CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
-SECRETS AND TREASSURES-
The second Heinz entered his office he noticed an atmosphere so heavy, he could cut it with a knife. Sven was standing up next to the fax machine with a document in his hand. Jason’s head was bowing down giggling and Timo looked radiant.
“Where is my dad?” Heinz asked looking around.
“He is outside in the patio, helping Hope and Rodrigo,” Jason said exploding on laugher.
“Why is that funny?” Heinz asked smiling.
“Because they almost got a heart attack with the news,” Geeko said.
“I am getting a medal!” Timo said happy.
“Dude! They are naming the codex after you and you are happy about the medal!” Jason said surprised.
“I am not sure I understand” Heinz said.
“We just got a fax from the Mexican Museum of anthropology; they’ll have a party in our honor and they decided it to name the codex after Timo,” Sven said shocked.
“I have to admit it has flair to it though, so I am not surprised they did it” Jason said, “The Cha’tima codex,” he said unveiling his hands “I love it! It sounds awesome!” he said.
“It does! Now try to explain that to Hope and Rodrigo,” Sven said joking, “They are fuming!” He laughed.
“Now is my fault they liked my name!” Timo said annoyed.
“No Timo, is not about you trust me” Heinz said, “Is a great honor and a great achievement to any archaeologist to have their name after such an important piece of history” Heinz said, “Their anger is not about you! So don’t take it personally and rejoice in your good fortune! They will come around so don’t get any stress over this ok?” he said kindly
Hope and Rodrigo came back to the room followed by Greg.
“Stress? I am so used to it that I don’t even feel it anymore! …Feeling better?” Timo asked Hope as she took a seat.
“Yes dad I am better thanks, I am sorry about that,” she said calmed and collected.
“I am sorry too Timo, I did not mean to come out that unpleasant” Rodrigo said.
“It’s aiight! Is just a name for fuck sakes, you guys don’t get it! People like me never get shit in life; you guys have price after price and don’t enjoy any of it, because you always want the one from the other guy! Is there ever enough?”
“Let’s get to work then!” Sven said.
“Not yet! We have to open a bottle and toast Timo’s good fortune. You might be mad at him but I am not, I am happy for him! This deserves a good bottle of champagne but; Timo?” he said bowing before him “…cider is all I have!” he said smiling.
He opened a bottle and served everyone in plastic cups. Hope added embarrassment to her anger because she knew Heinz was right. He was his own man and he danced to no one else’s beat but his own. Rodrigo felt ashamed but masked well with a smile and a sudden change of attitude. Jason felt just like Heinz and from the beginning, he sided to Timo and stand out for his right to be a deserving depository of such honor. After all, he said. Timo dug all the holes. Even Sven looked at both with respect. Greg and Geeko, in the other hand, were getting to know them and so far, they liked Timo better than they liked anybody else. They partied for a while, angers came down and a sense of friendliness reigned in the room again. They were ready to continue where they have left off.
“So what do we have so far then?” Sven said.
“The journey is recorded in official documents of the Sung dynasty for the year 499, Kuen 327, preserved for fifteen centuries in the Chinese Classics,” Jason said.
“Yeah, but before we get there” Hope interrupted him “let’s start from the beginning, so we can have a better understanding of it” she said.
“Wait! We have to record this so we can make a transcription later and send it to the Mexicans,” Jason said.
They looked around for the hand recoding they bought for this historical moment when they had all the elements tied up. Greg and Geeko were anxious to hear what they had to say. When Greg got the phone call from Heinz, he just told him he had to come to Ecuador right away but nothing else was mentioned.
“When we decoded this document with your help” Hope said looking at Greg “You opened the door I was looking for, and for that I will be forever thankful to you, because this is more than a dream for me, is the validation of my whole professional life”
“But when we received a copy we asked, of the original document. We noticed something we did not notice before” Jason said
“Some of the letters were bigger than others,” Hope said.
“Eight of them to be exact” Jason said.
“But in such a lengthy document, we did not think it meant anything else …and we were wrong” Hope said smiling and signaling Geeko to turn off the lights. She turned on a projector connected to her computer and she started a power point presentation, she had put together with Jason.
“There are records in the history of China and Japan of thousands of young people sailing out across the eastern sea, to find a magic land,” she said.
“Chinese records revealed that boatloads of people sailed into the sea around 219 B.C. and they never returned. It was not suspected that the passengers might have been deposited on another shore, as far as the record goes they just never returned” Jason said.
“Two hundred years ago, a Frenchman named Chrétien-Louis-Joseph de Guignes, thought he had found the answers to these disappearances. His discovery connected the Chinese Buddhists of 500 A.D. with the magic land of Fu sang, which he believed it was Mexico” Jason said.
“According to John Harrison, council information officer for the Columbia River History; in the year 458, a Chinese monk sailed north to Japan with four other monks. The route is presumed to have gone south along the Pacific Coast,” Hope said exited.
“The region our mystery man called Fu Sang, included the entire Pacific Coast from Alaska to Baja California and if he was already in the neighborhood, why not follow the natural contours of the Pacific Ocean and go further down” Jason said
“His descriptions of the natives and their customs are detailed and accurate enough to be matched with those we know; and based on what we know, it fits the Mayan, the Aztec and the Native American cultures,” Hope said.
“They had to reach Fu Sang around the time of the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 A.D they stayed for a period of years and then came back to China, by the time our friend came back home, he was roughly ninety years old” Jason said.
“Wait!” Sven interrupted them “Why a serious research was not initiated before?”
“Well …the accuracy of his voyage description is darkened by another one of his accounts,” Jason said.
“He also wrote about the Kingdom of Women whose inhabitants were half human and breast less,” Hope said to everyone’s amusement.
"Hey I had a 'trip' like that one time, when I was younger" Timo said, "I took some peyote with some of my friends and man! I saw girls with three tits and dogfaces and some of them had chicken legs! Not skinny legs, but actual chicken legs! It was so real; I still remember it like if it was yesterday!"
Timo said breaking the moment and Hope shook her head in disapproval
"What? It was for spiritual purposes," Timo said ashamed.
"Actually! That could explain the strange fable,” Jason said. “We have always known that drugs were used in ritualistic Enterprises by the Mayan, Eastern and Native American Shamans!"
“Historians generally accept the Chinese account as authentic. Where they disagree is in why they did not leave anything behind them?” Hope said.
“But they did! We just aren’t looking close enough”
“Unlike the conquistadors, they did not visibly mark the territory,” Rodrigo said.
“Exactly!” Hope said.
“Man I had a Chihuahua dog like that; Da Vinci, you remember him Hope? The damm dog peed everywhere in the house! He loved to mark his territory, if it was not mine then it had to be his then” Timo said.
“Their visit” Jason said “Was thought as nothing but a little more than a historical curiosity, but there are ramifications that have not been considered yet”
“He was here 1300 years before Columbus, the earliest works depicting Quetzalcoatl, dates precisely from that time around and are located in Tula,” Hope said.
“Considering this man; exclusively from a historical perspective, we are forced to look into his influence with the civilizations he interacted with” Jason said.
“Quetzalcoatl abolished human sacrifice, this activity wouldn’t have fit the view of a Buddhist monk, but this would not have shocked him either, since they see death as a transition anyways. In addition, human sacrifice was part of China's history, so they would not have judge it which is a common trait of Buddhist faith, he would have managed to teach them otherwise” Hope said
“The Spanish conquistadors talked about human sacrifice and other than that, only their own murals depict the use of it,” Jason said.
“The conquistadors and friars talked about witnessing the sacrifices, but I do have another alternative that it will not be liked by the historians. Nor the friars or the conquistadors witness anything at all. They saw the native historical records, just the way we look at our own history and they assumed they were practicing still. The conquistadors did not need an excuse to annihilate the locals, which was their job after all. But the friars did! They need it a good excuse for such errant behavior. What better excuse than that!” Hope said.
“They said that they conquered the Inca empire single handedly. That was a flat lie, later discoveries have shown their liaisons with other Natives in the region, which were feed up by the Inca Empire” Jason said.
“So basically you are making us the ‘Bush administration’ and blaming us for everything that is wrong in history,” Rodrigo said angry.
“We are talking about the history of your church, I am not attacking your church, and if at any point I say something, you can prove me wrong with sound documentation, please by all means interrupt me again, otherwise I would like to continue with my work” she said coldly.
“I believe they burned the Natives historical records for a very good reason,” Jason said.
“In the library of these civilizations, there were connections with the Buddhist faith,” Hope said.
“If you check on the reliefs in the lower room of Chichen Itza’s Temple of the Tiger, the water lily’s resembles the most sacred symbol used in Buddhism, the sacred lotus,” Jason said
“The manufacture of Bark paper is also big evidence, it was common to china, Indonesia and Japan, and how did it make it then to Mesoamerica, unless they had someone already experienced in this technique?” Hope said
“The Natives from the Americas have an Asian resemblance,” Jason said
“The only way to influence their civilizations was by earning their trust,” Hope said
“And looking like them was the crucial factor! Asian people look like them but whiter,” Jason said.
“The conquistadors didn’t and they never trusted them, the battles stopped, when the virgin of Guadalupe appeared in the Tepeyac, after that all war ceased within days. Virginia Prewet in her book Reportage on Mexico says and I quote: "about Quetzalcoatl, the bearded white man, called Kukulkan in Yucatan, he is the only single one of the gods in the Mexican pantheon that the Mexicans remember, even to knowing precisely how he looked. She has concluded that he was a living priest who was later deified” Hope said.
“When the Conquistadores arrived in the Valley of mexico, they were shocked by the complexity of the calendar system and the knowledge of astronomy on the part of the Natives,” Sven said
“That was way beyond their knowledge and when they asked who taught them that? They just said; Quetzalcoatl!” Rodrigo said.
“The Maya, Quiche, Zapoteca and Nahuatl were studied by Dr. Daniel G. Brinton. He noticed a strange correlation of the symbolism used in the calendars. Comparing the Maya-Azteca with the Chinese-Hindu, let us not forget that even though they are separate faiths now a day, Buddhism started as a radical movement from Hinduism. They come from the same root and they share a great wealth of knowledge. If we look at the calendar we find serpent, rabbit, dog, etc in general animals names common to both systems. Mexico has a myriad of flowers; for example, why flower names were not used? They had their own world to choose from! Yet a large proportion matches another culture with nothing distinctive from theirs. Why would they do that? Why would they mimic another completely different culture? Mexico is so rich in many other ways, they could have chosen an entirely different array of symbols more abundant in their surroundings,” Jason Said.
Timo said
“But that is for the scholars to find that out as for now, maybe just maybe, this Buddhist Pi-k’iu, This tall, fair skinned, bearded white man, could very well be the historical Quetzalcoatl, Kukulkan and Pahana. They share the same story; he came, he instructed them, he was a loved and respected man and he left promising to return some day”
“Only a Buddhist or a Hindi could have conveyed such a statement. Because they firmly believe they always come back!”
Hope said excited “Although, Native Americans have an extra spice for the pot,” Hope said.
“He is to come back wearing a red cap and the symbols of the sun, the swastika and the missing piece of that sacred Tablet now kept by the elders” Timo said.
“Now, the Mayas prophetic messages, never point to a dooms day scenario. The bible does! The Mayan prophecy has been explained and understood from an apocalyptic perception,” Jason said.
“So, that’s like making sesame chicken with corn tortillas and jalapeno peppers, instead of sesame seeds” Timo said.
“Exactly! The Buddhist doesn’t have a dooms day scenario, nor does the Mayan. They both talked about the end of an age and the beginning of another one,” Hope said
“We called several astrophysicists and they all told us the same thing, the planet alignment on December the 21st 2012; happens every December 21st year after year.” Jason said.
“And is only an optical illusion, the planet alignment only looks like it from the earth’s point of view, if seeing from any other angle in the universe is not aligned at all” Hope said
“The closest date for a real alignment from every angle is 802012,” Jason said.
“The crossing of the galactic equator happened 3 million years a go, we are moving away from it, the next one is in 30 million years” Hope said “The issue was somewhat provoked by geologist and physicist themselves. When they said these changes would happen fast. They assumed people knew that in their ‘scientist language’ it means anywhere between five to ten million years” Hope said
“The sun magnetic pole shift happens every 11 years, we have gone through them before and we still are here,” Jason said.
“Nobody spoke of them before so we didn’t care” she said “In short, if he is the mythical creature long revered in the Americas as Kukulkan-Pahana… we have to match the Mayan prophecy with the aid of Buddhist knowledge. Although is not even needed, the prophecy speaks loud and clear. End of an age, beginning of another one” she said, “Whatever adornment is added in the interpretation, is a personal choice fueled by personal belief systems and personality traits”
“Some people are just born party poopers,” Timo said.
“And in the words of Henriette Mertz; he deserves a highly honored and respected place beside the world's greatest religious teachers, beside the builders of empires and beside the great explorers. His right to distinction rests on his very own record, Kuen 327, preserved for fifteen centuries in the Chinese Classics,” Jason said.
"History changes every day as we make new discoveries, not long ago it was believed that the Native on the American continent came after the Christian era. Then the date was moved back a thousand years and 3,000 years was the limit, then with the Folsom Man, the date was moved back to 10,000 B.C. and the Sandia Man send it to 20,000 B.C. Now, it is believed to go back to 100,000 B.C., with 400,000 B.C. as a possibility. So why is so hard to believe that Hwui Shan is the historical man behind Quetzalcoatl, Kukulkan and Pahana…. And the man who’s knowledge changes the route of their civilization. Sven said.