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The Gods
Were
Astronauts
EVIDENCE OF THE TRUE IDENTITIES
OF THE OLD 'GODS'
BY ERICH VON DÄNIKEN
Copyright © 2011 by Erich von Däniken.
This electronic format is published by Tantor eBooks, a division of Tantor
Media, Inc.,
and was produced in the year 2011.
Table of Contents
Foreword
Chapter 1: A Different Kind of R.E. Lesson
Chapter 2: Lies Surrounding the Fátima Event
Chapter 3: Entire Forests of Stupas
Chapter 4: Weapons of the Gods
Afterthoughts
Images
Notes
Appendix
Foreword
IT was some 55 years ago, and it happened in the primary school of the
town of Schaffhausen in Switzerland. I was about 10 years old and listened to
our religious instructor telling us that once a battle had taken place in Heaven.
One day the archangel Lucifer had appeared before the throne of God with his
legion of angels and had declared, 'We are not going to serve you any more!' At
which point the Almighty God had ordered the archangel Michael to chuck
Lucifer out of Heaven, along with all his rebellious followers. Michael duly
carried out this command with his flaming sword. From that day---according to
our R.E. teacher---Lucifer had become the Devil and all his followers were
burning in Hell.
That evening, for the first time in my young life, I was really pensive. We
children had been told that Heaven was a place of absolute bliss, a place where
all the good people went after they died. A place too where all souls became
intimately one with God. How could conflict occur in such paradisiacal realms?
Where absolute joy ruled, where oneness with God was perfect, there could be
no opposition, no quarrel. Why, oh why, should Lucifer and all his angels
suddenly rebel against an almighty, all-loving God?
My mother, whom I asked for an explanation, was unable to help. With
God, she said, wearing a troubled expression, everything was possible. That's
how it had to be. Even the impossible.
Later, at high school, where we were taught Latin, I understood that the
name Lucifer was formed out of the two words
lux
(light) and ferre (to do, to
carry). Lucifer really means Light-maker or Bringer of Light. Of all creatures,
was the Devil supposed to be the Bringer of Light? My realisation, based on the
Latin, made the whole business even more bewildering.
Twenty years later, I had thoroughly studied the Old Testament, as
Christians call the ancient traditions. There I read passages from the Jewish
prophet Isaiah (c. 740 BC):
How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! How art
thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! For thou hast said
in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of
God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation . . . (Isaiah 14, 12-13)1
These verses from Isaiah may have been altered during the course of the
millennia. But what might he have been thinking about originally? In the so-
called 'Revelation' of John (author of the prophecy of the apocalypse) one can
read another clear and definite allusion to battles in Heaven in chapter 12, verse
7:
And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the
dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, and prevailed not; neither was
their place found any more in heaven.
Curious. The great traditions of other peoples too support the idea that these
battles in heaven were not entirely made up. In The Egyptian Book of the Dead,
a collection of texts that were placed in a grave with a mummified body so the
deceased would know how to behave in the Beyond, we read how Ra, the
mighty Sun god, fought against the rebellious children of heaven. The god Ra,
we read, never left his 'egg' during the entire battle.2
Battles in Heaven? In outer space? Or did our ignorant forefathers merely
mean the battles between good and evil that are fought within humans? Did they
perhaps imagine the atmospheric battle during a thunderstorm and project it on
to a battle in outer space? A battle of dark clouds against the Sun? Or did the
origin of this bewildering thinking lie in a solar eclipse, where something terrible
was trying to eat up the Sun? All these natural explanations do not really take us
any further, as I will demonstrate. If the battle between Lucifer and Michael
were only to be found in the ancient Jewish sphere, one could easily gloss over
it. But it is not the only example, and very old stories only too often show up
astonishing similarities.
For thousands of years, Tibetan monasteries preserved texts called
dzyan.
Some original text, which may or may not still exist, must have been the source
of the many dzyan fragments that have turned up in Indian temple libraries. We
are talking of hundreds of sheets written in Sanskrit, sandwiched between two
pieces of wood. There, one can read that in the 'fourth world age,' the sons were
ordered to create likenesses of themselves. A third of the sons refused to carry
out the command:
The older wheels turned down and up. The spawn of the Mother filled the
All.
Battles were fought between the creators and the destroyers, and battles
about Space . . . Do your calculations, Lanoo, if you wish to obtain the true age
of your wheel. (author's emphasis)3
I discussed parts of Greek mythology in my last book.4 Greek mythology
also begins with a battle in heaven. The children of Ouranos rebelled against the
heavenly order and the creator. Terrible battles ensued and the Zeus, the Father
of the gods, is only one of the victors. Prometheus was one of those who fought
against Zeus, and this took place in 'Heaven,' as Prometheus was the one who
stole the fire from Heaven and brought it down to Earth. Prometheus---Lucifer.
The Bringer of Light?
On the other side of the world, far from Greece, lies New Zealand. Even a
hundred years ago, ethnologist John White was asking the old priests of the
Maori about their legends. Their legends too begin with a battle in Heaven.5

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