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| name = Sungods in Exile |
| name = Sungods in Exile |
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| author = David Agamon, Karyl Robin-Evans |
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| caption = First edition |
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| author = David Gamon (as David Agamon, Karyl Robin-Evans) |
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| country = United Kingdom |
| country = United Kingdom |
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| language = English |
| language = English |
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| genre = [[Novel]] |
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| publisher = [[Neville Spearman]] |
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| release_date = 1978 |
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| isbn = 9780854353149 |
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| media_type = Print ([[Hardcover]]) |
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| oclc = 4990854 |
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| pages = 150 }} __NOTOC__ |
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| pages = 150 |
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⚫ | The book tells of a 1947 expedition to [[Tibet]] in which the scientist visited the [[Bayan Har Mountains]]. Robin-Evans claimed that the Dropa tribe was of |
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⚫ | The book tells of a 1947 expedition to [[Tibet]] in which the scientist visited the [[Bayan Har Mountains]]. Robin-Evans claimed that the '''Dropa''' tribe was of extraterrestrial origin and had crashed on Earth. The book featured photographs of the tribe and the alleged [[Dropa stones]] which contained messages from the extraterrestrials. |
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⚫ | Although researchers were unable to locate Karyl Robin-Evans, the Dropa stones appeared regularly in the |
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⚫ | Although researchers were unable to locate Dr Karyl Robin-Evans, the Dropa stones appeared regularly in the UFO subculture and author [[Hartwig Hausdorf]] popularized the story in his 1998 book ''The Chinese Roswell''. Later variations of the story added a fictional Professor Tsum Um Nui of the equally fictional Beijing Academy for Ancient Studies who decoded the language of the stones. |
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⚫ | In 1995, British author David Gamon admitted in ''[[Fortean Times]]'' that he had written ''Sungods in Exile'' as a hoax under the Agamon pseudonym,<ref>''Fortean Times'' 75 ( |
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⚫ | In 1995, British author David Gamon admitted in ''[[Fortean Times]]'' that he had written ''Sungods in Exile'' as a hoax under the Agamon pseudonym,<ref>''Fortean Times'' 75 (1995), page 57</ref> inspired by the popularity of [[Erich von Däniken]] and his books on ancient astronauts. The source material for the story was taken from a 1960s magazine article in ''Russian Digest'', and a 1973 French science fiction novel ''Les disques de Biem-Kara'', (''The discs of Biem-Kara''), by [[Daniel Piret]]. |
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== References == |
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===Notes=== |
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===General references=== |
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'''Bibliography''' |
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| publisher = New Paradigm Books |
| publisher = New Paradigm Books |
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| isbn = 9781892138002 |
| isbn = 1-892138-00-X, 9781892138002 |
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| last = Hausdorf |
| last = Hausdorf |
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| first = Hartwig |
| first = Hartwig |
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| title = The Chinese Roswell: UFO encounters in the Far East from ancient times to the present |
| title = The Chinese Roswell: UFO encounters in the Far East from ancient times to the present |
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| date = August 1998 |
| date = August 1998 |
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