Erich Von Daniken - The Gold Of The Gods

5 - On The Trail Of The Indians
Fig. 56. The "tortoise" is the special attraction in the wilderness of Sete Cidades.
In the absence of research, nothing positive can be said about it.
Although the origin of the Seven Cities is still unexplained, the rock paintings are
an established fact. You can see them and photograph them. And there can be no
doubt that the paintings are considerably more recent than the rough weather-worn
stone monuments. Sete Cidades has two "pasts": one a dark primordial past that
can probably never be reconstructed, and a "modern" one, although even that dates
to prehistoric times.
Once again not even the cleverest man on earth knows who painted the paintings
on the walls. Yet it very soon becomes clear that the prehistoric artists, with few
exceptions, liked to use the same motifs and symbols as are found in cave and rock
paintings all over the world. Circles, wheels (with spokes), the sun, concentric
circles, squares inside circles and variations on crosses and stars. Just as if all
prehistoric artists, even those in the most remote parts, had visited the same art
school!
In his book Kult Symbol Schrift, Oswald O. Tobisch has shown in tabulated form
that rock drawings in Africa, Europe, Asia and America are related to each other.
At the end of his comparative studies Tobisch asks in amazement:
"Is it possible that once there was a unified concept of God on an international
scale simply inconceivable to our present way of thinking and that mankind in