ERICH VON DANIKEN, Honorary Mardukite Award 2011, Ancient Aliens

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Since the official inception of Mardukite Ministries in 2008 we have annually announced honorary lifetime achievement awards to key figures in our field. Past honorary mardukites have included Zecharia Sitchin, Tracy R. Twyman and Olatunde Osunsanmi. This year, 2011, the Council of Nabu nominated several possible candidates which were voted on both public and privately among the Mardukite Chamberlains (and via correspondence with Home Office). We are pleased to announce the winning recipient of the Honorary Mardukite Life-Time Achievement Award for 2011 is presented to:

ERICH VON DANIKEN is best known for his work Chariots of the Gods (1968) which served as the launch point for modern pursuits into ‘ancient aliens’ (called ‘ancient astronaut theory’ until fairly recently). Daniken is also a co-founder of the “Archaeology, Astronautics and SETI Research Association” (AAS RA) which, in part, is responsible for the recent television campaign on the History Channel known as Ancient Aliens, something that has proven to be exceptionally popular among mardukite chamberlains and readers. Coming up on significant criticism, as we have seen among our other honorary mardukite award recipients, Erich von Daniken continues to fight for the cause in public to this day.

In addition to our honorary achievement recognition of individuals, the Mardukite Council of Nabu also offers nominations for an honorary “Book of the Year” that is determined both by vote and the gauged amount of impact a particular work lends to the mardukite movement. The only criteria for this recognition is that the work not be produced by the Mardukite Truth Seeker Press, which allows those outside of our organization to be as eligible for public recognition and recommendation as our own works. In the past, these have included “Gates of the Necronomicon” by Simon, “Merovingian Mythos” by Tracy R. Twyman and “Babylonian Star-Lore” by Gavin White.

The 2011 Honorary Book of the Year is actually of a different caliber since its author is no longer living. Nonetheless, by a landslide, the Council of Nabu is pleased to recommend:

THEY WROTE ON CLAY by Edward Chiera (1885-1933). Chiera was a brilliant Assyriologist who worked at both the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Chicago in this field. He personally led archaeological expeditions in Iraq from 1928-1929 resulting in the retrieval of a colossal ‘lamassu’ statue, perhaps the most beautiful specimen of its kind.

Unfortunately, Chiera didn’t live long enough to see his most awesome masterpiece “They Wrote On Clay” published; an undertaking conducted by his students and colleagues in 1938.

You can discover even more about the influence of the ‘Clay Tablets’ and ‘Ancient Aliens’ by entering the World of the Mardukites today!