fossil_digger Report This Comment Date: October 13, 2012 11:52PM
Many may not be familiar with what we call the Crespi Collection, but it was/is
one of the more amazing collection of artifacts from South & Central America
that has every been brought together.
Father Carlos Crespi was a Silesian-monk who lived in Ecuador. He did missionary
work among the Indian population in remote valleys during his lifeti
me.
Crespi received or bought many artifacts from the indigenous people in
Ecuador.
When questioned, they told him they had found them in subterranean cave systems
in the jungles. As time progressed, many of these relics were brought together
and kept in the courtyard of the church Maria Auxiliadora.
Unfortunately, many of the artifacts were destroyed in a fire in 1962 or later
when the church was restored. Also, many were lost or wound up with treasure
hunters.
After Father Crespi passed away in 1982, the remaining artifacts of the original
collection were removed and made inaccessible to the public. Some may still be
stored in the cellar archive of the church Maria Auxiliadora. The age and origin
of these items is still unknown today. Father Crespi never tried to classify
them. The picture motifs are strange, their meaning not understood. The most
well known pieces are tablets made of silver, gold foil or other alloys with
unknown letters and mysterious symbols.
Video: The Mysterious Crespi Project:
VIDEO
quasi Report This Comment Date: October 14, 2012 01:07AM
So do you prefer your artifacts to be regular or extra Crespi?
Onyma Report This Comment Date: October 14, 2012 02:00AM
Crespi or... Hitler!
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www.deanthebard.com]
(no, I don't believe but it's a fun theory...)
fossil_digger Report This Comment Date: October 14, 2012 02:03AM
wow, i thought for sure i was the only one to have heard that one.
BlahX3 Report This Comment Date: October 14, 2012 10:52PM
It reminds me of the movie Stigmata.
pro_junior Report This Comment Date: October 15, 2012 12:00AM
Your comment reminds me of the song Stigmata
BlahX3 Report This Comment Date: October 15, 2012 05:05PM
The little old Padre reminded me of the one in the movie.
Anon Report This Comment Date: January 23, 2024 04:58AM
I don't believe that man was Hitler. The money probably came from the sale of
some of the antiques.
The story is probably a red herring to distract from the concealment of
archaeological artifacts that give a different story to the history we were
taught growing up.
Of note are the images of pyramids with the eye on top, called the 'all seeing
eye' it was adopted into free masonry. It's probably a Chinese Whisper, that
changed with the telling, of the largest pyramid at Visoko in Bosnia, where
tunnels underneath ran water through gravel over long distances, generating vast
amounts of negative ions (negatively charged oxygen), these exited vents at the
top of the pyramid to create a halo effect. This was during the ice age.
The website piramidasunca.ba is so badly run I can't find the photo of a carving
depicting this, found nearby.
A factor of Chinese Whispers is changes to what something signifies.