Magicians of the Gods: Sequel to the International Bestseller Fingerprints of the Gods

Written by Graham Hancock

Narrated by Graham Hancock

From the host of Netflix’s Ancient Apocalypse

Graham Hancock's multi-million bestseller Fingerprints of the Gods remains an astonishing, deeply controversial, wide-ranging investigation of the mysteries of our past and the evidence for Earth's lost civilization. Twenty years on, Hancock returns with the sequel to his seminal work filled with completely new, scientific and archaeological evidence, which has only recently come to light...

Near the end of the last Ice Age 12,800 years ago, a giant comet that had entered the solar system from deep space thousands of years earlier, broke into multiple fragments. Some of these struck the Earth causing a global cataclysm on a scale unseen since the extinction of the dinosaurs. At least eight of the fragments hit the North American ice cap, while further fragments hit the northern European ice cap. The impacts, from comet fragments a mile wide approaching at more than 60,000 miles an hour, generated huge amounts of heat which instantly liquidized millions of square kilometers of ice, destabilizing the Earth's crust and causing the global Deluge that is remembered in myths all around the world. A second series of impacts, equally devastating, causing further cataclysmic flooding, occurred 11,600 years ago, the exact date that Plato gives for the destruction and submergence of Atlantis.

The evidence revealed in this book shows beyond reasonable doubt that an advanced civilization that flourished during the Ice Age was destroyed in the global cataclysms between 12,800 and 11,600 years ago. But there were survivors - known to later cultures by names such as 'the Sages', 'the Magicians', 'the Shining Ones', and 'the Mystery Teachers of Heaven'. They travelled the world in their great ships doing all in their power to keep the spark of civilization burning. They settled at key locations - Gobekli Tepe in Turkey, Baalbek in the Lebanon, Giza in Egypt, ancient Sumer, Mexico, Peru and across the Pacific where a huge pyramid has recently been discovered in Indonesia. Everywhere they went these 'Magicians of the Gods' brought with them the memory of a time when mankind had fallen out of harmony with the universe and paid a heavy price. A memory and a warning to the future...

For the comet that wrought such destruction between 12,800 and 11,600 years may not be done with us yet. Astronomers believe that a 20-mile wide 'dark' fragment of the original giant comet remains hidden within its debris stream and threatens the Earth. An astronomical message encoded at Gobekli Tepe, and in the Sphinx and the pyramids of Egypt,warns that the 'Great Return' will occur in our time...

• Language: English
• Publisher: Macmillan Audio
• Release date: Nov 10, 2015
• ISBN: 9781427267887

Graham Hancock

Graham Hancock fue corresponsal de The Economist en África Oriental y del Sunday Times de Londres. Su libro Símbolo y señal, bestseller internacional, documentó su búsqueda del Arca de la Alianza perdida. Ha aparecido en televisión con Michael Palin en su serie Pole to Pole, así como en la BBC y la CNN. También ha intervenido en la serie Explorer de National Geographic y en Los apocalipsis del pasado (Ancient Apocalypse), docuserie original de Netflix.

Reviews for Magicians of the Gods

[Fyighfkv · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

good read or listen. fast paced & discusses the potential of human historical achievements thru a unique lens that adds excitement & intrigue to keep the reader wanting to understand more.

[Larry Tansley · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

very thought provoking. it made me think of the capacity of humans

[Marvin Robinson · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Awesome very good work and very informative I highly recommend it

[Raymond Escobedo · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Good !!!!
Loved this book and his voice is amazing..

[Ashley Glassman · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Wow!!! I love how he discusses MANY different religions and myths.

[Taylor Tucker · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Read by the author himself, you can hear his conviction and gratitude.

[mrickicki · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Enthralling, captivating and utterly life-changing. Great scholarship and engaging presentation.

[a.godhelm · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Rickety linguistic bridges between plausible alt history and hints of the outright supernatural, most evidence of which is first stated as "seems to me"; then when recapitulated, as fact.

[tuckerresearch · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Graham Hancock is a fringe writer. Or pseudoscience, or pseudo-history, if you're being mean. I would say speculative history or alternative history. But, it is a calumny to group Hancock together with cranks like David Hatcher Childress, Erich von Däniken, Scott Wolter, and the like. He is a better researcher, much more based in secular science, and a far better writer. There are things in this book that are a tad far-fetched, but there is a lot more that is close-fetched.

Presented as a sequel to his 1995 Fingerprints of the Gods (ignoring, I guess, Underworld and Heaven's Mirror), Hancock presents evidence, again, for his theory that there was a rather advanced civilization that flourished before the last Ice Age, was destroyed, and survivors from this "Atlantis" (or whatever you want to call it) spread knowledge to the less-civilized remnants of mankind. Thus, like Fingerprints we have Oannes, Quetzalcoatl, Viracocha, etc.' astronomically aligned megaliths and temples, etc., that point to a circa 10,000 BC apocalypse of some sort.

In Fingerprints the civilization was in Antarctica and was swallowed by earth-crust displacement. Here he doesn't really say where the civilization may be (with hints it may be in North America or Indonesia), and he dropped earth-crust displacement for a cometary impact, the so-called Younger Dryas impact hypothesis. This places Hancock on more firm scientific ground, though many scientists still don't buy it. Nor will they sign on to the notion that comet impacts destroyed an advanced civilization.

It is amazing how much his theories now resemble Ignatius Donnelly's theories (from Atlantis: The Antediluvian World and Ragnarok: The Age of Fire and Gravel).

Since Fingerprints, archaeologists have discovered Göbekli Tepe in Turkey. A pre-historic (as in pre-writing) site that seems to be a religious cult center. Hancock spends an inordinate amount of time on Pillar 43, saying it is an early zodiac that focuses on the Younger Dryas era and our own 2012ish era. Why he hangs so much on one pillar I don't understand. Why not any of the other dozens of pillars?

It's rather a lot to hang your hat on.

I was disappointed, a little, in the slapdash appearance of the book. Why no running chapter heads? Why the numerous little errors? And, I love that Hancock has numerous endnotes, some with additional content. And, I admit I like he's old school and still uses ibid. and op. cit., etc. But, his citations are a mess. They could have used a nerd to make them all follow the same rules.

Nice color photographs and some nice line images, though the halftone maps are hard to read and/or useless. These could have been done much better. It's like someone plotted some GIS info on a Google clone and hit the print button, thinking it would be a good map in a printed book.

Overall, if you are willing to look into Hancock's speculations and you liked Fingerprints of the Gods, you will like this too. If you think Hancock is no better than the folks on Ancient Aliens, you will think it all is stupid. There is much to mentally chew on here and it is interesting, though it drags in a couple of places. Hancock, committed spiritual-secularist (i.e. anti-organized religion) never considers a biblical view of his evidence.

I don't quite buy it all, but, it is interesting nevertheless.

[Review of the hardcover, first US edition.]

[georgee53-1 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Sequel to Fingerprints of the Gods, it follows the latest research with inferences and speculative interpretations about the origins of our myths and civilisation. Fascinating read.