Erich Von Daniken - The Gold Of The Gods

5 - On The Trail Of The Indians
Fig. 61. A tricky puzzle to solve. A space station in orbit? Concentric circles with
little windows? One of the most puzzling finds at Sete Cidades!
A difficult kind of rebus. What can it be? A space station in orbit? (Fig. 61.) A
circular band with little windows on the side facing us ... a band with a
protuberance ... with a bifurcation above it. I have gone over the outlines of the
drawing with charcoal to make it clearer. Last but not least, a primitive drawing
which shows an astronaut in a complete spacesuit. In the company of Ernst von
Khuon, I ask the question: were the gods astronauts?
The place where these rock paintings were found is also very strange and (so far)
inexplicable. All the examples of rock drawings reproduced here float at a height of
26 feet on a very inaccessible wall. I think that the painters (provided there were no
giants!) stood on a platform of stone blocks while they were working. But with the
passage of time this platform must have been worn away by weathering because