I've placed a review of Jason Colavito's book The Cult of Alien Gods,
which claims that H.P. Lovecraft first invented the ancient-astronaut
(extraterrestrial aliens visiting the earth in the distant past) theme,
and that Lovecraft was the source for the ancient-astronaut them in
popular culture, here:

http://www.geocities.com/clorebeast/colavito.htm

--
Dan Clore

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On Jul 6, 5:15 pm, Dan Clore columbia-center.org> wrote:

"Colavito always misspells the former name "Pauwles" (I guess once
it's in your spellchecker, you're doomed)."

That's why I never depend on a spall chucker. It only cares whither
the ward is spilled correctly, it doesn't core at ill whether it is
the right ward.

"... I have to quote Colavito concerning Von Däniken's work: "even if
it were not true, readers wanted it to be true." "

Hah! I remember reading Von Däniken's first and most famous
bestseller, "Chariots of the Gods," avidly enough. However, one or two
books later Von Däniken asserted that a certain cave in South America
confirmed all he had suspected: unfortunately he could not divulge
what he saw there or where the cave was. I threw the book across the
room and never read Von Däniken again.

Tom Buckner