Ancient Inca Civilization
When the Spanish conquerors entered Peru, they came upon an
island near Puna on which was a royal garden so astonishing it
might have come out of a fairy tale.
Every living thing was reproduced in gold and silver models. Trees,
even to the roots, and lesser plants with leaves, flowers and fruit
fashioned in natural size and style; some ready to sprout, others halfgrown
or in full blossom.
Golden birds sat perched on silver trees, as if singing, while others
were flying and sucking honey from flowers.
Whole fields of maize were imitated—roots, stalk, flowers and cob;
the beard of the husk in gold, the rest in silver. Other plants were
similarly treated—a flower or anything of a yellow tint in real life was
done in gold, the other parts in silver. From the trees hung nuggets
of fruit.
Nothing remained uncopied: rabbits, foxes, mice, lizards, lions,
tigers, stags, snakes. All were set in their natural surroundings to
enhance reality.
And as if that were not enough, golden butterflies flitted around in the
breeze.
Life-size fish, ropes, hampers, baskets, bins and even woodpiles for
burning were all fashioned in gold and silver, soldered together.
Such gardens, would you believe, graced all royal residences
throughout the land. The others were disassembled before the
treasure-lusting invaders could reach them. So carefully were these
artefacts hidden, that they have never been found.
Regretfully, most of that upon which the invaders did lay their hands
was melted down for shipment to Europe. So vanished an
unbelievably precise metal technology.
But the Incas were heirs to a much earlier culture . . . As I see it, the
evidence for an advanced knowledge of metallurgy in the remote
past is irrefutable. An abundance of precious metals in earlier times
enabled many items in common use to bear an aesthetic superiority
to our own. Thus we see finely worked gold and silver fumiture,
eating utensils, garden tools and even footwear. There were
bathtubs of gold and silver, fed by water pipes of silver and gold.
The Spanish conquistadors (who conquered the ancient Inca empire)
reported that in a temple at Cuzco they were breathless when they
beheld an image of solid gold inlaid with emeralds and other gems
which covered a total wall of 50 feet! When struck by the rays of the
real sun, this false sun brilliantly illuminated the interior of the
building. It also caught the moonlight.)
Near modern day Lima in Peru, the temples of Pachacamak were
fastened with gold nails that were found to weigh a ton.
The early Greeks recorded that ships calling at Tartessus found
silver so plentiful that on the retum joumey they substituted silver
anchors for their leaden ones.
Montezuma of the Aztecs never ate twice from the same gold or
silver plate!
The value of the gold used in the construction of Solomon’s Temple
and its contents was, at current exchange rates, in excess of 3 billion
dollars! Whatever happened to all the gold?
THEY ARE LOOKING FOR IT NOW. ALL EYES ARE ON AFRIKA!!!!>
