Another tact he takes is to reinterpret ancient paintings or passages of religious texts through the prism of depicting aliens, even when far more grounded explanations already exist from learned archaeologists.
The latter large glyphs visible only from the sky are, in his eyes, replicas of alien structures meant to be seen from space as a kind of cosmic "Help Wanted" sign to our previous alien masters. Other miraculous structures that von Däniken considers to be artifacts of evidence to support his theory include England's Stonehenge, the Moai statues of Easter Island and the numerous Nazca Lines of Peru. That's right, humans could never have thought of using slaves and ramps to haul big stone blocks without a few courteous E.T.s. Such achievements we were apparently too stupid to hack by ourselves include the construction of the Great Pyramids of Giza, which he suggests would have taken centuries to build with the technology Egyptians had at the time. Much of the book's hypothesis is based around the assumption that earlier eras of man did not possess the capacity to accomplish the wonders they did, with alien intervention being the only probable explanation. Those new myths would snowball over the ensuing decades into numerous popular sci-fi franchises and a mini-industry of pseudoscience books and documentaries.Ĭoincidentally arriving the same year as Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey depicted a mysterious alien monolith influencing early cave-dwelling hominoid monkey men, author Erich von Däniken's 1968 book Chariots of the Gods? (the question mark was removed in some later editions) sought to impart daring new revelations of how extraterrestrial life had a sphere of influence on man's development at crucial stages of civilization. But what of cosmic superhero team The Eternals, whose own feature film from Marvel Studios arrived in theaters this week?Īs it happens, one of creative powerhouse Jack Kirby's final major contributions to the expansive Marvel Universe was riding the wave of a new myth being perpetrated by a German author who began espousing his theories of mankind's evolution at just the right time. For instance, Thor and the Asgardians are taken wholesale from Norse legend Ghost Rider has his basis in spectral horsemen folklore gathered by the Brothers Grimm Black Panther takes cues from Egyptian culture as well as 20th Century Afrofuturism and what is The Hulk but a play on Robert Louis Stevenson's 19th century classic Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. The International Trade Council maintains contact with more than 10,000 angel investors, business incubators, grant-issuing agencies and venture capital organizations worldwide.Ĭouncil members may be eligible for investor introductions depending on their membership level.One of the big reasons Marvel Comics characters continue to resonate throughout the decades is their strong mythic underpinnings. International Trade Council Investor Contacts