MungoBrush wrote:Rolluplostinspace wrote:art0hur0moh wrote:
Fascinating!
Come on - don't be sucked in by that pseudo-scientific rubbish
Everyone knows that the pyramids were built by aliens.
It's all explained in Von Daniken's book "Chariots of the gods"
"Chariots of the Gods posits a variety of hypotheses dealing with the possibility of extraterrestrial beings influencing ancient technology. Von Däniken suggests that some ancient structures and artifacts appear to represent higher technological knowledge than is presumed to have existed at the times they were manufactured. Von Däniken maintains that these artifacts were produced either by extraterrestrial visitors or by humans who learned the necessary knowledge from them.[1][3][4]
Such artifacts include the Egyptian pyramids, Stonehenge, and the Moai of Easter Island.[5][6] Further examples include a medieval map known as the Piri Reis Map, which von Däniken describes as showing the Earth as it is seen from space,[7] and the Nazca lines in Peru, which he suggests may have been constructed by humans as crude replicas of previous alien structures, as a way to call the aliens back to Earth.[8][9][10] He uses this same explanation to argue that cart-ruts in Malta may have had extraterrestrial purposes along with similar lines in Australia, Saudi Arabia, and the Aral Sea.[8][11]
The book also suggests that ancient artwork throughout the world could be interpreted as depicting astronauts, air and space vehicles, extraterrestrials, and complex technology. Von Däniken describes elements that he believes are similar in art of unrelated cultures.[1][12][13] Some artwork that von Däniken cites include the ancient Japanese Dogū figurines (which he believed to resemble astronauts in space suits) and 3,000 year-old carvings in the Egyptian New Kingdom Temple that appear to depict helicopter-like machines.[7]
The book goes on to suggest that the origins of religions, including interpretations of the Old Testament of the Bible, are reactions to contact with an alien race. According to von Däniken, humans considered the technology of the aliens to be supernatural and the aliens themselves to be gods. Von Däniken asks if the oral and literal traditions of most religions contain references to visitors from stars and vehicles traveling through air and space. These, he says, should be interpreted as literal descriptions which have changed during the passage of time and become more obscure.[1][2][3][14]
Examples include Ezekiel's vision of the angels and the wheels, which Von Däniken interprets as a description of a spacecraft, the Ark of the Covenant, which is explained as a communication device with an alien race, and the destruction of Sodom by fire and brimstone, which is interpreted as a nuclear explosion.[1][14][15][16]"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chariots_of_the_Gods%3F
I read that storybook when I was 10, nazca lines are celebrated and repaired every year by weavers. and there was a global civilization predating atlantis which as Plato described was the volcano that destroyed the Minoan People of the Mediterranean. but that is long after geneses and the great flood, which is the result of the ice sheet melting over everest. I prefer the Dagon's accounts from north africa, and Sitchens translations of cuneiform text from mesopotamia. incidentally, that is the origin of our 365 days a year, 7 days a week, 24 hour day, 60 minute hour. You would do better reading the references in the niv bible. 1.3 million-year-old records. I stick with geneses, though Ezekiel is cool. there are a few others I like just as much but can't quite recall the name/s?
