Erich Von Daniken - The Gold Of The Gods

6 - Rarities, Curiosities And Speculations
In the battle against the Amalekites, the Israelites only went on winning as long as
Moses, up on the mountain, kept his arms raised. Now the raised arms of the weary
commander alone could have been of little use, nor would they have been any more
dangerous when the faithful supported them. So I assume that Moses held a rather heavy
object in his hands that could decide the battle in his favor. On his field-marshal's hill he
had the hostile armies within his field of vision. If he "hit" the Amalekites with his ray
guns, his people conquered, if he let his arms sink (and with them the ray guns), the
Amalekites, fighting with old-fashioned weapons, attacked successfully. This
speculation of mine gets strong support in the same chapter, verse 9, where it says that
Moses stood on the top of the hill "with the rod of God" in his hand. Looked at from this
point of view, isn't it logical that the battle turned against the Israelites when Moses grew
tired and let the ray guns sink?
In Gods from Outer Space I included a petroglyph (Fig. 67a) from Easter Island which
showed a strange figure, half fish, half man. Since then a technically minded reader
(Horst Haas) has pointed out to me that this drawing on the rock near the shore of Easter
Island could easily be the representation of a ram jet engine (Fig. 67b). The "head" of the
drawing would be the air intake, the narrow neck the fuel inlet, the paunch-like
broadening out the combustion and pressure chamber and the concluding narrow part the
exhaust for the high velocity gases, while the engraved star would be a symbol of the
ignition spark. In this way the whole drawing would be a stylized model of a ram jet
propulsion unit. "Even if the drawing as a whole does not conform to an aerodynamic
shape," writes Horst Haas, "perhaps further references to its flying behavior, etc., could
be deduced by accurate measurements of the landing grounds marked out on the plain of
Nazca."
I suggest that the archaeologists ask their colleagues at a technical college for advice for
a change!
Easter Island is an island full of puzzles where research would be well worthwhile. In his
book Phantastique lie de Paques, Francis Maziere tells of an excavation which brought
to light an unknown type of stone head. Whereas the heads of all the other statues are
clean-shaven, this head sported a beard and it had faceted eyes of the kind insects have
(and as we know them from Japanese Dogu sculptures).