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The Spaceships of Ezekiel (1974) is a book by German engineer Josef F. Blumrich (March 17, 1913 – February 10, 2002) about a spaceship that was supposedly observed by the prophet Ezekiel as described in Book of Ezekiel in the Tanakh.
Jun 5, 2019 · The text is so peculiar that Erich von Däniken (b. 1935), a Swiss “ufologist,” i.e., someone who looks for evidence of alien visits to earth, used Ezekiel’s vision of the chariot as a parade example of an alien visitation story. [4] (
Feb 22, 2023 · One ancient astronaut theorist says, “It was Satan who gave us the tools of civilization.” 9 “It is quite possible,” Erich von Däniken suggests, “that our religious traditions and those who selected the old holy texts some thousands of years ago made an evil figure out of Lucifer and the devil. And maybe it was the other way around.
For decades, independent scholars have suggested that several narratives in the Bible offer evidence of ancient UFOs and extraterrestrial visitations. The idea was made famous by Erich Anton Paul von Däniken (b. 1935), in his best-selling Chariots of the Gods (1968). [1]
Nov 17, 2018 · Born in northern Switzerland in 1935, he grew up amid the horrors of World War II and received his education at a Catholic boarding school. That included translating the Bible from Greek into...
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Erich Anton Paul von Däniken (/ ˈ ɛr ɪ k f ɒ n ˈ d ɛ n ɪ k ɪ n /; German: [ˈeːrɪç fɔn ˈdɛːnɪkən]; born 14 April 1935) is a Swiss author of several pseudoscientific books which make claims about extraterrestrial influences on early human culture, including the best-selling Chariots of the Gods?, published in 1968.
The book further suggests that the origins of many religions, including interpretations of the Old Testament of the Bible, are reactions to contact with an alien race. According to von Däniken, humans considered the technology of the aliens to be supernatural and the aliens themselves to be gods.
