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Exaggeration, Plagiarism and the Mysterious "Tunnels" Under South America

12/2/2012

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Alternative writers are maddeningly illogical in their wild speculation. One odd claim I keep running across is the assertion that beneath South America is an interconnected network of underground tunnels stretching into the thousands of miles and of such workmanship that primitive Natives could never have built them. In Ancient American (issue 53, 2003), Warren Smith claimed that proof that the tunnel system existed was the fact that the Inca did not discuss it; specifically, he believes that when the Inca told the Spanish they had secreted away their gold where none might find it, this therefore proves the existence of thousands of miles of underground tunnels spanning the continent.

Despite hundreds of pages of alternative claims about them, these elaborate tunnel systems have never been found. Pizarro supposedly tried to enter them from atop Mt. Huascaran, but found only large slabs of stone. (In truth, only modern writers claim these were caves: Pizarro thought they were merely treasure-chambers.) In the 1850s, the Spanish viceroy sent an expedition to find them, but after encountering hostility from the natives, gave up. In Isis Unveiled (1877), Helena Blavatsky claimed, ridiculously, that a Peruvian had given her a map of the tunnels and their entrance—which of course she declined to share. In Mysteries of South America (1947), Harold T. Wilkins, working from Blavatsky, claimed several underground roads existed—which of course he had never actually seen—and attributed them to Atlantis.

In 1971, an expedition returned to Huascaran and claimed to have sighted the slabs of stone that they believed blocked the tunnel entrances. They described paved stone tunnels that extended down the mountain and into the ocean for 65 miles, terminating 80 ft. below sea level, blocked by doors that moved ingeniously on pivots—all signs of a hoax. These tunnels have never been seen by anyone else, though all modern English versions are derived (largely verbatim) from Erich von Däniken’s summary in The Gold of the Gods of a German popular science magazine’s description of them. This magazine article is apparently the sole documentation of the expedition. Von Däniken also claimed to have personally explored the tunnels in The Gold of the Gods, finding within alien artifacts, which he knew then and later admitted was all a lie. David Childress sought them out as well, and he admitted he found absolutely nothing, which failed to dent his enthusiasm for the tunnels in the least. Wilkins’ work was the direct source for David Childress.

The fact of the matter is that all of the modern writers’ accounts are derived—in many cases almost verbatim—from Blavatsky’s. Seriously: Every alternative account I’ve examined has nearly paralleled Blavatsky’s point for point and claim for claim. Consider this:

Blavatsky, Isis Unveiled, 1877 
Wilkins, Mysteries of Ancient South America, 1947, p. 158
Childress, Lost Cities of South America, 1986, p. 61 (repeated verbatim in World Explorer, vol. 2, no. 3.)

Marveling at the exhibition of such treasures, the conqueror declared that he would not release the prisoner, but would murder him, unless the queen revealed the place whence the treasure came. He had heard that the Incas had somewhere an inexhaustible mine; a subterranean road or tunnel running many miles under ground, where were kept the accumulated riches of the country.

"I will not release the Inca; but will murder him, unless you tell me whence all these treasures come.” Pizarro had heard, goes on the native Peruvian tradition, that the Incas possessed a secret and inexhaustible mine, or enormous depository of mysterious character, which lay in a vast, subterranean tunnel, or road, running many miles underground beneath his imperial dominions. Here were kept the accumulated riches of the country.

But Pizarro had demanded, after seeing the previous treasures, that he be shown the source of this fabulous wealth before he would release the Inca. He had heard that the Incas possessed a secret and inexhaustible mine or depository, which lay in a subterranean tunnel running many miles underground. Here was supposedly kept the accumulated riches of the country.

The whole passage of each book is in fact exactly parallel, but I think this makes the situation fairly clear. Therefore, let’s take a look at what the Theosophical fraud wrote about this imaginary network of tunnels. 

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The story concerns the famous treasures of the last of the Incas. The Peruvian asserted that since the well-known and miserable murder of the latter by Pizarro, the secret had been known to all the Indians, except the Mestizos, who could not be trusted. It runs thus: The Inca was made prisoner, and his wife offered for his liberation a room full of gold, "from the floor up to the ceiling, as high up as his conqueror could reach" before the sun would set on the third day. She kept her promise, but Pizarro broke his word, according to Spanish practice. Marveling at the exhibition of such treasures, the conqueror declared that he would not release the prisoner, but would murder him, unless the queen revealed the place whence the treasure came. He had heard that the Incas had somewhere an inexhaustible mine; a subterranean road or tunnel running many miles under ground, where were kept the accumulated riches of the country. The unfortunate queen begged for delay, and went to consult the oracles. During the sacrifice, the chief-priest showed her in the consecrated 'black mirror' the unavoidable murder of her husband, whether she delivered the treasures of the crown to Pizarro or not. Then the queen gave the order to close the entrance, which was a door cut in the rocky wall of a chasm. Under the direction of the priest and magicians, the chasm was accordingly filled to the top with huge masses of rock, and the surface covered over so as to conceal the work. The Inca was murdered by the Spaniards and his unhappy queen committed suicide. Spanish greed overreached itself, and the secret of the buried treasures was locked in the breasts of a few faithful Peruvians.

Our Peruvian informant added that in consequence of certain indiscretions at various times, persons had been sent by different governments to search for the treasure under the pretext of scientific exploration. They had rummaged the country through, but without realizing their object. So far this tradition is corroborated by the reports of Dr. Tschudi and other historians of Peru. But there are certain additional details which we are not aware have been made public before now.

Several years after hearing the story, and its corroboration by the Italian gentleman, we again visited Peru. Going southward from Lima, by water, we reached a point near Arica at sunset, and were struck by the appearance of an enormous rock, nearly perpendicular, which stood in mournful solitude on the shore, apart from the range of the Andes. It was the tomb of the Incas. As the last rays of the setting sun strike the face of the rock, one can make out, with an ordinary opera-glass, some curious hieroglyphics inscribed on the volcanic surface.

When Cuzco was the capital of Peru, it contained a temple of the sun, famed far and near for its magnificence. It was roofed with thick plates of gold, and the walls were covered with the same precious metal; the eave-troughs were also of solid gold. In the west wall the architects had contrived an aperture in such a way that when the sunbeams reached it, it focused them inside the building. Stretching like a golden chain from one sparkling point to another, they encircled the walls, illuminating the grim idols, and disclosing certain mystic signs at other times invisible. It was only by understanding these hieroglyphics — identical with those which may be seen to this day on the tomb of the Incas — that one could learn the secret of the tunnel and its approaches. Among the latter was one in the neighborhood of Cuzco, now masked beyond discovery. This leads directly into an immense tunnel which runs from Cuzco to Lima, and then, turning southward, extends into Bolivia. At a certain point it is intersected by a royal tomb. Inside this sepulchral chamber are cunningly arranged two doors; or, rather, two enormous slabs which turn upon pivots, and close so tightly as to be only distinguishable from the other portions of the sculptured walls by the secret signs, whose key is in the possession of the faithful custodians. One of these turning slabs covers the southern mouth of the Liman tunnel — the other, the northern one of the Bolivian corridor. The latter, running southward, passes through Tarapaca and Cobija, for Arica is not far away from the little river called Pay'quina, which is the old boundary between Peru and Bolivia.

Not far from this spot stand three separate peaks which form a curious triangle; they are included in the chain of the Andes. According to tradition the only practicable entrance to the corridor leading northward is in one of these peaks; but without the secret of its landmarks, a regiment of Titans might rend the rocks in vain in the attempt to find it. But even were some one to gain an entrance and find his way as far as the turning slab in the wall of the sepulcher, and attempt to blast it out, the superincumbent rocks are so disposed as to bury the tomb, its treasures, and — as the mysterious Peruvian expressed it to us — "a thousand warriors" in one common ruin. There is no other access to the Arica chamber but through the door in the mountain near Pay'quina. Along the entire length of the corridor, from Bolivia to Lima and Cuzco, are smaller hiding-places filled with treasures of gold and precious stone, the accumulations of many generations of Incas, the aggregate value of which is incalculable.

We have in our possession an accurate plan of the tunnel, the sepulcher, and the doors, given to us at the time by the old Peruvian. If we had ever thought of profiting by the secret, it would have required the co-operation of the Peruvian and Bolivian governments on an extensive scale. To say nothing of physical obstacles, no one individual or small party could undertake such an exploration without encountering the army of smugglers and brigands with which the coast is infested; and which, in fact, includes nearly the whole population. The mere task of purifying the mephitic air of the tunnel, which had not been entered for centuries, would also be a serious one. There, however, the treasure lies, and there, the tradition says, it will lie till the last vestige of Spanish rule disappears from the whole of North and South America.


I’m sure you can see the elements of all the later accounts here: The pivoting doors, the mysterious hieroglyphs (in a land without writing no less!), the dubious historicity, etc. But note too the differences: Blavatsky does not doubt that these were Inca tunnels—for she did not know the Inca were a young empire. She also makes no claim for a continent-wide system, but she does provide the key to the mystery: Seeing all the Inca gold and silver, Pizarro believed the Inca had an “inexhaustible mine” from which it was drawn. This must be the legendary origin of the “tunnel” myth, but later authors ignore this important piece of evidence.

Specifically, the actual warrant for this myth probably derives from Garcilaso de la Vega's report that the Inca made underground passages that connected the towers of Sacsayhuaman in a labyrinthine way: "They were built with so many streets and lanes, crossing each other in all directions, and making so many turns, that one might easily be lost as in a labyrinth, and not know how to get out." This limited information, strictly applicable only to the basement level of a single fortress, appears to be the genesis point for the myth of the continent-wide tunnels.

From here we see a gradual accretion of myth. Pizarro looked for isolated treasure chambers; these grew into a belief in connected underground treasure vaults under the Spanish. Blavatsky imagined a corridor connecting these vaults from Bolivia to Lima, and later writers kept expanding, combining and remixing elements to create a vast network of corridors, eventually running an imaginary one right up to Pizarro’s unseen treasure chambers. And all this occurred without anyone ever actually demonstrating that a single mile of this alleged system existed.

Did the Peruvians use underground chambers? Of course they did. Did they combine them into a network that stretched thousands of miles beneath South America with doors so cunning that for 500 years they have remained hidden? I doubt it. If you want to say it’s true, show me.

It’s like the carved Inca and pre-Inca false-doorframes in the mountain rocks that Childress claimed on Ancient Aliens are mystical portals to another dimension through which “the aliens” came and left again. If you want to believe that, take a running start and go on through to the other dimension. If you won’t do it, you don’t really believe it, and are just making stuff up.

5 Comments
John J. McKay link
12/2/2012 12:57:06 pm

The hollow earthers are also fans of the South American and Tibetan tunnels. "Dr. Raymond Bernard" (real name Walter Siegmeister) claimed that when Col. Percy Fawcett disappeared into the Amazon, while looking for a lost city, it was because he actually found one. It turns out the lost city was just a tunnel entrance leading into the hollow earth, where Fawcett still lives made immortal by the pure air and a strict vegetarian diet.

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Aaron FK
4/26/2014 05:42:22 pm

While I will agree upon Blavatsky (I believe her to be mentally disturbed), I still can't dismiss these legends out-of-hand as most 'skeptics' (who are not really skeptics, just followers of their own cult of atheism-a philosophy of naysaying and mockers). A true skeptic would have a more reasonable explanation and be less dismissive. Blavatsky is mentally disturbed and just because other authors make reference to her (intentionally or not) doesn't make them disturbed. It perhaps makes them lazy, or in the case of Childress, more famous because he is pandering to those who believe it wholeheartedly. Where does that leave the question? Nowhere. You haven't answered it. Only mocked those who believe as you do not. This only makes you a bully and not a skeptic.
My irritation with 'skeptics' and atheists in general is their bullying nature. You don't believe in the divine, or anything supernatural. Believe as you will but don't pontificate about others. My response to all of your rot was that Schliemann believed that rot you disdain and found the formerly legendary city of Troy!

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4/29/2016 09:58:23 pm

Did you miss the point of Jason's post? You even hint at it in your own comment: there needs to be evidence for anyone to take these claims seriously. As there is no evidence, and as these people never to pony up anything other than assertions, there's no reason to take them seriously. But there is evidence of Troy, not just assertions. - The atheist stuff by the way is a total non sequitur.

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1/11/2018 10:46:01 am

There is a legend in Romania that when Satan and his angels were cast out of heaven they landed on Mt. Negoi. At the base of Mt. Negoi there is a monastery built like a fortress inside out, to keep "something" from emerging into the world from the seemingly bottomless caverns beneath the mountain. In there we found titanium disks electron spin dated seventy thousand years old. I have one of those disks. We also found, deep in the private libraries of Gheorghe Rakoczy, better known as St. Germain, ancient books of skin, preserved by copper acetate, written in pre-cuneiform Sumerian hieroglyphics. My cousin and I went to Gheorghe's castle with the American Institute of Archaeology in 1985. We translated Gheorghe's old translations into contemporary scientific English. Gheorghe Rakoczy was a contemporary of Descartes, and they were good friends. Gheorghe Rakoczy was the contemporary of a lot of celebrities as his alias - Count St. Germain. He knew what came to be "rediscovered" as Einstein's relativity, quantum physics, Hugh Everett's probability timelines, Lisa Randall's warped time-space, and even string theory, and beyond. Gheorghe Rakoczy derived his knowledge from the old books of skin, preserved by copper acetate, that were written in pre-cuneiform Sumerian hieroglyphics, carbon dated to be 10.000 years old. These hieroglyphics are composed of phonemes which, also corresponding to the sounds of the words, look like the things described. These figures were the original basis of all writing, therefore we were able to read them.

It was said that Ceausescu had this all faked, and it was called "Ceausescu’s hoax", set up in an attempt to further finance his canal project, which was impoverishing the country. But, knowledge of all this was suppressed here, behind the "Plastic Curtain". But, we still have some results of our findings.

There is a school of thought that says that extraterrestrials genetically engineered Neanderthal Man, an animal who couldn't speak, into Cro-Magnon Man, who could read, write and do arithmetic. These extraterrestrials gave Cro-Magnon Man the first language, the oldest sample of which was found written in pre-cuneiform Sumerian hieroglyphics. These symbols were the first on Earth. There was an original “Adamic Language”, for, the first male and female genetically engineered from Neanderthals could be called Adam and Eve. Neanderthals weren't able to speak language, the so-called "gamma code" in "Living Systems" by James Miller (body language is "beta code", and matter on matter communication - truth, like for example pheromones, is called "alpha code").

Those who had been called the Nephilim in the Bible, "The sons of God who married the daughters of men" in Genesis, the "Old Ones" in the Book of Enoch, had apparently genetically engineered Neanderthal Man into Cro-Magnon Man, a superior race - the Anakim. The Nephilim, which means the Fallen Ones in Hebrew, were the Old Ones. The Anakim ARE the Cro-Magnon people, who were genetically engineered from Neanderthal Man by the Old Ones. Tradition says that Cro-Magnons were the offspring of Lilith and various fathers of the Old Ones. The Yazidis in Kurdistan claim to be descendants of Lilith and Azazel. Azazel was the science officer aboard the craft that brought the first Old Ones to Earth. The old books indicate that this travel was facilitated by "probability transduction travel" which is much faster than light. From the "outer darkness"? Beyond our galaxy all is dark except the light from other galaxies. So, supposedly from the galaxy in Andromeda which they called Davana. Many await the return of the Old Ones. There was a movie about it, "The Dunwich Horror". (There was a group like that, the Clerics of Azagthoth. But they didn't worship the Old Ones. That would be conceited. They were the Old Ones!)

The pre-cuneiform Sumerian hieroglyphics was the first form of writing given to Cro-Magnon Man by the Old Ones. And their language was the original language called the "Adamic" language. They were also referred to by modern archaeologists as "the aboriginal Sumerians". Most of these Sumerians left Eastern Europe and settled the Near East, where they approximated their pre-cuneiform Sumerian hieroglyphics by stamping them, as cuneiform, in clay tablets. The Babylonians continued that cuneiform system and a descendant of the original language. The original pre-cuneiform Sumerian hieroglyphics were composed of 32 phonemes, which could be written 4 different ways each thus giving 128 "letters". These pre-cuneiform Sumerian hieroglyphics combine into figures which miraculously form accurate images of the things named in not only the "Adamic" language, which we have documented, but in any language.

There are exceptions with every system, and there are extra symbols that became so commonly used that they continued down through the ages. Attitude can be expressed with this writing system. For example "Ts" written as cro

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6/6/2018 04:03:29 pm

In 2003 such tunnels were found under the Bucegi Mountains of the Carpathians in Transylvania, Romania. There are photos of these tunnels you can see if you just simply Google "Bucegi". I have been accused of plagerism, but, the authors I supposedly "plagerized" are some of my other pen names. Those are my writings. I had family in Transylvania, but, they escaped from the new masonic government in Romania, for, they illicitly know the supreme grand secret: Vagal stimulation is as effective as LSD.

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