Martin Stower Wrote:
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> Audrey Wrote:
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> > Childress took the story from Von Daniken's
> > Chariot of the Gods who seems to have taken it
> > from a French book "Morning of the Magicians"
> by
> > Pauwels & Bergier. The story is supposedly in
> Book
> > 16: Mausala Parva of the Mahabharata.
>
> This is supposed to make Childress look good?
>
> This fuss and bother about the “iron
> thunderbolt” story goes back to Flying
> Saucers Have Landed at least:
>
> [url=http://www.universe-people.com/english/svetel
> na_knihovna/htm/en/en_kniha_flying_saucers_have_la
> nded.htm]http://www.universe-people.com/english/sv
> etelna_knihovna/htm/en/en_kniha_flying_saucers_hav
> e_landed.htm[/url]
>
> Note that the source cited is P. Chandra Roy,
> 1889, [i]Drona Parva[/i] (which may be just
> wrong), while you can find the Mausala Parva
> here:
>
> [url=http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/m16/m16000.ht
> m]http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/m16/m16000.htm[/
> url]
>
> With an effort one can find things which Pauwels
> and Bergier on have garbled almost beyond
> recognition.
>
> > Try finding it yourself. Here's a big hint -
> look
> > in Posnansky's book, there are photographs of
> the
> > 3 skulls which are supposed to be in a museum
> in
> > La Paz. . . .
>
> Easier said than done. These are rare books and
> expensive. This is a more accessible indication:
>
> [url=https://www.google.co.uk/search?tbm=isch&q=po
> snansky+skulls]https://www.google.co.uk/search?tbm
> =isch&q=posnansky+skulls[/url]
>
> M.

Thanks, Martin.

I'd used google and google scholar, but hadn't thought to use images.
I found an image that is attributed to Posnansy's book "Tihuanacu, the Cradle of the American Man."
If my Spanish is still any good, it appears to be an elongated skull found in the vicinity of Tiahuanaco.

Harte