ANCIENT ASTRONAUTS
ERICH VON DÄNIKEN
CHARLES LYELL
BOUCHER DE PERTHES
CHARLES DARWIN
JULES VERNE
H.G. WELLS
H.P. LOVECRAFT
GIOVANNI SCHIAPARELLI
L. RON HUBBARD
HUBBARD S SCIENTOLOGY u SPACE OPERA DOCTRINES v CONVOLUTED BELIEF THAT EARTH WAS VISITED/ CONTROLLED/OCCUPIED BY MANY ALIEN SPECIES w GALACTIC CONFEDERACY, MARCAB CONFEDERACY, XENU, COLTICE, ETC.
IMMANUEL VELIKOVSKY
CHARLES HAPGOOD
HENRI LHOTE
TASSILI N'AJJER 16
TASSILI N'AJJER 17
TASSILI N'AJJER
TASSILI N'AJJER
JABBAREN, THE GREAT MARTIAN GOD
MATEST M. AGREST
BALLBEK
BALLBEK
ERICH VON DÄNIKEN
1968 1970 1972 1973 1975 1977 1980 1982 1984 1996
1998 1998 2001 2002 2009 2010
VON DANIKEN S 3 THEMES u INKBLOT v THE AMOROUS ASTRONAUT w OUR ANCESTORS, THE (COMPLETE AND TOTAL) IDIOTS
u INKBLOT (SEEING WHAT YOU WANT)
u INKBLOT (SEEING WHAT YOU WANT) All over the world there are prehistoric pictorial and three dimensional representations - drawings on cave walls, pottery, and sculptures - as well as early written accounts that can be most reasonably interpreted as the drawings, sculptures, or literary descriptions by primitive peoples of actual extraterrestrial visitors to earth.
NAZCA GEOGLYPHS
AUSTRALIAN ROCK ART
INKBLOT?
No real identifiable image in the inkblot picture, the image you recognize comes from your imagination
PAREIDOLIA Psychological phenomena in which stimulus (either visual or auditory) is processed by the brain and perceived as recognizable patterns where none exists.
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v AMOROUS ASTRONAUT
v AMOROUS ASTRONAUT The biological evolution of the human species cannot be understood unless we assume the involvement of a scientifically advanced extraterrestrial civilization.
a few specially selected women would be fertilized by the astronauts. Thus a new race would arise that skipped a stage in natural evolution.
CARL SAGAN
our ancestor would likely have been more successful mating with a petunia that with a creature from outer space.
(YOU EPIC TOOL)
w OUR ANCESTORS, THE IDIOTS
w OUR ANCESTORS, THE IDIOTS Some ancient artifacts and inventions are far too advanced and complex to have resulted from simple, prehistoric human intelligence and ingenuity. These advanced artifacts and great inventions must instead by the direct result of purposeful introduction by extraterrestrial aliens.
PYRAMIDS
STONEHENGE
SAQQARA BIRD
ANTIKYTHERA MECHANISM
u HE IS COMPLETELY IGNORANT OF SIMPLE ARCHAEOLOGICAL FACTS v MANY OF HIS CORE IDEAS ARE BASED IN A STRONG SENSE OF EUROPEAN ETHNOCENTRISM THAT COULD BE EASILY CHARACTERIZED AS BIGOTRY.
u HE IS COMPLETELY IGNORANT OF SIMPLE ARCHAEOLOGICAL FACTS v MANY OF HIS CORE IDEAS ARE BASED IN A STRONG SENSE OF EUROPEAN ETHNOCENTRISM THAT COULD BE EASILY CHARACTERIZED AS BIGOTRY.
u HE IS COMPLETELY IGNORANT OF SIMPLE ARCHAEOLOGICAL FACTS v MANY OF HIS CORE IDEAS ARE BASED IN A STRONG SENSE OF EUROPEAN ETHNOCENTRISM THAT COULD BE EASILY CHARACTERIZED AS BIGOTRY.
MYSTERY PARK
MYSTERY PARK
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ZECHARIA SITCHIN
The 12th Planet (1976) Creatures from another planet (Nibiru, which orbits our Sun every 3,600 years) arrived on Earth 450,000 years ago Genetically engineered Homo sapiens as slaves to work their gold mines by crossing extraterrestrial genes with those of Homo erectus
ROBERT TEMPLE
Sirius Mystery (1975) Dogon people of Mali, west Africa, preserve a tradition of contact with intelligent extraterrestrial beings from the Sirius star-system Work of comparative linguistic and mythological scholarship
u TRACING PEOPLE: BY CULTURE v TRACING PEOPLE: BY BIOLOGY
HYPERDIFFUSION The notion that all major cultural innovations and societies derive from one (usually lost) ancient state, nation, civilization, etc.
ORION CORRELATION THEORY
Robert Bauval Graham Hancock
ORION 72
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WHY 10,500 BC?
EDGAR CAYCE
EDGAR CAYCE u KNOWN AS THE SLEEPING PROPHET v 1923-1945: GAVE 2500 LIFE READINGS TO 1600 OF HIS FOLLOWERS w MORE THAN 700 OF THESE READINGS DESCRIBED PAST ATLANTEAN LIVES
(Q) What was the date of the actual beginning and ending of the construction of the Great Pyramid? (A) Was one hundred years in construction. Begun and completed in the period of Araaraart's time, with Atlanteans Hermes and Ra. (Q) What was the date B.C. of that period? (A) 10,490 to 10,390 before the Prince (Jesus) entered into Egypt.
u WEAPONS BASED ON RADIOACTIVE FORCES v WEAPONS THAT USED RAYS FROM THE SUN THAT TURNED ON CRYSTALS w WEAPONS THAT HARNESSED THE FIRES OF THE INNER PORTION OF THE EARTH x POSSESSED LIGHTER THAN AIR SHIPS y TRAVELED VIA TUBES POWERED BY COMPRESSED AIR AND STEAM
10,500 BC HALL OF RECORDS?
A VIEW FROM ABOVE
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SERIOUSLY SO WHAT
u RACIST/ETHNOCENTRIC v ANTI-ARCHAEOLOGICAL w UNETHICAL/INFLAMMATORY
u RACIST/ETHNOCENTRIC v ANTI-ARCHAEOLOGICAL w UNETHICAL/INFLAMMATORY
Ancient Aliens: The Forbidden Zones Season 8, Episode 10, The History Channel
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