Metal Library

Close to the southern border of the Amazonian province of Pastaza, Ecuador; marked by a line running due east from Mount Sangay converging with another running due south from Mount Sumaco: concealed below river level inside a treacherous section of the Tayos caves system, some kilometers in length, formed by the River Pastaza.

(Separate 'Cave of the Tayos' is on the Rio Coangos, mapped by the 1976 expedition: 78º 13' W 3º 6' S)

Pastaza River Stretch of Tayu Cave Location

After separate odysseys with Moricz and another key protagonist Hall broke his rule of rejecting any treasure, monster or ufo that cannot be dragged up to his front door, or that Steven Spielberg can replicate, by finally accepting the Tayos metal library and treasures had to exist! Packed with scientific and historical information but lacking an ancient script in South America he distilled from mytho-history a model of the origins of the Solar System and Humanity that might accommodate the metal library...

... and a more astounding 'crystal' library that accompanies it!

Following the deaths of the two key protagonists in the 1990s Hall became sole custodian of the treasure story. Realizing such a fantastic tale could never stand on its own he developed an Optical Relativity model (see Grailscope) to effect an empirical distillation of data gathered since 1974, finally emerging with two non-fiction and two fiction manuscripts covering his analyses and discoveries. These will be published in 2006 to mark the 30th Anniversary of the 1976 Tayos Expedition.

General Description of the Treasure of the Tayu [Tayhuantinsuyu]

1. A library consisting of thousands of metal books on shelves, each weighing about 20 kilograms, pages stamped on one side with ideographs, geometric designs and inscriptions.

2. A second library of hard, polished, rectangular, translucent plates, each with parallel, encrusted channels, laid on gold-leafed trestles.

3. Hundreds of zoomorphic and human statues, some on heavy plinths, representing various species of animals and insects, also humans in different positions displaying a variety of emotions.

4. 'Metal' bars of various shapes, together with toys and piles of alluvial gold.

5. Instruments for making buttons and jewelry.

6. Sealed doors (possibly tombs) covered in semi-precious stones.

7. A sarcophagus of translucent material containing a large, gold-leafed, human skeleton.