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52 OUR ANCESTORS CAME FROM OUTER SPACE
Tiahuanaco foot of 297 mm, nor the Cuenca (Ecuador) foot of
348 mm seemed applicable to measure the Palenque tomb cover.
It was clear that the builders of this tomb had used some much
older system of measurement, possibly an ancestor of the metric
system.
To top it all, the very well-preserved bas-relief depicted an astronaut
sitting at the controls of a space vehicle! And it was unmistakably
a spacecraft propelled by a jet exhaust. As a consequence,
it is not difficult to imagine the amazement and even the
furor of most establishment archaeologists when they heard of
this discovery. And as is usual v^th them, crying "Fraud!'* was
their only explanation.
However, the grave itself contained more shocks. When the
heavy tombstone was finally lifted, the sarcophagus contained
the well-preserved skeleton of a white man who must have been
at least 180 cm, or 70 inches tall; but the average height of a
Maya rarely exceeded 150 cm, or 60 inches. The bas-relief was
engraved with twenty-four hieroglyphs not yet deciphered. The
sarcophagus was in the form of a fish—a symbol common to
many ancient religions and probably hinting at the aquatic origin
of man. Did Ruiz discover the tomb of the great Mayan god
Kukulcan who, according to the legend, was tall and blond with
a beard and blue eyes and had arrived one day from the land
where the sun rises?