The day the gods died [antikvár]

author's noteI've hesitated a long time before showing this report to a publisher. My reason for this was the preceding letter, written by my friend Erich von Danikén. He was still in prison in 1971; in his cell he had the chance to read my manuscript and to make additions or deletions. He tried to discourage me. K now I have decided to make this fictionalized account available to the general public, the main reason is that reality threatens to overtake the fantastic elements of this story.Those subterranean installations under the Andes do exist. This has become a matter of common knowledge today. They are even mightier and more incredible than I described them. Maybe they came to be in the manner I have described in this volume. That explanation seems logical to me. And as for the ahens' base of observation, I would not guarantee that it does not exist.Our world is full of mysteries, and many of them may never be solved. Men like Jacques Bergier, Erich von Danikén, Louis Pauwels, Robert Charroux, Peter Krause, and many others only wish to prod mankind into considering things in a different light, to stimulate science and research and thus bring about a long overdue reexamination of petrified dogmas and teachingshow it beganWhen they reached 4,000 meterá altitude, they had to pause. The narrow rock ledge widened to a small plateau where it was safe to stay and rest. Above, the peaks of the Andes were shrouded in clouds. Below^ the rock wall dropped sheer down to the mesa.The three explorers unpacked their provisions."And you really believe, Dr. A., that we'll find on that mountaintop what we hope to?" The professor rummaged in his knapsack for sausage and bread. "Dr. A., do you think we'll find what we're looking for up there?" He was sitting on a flat stone, his hack leaning against the rock.Dr. A. nodded. "Therms no doubt of it. The reports are vague, sure. So far no one else had the courage to draw the right conclusions. If your way of think--ing weren't like mine, you wouldn't he sitting here." He pointed up to the clouds. "It's that summit over there, I believe. Another two or three hundred meters o It's not supposed to be a proper peak, but rather a shallow depression without any gravitational pull. The only place on this plateau where the laws of nature are no longer valid . "The third member of the scientific team remained1