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

by Graham Hancock

In Tierra del Fuego, for instance, it was said that the sun and the moon ‘fell from the sky’14 and in China that ‘the planets altered their courses. The sun, moon and stars changed their motions.’15 The Incas believed that ‘in ancient times the Andes were split apart when the sky made war on the earth.’16 The Tarahumara of northern Mexico have preserved world destruction legends based on a change in the sun’s path.17 An African myth from the lower Congo states that ‘long ago the sun met the moon and threw mud at it, which made it less bright. When this meeting happened there was a great flood …’18 The Cahto Indians of California say simply that ‘the sky fell’.19 And ancient Graeco-Roman myths tell that the flood of Deucalion was immediately preceded by awesome celestial events.20 These events are graphically symbolized in the story of how Phaeton, child of the sun, harnessed his father’s chariot but was unable to guide it along his father’s course: