Thanos5150 Wrote:
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> Audrey Wrote:
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> > Childress took the story from Von Daniken's
> > Chariot of the Gods who seems to have taken it
> > from a French book "Morning of the Magicians"
> by
> > Pauwels & Bergier. The story is supposedly in
> Book
> > 16: Mausala Parva of the Mahabharata.
>
> It comes from sections of two books:
> Ka
> rna Parva: Sec 33,34
> Ma
> usala Parva: Sec 1, 2
>
> Unfortunately, wherever the Childress version
> originally came from is not as it reads in either
> of these books. It would appear they took relevant
> passages, changed words, and cobbled them together
> to form a single narrative that otherwise does not
> exist.
>
> I have all of Childress's books and they are some
> of my favorites, so when I learned of this a while
> ago it was quite disappointing more so because if
> true it is quite compelling. I fail to see where
> he "lied", but obviously he did not do his
> homework.

Childress embellished the version produced by Charles Berlitz, not EVD. The fact that Childress' quote doesn't match Berlitz's is the lie here, though the others are just as guilty as Childress.

Don't use them for references either, for the same reason.

Childress is the only source I've found for Posnansky finding elongated skulls at Tiahuanaco. Since Childress is a proven liar, I'm asking for other references.
None so far, I see.

Harte