The gods never left us by Erich von Däniken

Author:Erich von Däniken [Däniken, Erich von]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Tags: Divulgación, Otros
Publisher: ePubLibre
Published: 2017-11-19T16:00:00+00:00

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Who Would Have the Sorry Courage…

“Every myth, every legend reflects, as shown by science, a state or a real event… And so to our great surprise, we find knowledge embedded in myths, albeit enciphered but not to be doubted, which early humans could not have acquired…”[1]

This quote comes from the ethnologist Karl Kohlenberg, who as long as 50 years ago was conducting comparative research into myths and reached the baffling conclusion: something is not quite right here. Why do Stone Age cultures that lived thousands of kilometers distant from one another and had no contact report related stories? Where do the conspicuous common elements originate? The very influential French classicist and ancient historian Professor Pierre Grimal (1912–1996) defined myth as “chronologically disordered history”.[2] At their core, the original events had been preserved but frequently not in the correct causal context and, furthermore, in a wrong time.

Somewhere out there in indefinable space, “chaos” ruled. The world had not yet been created. Many of the oldest traditions start with this idea. Our ancestors could not imagine the origin of the universe. Are we better informed today? Someone created order in this chaos. Who? Where does this someone come from? The Greek poet Homer has Gaia arise and she in turn gives birth to Uranus—the starry heavens.[3] The Old Testament places chaos at the beginning. Then God enters stage right and creates order. He creates light, then water, land, vegetation, then the creatures of the sea, birds, and finally “cattle, and creeping things, and beasts of the earth” (Genesis 1:24), and on the sixth day, as the crowning glory of Creation, the human being.

How, actually, did the scribes of thousands of years ago know about the obligatory course of biological evolution? Human beings were not simply placed there as finished creatures. Before them there had to live other creatures, before them in turn sea creatures. That was only possible if land and water were first separated and an energy source—the sun—shone in the sky. The sequence is correct.

In Greek mythology, things are more confusing. The starry heavens—Uranus—produce the 12 Titans, male and female giants with immense strength. Their names are Oceanus, Coeus, Crius, Hyperion, Iapetus, Cronus, Theia, Rhea, Themis, Mnemosyne, Phoebe, und Tethys. They begat children and those in turn children. Thus were created Helios, the Sun god, and Selene, the Moon goddess. Cronus begat Poseidon and Zeus. There was war in the universe and on Earth. Zeus fought against the dragon-like monster Typhon. Zeus finished the beast off with a lightning bolt. How else?

This Zeus (Latin for “Jupiter”) is described by Homer as the father of all gods and humans. He gives earthly kings their power. Zeus is also the designer of a robot called Talos. This Talos circled the island of Crete several times a day and shot down anything that had no business on the island.[4] Zeus is also the father of Apollo, and he, in turn, is the teacher of young humanity. Apollo’s main place of residence on Earth was Delphi, the location of the schools of wisdom and the Oracle.

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