Erich Von Daniken - The Gold Of The Gods

4 - Temuen, The Island They Call Nan Madol
Fig 50 The Bishop Museum at Honolulu, Hawaii, contains many such copies of flying
machines, cataloged as "ritual masks" by scholars. But it would take less imagination to
identify these "memories," which have been made for many centuries, as aids to flying that
were pulled over the head, with the flat pieces of wood as wings, with supports for arms and
legs and the corset into which the flyer had to squeeze himself.
Rupe girded and masked himself and climbed up to the heaven.
He reached a place where men lived and asked:
"Are the heavens above this heaven inhabited?"
"Yes, they are inhabited," he was told.
"Can I reach these heavens?"
"No, you will never be able to reach them for these heavens were built by Tane."
Rupe struggled up to the second heaven and again found men, whom he also asked:
"Are the heavens above these heavens inhabited?"
"Yes, but you will never be able to reach them because they were built by Tane."