Fingerprints of the Gods 

Author: Graham Hancock

reviewed by Theresa Welsh

Graham Hancock seeks the Mother Culture, the lost civilization from which the ancient cultures known to us sprang. He is an excellent writer and researcher and this book is perhaps his finest effort.

Hancock does not use the “A” word (Atlantis), but his search for the mother culture amounts to the same thing. Why do cultures around the world share the same stories, build the same monuments, and even have eerie similarities in their languages? Hancock says there was once an advanced civilization whose people built the fantastic structures of both the old and new worlds. Hancock actually traveled to the sites of South America (Peru, Bolivia, Mexico) and compared them to the well-known sites in Egypt and elsewhere. His personal accounts of going to these places left me envious. How I wish I could see these places too! I want to climb to the top of the Great Pyramid at dawn, as he did, even though it is illegal. But I can see these wonderful places through Hancock’s excellent descriptions. The fantastic cultures that once existed on our earth come to life through Hancock’s words, and you will wonder along with him how these monolithic structures were built and what they mean.

We learn about mythical men like Viracocha and Quetzalcoatl, and the enigma of sites such as Tihaunaco on the shores of Lke Titicaca (“the lake on the roof of the world”), the huge stone structures at Sacsayhuaman, the giant Olmec heads with their Negroid features, and the mysterious Nazca lines. And of course, we also go to the Giza plateau and learn about the Valley Temple, connected with the middle pyramid, but perhaps much older. Are the pyramids tombs and nothing more? Not according to Hancock. Yes, these topics are discussed in many other books, but Hancock puts it all together to point to the mother culture and to a forgotten science.

I wanted this book so badly, I actually paid full price at a local bookstore. The book did not disappoint me. It is well researched and well written and a real page-turner. You will learn all about the precession of the equinoxes and the idea that code numbers are hidden in many traditional stories. Be an armchair archeologist and enjoy the trip to the past and revel in the speculation as you picture the people who once walked our earth, whose secrets we so desperately seek to learn. Were ancient cultures trying to send us a message? Hancock thinks so and he builds a persuasive case. This book,from one of my favorite authors, is mighy good reading!

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