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Lost cities and forgotten civilizations of the Amazon
Source: Lost Cities & Ancient Mysteries of South America
by David Hatcher Childress
Added: Oct. 18, 2006

Before we dive into the dangerous and forbidden jungles of South America in search of lost cities, ancient civilizations and secret treasure, it is necessary for you to learn some background.

Percy Fawcett had always been fascinated in archaeology and history. He often took long walks, exploring. In 1893, while a young British officer stationed at Tricomalee, Ceylon, he ventured out on one of his long walks into the remote jungle areas of the island.

That day, a storm overtook him, forcing him to seek refuge for the night under some trees. The following morning, much to his surprise, he discovered a huge rock with strange inscriptions of unknown character and meaning.

He copied the inscriptions and showed them to a Buddhist priest. The priest informed Fawcett that the inscription was a form of old Asoke-Buddhist that only those priests could understand. Ten years later, a Ceylonese Oriental Scholar at Oxford University confirmed the ascertion.

Fawcett now had a keen interest in esoteric history and lost civilizations. During his army career, he led eight (8) South American expeditions under contract with the Bolivian and Brazilian governments to delimit the frontiers that these two countries shared with Peru and Ecuador.

In 1911, at a lecture before the Royal Geographic Society in London, Fawcett described the "lost world" on the borders of Bolivia and Brazil. In attendance was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes and author of a book based on Fawcett's tales, The Lost World: The Adventures of Professor Challenger.

Later, H. Rider Huggard (author of King Solomon's Mines) gave Fawcett a mysterious twelve-inch-long basalt statue. Haggard told Fawcett that he had received the stone idol from the British Consul, O'Sullivan Beare, who in turn had picked it up in a lost city in Brazil in 1913. Based on the inscription, the idol was thought (hoped?) to have an Atlantean origin. Like a good luck charm, in 1925 Colonel Fawcett carried this stone statue with him on his fateful expedition into the Amazon rainforest.

Percy Fawcett was a true believer in the mythological Atlantis. However, he did not believe that the origin of Atlantis could be found in Brazil, but rather Brazil was once a colony of Atlantis. And it was his hope to prove the existence of Atlantis by rediscovering this lost city.

Years later, however, the basalt statue was found to have originated in the Mediterranean region circa 400 BC at Hallicarnassus before Hellenistic times.

IMPORTANT: According to Barry Fell, an authority on deciphering many ancient inscriptions, the statue is an image of a priest of Baal advertising his temple that was dedicated to Hercules (Melgart, son of Baal and Tanitte.) Fell concluded the language was Creole Minoan-Hittite and read: "To ask the Gods for a lucky omen of the future, invoke Melgart and ... bring a propriation for him."

Apparently, during ancient Mediterranean times (where many diverse cultures thrived) it was common for different countries to form alliances and work together for economic or political ventures. Therefore, a combination of languages such as Minoan-Hittite would be used on a statuette left at one of the lost cities.

But how did this ancient statue find its way to a lost city in the Amazon jungle?

This statue (in addition to other ancient Mediterranean artifacts found in the interior of Brazil, such as a Dorian coin, which I will explain later) appears to prove that Brazil was being exploited commercially by Mediterranean traders long before Spanish explorers discovered South Americ!

With this understanding, it is now a probability that ancient mines and trading centers were developed in South America prior to 500 BC by the people of the Mediterranean region, namely Egyptians, Phoenicians, and later Ptolemaic Greeks.

Fawcett pointed out that Solimoes was the native name of the Amazon, which is also the same as Soloman or Solomon, suggesting the ships of King Solomon and King Hiram of Tyre made voyages to South America many years in the past. Rock inscriptions in the Amazon region even resemble Phoenician letters.

Interestingly enough, evidence appears to be mounting that the mines of Ophir (which I will discuss in the next section) may well have been King Solomon's mines - or the Lost Mines of Muribeca?

Just prior to Colonel Fawcett's ill-fated expedition, a Nafaqua Indian chief (whose territory lay between the Xingu and Tabatinga Rivers) told Colonel Fawcett about a "city" where strange temples could be found and baptismal ceremonies were practiced. The Indians there spoke of houses with "stars to light them, which never went out."

Tales of strange "cold lights" is not new. Father Evariste-Regis Huc (1813-1860) traveled extensively in Asia and left a description of an ever-burning lamp that he had seen in Tibet.

In 1963, at a conference on street lighting and traffic in Pretoria, South Africa, C.S. Downey talked about a village in the jungle near Mount Wilhelmina in the western part of New Guinea (which had been cut off from civilization) with "a system of artificial illumination equal, if not superior, to the 20th century." Traders who had penetrated this remote area lost amid high mountains said they "were terrified to see many moons suspended in the air and shining with great brightness all night long." These artificial moons were large stone balls mounted on pillars. After sunset, they would glow a strange neonlike light.

Ion Idriessa, a well known Australian writer who lived among the Torres Strait islanders, wrote in his Drums of Mer a story about booyas, a term he got from the old aborigines. A booya is a round stone set in a large bamboo socket. When the chief pointed the stone toward the sky, a thunderbolt flashed. This "cold light" was so brilliant it enveloped all near it.

On the other side of the Pacific, Barco Centenera, a memoirist of the conquistadors, wrote about the discovery of a strange source of illumination in South America. In 1601, he wrote about the island city of Gran Moxo, near the source of the Paraquay River in the Matto Grosso, stating: "On the summit of a 7.75 meter pillar was a great moon, which illuminated all the lake, dispelling darkness."

Location of "Cold Light"
Harold Wilkins 1949 map

Colonel Fawcett was told by the natives of Matto Grosso that mysterious "cold lights" had been seen by them in the lost cities in the jungle. He wrote to the British author Lewis Spense: "These people have a source of illumination which is strange to us - in fact, they are a remnant of civilization which has gone and which has retained old knowledge."

In Exploration Fawcett (Lt. Col. Percy Fawcett and Brian Fawcett, 1953) Colonel Fawcett states: "This is the first but not the last time I heard of these permanent lights found occasionally in the ancient houses built by that forgotten civilization of old. I knew that certain Indians of Ecuador were reputed to light their huts at night by means of luminous plants, but that, I considered, must be a different thing all together. There was some secret means of illumination known to the ancients that remains to be rediscovered by the scientists of today - some method of harnessing forces unknown to us."

Colonel Fawcett was determined to find this lost city, and in 1925 he launched an expedition deep into the interior of the Matto Grosso region of Brazil in search of that lost city.

Location of Matto Grosso region in South America

On May 29, 1925, Colonel Fawcett wrote a letter to his wife, Nina, from "Dead Horse Camp" in the Matto Grosso region (see map). "Dead Horse Camp" was the same location Fawcett had reached during his 1920 expedition, which he had to abandon because his horse had died here; hence the name "Dead Horse Camp."

It should be noted that "Dead Horse Camp" was the very last outpost of civilization. From that point on, only unexplored, dangerous territory awaited him.

Harold Wilkins 1949 map of lost cities
in the Matto Grosso region of Brazil

In Fawcett's letter to his wife, he said his first objective was to reach a waterfall in a week or ten days. "You need have no fear of failure..." he wrote. This letter was sent back to Cuyaba by an Indian messenger; they were also the last words Colonel Fawcett wrote. He was never seen or heard from again, at least officially.

Over the years that followed, many expeditions to find Colonel Fawcett ensued, and many more differing accounts, wild speculations and crazy rumors of his fate were talked and written about. But unfortunately, Col. Fawcett was never found, nor were any of the testimonial accounts, stories or rumors ever substantiated.

As the years passed, hopes of ever finding Colonel Fawcett dead or alive began to die. But, just when you thought Col. Fawcett and his lost city would disappear into folklore, his incredible legacy was revived.

In 1947, Hugh McCarthy, a New Zealand school teacher, quit his job in Wellington and traveled to Rio de Janeiro to - you guessed it - find Fawcett's lost city once and for all!

Hugh McCarthy's story is perhaps equally, if not more fascinating than Fawcett's expedition, including the expeditions that set out to find him! His documented adventures into the interior jungle of Matto Grosso are truly incredible. His adventure is next.

Hugh McCarthy was a man possessed. The 32-year-old rented an inexpensive apartment in Rio and studied all the accounts of Colonel Fawcett he could get his hands on. Several months later, he traveled to a small Indian settlement on the eastern fringe of the unexplored region of Matto Grosso and met Reverend Jonathan Wells, a missionary - placed there to enforce his religious faith upon the people there, just like the Spaniards did before him...

McCarthy and Wells became good friends. Wells tried to convince McCarthy that the area was occupied by hostile head-hunter Indians but his words of warning fell on deaf ears. Realizing McCarthy was determined to find Fawcett's lost city, Wells gave McCarthy a gift of seven carrier pigeons to take with him on his adventure.

The two men worked out a system of communicating with shorthand so they could keep in touch during Hugh McCarthy's journey. McCarthy agreed to send back a report to Wells once a week, or whenever possible.

McCarthy's first carrier pigeon reached Wells six weeks later. It was numbered as the third letter he had sent (the first two never reached Wells.) McCarthy wrote: "I am still quite ill from my accident, but the swelling in my leg is gradually receding. Had it not been for these friendly Indians and especially the girl, Tana, my body would now be lying in an unmarked grave. The Indians have taken me into their hearts and I could be happy living here for the rest of my life.

"When I regained consciousness, I found myself looking into the face of this beautiful girl. Her pale blue eyes made me think I had already died and gone to heaven. I have changed her name to Heather and am now teaching her English. Tomorrow I leave to continue my mission. I am told that the mountains which I seek are only five days away. God keep you. Hugh."

So Hugh had had some kind of an accident, but at least he was still alive.

The fourth letter never reached Wells, but six weeks later, the fifth (5) carrier pigeon arrived at the mission. Wells' hands must have been shaking as he read the note.

"I have reached the snow-capped mountains, but am in dire circumstances. Long ago, I abandoned my canoe and threw away my rifle as it is impractical in the jungle. My food supply has been exhausted and I am living on berries and wild fruits.

"The weather has turned cold, and at night I am unable to sleep. I could turn back, as I know Heather is waiting for me, but having come this far nothing can stop me from scaling these peaks to either final victory or merciful death. Somewhere in these snow-capped peaks I hope to find Fawcett's Lost City of Gold. But should I fail, it was at least a glorious adventure. Pray for me."

The days and weeks that passed must have been filled with agonizing anticipation for Wells. Three long weeks later, the last (7th) carrier pigeon returned. It was only the third to return.

The note the pigeon carried read: "I know that the soft cold hands of death will touch me shortly, and in these last moments I can but pray that all of the pigeons I sent out arrived safely. Writing is difficult and my lucid moments are few. But what a gorious way I have chosen to leave this world. I hope my map arrived safely by carrier pigeon number six, so that you, of all people in the world will know the location of this City of Gold.

"It is magnificient and unbelieveable, with a golden pyramid and exquisite temples. With God's help, you will soon be able to lead an expedition of archaeologists back to this most wonderful of all cities since the beginning of Time and its treasures can be preserved for generations to come. My work is over and I die happily, knowing that my belief in Fawcett and his lost City of Gold was not in vain. Hugh."

Had Hugh McCarthy accomplished the impossible?!

With Hugh McCarthy's three letters in hand, Wells rushed down to the river and canoed to a nearby town where he charted a plane to Rio de Janeiro, hoping to interest the authorities to launch an expedition to find McCarthy and save him. But the Matto Grosso region is very vast and there are four (4) different mountain ranges in the area, NOT one. To make matters worse, there was no historical evidence that any such lost city of gold had ever existed. As a result, it was concluded that Hugh McCarthy had lost his mind, and his lost city of gold was that of a delirious state of mind :\

But Hugh McCarthy's efforts to find these legendary lost cities and civilizations in South America did NOT die here.

On March 3, 1972, Karl Brugger, a German journalist, met an Indian chieftan named, Tatunca Nara, and after a detailed interview with him, the two set out on an expedition up the Amazon River to the secret city of Akakor!

Most, if not nearly all high school teachers and college professors walk and talk the path of dogmatic history because that is the way they have been trained (taught) to believe and so that's the way it is. Consequently, these so called experts pass on the biased errors from generation to generation without thinking. Their entire paradigm is being passed on without analysis.

Why? Because I believe most of them, as well as most of the general population, would rather continue to believe the way it has always been taught and believed rather than face the 'discomfort of rethinking,' critically questioning their own paradigm. Are they afraid? or just lazy? Who knows, but if you do NOT adjust your thinking "upward" and grow mentally and emotionally as you learn more and more about the world, life, and yourself, you are doomed to live a life with the enemy of intelligence - ignorance.

In 1984, the lost city of Ingrejil was discovered in the northern Ingrejil mountains of Bahia state. Before then, it was thought, believed and taught that the Amazon region had no ancient past. This discovery shook Brazilian archaeology to its very foundation.

Since the 16th century, adventurers have been obsessed with finding gold and silver mines in Brazil, particularly the Lost Mine of Muribeca.

Roberio Dias owned a rich silver mine somewhere in the interior of Brazil, worked by Indians and rumored to be thousands of years old.

Roberio Dias' father was a half-Indian named, Muribeca. He had inherited the mine from his father, a Portuguese man and the survivor of a shipwreck who lived with a friendly Indian tribe and who later married an Indian woman. Although Dias was very wealthy, he was nevertheless a commoner, and worse, a mestizo - a name given to someone whose blood is part Indian.

One thing Dias always wanted in life was a title, a certificate of nobility. And so he travelled to Madrid and proposed a deal to the King (of Spain and Portugal at the time) Dom Pedro II. He offered the King all his riches from his splendid mines in return for the title of 'Marquis of the Mines.'

Dom Pedro II refused. Instead, Dias' certificate was sealed and ordered to be given to Dias when the location of the mines were disclosed. But enroute to the mines, Dias convinced the ship's captain to open the orders before they reached Bahia. Much to his surprise and dismay, Dias learned he was not to be the Marquis of the Mines after all. Contrary to what the King had promised, the sealed orders declared that the King had dispersed a military commission to the area with Dias as 'captain.' Understandably, Dias refused to give up the location of the mines.

Dias was imprisoned in a dungeon in Salvador for two years. But still, he refused to talk. Eventually, he was allowed to buy his freedom, and in 1622 he died. Fortunately, the secret location of the mines went to his grave with him.

Many expeditions were launched to find these mines, and most never returned.

Extract from the Revista Trimensal of the Instituto Historico
e Geographico Brasileriro
Rio de Janerio
July 21, 1865

This manuscript is known as "Document 512". It is the "historical account of a large, hidden, and very ancient city, without inhabitants, discovered in the year 1753."

The manuscript was translated by Mrs. Richard Burton from old, rude Portuguese explorers, into English. The manuscript was badly decayed and parts were completely illegible, but the essence of the story was intact.

The story begins in 1743, when Francisco Raposo led an expedition into the jungles of the Amazon basin in search of clues to the lost Muribeca mines. Years later, they happened upon a mountain range of glistening gemstones. (They were actually wet quartz crystals glistening in the setting sun from a recent rain.) Several days later, they reached the mountains and followed the bed of a road? up to the peaks where they viewed what appeared to be a stone city approximately four miles away.

When the expedition arrived at the city, it appeared as if a great earthquake had ravaged the place. Tumbled columns and buildings were scattered everywhere.

The explorers entered the city through three arches of great height. On the middle and largest arch were inscriptions, but it was too high to be copied. The main street was lined with houses, their interiors very dark (no windows) and completely empty. Due to their vaulted ceilings, the explorers' voices echoed, casting an uneasy eerieness to the place.

The explorers ventured down the long street to a square. In the middle of the square was a column of black stone of extraordinary height and size. Upon it was a statue of a man with his left hand on his hip and his right pointing with his forefinger to the North Pole. In each corner of the square was an obelisk, imitations of those used by the Romans - some were badly damaged as if they had been struck by lightning (thunderbolts).

On the right of the square was a superb building believed to be a palace, perhaps the principal house of the Lord of the Land. Above the door (entrance) was the figure of a half-naked, clean-shaven young man crowned with laurel. Beneath the shield of the figure were some inscriptions spoiled by the hands of time. However, the following characters below were discerned.

On the opposite side of the square was what appeared to be a temple in ruins. It's ruined walls had inlaid engravings of figures and pictures (frescos?) of superior workmanship.

In front of the square was a broad river with spacious banks. For three days they explored down the river, eventually coming to a waterfall. Below the waterfall the river spread out like a great ocean, full of peninsulas covered with green shrubs and trees and a wide assortment of game and other animals.

To the east of the falls they discovered many "deep cuttings and frightful excavations." Their depths were never discovered because the longest rope they had would not reach its bottom. Around the area they found silver nails, "as if they were drawn from the mines and left at the moment."

These caverns appeared to be ancient mine shafts, or possible tombs. One of them had its entrance blocked by an enormous stone slab with the following inscription:

On the portico (porch) of the temple they saw other inscriptions, such as this:

"...About a cannon shot from the stone village, was a building as it might be of a country-house, with a front 250 paces long." The explorers "ascended the staircase of many colored stones which opened into an immense saloon, and afterward into 15 small houses, each with a door opening into the said saloon..." The size and and grandeur of the ruins portrayed a stone city of great importance at one time. But now its only occupants were swallows, bats, rats and foxes.

Who had lived here? and why did they leave this opulent place?

Inside one of the houses, Joao Antonio (the only person mentioned in the document) found a large gold coin. On one side was an image of a figure on his knees, and on the other side a bow, crown and an arrow.

Rene Chabbert, who studied Colonel Fawcett's city for years, claims there is only one gold coin that fits this description - the gold Daric. The gold Daric depicts King Darius of Persia (521-486 BC) as an archer kneeling with a bow, quiver and spear.

If this is the coin in question, how in the world did it find its way here?

There is only one plausible answer: The coin was brought here by traders? from the Mediterranean region during a time when this majestic stone city was thriving with human (mining?) activity.

From this point, a smaller party left the main expedition after spotting two white men with long, dark hair and beards (and dressed in European clothing!) paddling a canoe at the mouth of a large bay formed by the river. They fired a shot in an attempt to capture their attention but apparently it went unnoticed and the canoe vanished.

After several months of hard travel back eastward, they arrived at a small outpost on the San Francisco River. From there they made it back to Salvador with this documented account of their adventure, which was sent to the Viceroy, Don Luiz Peregrino de Carvalho Menezes de Athayde who apparently did nothing with it.

Document 512 closed with the following:

"This intelligence I send to your Excellency from the Desert of Bahia, and from the rivers Para-oaqu (Paraguassu) and Una. We have resolved not to communicate it to any person, as we think whole towns and villages would be deserted; but I impart to your Excellency tidings of the mines which we have discovered in remembrance of the much that I owe you.

"Supposing that, of our company, one has gone forth under a different understanding, I beg of your Excellency to drop these miseries, and to come and utilize these riches, and employ industry, and bribe this Indian to lose himself and conduct your Excellency to these treasures..." This is where the document terminates, the final paragraph was to decayed to decipher.

What happened to Raposo and the other members of his expedition? Nobody knows. Supposedly, none of them were ever seen or heard from again. Did they keep their 'little' secret to themselves and live the rest of their lives in disguise? Or did they suffer the same fate so many others suffered before and after them?

Hmmm, is it me, or is there something about this tantilizing part of the world that lures you into its mysterious secret interior then prevents you from ever leaving...

Karl Brugger, a German journalist, met Tatuna Nara, prince of Akakor, in a backstreet tavern. Friends thought Brugger should hear Natunca Nara's tale about the secret city of Akakor - an ancient city located in the jungle near the border of Peru and Brazil.

The following story is my abridged account of Karl Brugger and Tatunca Nara's adventures into the Amazon jungle in search of the (lost?) city of Akakor, an ancient city believed to exist somewhere on the western border of Brazil and the eastern border of Peru.

What may seem like a very strange and unbelieveable story is truly quite incredible, but keep in mind that there are threads of truth within it - threads of truth about an ancient land in an ancient time. I ask NOT that you seek out the parts that do not fit your paradigm and that may prove the story false, but rather search for the threads that may in fact truly come from an ancient time. PLEASE keep this in mind as you read the story.

Do you see ?

Imagine everything west of Washington D.C. lies a vast sea of jungle inhabited with anacondas, killer cats, huge crocodiles, savage Indians and lost cities that antedate the ancient Egyptians! That is how huge the Amazon basin really is!

The least known and unexplored areas of this great basin are located on the borders of Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Columbia, Venezuela and the Guianas.

The story begins on March 3, 1972 when Karl Bruggar, a German journalist, met an Indian chieftan named, Tatunca Nara. After Brugger tape recorded an interview with him, he accompanied Tatunca Nara into the Amazon jungle in an attempt to return to the secret city of Akakor. (Bruggar's story can be read in his book, The Chronicle of Akakor.)

Tatunca Nara was a tall man with long dark hair and brown eyes that gleamed with suspicion, and for good reason - he was a Mestizo, a half-breed, the stigma that would one day come to haunt him.

Tatunca Nara told Brugger the tale of his tribe, the Ugha Mongulala, a chosen people by the Gods 15,000 years ago, long before academia says the first humans set foot on the North American continent. He said the language they spoke was Guechua, a written language of 1,400 symbols, each yielding a different meaning depending on their sequence.

According to Tatunca Nara, the tale of Akakor was recorded in a tribal book entitled Chronicle of Akakor (not to be confused with Brugger's book THE Chronicle of Akakor), and begins at the year zero, which corresponds to the year 10,481 BC on the Gregorian calendar.

He went on to say that during year zero "...the Great Masters left the Ugha Mongulala...Before the year zero, men lived like animals, without laws, without clothing..." and that the Great Masters brought "the light" (here we have shades of Prometheus' story of bringing light, or knowledge, from the heavens to humankind.)

Before year zero, the continent was "...still flat and soft, like a lamb's back...the Great (Amazon) River still flowed on either side." (Either side?) He continued to explain that sometime before year zero (Tatunca Nara guessed about 3,000 years before) "...glimmering golden ships appeared in the sky. Enormous blasts of fire illuminated the plain. The earth shook and thunder echoed over the hills."

The strangers in the golden ships looked like humans with fine features - white skin, bluish-black hair and thick beards. "They (the Ugha Mongulala tribe) had no tools as they did, which, as if by magic, suspended the heaviest stones, flung lightning, and melted rocks." These strangers civilized the tribe and built three great cities of stone called: Akanis, Akakor, and Akahim.

The city of Akakor was built up the Purus River in a valley of mountains between Brazil and Peru. Likely locations are the Madre de Dios Province of Peru and the Acre Province of Brazil. "The whole city is surrounded by a high stone wall with thirteen gates...The gates are so narrow they give access only to one person at a time, and the plain in the east is guarded by stone watchtowers where chosen warriors are always on the lookout for enemies.

"Akakor is laid out in rectangles. Two intersecting main streets divide the city into four parts corresponding to the four universal points of our Gods...The Temple of the Sun and a stone gate sit on a wide square in the center. The temple faces due east, toward the rising sun, and is decorated with symbolic images of our Former Masters..."

Tatunca described the city in great detailed - temples of artfully hewn stones, golden mirrors, life-size stone figures flanking the entrance to the temple, the temple's interior walls covered with relief, and that there is a large stone chest sunk into the front wall of the temple where the first written laws of their Former Masters is located.

He said there were another 26 stones cities around Akakor, the largest being Humbaya and Paititi in Boliva, Emin (near the lower reaches of the Great [Amazon] River) and Cadira in the mountains of Venezuela. "...all these (cities) were completely destroyed in the first great catastrophe 13 years before the departure of the Gods."

Tatunca Nara said he had seen only Salazere with his own eyes, which lies at a distance 8 days journey from Manaus at a tributary of the Great River. Its palaces and temples have now become completely overgrown by the Liana jungle. Only the top of the great pyramid rises above the canopy of the forest.

According to Tatunca, there are also underground cities inside the mountains we call the Andes. Tunnels link "lower Akakor" with the underground cities. These tunnels are large enough to accomodate for five men walking upright and they are so extensive that it takes many days to reach one of the other cities. Tatunca said these underground cities were artificially illuminated by vertical shafts that ascended up to the surface where an enormous silver mirror dispersed light over the whole city. These tunnels and subterranean cities were built by the Former Masters.

From Tatunca Nara's memory, quoting the written Chronicle of Akakor:

"And the Gods ruled from Akakor. They ruled over men and the earth. They had ships faster than birds' flight, ships that reached their goal without sails or oars and by night as well as by day. They had magic stones to look into the distance so that they could see cities, rivers, hills, and lakes. Whatever happened on earth or in the sky was reflected in the stones. But the underground dwellings were the most wonderful of all. And the gods gave them to their Chosen Servants as their last gift. For the Former Masters are of the same blood and have the same father."

In year zero, the Former Masters left, but before they left there was some kind of "War between the Gods." This war was horrible and devasting. Afterwards, the Former Masters left and a global catastrophe ensued. The Ugha Mongulala and the surrounding tribes lapsed into 6,000 years of barbarism.

In the year 13 (10,468 BC) the course of the rivers was altered, and the elevation of the mountains and the strength of the sun changed. (Could this be an account of a polar shift? with massive amounts of volcanic ash in the sky?)

During this time, "...Continents were flooded. The waters of the Great Lake (near Tiahuanaco?) flowed back into the oceans. The Great (Amazon) River was interrupted by a new mountain range and now flowed swiftly toward the east (and into the Atlantic Ocean.) Enormous forest grew on its banks. A humid heat spread over the easterly regions...In the west, where giant mountains had surged up, people froze in the bitter cold of the higher altitudes..." All this would be known as the "First Great Catastrophe."

After this first Great Catastrophe, the empire was set in ruins. Many of the passages that linked the borders of the empire were blocked; the mysterious light that illuminated the subterranean dwellings was extinguished; the twenty-six cities were destroyed by a tremendous flood; and "the sacred temple precincts of Salazere, Tiahunanaco, and Manoa lay in ruins, destroyed by the terrible fury of Gods."

This would NOT be the last.

In 3166 BC, a second catastrophe occured. This catastrophe ended the "Years of Blood" - the 6,000 years of barbarism that had ravaged the land since the First Catastrophe.

Just after this 2nd catastrophe, the Gods returned to Akakor, but only a few. Their stay was short. Only two brothers stayed: Lhasa and Samon. Lhasa stayed with the Ugha Mongulala and Samon flew off to the east.



Lhasa, now king of the Ugha Mongulala, fortified the kingdom and supposedly had Macchu Picchu built as an outpost of the empire. "Lhasa was the decisive innovator of the Ugha Mongulala empire. During the 300 years of his rule, he laid down the basis for a powerful empire. Then he returned to the Gods. He convened the elders of the people and the highest priests and passed his laws on to them. He ordered the people to live according to the Gods' bequest forever and to obey his commands." After establishing this powerful empire, "he ascended the Mountain of the Moon, which looms over Macchu Picchu, and in his flying disk forever withdrew from the humans."

So what happened to Samon?

Tatunca Nara explained that Samon's empire was a mirror image of Akakor, located by a mighty (Amazon?) river. Lhasa often visited his brother with his flying disk to form a strong link between the two nations. In 3056 BC, he commanded the construction of a great city at the mouth of the Amazon River named, Ofir.

Ofir became a powerful seaport. Here, Samon's empire docked with their valuable cargoes of gold, silver, ancient scrolls, rare woods, fine fabrics, and unknown green stones. Soon, Ofir became one of the wealthiest cities of the empire and also a target for attacks from the tribes in the East.

In repeated attacks, these eastern tribes stormed the the city, raided the ships at anchor and disrupted the communciations with the interior. One thousand years after Lhasa's departure, the empire disintegrated. The savage tribes of the East had succeeded in conquering Ofir and burned it to the ground.

Subsequently, "the Ogha Mongulala yielded the (Atlantic) coastal provinces in the east and withdrew into the interior of the country. And the connection to Samon's empire was severed."

Believed to be located on the borders of Brazil and Venezuela, Akahim was/is "a gigantic stone city shaped like an outstretched finger" that lies behind a great waterfall. It has "lain in ruins for 400 years, though it was in close alliance with Akakor for thousands of years." When the "White Barbarians" began to advance into their territory, the former residents of Akahim sought refuge underground. Apparently, Akahim and Akakor were/are linked together via a subterranean passage...

Tatunca Nara goes on the say that circa 2470 BC the Inca founder of legend, Viracocha (an Ugha Mongulala who apparently had been banished from the tribe for breaking some law) founded the Inca dynasty and built Cuzco. (The Inca Empire would later become a sister nation of the Ogha Mongulala.)

Then, in 570 AD, white, bearded strangers sailing in long ships with a fierce dragon at the bow came up the Amazon River. They called themselves "Goths" (Goths?) and allied themselves with the people of Akakor. Their sailing ships consisted of iron armor, black sails, colorful dragon heads and could carry up to 60 men.

But the Germanic tribe of Ostrogoths (a warrior race that conquered Italy within 60 years) were defeated by the East Roman General Narses at the battle of Vesuvius in 522 AD) and the last survivor of this tribe had disappeared without a trace. Linguists claim to have found traces of their language in Southern France and Spain, but there is no definite proof where they migrated.

Well, according to Chronicle of Akakor, the Ostrogoths made an alliance with bold sailors of the north (north?) and ended up in South America. The subsequent union of the Goths and the Ugha Mongulala again strengthened Akakor. The Goths built new defenses and showed the Ugha Mongulala how to make iron and armor.

Eventually, "The White Barbarians" invaded South America and conquered the Incas. Five years later, the Ugha Mongulala withdrew into the inner recesses of Akakor, and according to Tatunca Nara, they departed from Macchu Picchu and ordered their frontier cities abandoned and destroyed.

As more and more Spanish and Portuguese landed at the mouth of the Amazon and continued to conquer more and more of South America, Akakor's sister city, Akahim, was attacked by hostile tribes and abandoned. While the men wanted to retreat, the women insisted on fighting the White Barbarians. And so the legend of the Amazons was born.

According to Tatunca Nara, in 1920, the Spanish captured fifteen Inca nobles and held them prisoner in Lima. Tatunca's father, Sinkaia, sent 80 warriers through the Lhasa's underground tunnels in an attempt to free them.

For three moons they stealthily made their way to the capital of the White Barbarians. When dawn broke, they stormed out from hiding and attacked the White Barbarians. An ensuing battle raged. 120 White Barbarians were killed. But the White Barbarians were overwhelming. None of Sinkaia's warriors returned to Akakor. All had given their lives "as faithful servants of the Gods for the Chosen People."

Reinha found her way to Akakor and grew fond of the city and its people. She eventually married Prince Sinkaia and gave birth to Tatunca Nara.

Four years after Tatunca Nara was born, Reinha (his mother) returned to Germany as an ambassador to Hitler's Third Reich. A year later she returned with three German leaders and negotiated an agreement with the Ugha Mongulala. The Ugha Mongulala and the Germans would be allies in a plan that would rule Brazil.

The Nazis would invade Brazil in 1945, occupy the large coastal cities and the Ugha Mongulala would attack the white settlements in the interior. After the expected victory, the Germans would rule the eastern provinces along the coast and the Ugha Mongulala would reclaim the region of the Great (Amazon) River.

According to Tatunca Nara, the first Nazi soldiers reached Akakor by U-boat in 1941; the last soldiers arriving in 1945.

For years the Germans lived with the Ugha Mongulala, arming them and training them for a war that never came. But in 1963 fighting erupted between the Germans and the Ugha Mongulala and Peru. The Germans and the Ugha Mongulala killed a number of white settlers in the Madre Dios region, but when the Peruvian government counter-attacked, the Ugha Mongulala retreated back to Akakor.

In 1968, a plane crashed near Akakor. Sinkaia ordered his son, Tatunca, to go to the crash site and kill the survivors, who were being held captive by another tribe. But instead of slaying the survivors, Tatunca was able to release them from their captives and led them to Manaus. As it turned out, the 12 survivors were officers of the Brazilian government.


Tatunca Nara eventually became the new tribal leader of the Ugha Mongulala and in 1972 he went to Manaus to negotiate with the White Barbarians in an effort to secure peace with them (he felt it was useless to fight them any longer.) It was during this trip that he met Karl Brugger, the German journalist who documented the story you are reading here.

It was during Tatunca and Karl Brugger's second meeting that Brugger accepted Tatunca's offer to accompany him up into the dangerous and forbidden rainforest to see the secret city of Akakor for himself first hand.

On September 25, 1972, with a Winchester rifle, two revolvers, machetes, food, hammocks, jungle attire, medicine and other provisions and equipment, Tatunca Nara, Karl Brugger and a Brazilian photographer departed Manaus by river and motored up the Rios Purus to the secret city.

Once they reached the Rio Yaku, their plan was to continue by canoe as far as they could and then proceed on foot through the foothills of the Andes to Akakor. Tatunca estimated that it would take six (6) weeks.

On October 5, ten days after they left Manaus, Brugger reported they had abandoned their boat at Cachoeira Inglesa and began their final journey to Akakor by canoe.

As they neared their destination, Brugger and the photographer became uneasy. Tatunca Nara began painting red stripes on his face and yellow stripes on his chest and legs, as if he was preparing to return to his people.



The snow-capped mountains of the Andes mountains towered before them. At this point they must have traveled far up the Rio Yaku and into Peru.

On October 13, they lost their canoe over dangerous rapids. Most of their food and medical supplies were lost, and their camera equipment was destroyed. This was the excuse Brugger and the photographer needed to abandon the expedition and return to Manaus. They were only 10 days away from Akakor.

But Tatunca Nara did not follow.

With a bow, a small quiver of arrows, and a hunting knife, Natunca Nara disappeared into the forbidden jungle.

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