Twilight of the Gods: The Mayan Calendar and the Return of the Extraterrestrials by Erich Von Daniken

Author:Erich Von Daniken [Daniken, Erich Von]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781601636867
Google: pd1EDwAAQBAJ
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Winged snakes in ancient Egyptian tombs. Images courtesy of Tatjana Ingold, Solothurn, Switzerland.

3.9. Another ancient Egyptian winged snake. Author’s own image.

Thousands of years later, in our Age of Reason, the serious and rational world of science does not want to accept that Stone Age man could realistical y have had any meetings with a high-tech civilization, and that he could have seen any helicopter-like flying machine or met with beings that they, in their ignorance, named gods. When even the original texts are utterly confusing-because of the incomprehensible terms and missing gestures-then the translations are bound to end up as some kind of religious-psychological mishmash. The methodologies simply do not al ow any other possibilities. Total chaos!

tang Over the Earth

Then there is the wel -known myth of Etana, once part of the clay-tablet library of the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal (685-circa 627 Bc). Found during excavations in Niniveh, the tablets are now kept in the British Museum in London. The origin of the story is unknown, although parts of it are present in the older Gilgamesh epic. The story tel s how Etana is carried high up into the sky by an eagle. The magnificent bird repeatedly asks him to look down:

…After flying on high for some time, the eagle addresses Etana:

Look, my friend, how the Earth appears, look at the sea at the side of the world mountain.

And the Earth appeared as a mountain, the sea as a pool….

After flying on even higher, the eagle addresses Etana:

Look, my friend, how the Earth appears. And the Earth appeared as a plantation of trees….

My friend, look down and see how the Earth appears. And the Earth appeared as a garden, and the wide sea no bigger than a bucket.

And he carried him yet higher stil and said: My friend, look down and see how the Earth disappears.

I looked down and saw how the Earth had disappeared and my eyes could not even pick out the wide sea.

My friend, I cannot go any further towards heaven. Stop now that I might return to the Earth …. 11

“The Eagle has landed” was the message sent back to Houston by the crew of Apol o 11, as they became the first men to set foot on the Moon. The eagle has landed. Even if the word heaven is used in the Etana epos, it is clear that what is being referred to here is space travel. After al , the eagle carries his burden up into the stratosphere (“the wide sea [was] no bigger than a bucket”) and up over the Earth (“I looked down and saw how the Earth had disappeared…. “). And now we bundle it al up in our convoluted religious-psychological contemporary thinking because things that don’t fit in simply cannot be.

So, you can see that we’re not going to get any further by simply applying the old methods and old thinking. It seems to me that the real opponents of insight can be found within the ranks of science.

Stone Age man created his godly images al over the world.

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