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Is there perhaps a direct relation between the monolith in Tiahuanaco, the magnificent Gate of the Sun, and the traditional story of the creation? And are we interpreting the saga of the golden egg that came from the cosmos and whose passengers began the creation of men too arbitrarily if we take it at its face value, as an authentic account of a space-craft from unknown stars? This golden or gleaming egg that fell from heaven is a veritable leitmotiv in mankind's traditional stories of creation. ri = cr ar ney, (2 yp ee Br © 4: Mi Oe ~ esti nee Sy tae PND fan ae Sys ie vial 4 ee? On Easter Island the gods were worshipped as ‘lords of space’. Among them, Makemake is the god of the ‘dwellers in the air'. His symbol is the egg! There are two strange books in Tibet called Kantyua and Tantyua. Actually one cannot really speak of books in their case, for Kantyua alone comprises 108 parchment volumes which number 1,083 books in nine large divisions. Kantyua means 'the translated word of Buddha’ and the sacred texts of Lamaism are collected in it. Kantyua has the same kind of importance as the Koran has for Islam. Tantyua means 'the translated doctrine’ and is a 225-volume commentary on Kantyua. These Chinese printed books take up so much room that they are preserved in the cellars of several villages that lie hidden in the mountain valleys of Tibet. The separate parts of the texts are carved on wooden blocks 3 ft long, 4-8 ins thick and 6 ins wide. Since not more than eight blocks can go on one parchment page it is understandable that the volumes have to be housed in the cellars of whole villages. Only a hundredth part of these texts, whose original date is not fixed, has been translated. In both these mysterious works there is constant mention of ‘pearls in the sky' and transparent spheres, in which the gods dwell, to show themselves to men at great intervals. If there was purposeful and coordinated research on Kantyua and Tantyua we should probably learn a very great deal about the 'gods' and their In the Indian world the Rigveda is considered to be the oldest book. The Song of Creation that it tells returns once more to that state of weightlessness and soundlessness that reigns in the infinity of the universe. I quote from Paul Frischauer's book It is Written : In those days there was neither not-being nor being. Neither the atmosphere nor the sky was above. What flew to and from Where? In whose keeping? What was the unfathomable? ... In those times A stylised drawing of a spherical space-ship on a ceremonial vessel (National Anthropological Museum, Mexico). former activities on earth.