Erich Von Daniken - The Gold Of The Gods

1 - The Gold Of The Gods
writing or an alphabet.
Professor Thomas Barthel, Director of the Folklore Institute of
Tubingen University, told the 39th International Congress of American
Studies at Lima that he had succeeded in establishing 400 signs of an
Inca writing. He could interpret the meaning of 50 of them and read
24. It was not an alphabetical script. Peruvian and German scholars
spoke of "attractive patterns and ornaments" which they thought were
akin to writing.
In January, 1972 a veritable bomb exploded on the Congress for
Andean Archaeology at Lima. The Peruvian ethnologist Dr. Victoria
de la Jara backed up ten years of research work with proof that the
Incas really did have a script. She said that the geometrical patterns
(squares, right-angles, lozenges, dots, dashes, etc.) on Inca pottery and
urns were in fact characters with a content ranging from the simple to
the highly complicated. They related factual historical events, they
recounted myths and proved that even then some of the Incas practiced
the noble but ill-paid art of poetry. Groups of elements formed a
grammar based on complementary colors. When Dr. de la Jara finished
her lecture, there was thunderous applause from her fellow scholars.
What will the ethnologists say when they begin to rack their brains
over the writing on the plaques at Cuenca? I know perfectly well that
there will be no thunderous applause for me, but I still say that the
characters on these metal plaques found deep under the earth will
prove to be the oldest writing in the world! And that wise messengers
from the gods inscribed technical data and advice for future
generations on them!
I have seen three prehistoric model aircraft of ultramodern design!
Anyone who travels to Colombia can see the first one (Fig. 18) on
show in the State Bank at Bogota. The second is naturally owned by
Father Crespi and the third still lies 780 feet below ground in Juan