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Faking history : essays on aliens, Atlantis, monsters, and more / by Jason Colavito.

By: Publisher: Albany, N.Y. : JasonColavito.com, [2013]Copyright date: ©2013.Description: vii, 309 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781482387827
  • 1482387824
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • BF205 .C54 2013
Contents:
Of Atlantis and aliens -- The origin of the space gods -- Pauwels, Bergier, and Lovecraft -- Cthulhu vs. Xenu -- Was Cthulhu a king of Atlantis? -- How Rod Serling's Night gallery gave us Ancient aliens -- The green children of banjos -- Getting it wrong : when myths and legends lie -- The Greek mythic memory -- How alternative history methods destroy knowledge -- Ancient aliens and Atlantis -- The ancients and outer space; or, Aliens are bad teachers -- Ancient atom bombs? -- The case of the false quotations -- The Naacal tablets and theosophy -- Neil Armstrong's brush with ancient astronauts -- Santa is an alien robot! -- Stonehenge : the day spa of the gods -- Are there platinum coffins off Nan Madol? -- The believer who almost became president -- The search for Soviet ancient astronauts -- Ancient astronauts, geopolitics, and the Spitsbergen UFO hoax -- Taking aliens and ancient texts literally -- When was the scholomance? -- Oannes : the best evidence for ancient astronauts? -- Was Oannes John the Baptist or a sleeping king? -- Was the Golden Fleece an airplane? -- Were Bible characters worshiped as gods? -- Who were the Nephilim? -- Did aliens design the pyramids? -- The pyramids and the flood -- The strange case of Proclus and the pyramid -- Scholars' three-century mistake about myth -- Afrocentrism, ancient astronauts, and the Black Sea Africans -- Afrocentrism and the Aztec calendar -- Egyptian dog chariots in Mexico? -- The pineapple of Pompeii -- A dinosaur in the Congo? -- The secret prehistory of El Chupacabra -- Investigating Graham Hancock's 7,000-year-old Mexican pyramid -- Atlantis, the Bible, and high technology -- Golden fleeced -- Who lost the Middle Ages? -- Did the Hopi predict the end of the world? -- Who really discovered America? -- The Zeno Brothers' voyage of discovery -- Did Native Americans discover Europe in 60 BCE? -- Did pagans worship Noah's Ark? -- Forks : the Devil's flatware -- Final thoughts : the sameness of it all.

Versions of the material included in the book first appeared on JasonColavito.com, Skeptic magazine, and Swans magazine.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Of Atlantis and aliens -- The origin of the space gods -- Pauwels, Bergier, and Lovecraft -- Cthulhu vs. Xenu -- Was Cthulhu a king of Atlantis? -- How Rod Serling's Night gallery gave us Ancient aliens -- The green children of banjos -- Getting it wrong : when myths and legends lie -- The Greek mythic memory -- How alternative history methods destroy knowledge -- Ancient aliens and Atlantis -- The ancients and outer space; or, Aliens are bad teachers -- Ancient atom bombs? -- The case of the false quotations -- The Naacal tablets and theosophy -- Neil Armstrong's brush with ancient astronauts -- Santa is an alien robot! -- Stonehenge : the day spa of the gods -- Are there platinum coffins off Nan Madol? -- The believer who almost became president -- The search for Soviet ancient astronauts -- Ancient astronauts, geopolitics, and the Spitsbergen UFO hoax -- Taking aliens and ancient texts literally -- When was the scholomance? -- Oannes : the best evidence for ancient astronauts? -- Was Oannes John the Baptist or a sleeping king? -- Was the Golden Fleece an airplane? -- Were Bible characters worshiped as gods? -- Who were the Nephilim? -- Did aliens design the pyramids? -- The pyramids and the flood -- The strange case of Proclus and the pyramid -- Scholars' three-century mistake about myth -- Afrocentrism, ancient astronauts, and the Black Sea Africans -- Afrocentrism and the Aztec calendar -- Egyptian dog chariots in Mexico? -- The pineapple of Pompeii -- A dinosaur in the Congo? -- The secret prehistory of El Chupacabra -- Investigating Graham Hancock's 7,000-year-old Mexican pyramid -- Atlantis, the Bible, and high technology -- Golden fleeced -- Who lost the Middle Ages? -- Did the Hopi predict the end of the world? -- Who really discovered America? -- The Zeno Brothers' voyage of discovery -- Did Native Americans discover Europe in 60 BCE? -- Did pagans worship Noah's Ark? -- Forks : the Devil's flatware -- Final thoughts : the sameness of it all.

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