"Sirs... INCAS refers to the Incan Kings or
emperors,
supposedly children of the Sun; INCANS refers to the
subjects of
the INCAS... For those of you who may not know
it...Tiahuanaco
and Cuzco (capital of Incan civilization) are just
across Lake
Titicaca from each other (Cuzco being some slight
distance back
from the lake).
"In regard to the underground passages at Cuzco,
I have been
told again and again by natives and some foreign
investigators
that there are subterranean passages in the
neighborhood of Cuzco
which are STILL GUARDED. Men have actually been known
to try to
enter these passages and either disappear or turn up
dead.
"Rather than attribute this to deros (this is not
sarcasm, as I
find Shaverism very much worthy of study) I would
attribute it to
the zeal of the Indians to guard the treasures of the
past to
which they feel they are the rightful heirs.
Separately,
someday, I hope to present a treatise on why I believe
the
Treasure of the Incas exists today near Cuzco and that
it could
not be valued at much less than seventy-five millions
of dollars,
but that is a lengthy subject. There is much to
support the
possibility of the existence of the underground
passages to which
Mr. Hansen (L. Taylor Hansen - Branton) refers,
because, among
other evidences, it is known that the Incas had secret
ways of
traveling great distances under ground. A friend of
mine (a
Peruvian miner with twenty years experience among the
Quichua
Indians in the Andean highlands) has actually
discovered the
entrance to one of these royal passages. The floor is
paved with
tile. He went back as far as he could go without
suffocating.
"The air is too stale and there is considerable danger
of cave-
ins. The Incans were very clever, but I don't believe
at all
that they had the means to bore tunnels for thousands
of miles
through the mountains. Rather, if they covered such
distances
underground, it can only mean that their man-made
passages were
only entrances into a series of CAVERNS. After
earthquakes in
the hills and in Lima (as long as twenty minutes
after) you can
sometimes hear subterranean rumblings, as though the
sound were
the result of subterranean landslides in deep caverns
below.
"Indeed one time in Lima I heard a subterranean
landslide WITHOUT
the accompaniment of earthquake. The ground merely
vibrated in a
light and curious fashion for perhaps a minute, to the
accompaniment of the muffled, subterranean sound of
sliding
rocks. Ask the Indians in the hills. They'll tell
you at once
about the rumblings under ground...
"Here is one item to add to the collection. When
I was
seventeen I built myself a four-inch Newtonian
telescope. In
examining the moon one night I distinctly saw five
symmetrical
bodies travel slowly in formation across the moon's
disc, as
though they were gigantic bodies traveling closer to
the moon
than to the Earth. My wife laughingly accuses me now
of having
mistaken flies on my mirror for space ships, but if
she knew more
about optical laws she would know that flies on my
mirror would
have been far more invisible to me than if she had put
them in my
soup..."
The writer of the letter then commences to quote
from a
scene in Shakespeare's HAMLET:
'There are stranger things in Heaven and Earth
than are
dreamt of in your philosophy, my dear Horatio...'
"--Marx Kaye., Lima, Peru., S.A."
The following excerpts in regards to the Incas are
from a letter
which appeared in the "Discussions' section of the
Jan. 1948
issue of AMAZING STORIES magazine:
