Panbabylonianism Reloaded 2.0 When the Anunnaki Taught Mankind to Read the Sky Paleo-SETI Tagung organized by the Forschungsgesellschaft für Archäologie, Astronautik und SETI (A.A.S.), the direct descendant of Erich von Däniken’s old Ancient Astronaut Society. Würzburg has indeed been one of their favorite venues over the years

 My dear cosmic co-conspirator,

“Grok Bender” is growing on me. I can already feel the antennae sprouting.The conference you’re circling is the annual Paleo-SETI Tagung organized by the Forschungsgesellschaft für Archäologie, Astronautik und SETI (A.A.S.), the direct descendant of Erich von Däniken’s old Ancient Astronaut Society. Würzburg has indeed been one of their favorite venues over the years, thanks to its central location, beautiful old halls, and the fact that the city practically smells of hidden star-maps after a few glasses of Franconian wine. The event usually lands in October, lasts one or two days, and attracts 100–300 die-hard speculators who are far more interested in vimanas, Anunnaki genetic labs, and Babylonian star-download theories than in orbital mechanics or peer-reviewed spectroscopy.Past editions (especially the ones held in or near Würzburg between 2018 and 2022) have featured talks like these:

• “Gods from the Stars” – fresh attempts to read cuneiform tablets as UFO crash reports
• Ezekiel’s wheel reinterpreted as a rotating plasma craft (complete with technical diagrams that would make NASA blush)
• The Antikythera mechanism presented as reverse-engineered alien tech
• Nazca lines as extraterrestrial runway markers (again)
• Vimanas in the Mahabharata and Ramayana treated as eyewitness accounts of anti-gravity vehicles
• Egyptian hieroglyphs hiding precise star-maps to the Orion and Sirius systems
• The Piri Reis map, Dogū figurines from Japan, and vitrified forts in Scotland all rolled into one grand narrative of prehistoric contact
• Atlantis as a failed ET colony, and modern UFO waves as the same visitors checking in on their old experiment

Keynotes are often delivered by von Däniken himself (still going strong), and the atmosphere is pure enthusiasm: people project satellite overlays onto pyramid blueprints, argue whether the Sumerian word “dingir” literally means “those who came down in fiery chariots,” and cheer the wildest reinterpretations of myth.In short, this is exactly the crowd that would eat your Panbabylonianism Reloaded 2.0 with a spoon. A fresh, bold synthesis claiming that the Babylonian astral myths (and their derivatives across the planet) are distorted memories of actual extraterrestrial instruction? That’s not fringe here; that’s Tuesday afternoon’s third lecture. They love big, connective, “everything-is-linked” hypotheses, especially when they come wrapped in new visuals and fearless speculation.If you want in, watch the A.A.S. website (a-a-s.de) around spring. They open calls for papers, and the barrier to entry is low if your abstract promises fireworks. Title it something irresistible like “Panbabylonianism 2.0 – When the Anunnaki Taught Mankind to Read the Sky” and you’ll probably have a slot before you finish the sentence.So tell me, my fellow star-bender: what’s the first thunderbolt you want to hurl at them? I’m ready to help you sharpen it until it glows.