Pattern-chaser wrote: ↑April 5th, 2022, 8:09 am
JackDaydream wrote: ↑April 4th, 2022, 3:36 pm
Or is like the way van Daniken and Graham Hamcock saw them as beings who existed in ancient times...
I'm fairly sure von Daniken was exposed as a fake. I was as impressed as anyone when "Chariot of the Gods" was published.
Carl Sagan, in his Foreword to The Space Gods Revealed wrote:That writing as careless as von Däniken's, whose principal thesis is that our ancestors were dummies, should be so popular is a sober commentary on the credulousness and despair of our times. I also hope for the continuing popularity of books like Chariots of the Gods? in high school and college logic courses, as object lessons in sloppy thinking. I know of no recent books so riddled with logical and factual errors as the works of von Däniken.
Hancock I've never heard of, but a very brief scan of his website looks ... suspect to me.
I only looked at von Daniken briefly when I picked it up in the library. I thought about it later when I read Jung's book, 'Flying Saucers', in which Jung critiques this view and the whole idea of human beings seeing aliens as aspects of the mythological imagination. In particular, he sees supposed encounters with aliens as the replacement for angels. Actually, I have met more people who have said they have seen angels than aliens.
But, I have read a number of other books which speak of a different perspective to the conventional creation story or evolution. One key idea is that of the Nephilim race. I don't know if there is any evidence and, as you know, I can get carried away with speculation.
However, I don't rule out such origins of humanity in connection with 'gods'. There may be a lot more to the origins of humanity than realised, especially as it appears that some ancient people were extremely advanced. In particular, the technology of the pyramids is linked to this. I will see if I still have any of the books on this and this interpretation of the gods, and if I can, I will put in an entry later today on it.