"The Origins Of The Space Gods" ~ Jason Colavito (Part 1/2)
Art work "The Forgemaster" by Brandon Moore Art work by Ted Nasmith Source of this text - Jason Colavito - I. Aliens in the Mythos One of the most dramatic ideas found in the Cthulhu Mythos is the suggestion that extraterrestrial beings arrived on earth in the distant past, were responsible for ancient works of monumental stone architecture and inspired mankind’s earliest mythologies and religions. In the 1970s, this basic premise was resurrected as the “ancient astronaut theory,” a hypothesis that gained widespread popularity thanks to Swiss - Erich von Däniken’s book Chariots of the Gods (1968) and its television adaptation, In Search of Ancient Astronauts (1973), hosted by Rod Serling, of Twilight Zone fame. According to research done by Kenneth L. Feder, at the height of von Däniken’s popularity in the 1970s and ’80s one in four college students accepted the ancient astronaut theory, but twenty years later less than ten percent did. Though mainstream sc...
