Stan Hall - Tayos Gold: The Archives of Atlantis

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GOLD

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TAYOS
GOLD

Stan Hall

Tayos Gold

ISBN 978-1-931882-67-5

Copyright 2007 Stan Hall

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TAYOS
GOLD

Stan Hall

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Tayos Gold

Tayos Gold

The Archives of Atlantis

Stan Hall

Stanley Hall 2006

ISBN 1-931882-67-3

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Photographs and illustrations courtesy of Tayos project participants Virgilio Aviles, Ceturis, Arthur Champion, John Frankland, Peter Holden, Philip Maxwell, John Whalley, John Wright, Alexander Hirtz, Michel Merlyn and Stan Hall.

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To my children and the triumph of sincerity over sensationalism

Regarding the Tayos treasure story, it came to pass that, in the year 1946, the man known to descendants of the ill-fated Huamboya nation as Blanquito Pelado told Petronio Jaramillo A. who, in 1965, told Alfredo Moebius, who told Andres Fernandez-Salvador Z., who told Juan Moricz, who told Erich von Daniken, who wrote Gold of the Gods, which was read by Stan Hall who, after 30 years of historical investigation and analysis, fixed its dangerous and treacherous geographical location at:

774734 West 1 5600 South

We shall save it, because there is no longer a sight of the Book of Counsel There was once the manuscript of it, and it was written long ago Great was its account and its description of when there was finished the birth of all heaven and earth.

Maya Book of the Popul Vuh, 47-64, 71-72

El Dorado! Atlantis! Inca Gold! Irresistible legends of treasure and wonders that for centuries have lured the imaginations and fortunes of kings and adventurers across oceans and continents only for their cries of Eureka! to fade away in soon-abandoned dreams.

Lost lands and treasures elude the unprepared those explorers, adventurers and prospectors secretive, sensitive, imaginative, distrustful, persistent, egoistic dreamers drawn, not by greed, but by an impulse to join in Creations revelations, the first revelation being that more fortunes are lost in the seeking than ever made in the finding.

What force generates the desire for danger and excitement rushing through their veins, without which the indolent and envious would have so little to scorn? What genetic trigger, what beckoning star, draws them like lemmings to risk life and limb pursuing treacherous and unreachable goals? Neither tears nor chains can hold them, or any threatening storm change the set of their sails. They perish alone and forgotten, footprints and bones exposed on some foreign shore or jungle trail, beckoning brother adventurers to take that last aching step towards treasure beyond their wildest dreams. Ah! Dreams! that word again!

In your wildest imagination you will never believe this story! Here we rediscover the above-mentioned legends in a single geographic location, sleeping a beautiful silence in the green sea and sacred valleys of an Andean-Amazonian wonderland, where unguarded euphoria is rapidly replaced by brutal lessons in self-knowledge. Those bravehearts who choose to follow the Tayos footprints and bones will advance only as far as the respect they show for those who have blazed the trail, in return for which the genuine few are destined for a life-changing adventure, not from the celluloid world of an Indiana Jones or James Bond, but from real experiences of real investigators in real situations. Here, reality reaches beyond dreams!

Tayos Cave spectacular

We journey further back in time later but begin in the period July to September 1969 when a brilliant hungarian-argentinian investigator, Juan Moricz (b. Janos Moricz Opos), announced his discovery in the eastern Cordilleras of Ecuador of a vast subterranean world containing a metal library and other treasures deposited by a civilization lost to history.

Three years passed before writer Erich von Daniken met with Moricz in Guayaquil then globalised the story in Gold of the Gods, controversially inferring he had been taken to the treasure cave. The sensational first pages obscure important mention on page 53 that sources had informed him Moricz was not the original discoverer. Who cared? Readers preferred the dream to the reality!

So, who was this mysterious predecessor? We will name him soon!

I read the book in 1974 and, following a 16-hour meeting in Guayaquil with Moricz in April 1975, began organizing for July 1977 - later changed to July 1976 - a major scientific expedition to the Tayos caves in the province of Morona-Santiago, on the basis that if no treasure were found at least science would benefit!

Moricz Mining Proposal

A Military Junta was in power in 1976 when the British-Ecuadorian Tayos Expedition, consisting of more than a hundred military and scientists from a dozen institutions, with astronaut professor Neil Armstrong as Honorary President and participant, arrived at the entrance to the Tayos underworld. Within four weeks, almost unnoticed by the world media, a treasure trove of scientific results was realised, practically untouched by a Moricz - von Daniken controversy that had precluded