Cover of Chariots of the Gods

Believers of ancient astronaut theory like Erich Von Daniken, author of the popular book, “Chariots of the Gods”, and Zecharia Sitchin, author of many books on the subject, both maintain that historical gaps and unexplained archaeological records can’t dismiss the fact that ancient civilization was far advanced in technical culture and aware of strange flying craft above their heads. These ancient people were also aware of the “Gods” or “super-beings” who that flew these air ships, descending from the heavens and sharing wisdom.

Zecharia Sitchin’s book “The 12th Planet” claims the Sumerians (ancient inhabitants of southern Mesopotamia in 4000 BC) believed the “Anunnaki” visited the Earth 400,000 years ago and interfered with human evolution, with the Sumerians in fact to create “royal offspring”. The idea of ancient astronauts have played an incredible part in human mythology and archaeological discoveries. Clearly ancient humans believed in mysterious Gods and highly intelligent beings visiting our world.

Every known culture today like Japan, America, India, Europe, Middle East, and from the past like the Greeks, the Romans, Mesopotamians and ancient Indians; have recorded in their history encountering “Gods” sent to influence or instruct the chosen people with secret knowledge and ideology. Evidence shows that these gods arrived from heaven in “chariots of fire” or “air-ships“, much like what we would call UFO’s today. In Val Camonica, Italy, the ancient inhabitants who lived in the valley from the Neolithic Period had left approximately 300,000 petroglyphs (rock carvings) of daily life dating back to 8,000 BC. Some petroglyphs illustrate strange beings floating with helmet-like gear on and this same type of rock carving can be seen all over the planet. Often legends and myth tell of strangers arriving in awesome ships of light or magical-power and resemble some of the same characteristics associated with close encounter of extraterrestrial beings.

Another interesting unexplainable clue is the Peruvian Nazca lines. From the air the lines (geoglyphs) appear like ancient runways and depicts huge figures that can only be identified in an airplane. Ancient astronaut theorist believe these God-like beings for whatever reason wanted to excel the primitive homo sapiens to a higher level of intelligence. Many ancient cultures postulate this idea that their “gods” created them and manipulated their race. The theorist further proclaim this fact as true, to help explain the sudden rise in human evolution over the past 200,000 years.

The most common belief is that humans are created in God’s image and this concept isn’t strange or new to us. This belief is ancient and connects us with God. But the ancient astronaut theory goes even further and states a much more common fear we face today: genetic manipulation.

Homo sapiens abruptly spring boarded forward on a evolutionary scale is well known in the scientific community. It is a strange fact but true nevertheless. But only today, in modern times, with our complete understanding of genetic engineering that we discover that it is possible to alter, manipulate, and control on a genetic level almost any living thing on the Earth. This could be extremely helpful in medical treatments and also highly unethical to alter nature. As a society we have just begun to fully comprehend how to manipulate DNA (Deoxyribonucleic acid), a thought unheard of a century ago and only in the pages of science fiction novels. But the mere fact that most ancient cultures who encountered direct contact with their holy-deities, already knew about the genetic intervention done to them by these supernatural beings.

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Intro

The fact that the pasts civilizations had many gods remains. But who where these gods, and why did some of them visit earth, in weird flying vehicles? Archaeologists have, besides from that, found wall paintings of weird creatures with space-suits? All these question remains, and there’s many more.

“Even though we not yet know, who these strange intelligent creatures where, and from which far away star they came from, we still claim, that these “strangers” destroyed a part of the then existing humanity and breeded a new human specie, maybe the first representatives of homo sapiens.” – a quote from “Chariots of the gods”

The, now dead, biochemist S. Miller also calculated that on some of the approximately 100 million planets that’s ideal for life like ours, the life and living-terms may have advanced much quicker than ours.

And besides from that, it is possible for many lifeforms to live in places that is highly toxic to us! If there’s really aliens out there, they will probably see our life-terms as deadly. Oxygen is actually poisonous, but we have become immune to it.

That makes you think, right? Well, if you don’t mind, I’ll go on to the fun part.

The fun part

There’s many old cultures who have gods which came down from the sky. In the book “Chariots of the gods”, Erich von Däniken also explains one of his main reasons that he believe that these gods were aliens. His argument concludes that if we took a giant spaceship out in space, on a long journey to a far away star and searched for a planet with the same terms as ours, and that there was population down there that was way beyond our technologies and very primitive, they would probably think us as gods. It’s almost the same if you can find some Indians in Amazonas. If they’ve never seen what we are able to do, they will most likely think us as gods. Think about it! We can fly with a freaking backpack! Try to imagine what we could do when we start that spaceship.

Now, the fun part is that a lot of findings have been made, with stuff that doesn’t fit in at all in the surroundings. Besides from the many tools that goes way back, (Like 40.000 BC, of course the people could just be clever, but it is strange.) there have also been found a partial belt of aluminium from a tomb in China, ornaments of platinum in Peru, wallpaintings with precise locations of the stars position as it was 10000 years ago, radioactive aluminum-isotopes and perhaps the most significant find ever made; the Antikythira device along with other stuff that today we need big factories to make. The Antikythira device shows the locations of the stars and planets all year around, and consists of wheels and cogs.

All these are just some of many findings that have been made, which doesn’t fit in. All these things can really get your imagination on the loose, right?

What I’m trying to point out, is that some civilizations were way ahead of schedule. Some of them even had great medical knowledge. Now, can you explain to me why the oldest libraries in the world is secret? To hide the secret of the “gods from heaven” that came down? Think about it. It’s just as unlikely as the religions we practise everyday. Now, I, myself is an atheist. This has nothing do with the alien conspiracy I’m writing down now, rather more that I find religions impossible to be true. In that matter, I find all these statements far more possible.

On a lot of wallpaintings around the world, weird people and unidentified animals have been made. Some of them were wearing weird helmets and suits. (!)

In the bible there’s spoken about “godsons”, which took the human females as wives. This leads to another conclusion, which goes again and again in other religions

These godsons are later spoken about as giants. Giants are spoken about in almost all religion at some point. Maybe humans are descendants of these creatures?

The bible also holds descriptions of things that easily can be flying vehicles. Smoke around it, fire and a loud noise. In the book that I mainly use as source – Chariots of the gods, Erich von Däniken also states, that he means that Noah’s Ark was electrically charged. He means, that if we build the ark today, we will get an electric power of several 100 volts! The person, Ussa, died in the bible, because he touched the ark. Now, as the Flood is actually a fact (it happened in several civilizations), this ark may have worked to spread the electricity by water.

Now, Noah’s Flood could actually be real. Many cultures states that a giant flood destroyed everything, and they all have one common reason why: The God(s) were punishing the humans.

Thank you. Now, before I end, I would like to state something myself:

I am still unsure whether I believe this or not, as Erich already has admitted that some of the artifacts in the book was man made. Now, his book still touched me in a way, that I had to write this article. Please, I do not want to start a discussion whether the statements in this article is true or false, because: I seriously don’t know. If you read this, and didn’t believe a single dime, you can simply laugh at the people who believed all of it. Whether you hate me now, or you think this is a genius article, I hope you enjoyed my it. And to be honest, 98% of this article is based on Chariots of the Gods. But I also got some other stuff and squeezed in.

And yes, I know that his book wasn’t approved my the most scientists, but I still find his statements interesting.