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technology of the pre-Inca peoples must have been higher than the Incas who came after them.
    No, the chronology cannot be blindly pasted together like that, because there are so many indications to turn the arbitrary (re-)construction upside down.
    I assert that the tunnel system existed thousands of years before the Inca kingdom came into being. (How and with what tools are the Incas supposed to have built hundreds of miles of passages deep under the earth? The Channel tunnel has been planned by the engineers of our highly technological century for fifty years and they still have not decided which method should be used to build this comparatively minor tunnel.)
    I assert that the age-old tunnel systems were known to the Inca ruling classes. (After Atahualpa’s murder, the last Manco Capac ordered the metal treasures scattered throughout the kingdom to be collected in the Temple of the Sun and deposited in the
existing caves, which were known to him,
to keep them safe from the white invaders.)
    I assert that the metal treasures under Ecuador and Peru came from a period long before the rise of the Inca kingdom and its culture. About 1570 the Spanish chronicler Pater Cristobal de Molina tried to fathom the motives behind the Incas’ tunnel building. In his book
Ritos y Fabulos de los Incas
, published in 1572, Molina tells us that the original father of mankind withdrew into a cave after he had done his work, i.e. after the creation was completed. But this secret retreat became the birthplace of many peoples who had appeared out of an “endless night.” Molina related that these caves were also used for generations as treasuries for hiding the peoples’ wealth whenever they were oppressed. Absolute secrecy in the circles who knew about the caves was an iron law, non-compliance with which was punishable by death. (How potent this law still is today I was able to experience on my journey through Ecuador in the year of grace 1972.)
    Let the Vatican grail guardian Father Crespi of Cuenca be the key witness to the pre-Christian origin of the metal treasures. He said to me:
“Everything that the Indians brought me from the tunnels dates to before Christ. Most of the symbols and pre-historic representations are older than the Flood.”
     
Three kinds of treasure await excavation in the tunnels and halls under Ecuador and Peru:
     
The inexhaustible legacy of the builders of the actual tunnels;
The stonemason’s work of the first intelligent men, who were presumably pupils of the tunnel constructors;
The gold and silver treasures of the Incas that were hidden here from the Spanish Conquistadors after 1532.
     
    But the question of questions is: Why were the tunnels built?

2: The War of the Gods
     
THE first time I heard about a war in heaven was nearly thirty years ago when I was a little boy in the second form of the primary school at Schaffhausen. The master who taught religion told us that one day the archangel Lucifer had appeared before the Lord God and said: “We are not going to serve you any longer.” So God ordered the mighty archangel Gabriel to destroy Lucifer and the rebels with a flaming sword.
     
    Today I know that there is no mention of Lucifer in the Old Testament. It would be impossible, anyway, for the legendary figure of Moses, in whom the authors of the Old Testament are subsumed, is supposed to have lived about 1225 B.C., but Lucifer comes from Latin and that language is dated to 240 B.C. at the earliest. Lux fare (= Lucifer) means light-bringer, light-bearer, light-maker. It is odd that the sinister devil should be introduced into Catholic religious instruction as a bringer of light.
    But the Old Testament does have something to say about war in heaven.
    The reader will find descriptions of events and prophecies that have been preserved in chapters 1-25 of the Prophet Isaiah (740-701 B.C.). Isaiah 14:12 says:
“How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to