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Title: From the Ashes of Angels: The Forbidden Legacy of a Fallen Race by Andrew Collins, Richard Ward ISBN: 1-879181-72-X Publisher: Bear & Company Pub. Date: 01 September, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.94 (17 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: An intriguing speculation.
Comment: This book is fascinating. Few authors explore the ramifications ,implications and echoes of a myth whit the skill and intellectual honesty that Andrew Collins displays here,admitting he has very few and feeble proofs sustaining his hypotheses.The myth of Fallen Angels could well be the reminiscence of facts of ancient and near forgotten history. I'm sorry,then, to see him plunge in the mire of Egyptomania, and the absolutely unwarranted assertion that the Sphynx is the product of an alleged and absolutely unattested for "Ancient Superadvanced Civilization". If they existed at all, the "Watchers",tall,blonde and fair-skinned are much more likely to come from Ukraina through now drowned lands of the Black Sea than Egypt.Anyway,I think so. Still, Andrew Collins' is a remarkable book.
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent explanation of a believable thesis
Comment: Author Collins takes a curiosity I've long shared -- the comment on the "Sons of God" and the "Daughters of Men" in the Book of Genesis and explodes it into a mystery ten thousand years old and spanning most of Central Asia and ancient Egypt. The very real evidence surrounding the truth of the Nephilim and their sires, whom Collins deems "Watchers," a name etymologically derived, is revealed through archaeological evidence and oral tradition. Collins tracks his elusive quarry to the peaks of Kurdistan, then onward through Asia Minor and thence possibly to Egypt...though I will not give away his excellent reasoning in this review. This book is well worth the read -- it is exciting, thought-provoking, and stunning in its scope and detail.
Furthermore, I feel that I must comment upon the previous (below) reviews here at Amazon: First, Collins is not a religious writer, and his investigation uncovers a very real -- very HUMAN -- origin for "angelic" myths throughout Asian folklore (from which Judaic-Christian-Islamic tradition derives). Thus, it is not fair to dismiss Collins' work simply because it does not adhere to Biblical belief of angels as metaphysical beings. Second, to the reviewer's point that the Nephilim were "evil" and brutal and thus uncivilized, human nature is often both brutal *and* civilized. One can be both advanced -- and thus capable of transmitting culture to less-developed societies -- and yet capable of exploiting those societies as well. And third, more of a nitpick: one reviewer stated that Collins' proposed Watcher culture was located in Khazakhstan, whereas it was located in Kurdistan (modern northeastern Turkiye, northern Syria, and northwestern Iraq).
Rating: 5
Summary: i now have to go by his other books. hope they are as good.
Comment: i cant say enough about this book. i trusted his documentation and his work seemed to be done very carefully and in a very scientifically controlled manner in terms of not making grand assumptions without full documentation of theory. It was also a good read. I think he showed that you could relax a little to make something a good read but still keep your integrity in terms of looking at research objectively without too heavy of a hand. Extremely interesting. I am very interested in learning Sumerian and even sanskrit now. I wanted to call him up and tell him how much I liked it!! I am sure he would have loved it.
Anyway, I recommend it and I have ordered a couple of his others.
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Title: Gods of Eden: Egypt's Lost Legacy and the Genesis of Civilization by Andrew Collins ISBN: 1879181762 Publisher: Bear & Company Pub. Date: 30 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: The Stargate Conspiracy: The Truth About Extraterrestrial Life and the Mysteries of Ancient Egypt by Lynn Picknett, Clive Prince ISBN: 0425176584 Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group Pub. Date: 04 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Gateway to Atlantis: The Search for the Source of a Lost Civilization by Andrew Collins, David Rohl ISBN: 0786709634 Publisher: Carroll & Graf Publishers Pub. Date: 09 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: The Destruction of Atlantis: Compelling Evidence of the Sudden Fall of the Legendary Civilization by Frank Joseph ISBN: 1879181851 Publisher: Bear & Company Pub. Date: 30 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: Technology of the Gods: The Incredible Sciences of the Ancients by David Hatcher Childress ISBN: 0932813739 Publisher: Adventures Unlimited Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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