Erich Von Daniken - The Gold Of The Gods

6 - Rarities, Curiosities And Speculations
anyone wants to claim that they were symbolical representations of animal horns, he is
off target. There have never been horned animals on Easter Island! Even a humorous
prehistoric sculptor had no model from which he could copy horns to put on a man! It is
ridiculous to deny that prehistoric artists-without drawing on their imagination- carved
antennae as they had seen them on the gods who came to them from the cosmos.
Louis Pauwels and Jacques Bergier describe representations of non-human beings
wearing technical accouterments found in a quite different corner of the world. Granite
reliefs depicting beings in diving or spacesuits with "elephants' trunks" were discovered
in the Hunan Mountains (People's Republic of China). We cannot avoid asking ourselves
whether these trunks were not really breathing apparatuses. Interpreters of such finds
will dismiss the question as absurd, because these trunked men are ascribed a date of
45,000 B.C. Yet every find of this type should worry us because every find increases the
certainty of prehistoric visits by alien astronauts. Must the cobbler stick to his old last?
At Delhi there is an ancient iron column that contains no phosphorus or sulphur and so
cannot be destroyed by the effects of weathering. However, it is not always necessary to
leave the ransacked west to come upon equally wonderful discoveries. At Kottenforst, a
few miles west of Bonn, there is an iron column which has been known locally since
time immemorial as the Iron Man, writes Dr. Harro Grubert of Cologne. The iron
column rises 4 feet 10 inches out of the ground, but according to various estimates and
magnetic resistance measurements it sticks 90 feet deep into the ground. The part above
ground exhibits slight surface weathering, but surprisingly enough no trace of rust. The
column (Fig. 68) is first mentioned in a fourteenth-century document, where it is
described as marking a village boundary. In the immediate vicinity of the iron column lie
a well-built stone walk and the remains of an aqueduct, which does not-wonder of
wonders-run in the usual direction Eifel-Bonn or Eifel-Cologne, but straight towards the
column.