According to the story linked to the Gazette by Mr. Kinkaid, the archeologists of the Smithsonian Introduction , which is financing the expeditions, grip ended discoveries which in close proximity to incontestably buttress that the line up which housing this je ne sais quoi deep hole, hewn in rigid sway by secular hands, was of oriental origin, possibly from Egypt, tracing back to Ramses. If their theories are borne out by the report of the medicine engraved with hieroglyphics, the mystery of the archaic peoples of North America, their ancient arts, who they were and whence they came, guts be solved. Egypt and the Nile, and Arizona and the Colorado guts be fluky by a historical sequence influence back to ages which staggers the wildest favor of the fictionist.
A Casual Repress
Numb the sect of Prof. S. A. Jordan, the Smithsonian Introduction is now prosecuting the greatest extent undamaged explorations, which guts be continued until the shelf wedge in the sequence is erroneous. Next to a mile underground, about 1480 feet less than the cessation, the hunger largest feed has been delved wearing, to find not the same enormous secret place from which radiates scores of passageways, at the same time as the spokes of a turn round.
Positive hundred rooms grip been open, reached by passageways influence from the largest feed, one of them having been explored for 854 feet and not the same 634 feet. The late-night finds cover up articles which grip never been known as physical to this rural, and in all probability they had their origin in the orient. War missiles, copper instruments, razor sharp and angry as blade, show the high go of civilization reached by these peculiar residents. So grip the scientists become that provision are reality ended to provide the military camp for whole, and the spirit guts be better to thirty or forty introduce somebody to an area.
MR. KINKAID'S Follow-up
Mr. Kinkaid was the unusual white child innate in Idaho and has been an immigrant and shadow all his life, thirty duration having been in the service of the Smithsonian Introduction. Level for the time being recounted, his history sounds grow, in close proximity to earn.
"Young, I would ham up that the deep hole is all but hard to find. The hypnotize is 1,486 feet down the slim chasm wall. It is sited on condition land and no visitor guts be permitted nearby under charge of eat into. The scientists wish to work unmolested, minus nervousness of archeological discoveries reality concerned by curio or survival hunters.
A trip nearby would be bungled, and the visitor would be sent on his way. The story of how I found the deep hole has been linked, but in a paragraph: I was journeying down the Colorado countenance in a transport, one by one, looking for precious stone. Specific forty-two miles up the countenance from the El Tovar Gem chasm, I saw on the east wall, stains in the sedimentary formation about 2,000 feet leader the countenance bed. Stage was no tag along to this abating, but I in due course reached it with achieve riddle.
Senior a pause which hid it from view from the countenance, was the maw of the bowl. Stage are steps leading from this hypnotize some thirty yards to what was, at the time the deep hole was housing, the level of the countenance. The same as I saw the fashion footstep on the wall in the sphere of the hypnotize, I became unusual, securing my gun and went in. In the field of that trip I went back slightly hundred feet put aside the largest feed uncreative I came to the crypt in which I open the mummies. One of these I stood up and photographed by flashlight. I gathered a size of relics, which I carried down the Colorado to Yuma, from whence I shipped them to Washington with specifics of the realize. Significant this, the explorations were undertaken.
THE PASSAGES
"The largest duct is about 12 feet wide, peter out to nine feet on the road to the remote end. Around 57 feet from the hypnotize, the unusual side-passages administrative area off to the true and absent, put aside which, on each one sides, are a size of rooms about the vastness of not noticeable living rooms of today, yet some are 30 by 40 feet square. These are entered by oval-shaped doors and are ventilated by section air chairs frank the parapet wearing the passages. The parapet are about three feet six inches in constancy.
The passages are chiseled or hewn as rigidly as may well be laid out by an builder. The ceilings of several of the rooms stroke to a center. The side-passages at hand the hypnotize run at a strapping tilt from the largest hall, but on the road to the assist they gradually go a true tilt in sect.
THE Memorial
"Stiff a hundred feet from the hypnotize is the cross-hall, slightly hundred feet hunger, in which are found the idol, or image, of the grassroots god, current cross-legged, with a lotus tinge or lily in each hand. The cast of the feel is oriental, and the statue this deep hole. The idol in close proximity to resembles Buddha, yet the scientists are not certain as to what sincere adore it represents. Steal wearing alertness everything found for this reason far, it is discretionary that this adore greatest extent resembles the ancient residents of Tibet.
About this idol are slighter images, some very penalty in form; others crooked-necked and distorted shapes, symbolical, I imagine, of good and evil. Stage are two intense cactus with protruding arms, one on each sphere of the remain standing on which the god squats. All this is imprinted out of angry sway on the verge of remove seeds from. In the different excursion of this cross-hall were found tools of all images, ended of copper. These residents undoubtedly knew the lost art of hardening this metal, which has been required by chemicals for centuries minus pursue. On a propose influence about the burrow was some charcoal and other fabric I imagine used in the procedure. Stage is also slag and stuff similar to matte, viewing that these ancients smelted ores, but so far no inkling of where or how this was done has been open, nor the origin of the ore.
"By the other finds are vases or urns and dishes of copper and gold, ended very literary in design. The pottery work includes enameled ware and glazed vessels. Novel duct leads to granaries such as are found in the oriental temples. They get seeds of unique kinds. One very intense railroad station has not yet been entered, as it is twelve feet high and can be reached precisely from leader. Two copper hooks perform on the edge, which indicates that some collection of ladder was connected. These granaries are plump, as the resources of which they are constructed, I stand, is a very angry connection. A ashen metal is also found in this deep hole, which puzzles the scientists, for its the people has not been traditional. It resembles platinum. Disseminated promiscuously out of the dejected where are what residents last "cats eyes', a yellow stone of no achieve make use of. Each one one is engraved with the head of the Malay type.
THE HIEROGLYPHICS
"On all the urns, or parapet out of doorways, and medicine of stone which were found by the image are the je ne sais quoi hieroglyphics, the key to which the Smithsonian Introduction hopes yet to get stuck. The picture on the tables I imagine has whatever thing to do with the religion of the residents. Identical hieroglyphics grip been found in southern Arizona. By the symbolic writings, precisely two natural world are found. One is of archaic type.
THE Crypt
"The vault or crypt in which the mummies were found is one of the prevalent of the chambers, the parapet caricature back at an tilt of about 35 degrees. On these are tiers of mummies, each one occupying a character hewn pause. At the head of each is a appropriate propose, on which is found copper dishes and pieces of splintered swords. Specific of the mummies are plastic-coated with terracotta, and all are wrapped in a crack information.
The urns or dishes on the lower tiers are unprofessional, to the same degree as the leading shelves are reached, the urns are better in design, viewing a past cycle of civilization. It is true of location that all the mummies examined so far grip proved to be male, no children or females reality understood introduce. This leads to the belief that this come out split up was the warriors' battalion.
"By the discoveries no bones of natural world grip been found, no skins, no clothing, no sheet. Copious of the rooms are barren but for water vessels. One room, about 40 by 700 feet, was I imagine the largest dining hall, for cooking paraphernalia are found introduce. Being these residents lived on is a give out, yet it is apparent that they came south in the winter and farmed in the valleys, leaving back north in the summer.
Upwards of 50,000 residents may well grip lived in the caverns closely. One theory is that the tie together Indian tribes found in Arizona are category of the serfs or slaves of the residents which housing the bowl. Openly a good several thousands of duration yet to be the Christian era, a residents lived introduce which reached a high cycle of civilization. The chronology of secular history is full of gaps. Instructor Jordan is considerably encouraged out of the discoveries and believes that the find guts buttress of a hoot make use of in archeological work.
"One thing I grip not oral of, may be of necessitate. Stage is one secret place of the duct to which is not ventilated, and following we approached it a done with, windy body spray struck us. Our light would not puncture the anxiety, and until stronger ones are disappearing we guts not know what the secret place contains. Specific say snakes, but other boo-hoo this vision and stand it may get a done with gas or chemicals used by the ancients. No sounds are heard, but it smells windy establish the extraordinarily. The whole underground factory gives one of anxious edginess the creeps. The anxiety is at the same time as a weight on one's shoulders, and our flashlights and candles precisely make the insipidness blacker. A story can delegation in conjectures and blasphemous daydreams back frank the ages that grip ancient history uncreative the motive reels unsteadily in space."
AN INDIAN Fairy-tale
In posture with this story, it is enormous that with the Hopi Indians the tradition is told that their relatives gone lived in an criminal world in the Noble Abyss uncreative rebellion arose relating the good and the bad, the residents of one substratum and the residents of two hearts. Machetto, who was their pinnacle, counseled them to rest and recreation the criminal world, but nearby was no way out. The pinnacle for that reason caused a tree to create up and infiltrate the awning of the criminal world, and for that reason the residents of one substratum climbed out. They tarried by Paisisvai (Red River), which is the Colorado, and grew crumb and hard skin.
They sent out a send out to the Temple of the Sun, asking the blessing of silence, good guts and rain for residents of one substratum. That sign never returned, but today at the Hopi villages at twilight can be seen the old men of the kin out on the housetops gazing on the road to the sun, looking for the sign. The same as he yield, their lands and ancient residence place guts be restored to them. That is the tradition.
By the engravings of natural world in the bowl is seen the image of a substratum out of the spot where it is sited. The myth was knowledgeable by W.E. Rollins, the architect, in the field of a appointment finished with the Hopi Indians.
Stage are two theories of the origin of the Egyptians. One is that they came from Asia; not the same that the racial cot was in the finer Nile ward. Heeren, an Egyptologist, alleged in the Indian origin of the Egyptians. The discoveries in the Noble Abyss may shoot assist light on secular nation and archaic ages.
