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The Gold Chain of Inti Cusi Hualta
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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Reading "The Incas" by Garcilaso de la Vega, a long, dry history of The Inca civilization and it's kings and policies, when I come across a reference to a Gold Chain made by the king Huaina Capac to commemorate the birth of his son, Quotes:
"Inca Inti Cusi Huallpa or Huasca this last word means a chain or rope Tradition relates that to commemorate his coming of age a golden chain was made long enough to go round the great square Cuzco He reigned eight years when he became the prisoner of his brother Atahualpa by whose order it is supposed he was killed in 1533 at Andamarca..."
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"... the inca ordered the chain to be made of suficient length to surround the square so that according to the computation of Garcilaso it must have been seven hundred feet in length and so heavy is we may credit the accomptant general Augustine Carate that two hundred Indians could scarcely raise it from the ground After the most diligent search made by the Spaniards this chain could never be found, it was buried with other treasures carefully in the bowels of the earth"
Searching Google for references it appears the chain remains lost.
Links: http://science.nationalgeographic.com/science/archaeology/lost-inca-gold/
Many, many references to the countless treasures that were hidden upon the arrival of the Spaniards, there seems to be enough in the legends to suspect there still await great treasures to be found...
Jim Kazanjian - Surreal Collages
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A collection of surreal collages created by Jim Kazanjian:
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View more of his collages here: http://www.kostuikgallery.com/?section=Artists&page=Artworks&a=30&artist=Jim%20+Kazanjian
Haptic Holograms
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- Category: Technology
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And apparently this:
Researchers are working on generating a 3D touchable "hologram" using high frequency soundwaves. Interesting...
Flashbacks in a Maze of Familiar Places
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I'm with the boy, upstairs in a giant space, house perhaps, a party. There's a painting on a wall and as I walk forward to it it animates and changes itself, like one of those postcards that flip between images when you tip them, only this painting is changing into many different things at once, every step forward bursts of colors grow and change...
I'm trying to show the boy, only he isn't seeing it, but he's very understanding, and when I take the final step towards the painting it breaks up, is no longer a painting, is instead a vase, a plant, a lamp...
"Flashbacks" I realize, and I'm intrigued, I'd heard, read, that they were a myth, but there's some novelty to this and I intend to enjoy them...
We're wandering through the top of the house, he meets some familiar acquaintance whom I recognize but don't know, his wife, I introduce the son and the man tells me "I know", the boy explains that he had dated his mother when he was young...
We're looking for a pub, walking over catwalks, looking into familiar old schoolyards, memories of forgotten dreams now remembered again and pasted together like a collage of imaginary landscapes, everywhere is familiar, but the arrangement is not, somewhere there's a pub...
I find a bathroom, looking at the toilet seat it's covered in holographic decals, I call in the boy to show him, they're not flashbacks, he merely appears, looks, gently pulls a couple of pieces of toilet paper and covers them up, he's gently patronizing me, not getting it and I still must be having flashbacks...
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