Fingerprints of the Gods: The Evidence of Earth's Lost Civilization

by Graham Hancock

And they heard it from their fathers, who in their turn had it from the old songs which were handed down from very ancient times … They say that this man travelled along the highland route to the north, working marvels as he went and that they never saw him again. They say that in many places he gave men instructions how they should live, speaking to them with great love and kindness and admonishing them to be good and to do no damage or injury one to another, but to love one another and show charity to all.

They put his blessed body in a boat of totora rush and set it adrift on Lake Titicaca. There … he sailed away with such speed that those who had tried so cruelly to kill him were left behind in terror and astonishment

His gentle, fatherly side was still expressed: tears of compassion were running down his cheeks. But his face was set stern and hard, his tiara was regal and imposing, and in either hand he grasped a thunderbolt.17 In the interpretation given by Joseph Campbell, one of the twentieth century’s best-known students of myth, ‘The meaning is that the grace that pours into the universe through the

sun door is the same as the energy of the bolt that annihilates and is itself indestructible …’

Equally thought-provoking was the appearance of the symbol of the cross on many of these ancient blocks. Recurring again and again, particularly at the northern approach to Puma Punku, this symbol always took the same form: a double crucifix with pure clean lines, perfectly balanced and harmonious, deeply recessed into the hard grey stone. Even according to orthodox historical chronology these crosses were not less than 1500 years old. In other words, they had been carved here, by a people with absolutely no knowledge of Christianity, a full millennium before the arrival of the first Spanish missionaries on the Altiplano.