anyone have thoughts on:
Secrets of the Stone Tablets: In Search of Montezuma’s Treasure
Theroy of Raymond Dillman who launched himself into a lifelong campaign to decipher the stones and discover their original meanings and the treasures they pointed to.
Covering the exploits and treasure digs of the Dillman family, declaring that the Peralta Stone Tablets were created by Cabeza de Vaca and Estevenico.
Covering several archaeological digs in the American Southwest (including the Dillman family’s 1982 dig in Utah that uncovered a fifth stone tablet, three skeletons, and numerous artifacts).
As Dan Dillman states in an interview during the film, “My grandfather set out looking for a treasure, but what he found was a quest.”
Was there really 7 different stashes for the treasure and was this the trail that Kino was following? We know father Kino was starting a search from Casa Grande ruins, the place the Aztecs claimed was their original home. The Aztecs also stated that the treasure was found near the site, and had never been used but only stored for the return of the God Quetzalcoatl. It took Cortezs' men 3 days to inventory the treasure. Soon after that it was removed by the Indians. The story of Cortez tossing the treasure in the lake is an embellishment and has no fact being as records state the treasure had been removed prior to the Indian uprising when the royals were murdered during a holiday feast. This more than likely took place because the Spanish were wanting to know the location of the treasure. Another fact in the Spanish records is that Cortez built three ships with the shipwrights on the lake and mounted cannons on them when he went to sack the city, so I doubt the story of a portable bridge that has arisen about the escape from the city.
My friend Jose, Cyanide is one of the other hazards of gold processing the old way. Arsenic is almost always present anywhere you find heavy metals. This is why ores should be processed in the great out doors. Yes, that is the exact smell Cyanide has so I know for a fact you know how the process is done.