But, whas it the same cave where Juan Moricz discovered the important library or was a fantastic story that he wanted to confuse?

The walls of the tunnels seem by a work made by man and the photos make it even more obvious, but in fact its formation is "natural". Both outside and inside the cave, the rock falls or is separated by slabs, leaving behind perfect angles.

After following the Shuar with difficulty through the galleries, we came to a large room, tayos favorite place for concentrating and nest. Illuminating the ceiling with the beam of the headlights to about 20 or 30 meters, hundreds of red dots glowed, they were the eyes of tayos resting in the cavities of rocks on their nests. These are small and have a cone with a small hole in the end. The nests reach a certain height over the years with excrement and seeds that are formed.

When the Shuar entered the caves in times that no chicks, hunt stick blows tayos all they can. This was the case of our companions. Within the large gallery they jumped and shouted corralling some tayos to the narrow galleries where they were hit with sticks. As we walked with difficulty plunging our boots in the fertile and stinking guano and watching that by supporting our hands on the walls or on the floor were not to rest on a scorpion or a tarantula. By carefully illuminate the walls at our fingertips we were surprised to discover the presence of numerous insects some of them look scary but totally harmless.

The Forbidden Zone

During one of the last days of our stay with the Shuar we were politely invited to one of his parties. The more than twenty surrounding Shuar who attended the event were welcomed with great sympathy, a situation that contradicts sharply with the descriptions given by other researchers, who treat the Shuar Indians as hostile death protecting the entrance to the galleries. However, in the party, one of our mestizo companions listened to a Shuar telling another:

"I hope that whites have not visited the forbidden zone"

This remark suddenly opened new confusions: were the kind indians hiding something to us?, If that wast the case was it the mysterious treasures ?, or rather referred to areas where their gods live and where they still claim to have seen their footprints?.

That made us to explore more closely around the main Entrance of the galleries. Researching near the area we finally found other side entrances of the cave, but with a very difficulty to access. We found a narrow gallery that was not on the map of the expedition of Priest Porras. We found races of a jaguar, which spoke to other entries in the same cave but on level ground and mark an impressive anaconda communication confirming us in one of the galleries with the river.

“The erudites are of the opinión, Kanjilal pointed out on her first approximation to the enigmatic gold plate, that the incas did not have a written language in an alphabetic sense of the term. But the letters found (on the plate) clearly point to the existence of a very developed form of writing in South America some centuries before the birth of Christ, and meticulous analysis reveals that the writings of the trail belong to the writing class Brahmi, used on inscriptions written in stone, plaques and verses that mainly pertain to the Asokan period of history in Inda, in the 3rd century before Christ…”.

Kanjilal continues with his explanations adding that of the 56 visible signs on the plate, half of a hundred are perfectly identifiable with Brahmi signs, and that even in other steles of Crespi similar identifications reaches even larger percentages.
What is surprising about his affirmation is, not only his precise identification, but that it completely destroyed the hypothesis of the fraud. And if it doesn’t have to do with fraud, how can the presence of Hindu symbols in Ecuador?

Not to say that Kanjilal’s deductions fell like a bomb among those curious about the Crespi case. And its effects were multiplied when he had finished the translation of the plate that, in summary, came to say:

The offering of the oblations and the murmuring of those praying is spontaneous; the murmuring of those praying could by itself reach heaven, like Sudâsa who was also raised (to the heavens). Oh you, powerful God, let us pray with the Sudras while we subject ourselves to physical pains. Let us meditate in you, who lives far away from the waters, who comes with the clouds and who possess sharp claws.” .

The text, as often happens in this type of archaeological controversies, instead of clarifying mysteries, it raises more queries.

Father Crespi, a salesian of the Maria Auxiliadora Church of Cuenca (Ecuador), died in 1984. His treasures were sold one year after his death to the museum of the Central Bank. The collection was enormous and before its acquisition a selection was made where they discarded a heap of false pieces that already in the father's senility, the Indians handed him in exchange for some money: tin pieces and figurines, cement and other modern materials.

There is no mention of the visit to the site by the astronaut Neil Armstrong, commented by other investigators, that which makes us think that the Father Porras was very removed from the mysterious topics or he didn't lend them any interest, or he maintained in secret some of his findings. However in the book contains interesting data, such as the exact location, a map of the cave, the verification that there was human life (the ceramic discoveries and ornamental pieces, date B.C. of the year 1200).

This is his story

The Law of Silence

Janos Moricz opened his small museum for me that he has at the headquarters of the Cumbaratza Mining Company and The Mining Company of the South in Guayaquil, and showed me part of his gold and his photographs of the interior of the tunnels, and he presented me with a plan of the same:

"You are the first foreigner that was ever bold enough to go to the caves alone. Others have tried, but no one has ever gone alone. My respect for you has grown enormously. The next time you come, I promise to go with you to the jungle. The only thing I ask is that you do not publish absolutely anything you have seen nor anything that I have been explaining."

The Finding of Moricz

Among the voluminous documentation that Juan Moricz gave me when I returned from the jungle was a copy of the Notarial Deed of the official denunciation of his surprising finding appears. He presented it almost 20 years ago to the Minister of Finance, and through his intermediary to the President of the Republic of Ecuador, to firmly leave the accuracy of his statements.

Extract of this notarial writing:

I have carried out this discovery in an entirely fortuitous way, in circumstance that, in my scientific quality, I investigated folkloric , ethnological and linguistic aspects of Ecuadorian tribes. The objects, through my findings, have the following characteristics which I have personally been able to verify: One: Stone and metal objects of certain size, form and colors. Two: Sheets of metal carved with signs and ideographic writings, a true metal library that contains chronological relation of the history of humanity, the origin of man on Earth and the scientific findings of an extinct civilization.".

Further ahead, and always inside the same notarial writings, Moricz does not walk around in circles when he goes to the President of the Republic::

“I ask that you designate an Ecuadorian National Supervisory and Control Committee, only the members of which will know the exact location of the caves and caverns that contain the objects discovered. I firmly sate that I reserve the right to later on, present before whom you should choose, photographs, movies, and even original samples that could be used to enlarge the depiction and clearly identify the form, size, composition and quality of the objects of my findings. Additionally, place on record that I reserve the right, that is mine by law, to let them know the exact location of the place where the objects were discovered once the committee that I have requested has been carefully selected to include scientists, researchers and observers, and has been officially appointed, and I, for my part, will appoint it to safeguard my rights.”.

Compromise of Silence

On July 23, 1969 a document was signed in Guayaquil that began this way:

“The undersigned, members of the expedition to the Ecuadorian caves discovered and reported on by Mr. Juan Moricz, formally agreed not to make any statement to the press, radio or television or anyone else, not to publish photographs of the expedition or anything that happened during it, or of the priceless objects found, or the geographic location of the discovery site, neither the theories nor hypotheses formulated about the discovery nor any details in general.”

In fact, I could have published a book on my trip to the Tayos (Tayu Wari in the language of the native ones) as soon as I returned to Barcelona, in the spring of 1986. But it did not seem ethical to me. I preferred to keep searching in this direction, like in so many others, in silence. I preferred the stance of the same Moricz, when I asked what would happen if he died before he could give the world the message that had been brought from the interior of the caves: "Nothing would happen. Then I wont have been made the one elected to give this message.".

What lies below

According to the stories that were told to me personally in Quayaquil and in Vilcabamba by Janos Moricz and his companion Zoltan, an also according to the stories that I heard in the jungle from the mouth of the transmitters of ancient tribal knowledge –among them the jibaros shuaras Wamputsar and Kajekai Waharai Nunkuich, as well as Venancio, who approached me while I was alone in the creek of the forest washing my clothes-, stories in which what is essential coincides with those picked up from Moricz, the interior of the Tayu Wari harbors the following:

Once the dark chimney over 60 meters deep descended to where the sacred birds called the tayos nest, the first 300 underground meters traveled and the great site baptized by Moricz as ¨Domo de Nuestra Señora del Guayas,¨ it is necessary travel by two large caves, until a 90 degrees corner which forms the same passageway bends, and continue to a curve in an opposite way. From there you end in a circular room.

In its center there is a round table carved in stone, surrounded by seven chairs that are also made of stone. In the rock wall, behind each seat, a rectangular opening. From here it is necessary to penetrate the opening that is guided toward the South. A small, short and strait passageway, ascends through a very unpronounced slope. After a long hour of slow ascension, the tunnel turns to the Southeast and now ascends in a very steeper slope. Soon after, the tunnel narrows even more, continuing down, it is necessary to continue by crawling.

After a little while light is perceived at the end of the slope. The mouth of the tunnel remains separated from the exterior by a powerful waterfall that covers it completely. Once the waterfall is crossed, you arrive to a hill, opened in the summit of the virgin jungle, and that opens the way to an enormous grotto. Next to her, in the wall of the rock that forms a cliff to lead over the virgin forest that is seen in the valley below, a slippery road forms a very narrow edge that goes to another opening –this one small- in the rock: it is a small cavity only three meters deep.

On the floor of this small room there are two square slabs each side half a meter. Underneath it, a narrow stone stairway, that it is necessary to descend until arriving to a dirt floor cave. At the end of the same one, an extremely dangerous slope that ends in a new grotto that harbors a small lake about 40 meters wide.

Continuing from here a horizontal gallery that extends to about over a kilometer in length continues, to later shift to the West and begin a gentle downward slope. Through this road you arrive to a new grotto after a long hour of walking, much smaller than the previous one, and that also has a small interior lake.