Erich von Däniken - Did Aliens visit us in the past?

Erich von Däniken is the best known representatives of the so-called pre-astronautics or "Paleo-SETI-hypothesis": aliens have visited Earth long ago and decisively influenced the development of mankind.Because of their high technical superiority that astronauts had been held by primitive men as gods. Given thisassumption implies von Daniken different legacies (buildings, legends, etc.) as evidence of ancient cultures forextra-terrestrial visitors.
For example, he believes that "primitive" people were not without help from others in a position to providecultural services such as building the pyramids of Giza, the stone monuments on Easter Island, Stonehenge or the map of Piri Reis. Various objects he saw as a possible replica of launch pads and landing sites of UFOs (egNazca lines) to aliens (gods) again to persuade another to land on the earth - and he interprets these objects as remnants of cargo cults . In religion and mysticism traditional gods he interpreted as aliens.
The first chapter of the Book of Ezekiel (Ezekiel) in the Bible interprets von Daniken as a description of thelanding of a spaceship. Based on the biblical description of this was known as "Ezekiel" spacecraft of theNASA engineer Josef F. Blumrich (1913-2002) constructed a model.Erich von Däniken asks the historians, not only in a particular field (such as Egyptology) to limit, but disciplinesto recognize the similarities between the ancient civilizations (such as the pyramids in Africa and South America, but see, for example, Thor Heyerdahl) to recognize the similarities and explore more detailed. Hecriticized the Catholic Church as well as governments and authorities in various countries (including Egypt) so that important evidence would be retained, supported his hypothesis.
Erich von Däniken sees herself as a devout man who prayed every day. However, the teachings of all worldreligions are wrong, because they on the wrong "facts" were based. The reason lies in the question of the originof life, which it considers to lie in space. Also distances himself from Däniken always disclaim all UFO religionsand emphasizes the fact that he, despite repeatedly mentioned in the media so well is not a ufologist.