Chariots of the Gods, the Olmec heads, and the gorgeous audacity that a father later folded into his theology
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Erich von Däniken's Chariots of the Gods was the Smith River cabin's textbook — loved, argued over, and decades later folded by Milton Jonathan Hare into a working theology in which the burning bush was a microphone and the angels a more advanced species who are also children of God. The record carries both readings of the Olmec heads the book made famous: the family's cabin reading (features looking more African than American Indian), family grade, and the mainstream correction alongside — portraits of indigenous Olmec rulers, with the African-contact reading unsupported by archaeology. A relay thread waits: years later at Stanford, a Swiss journalist and GSB visiting scholar told Hare all about von Däniken, whom she knew; her page awaits Hare's word.
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Selma, 1965 — and the promise
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