in the dim mists of time. I suggest that the ‘gods’ left this knowledge behind when they visited earth. I suggest that discoveries, which still lie ahead of us in the board field of research, have been stored in the human memory since time immemorial and are only waiting to be summoned up again.” (Pg. 86)
He returns to the Nazca lines in Peru: “who made the pictures, and why did they make them so big that one can only get an overall impression of them from a great height, for example, from an aircraft? Did they already possess a highly developed system of surveying by means of which they transferred their small-scale plans to a gigantic scale with absolute accuracy?” (Pg. 104)
He elaborates about the statues on Easter Island: “The stone-tool theory may be valid for some of the smaller statues which originated in an age nearer our own, but in my conviction and the opinion of many visitors to Easter Island it can in no case be accepted for the excavation of the raw material for the colossal statues from the volcanic stone… So far no one has been able to produce even a tolerably convincing reason why a few hundred Polynesians who found it hard enough to win their scanty nourishment took such pains to carve some six hundred statues. No one has been able to give a clue as to the highly advanced techniques with which the stone blocks were freed from the hard lava. So far no one has been able to explain why the Polynesians---if they were the sculptors---endowed the faces with shapes and expressions for which there was no model on the island: long, straight noses, narrow-lipped mouths, sunken eyes and low foreheads. No one knows who the sculptures are supposed to represent. Not even Thor Heyerdahl!” (Pg. 117)
He argues, “The Old Testament texts are steps in the construction of a religion; they do not reflect an accurate historical unfolding of time. Comparisons with the literature of other ancient, and older peoples lead to the conclusion that the events chronicles in the Pentateuch could not have taken place in the period assigned to them by theologists. The Old Testament … contains a wealth of unsolved puzzles, which religious readers have been striving to solve for centuries, but it also contains too many facts that are irreconcilable with the concept of an almighty, good and omniscient god. The central problem is: How can an omniscient god make mistakes? Can we really call a god almighty who, after creating man, says that his work was good, but a little later is full of repentance for what he had done?... The same God who had created man decided to destroy His work. And He did it often. Why? The idea of original sin also seems inconsistent to me… God punished not only Adam and Eve for the Fall, but all their innocent descendants as well. Yet their children’s children had no part in the Fall… Nor do I understand why almighty God later allowed His own innocent Son to be put to death in a gruesome way in order to forgive the whole world for its sins. When I ask such questions, I am not trying to denigrate or doubt the great religions. I only point out these contradictions because I am convinced that the great God of the universe has absolutely nothing in common with the ‘gods’ who haunt legends, myths, and religions, and who effected the mutation from animal to man.” (Pg. 155-156)
He asks, “From time immemorial all religions have promised that we would find the ‘gods’ if only we looked for them, and that once we have found them, we would go to heaven and eternal peace would reign on earth. Why should we not take this promise literally? Perhaps we are making a mistake when we interpret the concept ‘heaven’ as other-worldly, never-ending state of bliss. Perhaps ‘heaven’ simply meant the ‘universe[? Surely we ought to seek the ‘gods,’ and the messages they left, here on earth, instead of hoping for them somewhere in an interminable eternity? May not these ‘gods,’ whom mankind has longed for and prayed to in all ages, have left behind technical instructions which would enable us to meet them in the universe?” (Pg. 165)
He concludes, “I think it is our duty to examine both apparently fantastic interpretations of traditional old texts and factual stone evidence with the greatest scientific care. Once we have absorbed all the messages left behind by the ‘gods,’ flesh and blood encounters with astronauts form distant stars will lose their terror because we shall know that these beings have something in common with us: They, too, experienced the day of their creation at some point intime.” (Pg. 166)
Probably owing to von Däniken’s imprisonment, this book contains little ‘new’ material, rather than elaborations on material from his first book.
March 14, 2023
While I found Chariot of the God's? to be at least mildly entertaining, this follow-up was a bore to get through. After a decade of entertaining ancient astronaut theories as a sort of amusing thought experiment that might be worth studying as a cultural phenomena (the belief in them, not the theories themselves), I just get annoyed. The ideas presented are interesting "what ifs," sure, but the rhetoric is terrible precisely because these folks must know that they can't be proven or disproven.
Von Däniken's concluding chapter in this book asks a lot of questions that try to place the burden of proof for these theories on the scientific community as though this move is the mic drop he needs to prove his theories true. This is where I, as an academic in the field of comparative studies, folklore, religion, etc, get annoyed. I would LOVE to prove or disprove your theories, sir, but how will we fund the expeditions to gather your evidence? What will you do when/if it proves you false? I've seen almost every episode of Ancient Aliens and I know some of the scholars you've invited to the show, so I can infer you are aware of the limitations placed on budgets and public trust in good scholarship.
The problem with this book (which is outdated, but still very much the same old narrative as Ancient Aliens today) is that for all the self teaching von Däniken has done, he hasn't understood the scientific method ever. He doesn't understand rhetoric, how to support claims, how to avoid cherry picking, etc. All he's done is drawn parallels that he thinks are interesting. That's fine. We all do it. It's that kind of thinking that brought me into the field myself, and I stay in it because I still like pseudo-intellectualizing and finding new things to test out.
The difference is that you haven't learned to accept criticism of your methodology, you've sown doubt into the minds of people who could independently fund expeditions, and you encourage bad faith against the very scholars you need to help legitimize your claims and let that mic drop echo across the floor.
Honest to God, I would love to have a chat with von Däniken because I sincerely appreciate and feel inspired by his enthusiasm for ancient history and cultural studies. We'd probably get along swimmingly. I can't, however, recommend this book. It's bad and insulting to scholars who are as dedicated to understanding the past as von Däniken is and who would love to put these theories to rest.
Von Däniken's concluding chapter in this book asks a lot of questions that try to place the burden of proof for these theories on the scientific community as though this move is the mic drop he needs to prove his theories true. This is where I, as an academic in the field of comparative studies, folklore, religion, etc, get annoyed. I would LOVE to prove or disprove your theories, sir, but how will we fund the expeditions to gather your evidence? What will you do when/if it proves you false? I've seen almost every episode of Ancient Aliens and I know some of the scholars you've invited to the show, so I can infer you are aware of the limitations placed on budgets and public trust in good scholarship.
The problem with this book (which is outdated, but still very much the same old narrative as Ancient Aliens today) is that for all the self teaching von Däniken has done, he hasn't understood the scientific method ever. He doesn't understand rhetoric, how to support claims, how to avoid cherry picking, etc. All he's done is drawn parallels that he thinks are interesting. That's fine. We all do it. It's that kind of thinking that brought me into the field myself, and I stay in it because I still like pseudo-intellectualizing and finding new things to test out.
The difference is that you haven't learned to accept criticism of your methodology, you've sown doubt into the minds of people who could independently fund expeditions, and you encourage bad faith against the very scholars you need to help legitimize your claims and let that mic drop echo across the floor.
Honest to God, I would love to have a chat with von Däniken because I sincerely appreciate and feel inspired by his enthusiasm for ancient history and cultural studies. We'd probably get along swimmingly. I can't, however, recommend this book. It's bad and insulting to scholars who are as dedicated to understanding the past as von Däniken is and who would love to put these theories to rest.
July 29, 2024
Erich Von Daniken throws up more conundrums regarding ancient megalithic sites around the world and how they would have presented many problems for our ancient ancestors who were said to have built them. The first half of the book however is focused on future space travel and how it was most likely used within our remote past, Von Daniken points to Hindu epics such as the Mahabharata to validate his thesis.As an ancient astronaut theorist myself I am of course in agreement with Von Daniken and I enjoyed this companion to chariots I just didn't enjoy it as much as chariots, it just felt a tad clunky compared to his first book, but then this had a lot to live up to following chariots of the gods. If you are curious about ancient visitors from the stars within antiquity then go and pick this up for nostalgia purposes if nothing else.
February 9, 2025
Erich Von Daniken throws up more conundrums regarding ancient megalithic sites around the world and how they would have presented many problems for our ancient ancestors who were said to have built them. The first half of the book however is focused on future space travel and how it was most likely used within our remote past, Von Daniken points to Hindu epics such as the Mahabharata to validate his thesis.As an ancient astronaut theorist myself I am of course in agreement with Von Daniken and I enjoyed this companion to chariots I just didn't enjoy it as much as chariots, it just felt a tad clunky compared to his first book, but then this had a lot to live up to following chariots of the gods. If you are curious about ancient visitors from the stars within antiquity then go and pick this up for nostalgia purposes if nothing else.
January 11, 2022
God-awful "logic" from outer space, because it sure as heck isn't on solid ground.
I will give this book credit for exactly one thing: it helped me realize the "form" of the argument that von Daniken and other cranks try to make.
First they posit a wild idea at odds with the "establishment narrative," and a chain of implications connecting it to consensus reality. "High tech spacefaring alien civilizations" is the wild idea here, and the final step in the chain is "... and high-tech alien civs, if they visited Earth during human history, would have influenced that history in many ways."
Having laid that groundwork, they claim that the available data is much, much more probable assuming their wild idea is true, than it would be assuming the "establishment narrative" is true. There are two ways to do this, but since one of those ways seems more ad hoc ("... well my aliens have super rock cutters and levitation rays!") they usually go with the other: cast as much doubt on the "establishment narrative" as possible. Hype the anomalies! Sneer at the less-than-100% confidences!
That done, they conclude that since the observations are so much more likely given their idea, we should go with their idea: "high tech alien civs did in fact visit the Earth in prehistory!" QED!
Except that's not at all how sound reasoning works. I'd say more, but von Daniken can't actually be bothered to explore his own ideas. Sure, he says the moai statues of Easter Island must have been carved using super high tech alien rock cutters... but why? How do they work? Von Daniken's implied answer, "who cares, it's more exciting than the Establishment story!"
And that's basically it: the book is a pathetic, arrogant, anti-intellectual wishcasting exercise with a thin veneer of "just asking the Brave Questions." Avoid this like any ancient astronauts avoided Earth.
I will give this book credit for exactly one thing: it helped me realize the "form" of the argument that von Daniken and other cranks try to make.
First they posit a wild idea at odds with the "establishment narrative," and a chain of implications connecting it to consensus reality. "High tech spacefaring alien civilizations" is the wild idea here, and the final step in the chain is "... and high-tech alien civs, if they visited Earth during human history, would have influenced that history in many ways."
Having laid that groundwork, they claim that the available data is much, much more probable assuming their wild idea is true, than it would be assuming the "establishment narrative" is true. There are two ways to do this, but since one of those ways seems more ad hoc ("... well my aliens have super rock cutters and levitation rays!") they usually go with the other: cast as much doubt on the "establishment narrative" as possible. Hype the anomalies! Sneer at the less-than-100% confidences!
That done, they conclude that since the observations are so much more likely given their idea, we should go with their idea: "high tech alien civs did in fact visit the Earth in prehistory!" QED!
Except that's not at all how sound reasoning works. I'd say more, but von Daniken can't actually be bothered to explore his own ideas. Sure, he says the moai statues of Easter Island must have been carved using super high tech alien rock cutters... but why? How do they work? Von Daniken's implied answer, "who cares, it's more exciting than the Establishment story!"
And that's basically it: the book is a pathetic, arrogant, anti-intellectual wishcasting exercise with a thin veneer of "just asking the Brave Questions." Avoid this like any ancient astronauts avoided Earth.
September 24, 2021
As an avid listener of coast to coast and a big fan of all such types of interesting topics, it came naturally to me to be pulled in by the works of Mr danikan. This is the second book I've read of his. The first being chariots of the gods which I really enjoyed. The first four chapters of this book though did not really interest me or pull me in I only really got into it later on in the book. This book is quite old and outdated by about 50 years. I can imagine the subjects he broaches here were all quite controversial and taboo at the time of this books release. He was a pioneer of his time and still is to this day. I enjoy his theories and his work
August 8, 2020
Das Buch gibt viele Beispiele für Dinge, welche man einfach mal in einer ruhigen Minute nachdenken kann. Was bedeuten die Gesichter auf den Osterinseln und wer und wie hat diese erbaut?
Der Autor liefert allerdings zu den Fakten immer seine Interpretation und stellt diese als direkte und einzige Wahrheit hin. Das kotzt mich direkt an!
Zudem kritisiert dieser die C-14 Datierungsmethode(Radiokarbonmethode) zu Beginn des Buches und benutzt ausgerechnet diese Methode als Beleg für eine seiner Thesen.
Der Autor liefert allerdings zu den Fakten immer seine Interpretation und stellt diese als direkte und einzige Wahrheit hin. Das kotzt mich direkt an!
Zudem kritisiert dieser die C-14 Datierungsmethode(Radiokarbonmethode) zu Beginn des Buches und benutzt ausgerechnet diese Methode als Beleg für eine seiner Thesen.
April 14, 2019
Hard book to read, it's jumps around a lot and it took me a few times to reread passages in order to understand them. It didn't keep me engrossed like Chariots did and didn't serve as a follow up but simply more ideas. Its worth a read if you are interested in Danikens work or like the ancient astronaught theory
September 24, 2021
Kolejna książka Szwajcara przeczytana. Zawsze mnie fascynowało, jak to możliwe, ze już niemal 50 lat temu ojciec paleoastronautyki mnie bał się głosić śmiałych hipotez. Dzisiaj w 2021 roku, jego hipotezy są dużo bardziej aktualne niż kiedykolwiek przedtem.
Książka przeczytana metodą szybkiego czytania Spritz w tempie 440 słów na minutę. POLECAM!
Książka przeczytana metodą szybkiego czytania Spritz w tempie 440 słów na minutę. POLECAM!
August 20, 2017
Damn good book - not going to do any spoilers - just a damn good nonfiction read that should be part of every "weird" person's library. Since I fulfill that classification, my copy is not for circulation. A damn good read!
January 6, 2021
More evidence for ancient aliens, or "gods" and their role in many culture's creation myths. My favorite quote was at the end of the book. Von Daniken wrote: "Do the "gods" hope or expect that once earthly beings get to know space, they will lose the national consciousness they have only assumed and instead consider the infinite cosmos as the universal mother land? From the perspective of the universe all men will be simply inhabitants of the third planet, a minor sun on the edge of the galaxy--and not Russians or Chinese, Americans or Europeans, black or white." A fitting book to start off the new year with.
April 14, 2024
Yes, I've just added this to my online library, no, I haven't had a mental breakdown and, no, I do not need a crisis intervention. I read this as a pre-teen and only just realised I hadn't (for the sake of completeness) recorded it. No ancient astronauts need apply 👨🚀🛸🗿🏛️
August 4, 2017
The vast majority of the points raised in this book can be found in Chariots of the Gods as well, which was a much better read. That being said, this book reads quite quickly and is enjoyable.
October 6, 2017
One of Daniken's books about possible visits from extra terrestrials.
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