Erich Von Daniken - The Gold Of The Gods

6 - Rarities, Curiosities And Speculations
god."
Undoubtedly someone will say of the Madrid bee god that they are not bombs, but bee's
wings! But when did bee's wings ever look like bombs? To be quite frank, I find it
unintelligible that bee gods looking like technical monsters buzz their way through
Mayan literature.
Some years ago Dr. Carl Sagan put forward a proposal for making our neighboring
planet Venus inhabitable by having several tons of blue algae (cyanophyceae) blown into
the hot Venusian atmosphere from spaceships. Blue algae are so resistant that great heat
has no effect on them. They possess the quality of multiplying at a fantastic speed and in
enormous quantities and producing really vast amounts of oxygen. Sagan worked on the
premise that the oxygen would enrich the - Venusian atmosphere and cool down the
surface of the planet, so that with the rapid change storms and rain would make the soil
fertile. The astrophysicist Sagan seems to be on the right track. The oldest demonstrable
remains of forms of life on earth were discovered in 3.5 billion-year-old sedimentary
rock in the Transvaal, South Africa. Their stage of development corresponds to that of
the blue algae living today! But 3.5 billion years ago there was no kind of organic life on
our planet. The paleontologist H.D. Pflug of the University of Giessen assumes that life
is older than the earth!
One might well ask whether our blue planet was also prepared for future life and
settlement by the insufflation of blue algae. And who initiated this process of biological
transformation with that land of biological planning?
For the past five years an American-Iranian team has been excavating at Tepe Yahya,
155 miles south of Kerman. Tepe Yahya was abandoned by its inhabitants about the turn
of the era. C.C. and Martha Lamberg-Karlovsky, a husband and wife archaeological
team, found a large number of works of art made of bronze containing arsenic that were
dated to at least 3500 B.C. The material used in the Bronze Age-between the Neolithic
and the Iron Age-was made of copper, tin and lead. Arsenic is found in nature in cobalt
or united with other elements in many minerals. It is very hard to imagine how primitive
men could have extracted arsenic for making bronze alloys. But if an extension course
was held for the ancient bronze founders, we must look for the masters who conducted
it.