Erich von Daniken - Return To The Stars-pages

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Erich von Daniken - Return To The Stars-pages

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Five floating figures who accompany the sphere wear tight-fitting helmets on their heads, white with red dots and red with white dots. Are they astronauts’ helmets? cosmonaut? If today we were to give children a box of crayons and ask them to draw the moon flight out of their heads, the result would probably be something quite similar to the Tassili paintings. For the 'savages' who painted these memories of the visit of the 'gods' on the rock faces were probably at the mental age of a child. So far no one has given a plausible explanation of these complicated rock paintings from Santa Barbara in California. Note the different globular figures. Another figure from Val Camonica in Italy. The headgear looks very much like some kind of aerial. A