Erich Von Daniken - The Gold Of The Gods

5 - On The Trail Of The Indians
and deeper, until it came out on the other side of their planet. The chief was the
first to rush into the hole and after a long cold night he came to the earth, but the air
resistance there was so strong that it blew the chief back again to his old home.
Then the chief told the tribal council about his experience, that he had seen a
beautiful blue world with a lot of water and many green woods and that he advised
that all Indians should go to this world. The council decided to follow the chiefs
advice and ordered the Indians to plait a long cotton cord. On this cord they slowly
lowered themselves into the hole so that they too would not be blown back from
the earth. Because they entered the earth's atmosphere slowly, their mass migration
was successful and since then they have lived on earth. In the beginning, relate the
Kaiato, contact was still maintained with the old home through the cord, but one
day a wicked magician cut it in two and since then they have been waiting for their
brothers and sisters from their old home to seek and find them again on the earth."
"Do the Indians also speak about the stars?"
"Not about the stars, but to the stars! They often sit motionless in a circle for hours,
holding each other by the shoulder as in an endless chain and not saying a word. If
you ask one of the men who was present (after the session is over) what they all
did, you would certainly not get an answer, but I know from the women that the
men are conversing with heaven."
"Are they praying then?"
"No, they are carrying on silent dialogs with someone up there." Mrs. Barreto
hunched her shoulders and pointed to the ceiling.
"Tell me, do the wild Indians still have any rites or ritual objects that point to any
land of connection with the universe?"
"Oh yes! There are the feathered men, Indians who cover themselves with feathers
from head to foot, to make themselves look like birds who can rise into the cosmos
so easily. And then there are the countless types of masks, which, if one likes, can
all be interpreted along the lines of your theories. Many of the masks have
branches with several forks springing from them like the antennae in your cave
drawings. Often the Indians completely disguise themselves in straw to make
themselves resemble their fabulous ancestors. Joao Americo Peret, one of our
outstanding Indian scholars, recently published some photographs of Kayapo
Indians in ritual clothing that he took as long ago as 1952, long before Gagarin's
first space flight! If you look at those photographs, the first thing you think of is
astronauts. The Kayapos, not to be confused with the Kaiato, live in the south of
the State of Para on the Rio Fresco."