Treasure of the Inca: Sacsayhuaman and the Ancient Tunnels of South America

Several weeks ago, I was at the Denver International Airport waiting for my

girlfriend to arrive on her flight from St. Louis to Denver, and the strangely familiar

word “Sacsayhuaman” was buzzing around in my head, incessantly refusing to leave.

In my recent memory, a similar phenomena had occurred to me once before. About

a year ago, I had the words “Minas Geiras” seemingly stuck in my mind, begging to

be investigated. I realized after I had bought a rare crystal called Golden Healer

Lemurian that this particular crystal was found in only one place on earth, Minas

Geiras, Brazil, a state that attracted swarms of gold hunters in the 18th century. I

have experienced many odd synchronicities with this crystal, which is said to have

communicative powers with other Lemurians. After my girlfriend and I obtained our

crystals, there was a band playing at a bar next door. I remarked that the music gave

me “Mark-Twainy vibes,” and the next line was about being on the river in St. Louis.

It seemed our crystals were forging a bond, as she is from St. Louis and we got them

in my hometown. Knowing that Minas Geiras had somehow made itself prevalent in

my mind, and that I had a number of curious connections to the random Brazilian

location, I decided to look into Sacsayhuaman to discover what this strange word

could be. What I learned is that Sacsayhuaman is an ancient Incan ruin that is at the

center of an incredible story of lost treasures, secret cities, underground tunnels,

mysterious beings, underworlds, stargate portals used to flee Spanish conquest and

fabled sky gods with incredible technologies and knowledge.

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My research into Sacsayhuaman led me back to two books about the Inca

Civilization that I had read a year earlier in an English class called “Exploring the

World” at the University of Kansas. The class was a survey of global adventure

literature, and the books Lost City of the Incas by Hiram Bingham and Turn Right at

Machu Picchu by Mark Adams were both books that concerned the Sacred Valley of

the Incas. Bingham is a real life Indiana Jones, who “discovered” lost Incan cities

such as Machu Picchu, Vitcos and Villacampa. He traveled to these cities exploiting

the labor of indigenous people however, and did so in a strikingly racist European

and male-centric fashion. He is hardly an admirable man for his world-view, and his

family has a dark imperial legacy, but his journey through South America in the 20th

century is fascinating. Mark Adams is a New York writer who recreated Bingham’s

journey nearly a century later. Turn Right juxtaposes Lost City in an interesting way:

Bingham is an alpha male and an archaeologist before the profession existed the

way it does today, and Adams is a city intellectual lacking the intuition of how to

survive outdoors. Adams however grasped the irony of his situation while Bingham

was fully unaware of how bigoted he was.

I searched through the indexes of the texts, and sure enough there were

references to Sacsayhuaman in both. In Lost City, Bingham describes “leaving the

marvelous Cyclopean fortress of Sacsayhuaman,” (Lost City of the Incas, 115). The

stones of this site are so massive that they classify as cyclopean, or megalithic

architecture. Bingham and is crew “were amazed to find that some of the polygonal

blocks in it… weighed over 200 tons!” (Lost City, 115). Bingham was clearly

dumbfounded by architecture of Sacsahuayaman, and he also said that “there are

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few sights in the world more impressive than these Cyclopean walls… what remains

is the most impressive spectacle of man’s handiwork that I have ever seen in

America,” (Turn Right at Machu Picchu, 36). The megalithic structure is incredible

just because of the sheer size, but the investigation into the vexing riddles that the

rocks pose unveils the incredible story that they are apart of.

Sacsayhuaman

Three Walls of Sacsayhuaman – said to represent the Three Worlds of Inca

Mythology

One of the websites I frequent often when exploring ancient mysteries is

Crystalinks, and this site say of Sacsayhuaman that:

“The carved stone walls fit so perfectly that no blade of grass or steel can

slide between them. There is no mortar. They often join in complex and

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irregular surfaces that would appear to be a nightmare for the stonemason.

There is usually neither adornment nor inscription. It reminds me of the

stones of the Great Pyramid. That too has no inscriptions. One has to wonder

who created these great stone edifices with such precision in that timeline

with such limited tools. Could they have been created by the same gods

or Ancient Aliens?” (http://www.crystalinks.com/incaruins.html).

The references to the Great Pyramid and Ancient Aliens are of specific interest to

me, and perhaps point to how the name of this mysterious site was stuck in my

head. As I have studied the great ancient sites and cultures of earth, particularly in

mythologies and megalithic structures, one curious and enigmatic figure has

continuously poked his head in my research, Hermes-Trismegistus. I learned that

Sacsayhuaman means “Satisfied Falcon.” In my studies, I have grown accustom to

linking bird headed god figures with incredible technology to Hermes-Trismegistus,

whose Egyptian representation, Thoth, is an Ibis-headed figure. Inca mythology

speaks of a "Bearded God" who had in the distant past visited their ancestors, taught

them their culture, and mysteriously disappeared, but who would eventually return

to them,”

(http://atlanteangardens.blogspot.com/2014/05/quetzalcoatl-kukulkan-viracocha-

votan.html). This “Bearded God” is an archetype of the utmost importance to today’s

world. According to a website called Atlantean Gardens, “he was called Quetzalcoatl

by the Aztecs, Viracocha by the Incas, Kukulkan by the Mayas, Gucumatz in Central

America, Votan in Palenque, and Zamna in Izamal,”

(http://atlanteangardens.blogspot.com/2014/05/quetzalcoatl-kukulkan-viracocha-

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votan.html). I have had an immense amount of synchronicities with this being

Viracocha. About a month ago I was looking at a page about sacred geometry that

had a diagram of the flower of life superimposed twice over it. Within the diagram

supposedly a reptilian creature was waiting to be encountered. I meditated to the

flower of life for quite a while, seeing intricate geometric designs. After about half an

hour a coil started manifesting itself in the diagram. My girlfriend and I were sitting

looking for it, and I exclaimed, “Oh my god I’m seeing it, here it is!” Then the

reptilian entity manifested itself in whole to me in the diagram, in suspended

animation. The page instructed to turn the diagram 30 degrees to find an even

larger and scarier entity. I was using a phone so it was difficult to approximate an

exact 30 degrees, but soon after careful meditation the second being manifested

itself to me, it was quite a sublime experience. I learned that at least this first entity

is a representation of Viracocha, and that this is knowledge that is held to 10th

degree Freemasons.

About a week after this experience, I found an incredible book called 2012:

The Return of Quetzalcoatl in a bookstore in Steamboat. I opened up a random page

when I was deciding to buy the book, and found a reference to Terrence McKenna.

The night before I had a premonition to look up McKenna, and this synchronicity

assured me I was meant to read the book. I spent a good portion of several days of

my winter break scouring this incredible book, and it describes Viracocha by his

Aztec name – Quetzalcoatl, saying that:

Quetzalcoatl – the name unites the quetzal, a bird of Mexico renowned for its

colorful plumage, flute-throated flitterer atop rain forest trees, and the

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serpent, coatl, that slinks on its belly along the Earth. Integrating what

slithers, cunningly, in the dust and what soars, brightly, in the air,

Quetzalcoatl as a symbol unifies perceived opposites – Heaven and Earth,

spirit and matter, light and dark, science and myth. He is the god of wind and

the morning star, dispenser of culture, with a special affinity for astronomy

and writing and the planet Venus. He was the Attis, Adonis, Thammuz,

Bacchus, Dionysius, Osiris and quite possibly the Pan of the Western World,

(2012, 30).

Hermes-Thoth’s mythical tradition stretches back to Sumerian mythology, in which

he is Nigishzidda, a son of the brothers Enki and Enlil who created humans as a

slave race to mine gold and was King of Atlantis. As I study ancient cultures of earth,

it often seems like Hermes built these sites with incredible technology in the ancient

past, and that he is part of a history that has been discounted my modern

“rationalism.” The hypothesis of 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl is that “ the

completion of the Great Cycle and the return of Quetzalcoatl are archetypes and

their underlying meaning points toward a shift in the nature of the psyche,” (2012:

2). The Great Cycle was completed in 2012 with the shift to the Age of Aquarius, and

coincidentally in January 2013 I was first researching Quetzalcoatl. Furthermore, I

was born on January 20, the cusp of Aquarius. To me, Quetzalcoatl represents the

god-image of future societies, a figure that represents the union of opposites and is,

as the last disciple of Dionysus himself, Friedrich Nietzsche, described it: beyond

good and evil.

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Thoth – Egyptian Viracocha Flower of Life Reptilian Entities

An aspect of this story has to be told, a story of conquest, treasure, hidden

tunnels and lost cities. It’s clear that Sacsayhuaman is a perplexing location, an

ancient place whose technologies and purpose are shrouded in mystery. It would

seem as though the location is part of a larger story. After I finished my preliminary

research on the site, I turned to a website, which I have found particularly useful in

esoteric studies, a website called Bibliotecapleyades. Lately, I have become

increasingly alienated from modern sciences and scholarship. I have found that

fringe areas of the Internet provide valuable information that the harsh

requirements of peer-reviewed documents are limited by. I searched for

Sacsayhuaman on Bibliotecapleyades and the first article I came across was titled

“Subterranean Tunnels & The Hollow Earth: My Search for Tunnels in the Earth” by

David Hatcher Childress. The subsequent tale that followed read like the epic pre-

archaeological tale of Hiram Bingham, but without the unconscious racism and

patriarchisms, and with an incredible story that built upon the narratives of Lost

City and Turn Right.

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Childress claims that there is a gigantic tunnel system that runs under South

America. Not only that, he claims that he has actually been inside these tunnels

himself. Today, science and rationalism have been fetishized because of the ability

to commodify and monetize these practices; while magic and intuition have been

discounted because of the way our culture is at the current moment. Since I have

studied magic and mysticism over the past several years, I have come to understand

that there is a far more complex history on earth itself, and certainly throughout the

cosmos, than mainline “science” believes. In instances such as the incredible

megaliths of ancient civilizations, each of which seem to be linked in one way to

Hermes-Thoth, it is clear that the proponents of rationalism wish the masses to

think them to be unbelievable, (such as the construction of megalithic structures

with fantastic technology by a being that lived thousands of years on earth), but in

reality it seems that these “unbelievable” things have occurring on earth. It is

because of this and other experiences I have had, such as UFO experiences, contact

with preternatural entities, incredible synchronicities, psychic phenomena, visions

and vast lucid, alchemical and hermetic dreams, have caused me to enact a

“suspension of disbelief,” as Coleridge would say, in my life. That is to say, I am more

open to believing incredible tales such as the one that follows because I have had

similar experiences. I’m not gullible; I’m just familiar, or at least aware of the

“daimonic reality.”

Childress begins his story by recounting a fateful time of the Inca civilization:

the Spanish conquest, which took place in 1531. In this year Francisco Pizarro made

his way to the Inca city of Cajamarca, where the Inca ruler Atahualpa interpreted the

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arrival of the Spaniards as fulfilling a prophecy of the return of Viracocha. Inca

mythology says that they descended from the Viracocha, and that the “Inca were the

ruling elite, of a different race, who believed themselves descended from "Manco

Capac," a red-haired, bearded messenger from God,”

(

http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/esp_sociopol_underground14.htm

). Soon after conquest, legends surfaced amongst the Spanish that the Inca “had

hidden much of their treasure-sacred relics of pure gold either beneath the Inca

capital of Cuzco or in a secret city known as Paititi. Either way, legend had it that a

tunnel system was used,”

(

http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/esp_sociopol_underground14.htm

). The thought that a vast tunnel system exists below one of earth’s continents and is

filled with amazing treasures of an ancient civilization is the makings of a romantic

epic of the ages.

As the story goes, Atahualpa came down from his palace to meet Pizarro.

Atahualpa had with him some 30,000 soldiers, only some 160 for the Spanish. A

Spanish friar told the Inca about the religion of Christianity and gave Atahualpa a

bible. Atahualpa put the Bible to his ear, heard nothing, and through it to the ground.

This pivotal moment in the earth’s history, when the incredible civilizations of

Mesoamerica, seemingly remnants of an antediluvian, Atlantean culture stood face

to face with the patriarchal, imperial, religiously destructive culture that is Western

civilization. In a poetic moment that only history can provide, ignoring the Bible, and

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a religion that is supposedly founded on unconditional love, led to the massacre of

thousands of people, with no Spanish deaths.

To ransom his own life, Atahualpa promised to fill the room in which he was

imprisoned to the top with gold, an offer that the Spanish took. The ransom was not

exceedingly large for Atahualpa however, as Childress says:

The Incas did not use gold, silver, and precious stones for currency as

Europeans and other cultures did. Instead, they were valued for decoration,

and used extensively for religious objects, furnishings, and even utensils.

Many buildings had interior gold-lined walls, and exterior gold rain gutters

and plumbing. Therefore, when the Inca was ransomed for a room full of

gold, to the Incas it was as if they were paying with pots and pans, old

plumbing, and rain gutters!

(

http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/esp_sociopol_underground

14.htm).

This for one shows one inherent difference in Mesoamerican cultures and modern

living: gold was used for practical purposes not for useless jewelry and vanities.

Money is not even backed up by gold anymore; it is a purely theoretical aspect of the

hyper-reality that humans have created. In another dark twist of Christian

imperialism, Atahualpa was not freed but instead condemned to die. What follows is

haunting. As Childress describes it: Spaniards who had befriended Atahualpa

advised him to convert to Christianity before his execution, which would allow the

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Dominical fathers to strangle him as a Christian rather than burn him at the stake as

a heretic. He complied, was baptized, and strangled.

While Atahualpa was being executed, there was a second ransom on the way

to the Spaniards. The first ransom was an incredible sum, approximately 5 Billion

dollars on the current market. When the Indians transporting the ransom on some

11,000 llamas, each carrying 100 pounds of gold, heard of Atahualpa’s assassination,

they hid the treasure. According to Childress’s accounts, a nearby mountain range

and a subterranean garden near the Temple of the Sun are fabled repositories for

much of this lost gold. Apparently when Pizarro became aware of the vastness of the

treasure he demanded to know of its origin. It was said that there was an

underground mine in the tunnels where the continent’s treasures were buried.

Furthermore, it is said that the Inca queen looked into her magic obsidian mirror

during the time of conquest and foresaw her husband’s death no matter the ransom.

When the queen realized the horrific future, she saw to it that the treasure of the

Inca was safely hidden underneath the tunnel systems, and that the entrances to the

tunnel were sealed shut.

The original connection between Cajamarca, where Atahualpa and the Inca

met their fate at the hands of the Spaniards, and Sacsayhuaman is that they are

important Inca settlements that seem to be linked by this fabled tunnel system.

After the Spanish had reached Cuzco, which is hundreds of miles away from

Cajamarca, they were introduced to the cyclopean walls of Sacsayhuaman. At the

beginning of the conquest, Cuzco was reported to have 100,000 residents, all of

whom could fit in the walls of Sacsayhuaman in case of catastrophe. The Spanish

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were themselves aware of the tunnels of Sacsayhuaman as one Garcilaso de la Vega

wrote after conquest:

An underground network of passages, which was as vast as the towers

themselves, connected them with one another. This was composed of a

quantity of streets and alleyways which ran in every direction, and so many

doors, all of them identical, that the most experienced men dared not venture

into this labyrinth without a guide, consisting of a long thread tied to the first

door, which unwound as they advanced,

(

http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/esp_sociopol_underground

14.htm).

The descendants of the Inca and the Spanish were aware of these tunnels, which jet

out in every direction under the continent, and are home to fabulous treasure.

A researcher by the name of Harold Wilkins claims that the tunnels stretch

from the central Andes of Peru, and extend north to Ecuador, South to Chile, to the

west near Lima in Peru, and east to Brazil. According to Childress, there are

entrances to this tunnel system in eastern Bolivia and Brazil, and that the eastward

tunnels may lead to the legendary and lost city of Paititi.

The legend goes that the Inca hid their treasures near the Cuzco tunnel

system, and that another trove of treasure, (including 14 gold mummies of former

Inca rulers), were taken to the city of Paititi. After the battle of Ollantaytambo,

surviving Inca fled through the subterranean tunnels to the Paititi, which was ruled

by a descendant of Tupac Amaru. Paititi, which translates to either “The Jaguar

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King,” or “the same as the other,” eluded the Spanish, despite searches for it. The

historical records of the legendary lost city of gold come from Spanish priests and

adventurers who sought the city but were unsuccessful. A 17th century Jesuit priest

recants being told by local Inca of Paititi and its location east of Cuzco. With time,

the city became confused with El Dorado, and explorers wandered searching for the

city completely unaware of the original legends. To this day, the whereabouts of the

lost city of Paititi are still unknown, and a fabulous treasure may well lie within its

vaults.

Paititi’s fabled location is east of Cuzco, and coincidentally in Bolivia, (east of

Cuzco) there lays a curious site called Samaipata. This enigmatic location lies on top

of a hill, and features massive rocks that have been cut into a great deal of different

formations. It’s truly unlike anything I’ve ever seen. Bolivian archaeologists have

attempted to travel in the tunnels that are located at this site, but are met with

blockages when they travel deep into the tunnel. According to Childress, there is an

entrance to the tunnels here called the Camino de la Chinchana, the Path of the

Subterranean. Erich von Daniken, founder of ancient astronaut theory, described

Samaipata as a “rocket launching pad,”

(http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/

esp_sociopol_underground14.htm). It is unclear why the ancient Inca would have

utilized a rocket launching pad, and unfortunately the tunnels here are sealed as

well. But like Sacsayhuaman, Samaipata is an unexplainable structure that seems to

be connected by the extensive system of tunnels.

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Samaipata, Bolivia

The tunnels entrances at Sacsayhuaman and Samaipata seem to be blocked

off, but Childress recants exploring a tunnel in Brazil that seems to be clear of any

such blockages. As I mentioned earlier, once before in my life I’ve had a situation

such as what has befallen me with Sacsayhuaman, in which a strange word that I

had perhaps encountered before seemed to be stuck in my mind. The first time were

the words “Minas Geiras,” and this second time was “Sacsayhuaman,” but once again

my own odd story of synchronicities brung me back to Minas Geiras, as this is the

Brazilian state that Childress adventured to in search of the legendary tunnels.

Childress went to the state of Minas Geiras to the location of Sao Tome das Letras,

which was reputed to have a tunnel entrance. It was not long after going there that

he found, with an accompanying explorer, a massive tunnel entrance which was well

known to the local people. He recants traveling for nearly a kilometer into the

tunnel, at which point it dropped down at a steep slope, and they turned around. He

says that the tunnel seems to have no blockage points, but that it would take the

correct amount of equipment to navigate the sinuous passages. It seems that this

entrance in Sao Tome das Letras has no clear stopping point, and that the proper

explorer could go through the expansive tunnels. Perhaps the lost treasure of the

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Inca and the lost city of Paititi lie somewhere beyond secret exits within the tunnel

system.

One last aspect of this amazing story remains untold. Upon returning home

after exploring South America’s tunnels, Childress began studying the legend of the

Valley of the Blue Moon. His research led him to a book titled Secret of the Andes, by

George Hunt Williamson. Williamson says that in the remote past, a “Lord Muru”

arrived at Lake Titicaca when the Andes were uplifted in the cataclysmic event that

sank the Pacific continent Mu. In my research, it has become apparent that Thoth

(Hermes, Quetzalcoatl, Kukulcan, Viracocha), was the King of Atlantis for a period,

and that Mu is synonymous with Atlantis. It is unclear what the connection between

these two events is, but it peaks my interest. Lord Muru set up the Monastery of the

Brotherhood of the Seven Rays, which held his secrets and treasures. When I hear

“Seven Rays,” I immediately think of my research in alchemy, and the seven

processes of alchemy represented by seven rays such as in medieval alchemical

mandalas. One of the treasures that was reputed to be kept by the Brotherhood of

the Seven Rays is the Golden Sun Disc of Mu. This is curious because in Peru there is

another incredible megalithic structure known as Hayu Marca, which is reputed to

be a stargate and is known as “the Gate of the Gods.” A legend tells that at the time of

Spanish conquest, the Inca priest of the Brotherhood of the Seven Rays Aramu Maru

took the Golden Sun Disc of Mu and went to Hayu Marca. He handed the Golden Disc

to the presiding shaman and passed through the portal, never to be seen again.

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Peruvian Stargate

Mandala, Lake Titicaca

When I first had the word “Sacsayhuaman” stuck in my head at that odd and

notorious airport, I didn’t expect to be led on such a fantastic odyssey of fabled lost

cities, treasures, hidden tunnels, stories of conquest, secret brotherhoods and

stargates. Perhaps the oddest aspect of this whole journey is that I was already

familiar with almost every aspect of this story, besides the tunnels and the personal,

first hand accounts of David Hatcher Childress. I already knew of the legend of the

priest escaping into the stargate, and the fate of the Inca. The non-linearity and

synchronicities of the events that have coincided with my research, such as names

being stuck in my mind later to have me find out they are connected, and the

amount of unconscious learning I have done about these legends while reading

books and watching shows about fables and legends leads me to believe there is

something there. It seems to me that the legends could be true, there very well could

be extensive ancient tunnels spanning across the continent of South America, home

to fabulous treasures and ancient cities. Clearly something incredible happened in

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South America and on earth in the ancient past. The hidden tunnels of the Inca are

clearly yet another enigmatic mystery of human history.

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