{"id":214,"date":"2008-10-28T19:33:52","date_gmt":"2008-10-28T23:33:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.therowboat.com\/?p=214"},"modified":"2022-04-11T23:51:30","modified_gmt":"2022-04-12T03:51:30","slug":"where-went-the-ancient-astronauts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/2008\/10\/where-went-the-ancient-astronauts\/","title":{"rendered":"Where Went the Ancient Astronauts?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Zecharia<\/a>The Smart Set<\/em>, an excellent web magazine of ideas and things, has just published an article of mine on “ancient astronaut” theory<\/a>\u2014the idea that all the gods that the ancients believed in were actually extraterrestrials with advanced technology. Ancient astronauts are an old hobby of mine, a delightful mix between my interests in religion and and science fiction. And incidentally, I consider them an important case study in new religious movements and the meanings of science and religion in the modern world.<\/p>\n

As a special for readers of The Row Boat, I’m pleased to present a hand-written “transcript” of my “interview” with the great ancient astronaut theorist Zecharia Sitchin: the notes he scribbled at the bottom of the questions I mailed him. I’m very grateful for his response, though unfortunately it didn’t provide me with enough to merit a mention in the article. To view the full-size .jpg, click here<\/a> or on the thumbnail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\"Zecharia<\/a>The Smart Set<\/em>, an excellent web magazine of ideas and things, has just published an article of mine on “ancient astronaut” theory<\/a>\u2014the idea that all the gods that the ancients believed in were actually extraterrestrials with advanced technology. Ancient astronauts are an old hobby of mine, a delightful mix between my interests in religion and and science fiction. And incidentally, I consider them an important case study in new religious movements and the meanings of science and religion in the modern world.<\/p>\n

As a special for readers of The Row Boat, I’m pleased to present a hand-written “transcript” of my “interview” with the great ancient astronaut theorist Zecharia Sitchin: the notes he scribbled at the bottom of the questions I mailed him. I’m very grateful for his response, though unfortunately it didn’t provide me with enough to merit a mention in the article. To view the full-size .jpg, click here<\/a> or on the thumbnail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[72,90,46,26,76,16,60,62],"class_list":["post-214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-ancients","tag-artifacts","tag-millenialism","tag-new-religious-movements","tag-prophecy","tag-religion-science","tag-science-fiction","tag-skepticism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5707,"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions\/5707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}