TT, happy to oblige my dear man.
Today, we shall look into an intriguing mystery that takes in the last remanents of the Inca against their Spanish overlords, a mountaintop lonely castle shrouded in legend, an aristocrat forced to leave his home due to one too many indiscretions and the alleged rightful heir to the ever-sought after legendary last great missing treasure of the Inca.
During the 18th century, a member of the aristocracy was forced (some say voluntarily) to leave the Old World for the New. He settled in present-day Peru where after some time, he met and married an Inca princess who was still part of the nobility in its reduced form due to the Spanish conquest. They were happily married and the princess bore him a daughter.
As the daughter was growing-up, she was 'allowed' in both camps: she enjoyed the confidence of the last Inca nobles and the upper echelons of the Europeans due to her father's race and background. As an adult, she met and married a relative of the Inca insurrection leader Tupac Amaru ll. The last of the Inca tried their utmost to remove the Spanish and restore the previous order but were harshly put-down by the Spaniards. They executed all the remaining prominent Inca and their supporters in very public executions and attempted to suppress the Quechan language, traditions and remaining culture of the Inca.
Due to the European chap's daughter who was married to a relative of the rebel Inca leader, he, his daughter and his Incan son-in-law were forced to flee back to Europe. They apparently settled in Italy. The European's wife had died whilst still in Peru. The daughter had a baby born to her during this time but her Incan husband died under mysterious circumstances and her father took his daughter and grandchild back to his family's home - the lonely castle - and settled back there away from prying eyes.
As the boy grew-up under the supervision of his mother and grandfather, he lost his mother when she was mysteriously murdered as his father had been when they had lived in Italy. The unfortunate boy was now an orphan and only had his elderly grandfather as his close kin.
In amongst the boy's possessions that his mother had left him, there was supposedly a quipu which the mother had left him that she said belonged to the boy's paternal people- the Inca - and when it was unraveled by a true Inca, it would reveal the resting place where the great Inca hoard was buried in anticipation of the new rise of the Inca people.
As the boy was unable to do much, the quipu was kept in his possessions and not discussed much. As he grew-up, the quipu and the associated papers from his mother and his father's possessions, were lost and dispersed...
Some years later, some expeditions left the Old World again and centred some searches and investigations at certain spots around Lake Titicaca and wTT, happy to oblige my dear man.
Today, we shall look into an intriguing mystery that takes in the last remanents of the Inca against their Spanish overlords, a mountaintop lonely castle shrouded in legend, an aristocrat forced to leave his home due to one too many indiscretions and the alleged rightful heir to the ever-sought after legendary last great missing treasure of the Inca.
During the 18th century, a member of the aristocracy was forced (some say voluntarily) to leave the Old World for the New. He settled in present-day Peru where after some time, he met and married an Inca princess who was still part of the nobility in its reduced form due to the Spanish conquest. They were happily married and the princess bore him a daughter.
As the daughter was growing-up, she was 'allowed' in both camps: she enjoyed the confidence of the last Inca nobles and the upper echelons of the Europeans due to her father's race and background. As an adult, she met and married a relative of the Inca insurrection leader Tupac Amaru ll. The last of the Inca tried their utmost to remove the Spanish and restore the previous order but were harshly put-down by the Spaniards. They executed all the remaining prominent Inca and their supporters in very public executions and attempted to suppress the Quechan language, traditions and remaining culture of the Inca.
Due to the European chap's daughter who was married to a relative of the rebel Inca leader, he, his daughter and his Incan son-in-law were forced to flee back to Europe. They apparently settled in Italy. The European's wife had died whilst still in Peru. The daughter had a baby born to her during this time but her Incan husband died under mysterious circumstances and her father took his daughter and grandchild back to his family's home - the lonely castle - and settled back there away from prying eyes.
As the boy grew-up under the supervision of his mother and grandfather, he lost his mother when she was mysteriously murdered as his father had been when they had lived in Italy. The unfortunate boy was now an orphan and only had his elderly grandfather as his close kin.
In amongst the boy's possessions that his mother had left him, there was supposedly a quipu which the mother had left him that she said belonged to the boy's paternal people- the Inca - and when it was unraveled by a true Inca, it would reveal the resting place where the great Inca hoard was buried in anticipation of the new rise of the Inca people.
As the boy was unable to do much, the quipu was kept in his possessions and not discussed much. As he grew-up, the quipu and the associated papers from his mother and his father's possessions, were lost and dispersed...
Some years later, some expeditions left the Old World again and centred some searches and investigations at certain spots around Lake Titicaca and were rumoured to have some 'specific details' which had allegedly been found in Europe from descendants of the "Last Inca".
The story is very intriguing as apparently the family when fleeing Peru after the failed insurrection, had some gold and silver artefacts on their possessions which had allowed them to buy safe passage back to the Old World. Apparently this is why the boy's mother and father met grisly and premature ends. There was also rumoured surreptitious searches of the castle and some leaden chests were removed after the mother's death without the grandfather's knowledge...
This story has been discussed previously on TreasureNet, and me and old Crowy discussed it in some other thread. It was also intriguing as I came across an old travel journal from an Englishman travelling across South America in the 19th century who came across the widow of an Inca resistance leader who showed him gold and silver artefacts leftover from her late husband who had been shown a "great hoard of the ancient Inca" that was used to buy weapons and supplies for the rebels. The Englishman saw the artefacts and sketched them for his book and tried to purchase them but was unable to. The widow told him that her husband who was a full blood Qeuchan, was told that the hoard would only be brought out into the open when the Inca returned to power and had been cached until then and was overseen by loyal servants of the Inca, even over the centuries where one generation passed the baton to another.
The story became even more intriguing when post WW2, a politician in Eastern Europe said he had "proof" that he was descended from the last Inca and would prove it. He also met an unfortunate end and was mysteriously killed in a car 'accident'.
There was a documentary I saw many, many years ago on this and was fascinated by the story.
Strange but apparently true....
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