Evidence from the Silent World

EVIDENCE FROM THE SILENT WORLD

'In the days before water covered the Earth, our forefathers spoke with the people of the heavens who came on a shining road in the sky.'
(Machiguenga Indian legend of the Peruvian jungles, South America.)

IN the dense tropical rain forest of eastern Peru live several related tribes of primitive Amazon Indians. Their homeland, called the montaña, stretches Eastward from the cloud-covered slopes of the Andes, a region of rugged mountains and swift flowing streams. The great, almost impenetrable, rain forest is called the `Silent World', for it guards its secrets well so that no intruder may enter and later leave with knowledge that the world is not yet ready for. Many expeditions are carefully planned and the newspapers tell how 'this one surely will succeed'. Then, in high spirits, the members of such an expedition enter the vast unknown. After that, usually the curtain of silence descends.

The Silent World can be one thing to one man and something entirely different to another man. It can be the `Green Mansions' of literary fame or it can be the `Green Hell' of infamy. The jungle treats you as you treat it. What are your motives for entering? Do you seek gold, riches, slaves? Do you seek knowledge, ancient records, medicinal plants? Motive! That determines how you will succeed in the Silent World.

During June and July, 1957, I searched for evidence of the road in the sky in the little-known jungle areas east of the Peruvian Andes. In Cuzco I heard a legend about a fabulous `Lost City' in the unexplored portions of the Cadena del Pantiacolla (Pantiacolla mountain range), which is in the treacherous Madre de Dios country north-east of Paucartambo, Peru.

In 1955, an old Piro Indian died near Manu, Peru. He was 90 years old and knew more about the fabled 'Lost City' than any living man. In 1900 when he was a young man, his wife, who belonged to the Machiguenga Tribe, decided to leave him and go back to her people. He followed her into country that was unknown to him near the headwaters of the Rio Pinquen southwest of Manu. He did not locate his wife, but he did come upon a great stone roadway in the jungle. He followed this road for many miles until he came to an enormous ruin of a city that contained a magnificent plaza with stone temples and houses grouped about it. There were also ancient reservoirs and fountains and carved stone entrances. Later, he told his story, but no one would believe him because there are so many 'Lost City' stories in South America that have existed since the days of the Inca Emperors who searched for the remains of the ancient and forgotten 'Paititi'--Land of the Jaguar King, which was supposed to be east of the Andes. The Incas were never successful. The Spanish conquerors looked for 'Paititi' to plunder its great treasure of gold and jewels. They never located it either.

For many years there have also been stories that near the 'Lost City', which was actually discovered by the Piro Indian in 1900, is located a 'Lost Portal or Doorway', sometimes referred to as the 'Lost Rock of the Writings'. This legend intrigued me, for I felt this might indicate that there really was a place in the unexplored jungles where the ancient inhabitants of 'Paititi' might have carved hieroglyphics that would prove there was a written language in South America after all. Science does not accept the fact that there ever was writing in this area at all, for even the Incas had no written language. But 'Paititi' was a great Amazonian Empire in the interior of South America thousands of years before the Incas ever came to Peru. I believe that South America is the Old World, not the 'New World'.

Scientists also laugh at the idea of stone ruins in the jungle areas, but, of course, they have never gone into the 'Silent World' to see if the old legends are true or not. I remember a friend of mine who told me that a certain area I was planning on visiting in the montaña of northern Peru contained no evidence whatsoever of ancient stone cities. He said: 'All you will find in that area is the fact that the ancient inhabitants were a naked nomadic people of the most primitive sort who hardly ever built brush houses, let alone worked stone houses.' He was certain of his conclusions although he had never visited the area in question. I was there about two weeks before I discovered the remains of a great stone road and many stone houses not over a stone's throw from the centre of the modern village itself. `Authorities' and their 'opinions' are oftentimes quite wrong.

I wanted to locate the 'Lost City' of the Piro Indian, and, at the same time, attempt to find the 'Lost Wall of the Writings'. I knew that somewhere in this area someone would some day discover the writing of the ancient Amazonian Empire known as 'Paititi'. I also hoped to discover legendary evidence amongst the present-day natives that would constitute evidence of this empire and the possibility that its leaders were aware of the road in the sky. I knew that if the `City' could be located first, then the 'Wall' would surely be nearby, or vice versa.

In my investigations I found that several 'Rocks of Writing' had been discovered in the past. The Catholic missionary, Padre Vicente de Cenitagoya, was the first white man to locate such a place in the area of the Madre de Dios. At any rate, he was the first one to report his findings and write about them. In 1918, the Dominican Padres from Spain established a small mission on the Rio Palotoa, but it was abandoned in 1925. The missionaries at this little mission also knew of the existence of `inscriptions and figures engraved on a great rock' which was located some distance from their mission.

For over a quarter of a century nothing came out of the `Silent World' regarding `Lost Rocks of Writing'. In 1953-54, Senor Jorge Althaus of Cuzco, Peru, re-discovered the 'Rock' of Hieroglyphics that had been discovered years before by Padre Cenitagoya.

In 1955, a man I will not name, but who calls himself the 'veteran Peruvian explorer', visited the same area after securing information, food, and guides from the Padres at the Dominican Mission San Miguel located near the mouth of the Rio Palotoa where it joins the Rio Alto Madre de Dios. I do not wish to name this man because of several things I was told by the Padres regarding his actions in the jungle. He secured several Indian boys to act as guides and promised to pay them if they would take him up the Palotoa and then return to the mission and go on downstream on the Rio Madre de Dios to the town of Puerto Maldonado. When he finally reached his destination he refused to pay the guides and would not even return money he had borrowed from them on the journey! I mention this only to show the true motive of this man, and not to injure him personally. Therefore, his name is not important to us here. Needless to say, however, his motive is not one readily acceptable in the `Silent World'. The `veteran explorer' later claimed in Lima that he went to the headwaters of the Rio Palotoa (sometimes called the Rio Pantiacolla after the mountain range of the same name), but according to the Dominican Padres no white man has ever been to the headwaters of this river. However, he did visit Padre Cenitagoya's `carved rock of inscriptions' and did take some photographs which were later reproduced in some of the Lima newspapers. I was told that he also asked the native people to remove their clothing so his photographs would have that 'touch of realism necessary in depicting savage Stone Age people' !

In the early part of 1957, Senor Harmut Winkler of Cuzco also visited the Padre Cenitagoya discovery and he took more photographs. However, he was interested in locating 'good land' in the jungle area for future development.

Later in the year of 1957, I left Cuzco with my friend Senor Miguel Acosta, who is from Ayaviri, Peru. He is a real veteran of the jungle, having spent nearly thirty years in wilderness areas all over Peru. However, he had never been to the country we were headed for in the Cadena del Pantiacolla. We journeyed by truck to Paucartambo and finally to the hot little jungle village of Pilcopata where the Peruvian government is building a road that will take many years to complete. This is the last outpost of the area, for from here on you travel narrow jungle trails where they exist, and where they don't exist you either cut your way through the dense jungle growth or you follow the rough stone shoreline of the rapid rivers. During the rainy season the latter route is not possible as all shorelines are flooded.

We walked on the trails with our back packs or we followed the Rio Alto Madre de Dios north until we reached the mouth of the Rio Palotoa. Upstream a short distance we found the mission San Miguel of the Dominican Padres from Spain. We were greeted by the young Padre Miguel Almaraz, and later by the venerable Superior of the mission, Padre Jose Alvarez. Padre Alvarez has spent forty years in the jungle areas of South America.

The humble but adequate mission served as our base camp. Actually, during our research, we located several areas where 'Rocks of Writing' exist. These areas include the country of the Rio Queros, the Rio Sabaluyoc, and the Rio Sinkibenia ('River of Corn').

Figure No. 37 is a map of the area of our 1957 explorations. We were able to locate and map several new rivers that had never been identified nor charted previously. The main ones were the Rio Shoritia; Rio Abalua; Rio Inkonadero and the Rio Santa Ana. With two young Machiguenga Indian guides we penetrated the unknown region near the headwaters of the Rio Sinkibenia, but we never reached the source of the river. The line of arrows indicates our route from the mission San Miguel. Where the Rio Santa Ana joins the Rio Sinkibenia, we located a gigantic stone cliff on which were carved thousands of ancient hieroglyphics. These were photographed in colour and will appear in my book Land of The Tiger King, along with a complete account of our discoveries and strange experiences. The `Rock of the Writing' incident is only briefly mentioned here in order to give a background for the material which I shall present shortly. We reached a point beyond the stone cliff where no white man had ever gone before. We did not locate the legendary `Lost City' although I feel it is somewhere to the west of our last camp on the Sinkibenia, for carved on the stone cliff in the middle of all the hieroglyphics we found the figure of a helmeted young man with his arm extended and pointing upstream towards the west. Also we discovered the large figure of a jaguar wearing an enormous plumed crown. Here was the `Jaguar King' himself. Did this mean we were actually near the ancient Empire of 'Paititi'?

The dotted line on the map (Fig. No. 37) indicates the route of the 'veteran explorer' on the Palotoa. However, we followed this river for some distance also, and I took photographs of Padre Cenitagoya's `inscriptions' as others before me had done.

We did not penetrate further upstream on the Sinkibenia because we were in the territory of a large tribe that has never been visited by white or civilized men. We were not ready for such a meeting for we had inadequate equipment and supplies. Padre Alvarez had told us at the mission that he intended to conduct an expedition in order to make friends with this large tribe, and he invited us to join him at some future date. Both Padres warned us, however, that to undertake such a venture without proper planning would mean certain disaster. We remembered these words and decided not to go any further. But I believe that somewhere ahead of our last camp towards the headwaters of the Rio Sinkibenia there is a great and majestic city of forgotten 'Paititi'.

The main point I want to mention here in regard to the hieroglyphic evidence of the Madre de Dios area is that it definitely represents a written language of extreme antiquity. The carved glyphs are not just the crude petroglyphic sketching of some primitive savage, for they constitute a form of writing that has never been studied before. I believe other 'Rocks of Writing' will be discovered in the same area, for surely there must be more than one or two. There are many rivers with many strange rock carvings in their vicinity.

Fig. No. 38 is a photograph I took during our stay at our last camp on the Rio Sinkibenia. To the left is 'Patiachi', one of our Machiguenga Indian guides, and to the right is my companion Miguel. We had to build our own balsa raft in order to get out of the country and go downstream towards the Rio Palotoa and the mission where we had established our base camp.

I am now working on a translation of the many glyphs we encountered during our 1957 expeditionary work, but what I want to present here are a few of the native legendary tales that shed light on what caused the fall of the ancient Amazonian Empire, and a startling incident that took place just prior to its destruction.

Fig. No. 39 is a photograph I took of the Dominican Padres in front of the little church at Mission San Miguel. This structure is now gone due to a great flood that forced the Padres to change the location of the mission. The young man to the left, standing up, is a civilized Huachipari Indian. Next to him stands the full-bearded Padre Miguel Almaraz and in his white habit is Padre Jose Alvarez, one of the most godly and one of the finest men it has ever been my honour to know. The other four Indian boys are members of the primitive Masco (Mashco) Indian Tribe that inhabits the area with the more advanced Machiguenga Tribe. These Indians in the photograph are considered to be Christians and civilized.

The Machiguenga legends were of great interest to me. Padre Alvarez told me that when he arrived in the area, the Indians told him that they believed in an angel of great beauty who appeared in white light. They said this angel protected them from evil spirits and from danger. Therefore, Padre Alvarez immediately named the mission San Miguel (Saint Michael) in honour of the Biblical archangel of power and light.

The Machiguenga say they have no particular legend about the `Rocks of Writing' located in their territory, except that they had nothing to do with the making of such glyphs nor did their ancestors. To them, such places have always been there.

Padre Alvarez has spent many years studying legends of these people and is, undoubtedly, the world's authority on their language and customs, etc. He says that their tales are, in some cases, identical with the stories of the ancient Greeks, Egyptians, Romans, and many of the accounts of the Holy Bible. The Machiguenga and other tribes have tales relating to the `Garden of Eden' and to the `Great Deluge'.

Some of the tribes believe that animals came from man, instead of the popular evolutionary concept today that man descended from the animals! They say that men were on the Earth first and there were no animals. Because of evil men working evil spells the animals came about on the Earth. This all sounds like the 'Great Abomination or Adultery' when the 'Sons of God' saw the `daughters of men'. In other words, the race of Man on the Earth became Human and degenerated to that which was angel/animal and would have to work its way out of an inherited beasthood.

There are many legends that speak of the time before a great flood that covered the Earth. One story tells how many inhabitants of the interior of South America had to flee to a very high mountain in order to escape the water and to find food. While they were attempting to climb the mountain some of them fell in the mouth of a great fish and were swallowed. Others reached the top in safety. In their stories they have preserved the names of some of the heroes of the ancient times in the days of the catastrophe and flood. One name reminds us of the Patriarch Noah from the account in Genesis of the Deluge or Flood. This name is Noeaha.

The Masco Tribe says in the time of the great destruction, which destroyed a resplendent and ancient empire that was ruled over by white kings, it took twelve hours to go around a certain giant tree. Some of the people wanted to climb to the top of this tree to escape the catastrophe. But some of them were unsuccessful and fell off the tree into boiling water which covered the Earth.

All tribes of the Madre de Dios area speak of a time when tremendous cataclysms shook the Earth and how in the interior of South America nearly everyone perished.

The Huachipari say that the `Rocks of Writing' are very ancient and existed before the Spanish, and before the Incas, and even before the Pre-Incas. They, and other tribes, say that those who reached the highest points of mountains were saved in the days of catastrophe, and such represent the direct descendants of the `remnant that remained'.

When the catastrophe occurred is not exactly known, but it must have taken place about 12,000 years ago (close to 10,000 B.C.) for there are references to such a period throughout the world. Tremendous earthquakes shook the ground. The sky was filled with fire and blackness. Lightning flashed and it rained and rained and rained. Gigantic meteors streaked through the heavens and thousands struck the Earth sending up dense clouds. Horrid gases rose from the planet and great tidal waves crashed on to the shores and swept inland to cover villages and great cities. The high walled magnificent citadels of the Amazonian Empire did not escape, for most of the splendid temples and plazas and houses were engulfed in great cracks in the Earth's surface. The inhabitants who escaped the destruction of the cities fled to the `high places' but many succumbed to poisonous gases from the Earth and `flaming stones' from the sky. One of the greatest civilizations of the world perished in almost a single night. The brief reconstruction above of the scene on the fatal day thousands of years ago in the interior of South America is based on ancient traditional evidence from the modern tribes of the area.

Many other legends exist all over the world that tell of the same catastrophe. In an Aztec codex we read :

'... a rain of fire came following the sun of rain... all was burned... a rain of rocks came and the sky drew near the waters and the earth... darkness covered the earth... men went to the caves but they were sealed in by falling rocks... men climbed trees, but they fell... there was no sun and for five days blackness was everywhere... earthquakes shook the land... flames came from the earth, and flaming stones dropped from the heavens...'

The tribes of the Amazon say: `On the earth all was dark as night for many moons... hidden for many days was the sun.'

I collected many legends during my stay at the mission San Miguel which proved to me that a great Amazonian Empire had existed thousands of years ago in South America and was destroyed rapidly in a great catastrophe that must have been felt and known over the entire world. However, the most remarkable legend of all is related by the Machiguenga:

'In the days before water covered the Earth, our forefathers spoke with the people of the heavens who came on a shining road in the sky.'

This legend indicates that in the days before the great flood or destruction, the ancestors of the Machiguenga had been in communication with 'people of the heavens' or the 'sky dwellers'. These celestial inhabitants came to the Earth on a `road in the sky'.

Some researchers may want to interpret `people of the heavens or sky' as referring to the Incas who lived in their great capital of Cuzco high in the mountains above the jungle tribes like the Machiguenga. Therefore, some may say the native of the tropical rainforest thought of the Inca and his subjects as 'sky dwellers'. However, this interpretation is not possible for several reasons.

First of all, 'people of the heavens or sky' comes from the Machiguenga word enoqui, which can only refer to the literal sky. It means 'up in the heavens' (apart from the Earth) and cannot possibly refer to the Incas who lived `up in the mountains or high places'.

The legend says: `In the days before water covered the Earth...: This indicates that the event took place in very ancient times and could not possibly refer to the Incas who were late arrivals in Peru.

... before water covered the Earth... ' refers to 12,000 years ago, and the Incas arrived on the shores of Peru about 1200 A.D. Also, there was no catastrophe during the reign of the Incas that could be described with such violence as the one above. Unquestionably, the legend refers to a very ancient time and the `people of the heavens' had nothing whatsoever to do with an earthly people.

Salcamayphua, an ancient chronicler who wrote of the Inca conquests, speaks of an incident that sheds light on the attitude of the jungle people towards the Incas. He tells how tribute payers from the eastern valleys of the rainforest beyond the Andes came to Cuzco. There were three hundred of them and they carried much gold to the Inca Emperor. Their arrival took place during the time of a killing frost that ruined all the crops of the Cuzco area. Because of this bad `omen' the Incas ordered the three hundred men to the top of a high hill known as Pachatucsa, or Pachatusun, and there they were all buried alive. It is obvious from the study of the legend that whoever the 'people of the heavens' were, the Machiguenga held them in high esteem. The jungle tribes would never revere a nation that murdered three hundred of their men who were bearing gifts.

The Machiguenga legend also states that the communication with the 'sky people' was over a great shining 'road in the sky' which was in the form of a spiral. The communication was cut off immediately after the catastrophe of 12,000 years ago took place. Another version says the communication ended when the people on Earth became `drunk'. The 'sky people' are said to have been `good people who never became drunk'.

Did the 'people of the heavens' come to the leaders of the ancient Amazonian Empire to warn them of impending doom? People of other planets would have been aware of cosmic disturbances soon to affect the Earth. Did space ships from other worlds arrive over their 'road in the sky'? Did the occupants of such interplanetary craft land and discuss the coming catastrophe with the enlightened priests and kings of great 'Patititi' ? All of this must have taken place for communication did not exist after the time of 'fire, blackness and boiling water'. Do the 'Rocks of Writing' in the Madre de Dios area represent an attempt on the part of the ancient priest-scientists to record for future generations the happenings that destroyed 'Patititi' ?

In the same area today, where once the Amazonian Empire flourished, UFOs or space ships are again being sighted and in great numbers. Such craft showed up before to warn the men on Earth that a great disaster was about to engulf them. Why are they now coming to the very same area after thousands of years? Why is the 'communication' being established once more? A study of UFO sightings down through recorded history will show that interplanetary visitors always make an appearance in the affairs of Earth just prior to some great cataclysm or change on this planet.

Since 1955, UFOs have been reported by engineers, explorers, and missionaries working in the little-known jungle areas of South America. The Padres report that they do not know what these strange, unconventional craft are, but they do know they have been seeing them in great numbers, and sometimes singly. The UFOs are always observed heading in the direction of the vast unexplored areas where no white man has ever gone. In other words, they are headed directly for the areas where Colonel Fawcett and others have claimed great stone cities of the ancient South American Empire once ruled the world. Why are they returning to these cities now that these places are in ruins? Do they seek ancient records still buried there? Or is it possible that some of these cities are not in ruins but are still occupied by some of the `remnant that remained'? And these inhabitants of still living cities of `Paititi', are they actually in communication with beings from other worlds? What strange and wonderful conclaves we can imagine! Interplanetary craft landing in the plazas of forgotten cities that never were abandoned, but continued to live and be occupied by the masters of a great civilization. A magnificent picture forms before our eyes as we see the men of other worlds, who represent the highest in technical and scientific skill and achievement, sit down to confer with the masters of still living 'Paititi' in the majestic and gigantic stone halls of an Empire that ruled the world over 30,000 years ago.

Would all of this account for the fact that for hundreds of years jungle Indians have reported they have occasionally seen `white masters or teachers in robes' in the unknown areas of the rain forests? These 'white teachers' are not modern missionaries, for the Indians claim they are capable of 'strange powers' and that they come and go as they please and that they live in great cities in parts of the jungle that even they are unfamiliar with. Is this why so many tribes have a great fear of the areas of `Lost Cities'; is this why they can be used to guide you for a certain distance and to a certain point and then they will not go a step further?

As early as 1948-1949, reports came out of Puerto Maldonado on the Rio Madre de Dios that space ships and strange 'glowing lights' were being seen regularly there. Red, yellow and green objects were reported entering the dense jungle areas. Why are they coming? Some research societies in various South American countries believe that the UFOs are using the unexplored jungle areas for gigantic bases of operation and that they use such areas to insure their privacy. Let us remember that there is a lot of `space' in outer space and the UFOs have been doing a good job of `hiding' in that space for a very long time. Therefore, do they really need our jungles to hide from us, or are they in those areas for a much more important reason? I believe they have once again established their road in the sky and that they are in communication with the master teachers of a dead empire who still guard the ancient wisdom in the high-walled stone citadels of great 'Paititi'. The fact that they have returned to the Earth constitutes a warning for our time that we must heed.

Again we find in a place where legends speak of `sky dwellers' the same thing happening today, the `gods' have returned to their former haunts. What does all of this mean to us? Are we facing a world calamity as the ancients did? Let us remember the words of warning from the Ancient Mysteries:

'As above, so below... that which hath been shall return again.'

While I was in the Madre de Dios area in 1957, I heard a story from a friend that comes from a most reliable source. It is reported that an expedition penetrated the area near the unexplored head waters of the Rio Carbon in 1953. One morning they discovered freshly made human footprints all around their camp. Evidently someone had been looking them over closely during the night although they had heard nothing. This in itself would be frightening in an unknown area, but what caused them to abandon their camp at once and head downstream was the fact that those footprints were more than double the size of modern man's!

Is it possible that the ancient race of giants mentioned in all the legends did not become extinct? Did some of these great men of old find safety and a new home in the densest parts of the jungle where man today is just beginning to enter? If that is true, some day soon a modern explorer is going to walk right into the middle of a stronghold where he will be dwarfed by men over twice his height.

There is a certain man in Lima who is well-known throughout the Republic of Peru, and who has spent nearly twenty years in search of ancient Inca buried treasure. Several years ago he had an experience which may be connected with the 'freshly made giant footprints' of the Rio Carbon. He says: `After traveling north from Lima for several hundred kilometers, we (there was one other in his party) found ourselves in a very desolate region of the desert where neither food nor water could be obtained. My companion was frightened at the prospect of spending the night in this place because he said ancient treasures were always guarded. Later in this place we saw in the desert sand the most gigantic imprint of a bare human foot that anyone could possibly imagine.'

Certain legends of Brazil state that in the unexplored Matto Grosso area there are the remains of a forgotten giant race, and that these remains are perfectly preserved in mummified form. Other variations of the same story claim that the giants are not really 'mummified' but are only held in a state of suspended animation. It is even claimed that the descendants of these beings are still alive in the unknown jungle areas of Brazil today. And they are nearly fifteen feet tall. Is there any connection between these 'mummified giants' and those in the subterranean chambers deep underneath the lamaseries of mysterious Tibet? There are many correspondences from every age and from every part of our world, but we do not know the answers. I have a strange feeling that we are not going to have to wait long for at least some of those answers.

The evidence from the `Silent World' adds its testimony, brought out of obscurity, to all the other accounts of a fabulous and forgotten yesterday.

Since time immemorial the road in the sky has spiraled down to Earth. It touched our pristine land one thousand million years ago when the Time-Spanners prepared the Earth for hu-manity. It passed by great monoliths in the Last of the Sacred Forests and it passed over the radiating lines of the desert that served as Beacons for the Gods. It was known to the people of the Pueblos who created 'ceramic charts' painted with the Martian Miniatures. It existed through the time of Fossils, Footprints, and Fantasy upon our strange little globe, and in its wanderings it has left us indisputable proof of its reality in the Evidence From the Silent World.

We have learned something of the eternal road in the sky as it was known to the planet Earth during a long and almost forgotten yesterday.