Each appeared to be made like a wheel intersecting a wheel.
16 This was the appearance and structure of the wheels: They sparkled like topaz, and all four looked alike. “15 As I looked at the living creatures, I saw a wheel on the ground beside each creature with its four faces. Pictures often leave out the details involving the fire, omnidirectional wheels, and the vaulted crystal encasing over the heads of the human-like creatures. There is clearly some discrepancy between this description and much of the way Ezekiel’s vision is portrayed in biblical artwork. Each one went straight ahead they did not turn as they moved. All four of them had faces and wings, 9 and the wings of one touched the wings of another. 8 Under their wings on their four sides they had human hands. 7 Their legs were straight their feet were like those of a calf and gleamed like burnished bronze. In appearance their form was human, 6 but each of them had four faces and four wings. The center of the fire looked like glowing metal, 5 and in the fire was what looked like four living creatures. “ 4I looked, and I saw a windstorm coming out of the north-an immense cloud with flashing lightning and surrounded by brilliant light. Ezekiel even describes the fire powering the chariot as appearing as ‘glowing metal.’ The windstorm, flash of lightning, and brilliant lights are reminiscent of a spacecraft coming down for a landing and kicking up dirt in a spectacle never before seen by someone of such a primitive era. This seems to lend a little more credit and personality to the story as it is told shortly after its occurrence.Įzekiel describes seeing a wheeled chariot descend toward him from the sky, piloted by beings with the “likeness of a man.” While many biblical versions of the story describe this being on the chariot as God, von Däniken points out that the original Hebrew version never mentions God, this word was added later.Įzekiel’s description of the wheeled chariot landing sounds much like that of the landing of a spacecraft. One of the interesting characteristics of The Book of Ezekiel as a biblical text is that it is written using the pronoun, I, clearly showing it being written by Ezekiel himself as a first-person account, unlike many biblical texts written in the third person. Ezekiel was brought to Babylon in the first captivity of Israel and is described as a prophet. Blumrich even used Ezekiel’s description of the craft to patent his own version of an omnidirectional wheel.Įzekiel is a key figure in Judaism and is also prominent in other Abrahamic biblical texts. Ezekiel was undoubtedly describing an advanced spacecraft. However, the evidence was overwhelming and Blumrich had an epiphany. This conversation led Blumrich on a mission to disprove von Däniken’s seemingly absurd theory, so he did some research of his own and started writing a book. The two spoke about von Däniken’s ancient astronaut theory from his book, Chariots of the Gods, notably the idea that Ezekiel’s vision was that of a space shuttle, rather than a divine chariot. In the 1970s, Erich von Däniken was invited to a secret speech at NASA where he met Josef F.
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