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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Foreword

El Dorado

The Lost Realm of Cain?

Realm of the Serpent Gods

Skywatchers in the Jungles

Strangers from across the Seas

Realm of the Golden Wand

The Day the Sun Stood Still

The Ways of Heaven

Cities Lost and Found

"Baalbek of the New World"

A Land of Which the Ingots Come

Gods of the Golden Tears

Sources

Index

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FOREWORD

In the annals of Europe the discovery of the New World bears

the imprint of El Dorado—the relentless search for gold. But

little did the conquistadores realize that they were only replay-

ing a search, on Earth and in these new lands, that had taken

place eons earlier!

Buried under the records and tales of avarice, plunder, and

wanton destruction that the newly found riches had triggered,

there is also evidence in the chronicles of that time of how be-

wildered the Europeans had been to come upon civilizations

that were so akin to those of the Old World: kingdoms and royal

courts, cities and sacred precincts, art and poetry, sky-high tem-

ples, priests—and the symbol of the cross and a belief in a Cre-

ator of All. Last but not least, there were the legends of white

and bearded gods who had left but did promise to return.

The mysteries and enigmas of the Maya, the Aztecs, the

Incas, and their predecessors that puzzled the conquistadores

still baffle scholar and layman alike five centuries later.

How, when, and why did such great civilizations arise in the

New World, and is it mere coincidence that the more that is

known about them, the more they appear to have been molded

after the civilizations of the ancient Near East?

It is our contention that the answers can be found only by

accepting as fact, not as myth, the presence on Earth of the

Anunnaki, "Those Who From Heaven to Earth Came."

This book offers the evidence.

EL DORADO

Nowadays Toledo is a quiet provincial city situated about an

hour's drive south of Madrid; yet hardly does a visitor to Spain

miss seeing it, for within its walls there have been preserved the

monuments of diverse cultures and the lessons of history.

Its beginnings, local legends tell, go back two millennia be-

fore the Christian era and its foundation is attributed to the

biblical descendants of Noah. Its name, many hold, comes from

the Hebrew Toledoth ("Generational Histories"); its olden

homes and magnificent houses of worship bear witness to the

Christianization of Spain—the rise and fall of the Moors and

their Moslem dominion and the uprooting of the splendid Jew-

ish heritage.

For Toledo, for Spain, and for all other lands, 1492 was a

pivotal year, for a triple history was made therein. All three

events took place in Spain, a land geographically known as

"Iberia"—a name for which the only explanation can be found

in the term Ibri ("Hebrew") by which its earliest settlers might

have been known. Having lost the greater part of Iberia to the

Moslems, the warring splintered kingdoms in the peninsula saw

their first major union when Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella

of Castile married in 1469. Within ten years of the union they

launched a military campaign to roll back the Moors and bring

Spain under the banner of Catholicism; in January 1492 the

Moors were decisively defeated with the fall of Granada, and

Spain was made a Christian land. In March of that same year,

the king and queen signed an edict for the expulsion from

Spain, by July 31 of that year, of all Jews who would not convert

to Christianity by that time. And on August 3 of that same year,

Christopher Columbus—Cristobal Colon to the Spaniards—

sailed under the Spanish flag to find a western route to India.

He sighted land on October 12, 1492. He returned to Spain

in January 1493. As proof of his success he brought back four

THE LOST REALMS

"Indians"; as corroboration of his contention that a larger, sec-

ond expedition under his command was justified, he brought

with him a collection of golden trinkets obtained from the na-

tives and tales of a city, a golden city, where the people wore

golden bracelets on their arms and legs and-adorned their necks

and ears and noses with gold, all this gold coming from a fabu-

lous mine near that city.

Of the first gold thus brought to Spain from the new lands,

Isabella—so pious that they called her "The Catholic"—or-

dered that an elaborate Custody be fashioned, and presented it

to the Cathedral of Toledo, traditional seat of Spain's Catholic

hierarchy. And so it is that nowadays, when a visitor to the

cathedral is taken to see its Treasury—a room protected by

heavy grillwork and filled with the precious objects donated to

the Church over the centuries—one can see, though not touch,

the very first gold brought back by Columbus.

It is now recognized that there had been much more to the

voyage than a search for a new route to India. Strong evidence

suggests that Columbus was a Jew forced into conversion; his

financial backers, likewise converted, could have seen in the

enterprise an avenue of escape to freer lands. Ferdinand and

Isabella had visions of the discovery of the rivers of Paradise

and everlasting youth. And Columbus himself had secret ambi-

tions, only some of which he expressed in his personal diaries.

He saw himself as the fulfiller of ancient prophesies regarding a

new age that shall begin with the discovery of new lands "at the

extremity of the Earth."

But he was realistic enough to recognize that of all the infor-

mation he had brought back from the first voyage, the mention

of gold was the attention-getter. Asserting that "the Lord would

show him" the enigmatic place "where gold is born," he suc-

ceeded in persuading Ferdinand and Isabella to provide him

with a much larger fleet for a second voyage, then a third. By

then, however, the monarchs sent along various administrators

and men known for less vision but more action, who supervised

and interfered with the admiral's operations and decisions. The

inevitable conflicts culminated in the return of Columbus to

Spain in chains, on the pretext that he had mistreated some of

his men. Although the king and queen at once released him and

offered him monetary compensation, they agreed with the view

that Columbus was a good admiral but a bad governor—and

clearly one who could not force out of the Indians the true loca-

tion of the City of Gold.

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