Erich Von Daniken - The Gold Of The Gods

6 - Rarities, Curiosities And Speculations
2. The losers in this battle escaped in a spaceship.
3. As they knew the mentality of the victors, they set a "trap," in that they did not land on
the planet that was "ideal" for their existence.
4. The losers chose the planet earth which was just acceptable in comparison with their
home planet, but certainly did not offer ideal conditions. For many years the losers
continued to wear gas masks in the new atmosphere in order to get used to the terrestrial
air mixture (hence the helmets, trunks, breathing apparatus, etc., in cave drawings).
5. They burrowed deep into the earth and made the tunnel systems out of fear of their
pursuers who were equipped with every kind of technical aid.
6 In order to deceive their opponents completely, they set up on the fifth planet of our
solar system (i.e. not the earth) technical stations and transmitters which emitted coded
reports
7. The victors fell into the trap and believed the bluff. They brutally annihilated the fifth
planet. It was destroyed by a gigantic explosion, parts of its substance shot through the
planetoid belt. (A glance at the map of our solar system shows that there is an
"unnatural" gap of 300,000,000 miles between the present-day fourth and fifth planets,
Mars and Jupiter. But the gap is not empty; hundreds and thousands of small lumps of
stone, known collectively as the "planetoid belt," are tumbling about in it. From time
immemorial astronomers have been puzzling to explain how and why a planet can have
"exploded" between Mars and Jupiter. I venture to assert that planets do not "explode"
by themselves; someone makes them explode!)
8. The victors thought that the losers were destroyed. They withdrew their spaceship to
their home planet.
9. Owing to the destruction of the fifth planet the gravitational balance in our solar
system was temporarily thrown into confusion. The earth's axis moved a few degrees out
of position. This resulted in tremendous inundations (there are legends of floods and
deluges among peoples all over the world).
10. The losers emerged from their magnificently built catacombs and began to create
intelligence on earth. Using their knowledge of the molecular biology, the losers created
man in their image from already existing monkeys (the genetic code, sagas about the
creation of man, "God's" promise to Abraham and others that their descendants would be
as numerous as the stars in heaven, etc.).
11. The former losers, now absolute rulers and therefore gods, found that the progress
and evolution of the human race was too slow. They knew perfectly well that the beings
created by them were "like gods," but they wanted more rapid progress (Genesis 1:6: "...
this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have