Contents

  1. Cover Image
  2. Title Page
  3. Epigraph
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. Foreword. May We Not Be Ashamed of the Future
  6. Prologue. To Believe or Not to Believe
  7. Chapter 1. Green Labyrinth
    1. EARLY MADNESS FOR THE TAYOS MYSTERY
    2. MY FIRST TWO EXPEDITIONS
  8. Chapter 2. The Ecuadorian Jungle: The Cradle of Civilization
    1. THE SACRED GEOMETRY OF ECUADOR
    2. THE MYSTERY OF THE SHUAR (JÍBAROS)
    3. THE POPULATION OF THE ECUADORIAN MESOPOTAMIA
    4. SHUAR MYTHOLOGY AND TRADITIONS
    5. LEGENDS SPECIFIC TO THE TAYOS CAVES
  9. Chapter 3. Golden Mysteries of the Andes
    1. TREASURE IN THE MOUNTAINS
    2. WHEN ATAHUALPA WAS THE KING OF THE INCAS
  10. Chapter 4. The Original Discoveries of Juan Moricz
    1. JUAN MORICZ: FROM HUNGARY WITH A BIRD ON HIS SHIELD
    2. QUINARA AND THE SPANIARD’S TREASURE
    3. THE TÁLTOSOK BARLANGJA
    4. THE NOTARY ACT OF JANOS “JUAN” MORICZ
    5. MORICZ IN THE EYES OF HIS CONTEMPORARIES
    6. MORICZ VERSUS CRESPO
    7. MORICZ’S THEORIES
    8. THE AMERICAN ORIGIN OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION ACCORDING TO JUAN MORICZ
  11. Chapter 5. The Intraterrestrial Atlanteans
    1. THE FRENCH DISTORTION
  12. Chapter 6. The Mormon Expedition to the Tayos Cave (1968)
    1. LOOKING FOR THE GOLD PLATES IN THE ECUADORIAN JUNGLE
    2. THE SIGHTING OF THE METALLIC LIBRARY
    3. FATHER CRESPI’S PLATES?
  13. Chapter 7. Julio Goyén Aguado: A Basque Mystery
    1. INTERVIEW WITH JULIO GOYÉN AGUADO
  14. Chapter 8. The Gold of the Gods
  15. Chapter 9. Father Crespi’s Museum of the Impossible
  16. Chapter 10. Past Stories, Recent Searches
    1. JARAMILLO ENTERS THE SCENE
    2. JARAMILLO’S STORY
    3. THE TESTIMONY OF JARAMILLO TO TUROLLA
  17. Chapter 11. The War between Researchers of the Tayos
    1. ZOLTAN CZELLAR
    2. THE LAST PERIOD: CUMBARATZA
  18. Chapter 12. From Scotland with Love: The Parallel Lives of Stanley Hall
    1. THE SCIENTIFIC REPORTS OF THE EXPEDITIONS OF 1976 (ECUADORIAN/BRITISH/SCOTTISH EXPLORATORY REPORTS)
    2. THE SEARCH FOR A LOST PAGE OF PREHISTORY
    3. HALL’S CATASTROPHE THEORIES
    4. A SUBSTITUTE GORDIAN KNOT
    5. MARCAHUASI: PLATEAU OF THE GODS
  19. Chapter 13. The Impossible Libraries
    1. THE SACRED LINES TO THE ORIGIN
    2. THE CAVE OF ORIGIN
    3. THE MYSTERY OF THE NAME MANCO CAPAC
  20. Chapter 14. The Expedition to the Coangos River
    1. IS THE THIRD TIME THE CHARM?
    2. THE PETROGLYPHS OF HOPE
    3. AT LONG LAST: TAYOS
    4. ESCAPE FROM THE THREE RIVERS OF THE CIRCLE OF HELL
    5. A TENTATIVE HYPOTHESIS: FINDING A FINAL EXPLANATION
  21. Chapter 15. Psychic Archaeology and the Tayos Mystery
    1. THE VOICE OF THE SPIRITS
  22. Chapter 16. The Curse of the Tayos Caves
  23. Epilogue
  24. Appendices
    1. Appendix A. Chronology of Events Related to the Tayos Caves
    2. Appendix B. Chronology of Alex Chionetti’s Explorations
    3. Appendix C. Statement of Moricz’s Lawyer Peña Matheus
    4. Appendix D. Stanley Hall’s Letters
  25. Footnotes
  26. Bibliography
  27. About the Author
  28. About Inner Traditions • Bear & Company
  29. Books of Related Interest
  30. Copyright & Permissions
  31. Index