Actually they may be the Chariots of the Gods

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History’s Ancient Aliens/Astronaut marathon Friday night 5/22 repeated the two-hour celebratory account of Erich von Däniken’s authorship, presenting the ups-and-downs of his books and thought.

I, like most of you, found his original book (and others) rife with intriguing speculation.

I have most of them and gave a copy, many years ago, of Chariots of the Gods? to a close pal of mine, John Patrick Reid, Professor of English Literature at MSU (now retired).

He offered von Däniken’s ideas from the book and the book itself for his students’ scrutiny; they loved it, he told me.

Professor Reid, a staunch Catholic and absolute realist didn’t accept any of the ideas put forth by von Däniken I’m betting and I’ve come to rue the idea that the gods were, in truth, extraterrestrials, as you well know. [Not John Reid pictured]

I’ve suggested, at this blog and elsewhere that the aliens (ETs) lauded as the presences showing up in ancient texts and in neolithic cave paintings or pictograms were, in reality, gods, as the originators of the texts and “art work” thought.

That von Däniken and his minions/followers insist and believe that extraterrestrials are the source of the texts, legends, and myths or artworks is not overwhelmingly ignorant; it’s become a kind of madness however.

The consensus by the AA blokes and a few women that ETs created much that we find strange or fantastic –the pyramids, Stonehenge, other constructs,, ingeniously contrived rock walls, the Nazca pictorials, societies, et al. – is grand speculation, and not without merit of some kind.

But from whence did the ET crowd – composed of many different species according to AA theorists – come and in large numbers it seems?

The AAs present the idea that the ancient aliens showed up, often, via portals or openings in reality that are present all over the Earth.

This sci-fi-like idea is not provable apparently as no one, in science or out, has come across a portal that opens itself to some place far away in the galaxy or universe. But AAs persist.

Yes, I loved the conjectures and still find then somewhat palatable, even though a few of the AA theorists have that madness mien one finds in delusional persons.

The counter to my view(s) that what the AAs are talking about are actually the gods of the old texts and religious myths is the same side of the coin I’ve flipped about the AA theories: why would “gods” persist in harrying humankind on this lonely, pathetic planet in a galaxy and universe filled, surely, with other species more remarkable or interesting or in need of gods?

Or is Earth one of a kind, supremely unique and attractive to out- siders whether gods or spacemen?

But that outsider attraction is not indicative of advanced thinking or intellectual prowess; it’s more an obsessional madness that bespeaks insanity of a profound kind.

Either way, I still like Erich von Däniken’s speculative chutzpah and I find him to be a cheery, amiable fellow who’s made a mark on society and opened the door to thinking that is no more crazy than some of the religious tenets and scientific profferings we all accept without question; e,g., the Big Bang theory, that time and space are one, and that quantum “realities” abound even when they are absurd.

Nonetheless, astronauts from outer space did not appear on Earth often and specifically in our past and the gods are an anthro- pomorphic projection more than an actuality.

What we have here is a failure to communicate by that which is truly the creator of our ramshackle reality, whatever or whomever it may be.

It’s not a god or an ancient astronaut, merely a figment of our original sin: madness.

RR