Father Carlo Crespi, the true discoverer of the treasure of Cueva de los Tayos
In the Ecuadorian Amazon region called Morona Santiago there is a very deep cavern, called Cueva de los Tayos.
The cavern, which is located at a height of 800 meters above sea level, is called Tayos, named after the characteristic semi-blind birds that live in its depths. The indigenous Shuar or Jíbaros (who had the custom of reducing the skulls of enemies killed in battle), who live near the cave, used to feed on these birds.
The oldest news about the cave dates back to 1860, when General Víctor Proano sent a brief description of the cave to the President of Ecuador at the time, García Moreno.
However, only in 1969 did a Hungarian researcher of Argentine nationality, named Juan Moricz, thoroughly explore the cavern, finding many gold sheets containing archaic incisions similar to hieroglyphs, ancient statues in a Middle Eastern style and numerous other objects of gold, silver and bronze: scepters, helmets, discs and plates.
The Hungarian researcher also made a strange attempt to make his discovery official, registering his findings in the office of a notary in Guayaquil, on July 21, 1969, but his request was rejected.
In 1972, the Swedish writer Erik von Daniken spread the Hungarian researcher's discovery throughout the world.
When the news of Moricz's strange discovery spread around the planet, many scholars and esotericists decided to explore the cavern on private expeditions.
One of the first and most risky expeditions was the one conducted in 1976 by the Scottish researcher Stanley Hall, in which the American astronaut Neil Armstrong, the first man to set foot on the moon in 1969, participated. It is said that the astronaut said that the three days that remained inside the grotto were even more significant than his legendary trip to the moon.
The Argentine speleologist Julio Goyen Aguado, a close friend of Juan Moricz, participated in the company, from whom he had received references about the exact location of the carved gold plates and sheets.
It seems that Goyen Aguado, under the direction of Moricz, who did not participate in the expedition, misled Stanley Hall, preventing the Anglo-Saxons from appropriating the ancient gold finds.
Other versions of the story suggest, instead, that the Anglo-Saxons looted some of the treasure, taking it illegally from Ecuador.
According to other researchers, the person who truly discovered the immense archaeological treasures of the Cueva de los Tayos was not the Hungarian Moricz, but rather the Salesian priest Carlos Crespi (1891-1982), a native of Milan.
Crespi would have told Moricz how to enter the cavern and how to find the correct path in the bottomless labyrinth found in its depths.
Carlos Crespi, who arrived in the Ecuadorian Amazon jungle in 1927, quickly gained the trust of the indigenous Jíbaro people and had them deliver him, over the decades, hundreds of fabulous archaeological pieces that date back to an unknown time. many of them made of gold or laminated in gold, usually masterfully carved with archaic hieroglyphics that no one has been able to decipher until today.
Starting in 1960, Crespi obtained authorization from the Vatican to open a museum in the city of Cuenca, where his Salesian mission was located. In 1962 there was a fire and part of the findings were lost forever.
Crespi was convinced that the gold sheets and plates that he found and studied indicated without a doubt that the ancient Middle Eastern world before the Great Flood was in contact with the civilizations that had developed in the New World starting sixty millennia ago. (see my interview with archaeologist Niede Guidon).
According to Father Crespi, the archaic hieroglyphic signs incised or perhaps engraved with molds, were nothing other than the mother language of humanity, a language that was spoken before the flood (see my article on the Nostratic language).
Crespi's conclusions were strangely similar to those of other researchers of the same period, such as the Peruvian esotericist Daniel Ruzo (Marcahuasi scholar), the American medium GH Williamson , the Italian archaeologist Constantino Cattoi or the Italian-Brazilian researcher Gabriel D'Annunzio Baraldi (who thoroughly documented the Pedra do Ingá).
At the end of the 70s of the last century, Gabriel D'Annunzio Baraldi frequently visited Cuenca, where he met both Carlo Crespi and Juan Moricz.
On that occasion, Carlo Crespi revealed to the Italian-Brazilian that the Cueva de los Tayos had no bottom and that the thousands of underground ramifications were not natural, but built by man in the past. According to Crespi, most of the finds that the indigenous people gave him came from a large underground pyramid, located in a secret location. The Italian religious later confessed to Baraldi that, for fear of future looting, he ordered the indigenous people to completely cover said pyramid with earth, so that no one could ever find it again.
According to Baraldi, the archaic hieroglyphics incised in the gold sheets of the Cueva de los Tayos recalled the ancient alphabet of the Hittites, who according to him had traveled and partially colonized South America eighteen centuries before Christ. Baraldi noticed that on many gold plates and sheets there were several recurring signs: the sun, the pyramid, the snake, the elephant. In particular, Baraldi interpreted the plaque on which a pyramid with a sun on its top was incised as a gigantic volcanic eruption that occurred in remote times.
When Carlo Crespi died in January 1980, his ghostly antediluvian art collection was sealed away forever, and no one could ever admire it again. There are many rumors about the fate of the invaluable finds patiently collected over long decades by the Milanese religious.
There are those who say that they were simply sent secretly to Rome and that they still lie in some corner of the Vatican.
Other sources attempt to prove that the Central Bank of Ecuador purchased, on July 9, 1980, for the sum of $10,667,210, approximately 5,000 archaeological pieces of gold and silver. The person in charge of the museum of the Central Bank of Ecuador, Ernesto Dávila Trujillo, categorically denied that the State entity had purchased Father Crespi's private collection.
Regardless of the current physical location of Father Crespi's archaeological finds, there remain the photographs and the numerous testimonies of many scholars that prove their veracity.
It almost seems that someone wanted to hide the fantastic archaeological pieces collected and studied by the Milanese religious. Because?
Surely, the proof that antediluvian peoples and others following the flood, but clearly Middle Eastern, have visited the Amazon River basin in such remote times and that they have left such a number of wonderful finds is a truth that could be uncomfortable. Many conventional historians have described Father Crespi as an impostor or simply a visionary who showed that authentic gold sheets were simply forgeries or copies of other Middle Eastern artistic creations.
My opinion about the enormous treasures of the Cueva de los Tayos is that they are authentic and that they come from the Middle East.
However, it is necessary to distinguish between some finds in which apparent hieroglyphs were carved and others that are representations of Sumerian, Assyrian, Egyptian and Hittite art.
I am convinced that before the flood, the people who lived on the mainland corresponding to the current continental shelf of the African continent (later submerged) had frequent exchanges with the people who, already sixty millennia before Christ, lived in present-day Brazil. The Pedra do Ingá, studied in depth by Baraldi and described by me in January 2010, testifies that very ancient peoples described a very important event for them (perhaps the universal flood?) using an archaic writing method (a form of writing nostratica ?) after having arrived in present-day Brazil due to a fortuitous event.
In addition, it is also useful to remember the archaic alphabet incised on the statuette (from the interior of Brazil), made of black basalt, given by the writer Rider Haggard to the explorer Percy Fawcett . This alphabet is very similar to the signs incised in the gold sheets of the Cueva de los Tayos.
In this sense, some archaic inscriptions from the finds in the Cueva de los Tayos can be recognized and described as belonging to the Nostratic language.
As for the other finds, of clear post-flood Middle Eastern origin, it seems correct to consider them as remains of several occasional expeditions that were carried out starting in the third millennium BC by the Sumerians and successively by the Egyptians, Phoenicians and Carthaginians.
These conclusions of mine are not only supported by the fact that remains of coca leaves have been found in Egyptian mummies, but above all by recent discoveries in the Andean highlands, such as the Fuente Magna and the Pokotia monolith.
The mystery remains as to why all that immense treasure was gathered in the Cueva de los Tayos and in the labyrinths found in its depths.
In my opinion, it is possible that restricted groups of antediluvians, survivors of the gigantic catastrophe, once they landed in South America, wanted to save their precious relics by later hiding them in a grotto that they considered safe.
As regards, on the other hand, the post-flood Middle Eastern peoples, referring particularly to the Sumerians, Egyptians, Phoenicians and Carthaginians, it is possible that each group traveled with special insignia of their lineage and origin, which in the course of the years were lost in the Andes (as is the case of the Fuente Magna). Next, the ancestors of the Suhar indigenous people gathered these relics in the Cueva de los Tayos, considering them sacred objects that had to be gathered in a place considered magical due to their tradition.
YURI LEVERATTO
