Erich Von Daniken - The Gold Of The Gods

3 - Traces Of The Gods In China, Too
Hanging in the museum was a piece of wood 28 inches wide by 10
inches high. (Fig. 36.) Once upon a time, when hung on a hut, it meant:
the chief lives here! To the left of the four striking concentric circles
float two figures, who are wearing the by now classical "aprons" of
prehistoric astronauts, of the land to be found, for example, on the
Toltec monoliths (Fig. 37) in the Museum fur Volkerkunde in Berlin.
Both figures are wearing a kind of overall, and shoes. The being on the
left wears a helmet and extended ultra-short-wave antennae.
A wooden sculpture (Fig. 38) represents a being with large genital
organs, whose head is protected by a close-fitting helmet. A small
triangle is engraved on the helmet, perhaps the emblem of his
astronautical formation. A snake twines round his helmet. Symbol of
loathsomeness in biblical times, in the sagas of the Mayas the snake
rose again into the air as a "feathered creature," and now it crops up
again here among forgotten tribes in the mountain ranges of Formosa.
All over the world we find snakes, flying snakes, in traditional popular
art!
Why did the Paiwan paint their canoes (Fig. 39) with snakes, why are
the heads of the "divine figures" round like helmets, why are they in
(antenna) contact with each other and why do the contacts end in a
"sun" with a series of toothed wheels inside it? Why do snakes (Fig.
40), twined round stars, gaze steadily heavenwards with their triangular
heads? Why does a Paiwan god hold a snake that passes above him and
his helmet? Why in particular is a female goddess (Fig. 42) concealed
in a mask, why does she wear clumsy goggles and why is there a snake
above and around her head? Obviously this outfit was never chic, but it
was suitable for a space flight and the snake symbolized a limit to
cosmic flight.
All this should be interpreted in terms of early religions, say the
archaeologists. They say that snakes were divine "symbols of
reverence." If so, why did not the Paiwans use fish, sharks, waves or