Review: Legacy of the Gods

Legacy of the Gods by Ray Mott
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

I read Legacy of the Gods Book 1 by Ray Mott in two days because much of it was repetitive. The author liked to exhaustively copy similar phrases from different places in the Bible when making a point. He listed the same verse from numerous Biblical versions with slightly different wording. I understand this kind of writing style and probably would have structured my writing the same way if I wanted to show all the evidence in the Bible for an ancient alien concept. However, these long lists are still overkill. I think that he should have used prototypical verses and limited his lists to less than a page.

In addition, the lists are not very effective when he does not include his own explanation for some odd entries in the lists. For example, he had a list of verses about sons of gods that also included verses about giants, but he does not explicitly explain the theory that the gods mated with human women and the resulting progeny were giants. He just lets the reader figure this out on his or her own without any help from the book. If I hadn't remembered what ancient alien theory he was talking about, I would have been lost. It is clear to me that the author writes in a repudiating style. The issue I have is that he needs to explain the concept he is trying to repudiate more fully and with more background details so that the reader can easily make the connection between the flawed concept and his logical response to it. He doesn't do this consistently.

Furthermore, the author is not a fluent English writer. There were numerous misspellings, incorrect words, and sentence fragments. There were places in the book where he did not complete the sentence or concept he was trying to convey. The monochromatic pictures were too small to see details clearly. For this book to be better, each picture should take up the entire page and have a unique heading that the text can refer to. This book needs to be edited for both written and visual clarity and published again as a second edition.

On the plus side, the author does a good job emphasizing that winged gods or angels could be real creatures. I thought it was ironic that he liked the phrase "winged gods" better than the word "birdmen" as he was so intent on expressing that a universal God didn't need a machine to fly in the beginning of the book. If he wanted to portray them as real creatures, "birdmen" would be a better choice. His message to the world could very well be that we need to be prepared to meet real-life angels in living, breathing bodies. Their technical savvy would be well above our own.

Last but not least, I was stunned to realize through memory association that an "observer of times" in one biblical source mentioned in the book could be a reference to a television news reporter, an ancient astronomer who observed the movements of stars, or even a modern day archeologist who used carbon-14 technology to date bones along a timeline. I finally concluded that the reason the Bible verse existed was to protect humans from genetic scientists from otherworldly species who wanted to manipulate human DNA for their own selfish gain.


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