THE SKULL OF THE DESTINY The skull of the destiny - the incredible history of a crystal skull In the last vent' years the more extraordinary and mysterious stone that exists to the world is remained in possession of one mrs., than the conserve gelosamente under a cloth house console viola on one. Draft of one narcotic skull, from the weight of beyond 5 kg, carved in a pure quartz crystal block, belonged a time to one ancient lost civilization. The eyes are of the incastonati prismi and it says that observing them it can be scrutare in the future. This only stone is said the "skull of the destiny". This brano, us servants well like introduction to one of the more fascinating mysteries of XX the century. The skull belonged to an explorer and traveller, a loving man of the adventure of name Albert ("Mike") Mitchell-Hedges, been born in 1882. To its dead women, happened in 1959, the stone is last to its puts into effect them caretaker, the adoptive daughter Anna Mitchell-Hedges, class 1910, which has declared that the skull came from the archaeological diggings carries out near the ruins of one "lost city to you" of the South America, the Mayan center of Lubaantun, in British Honduras. The mrs. tells: "I Was to notice it before in order, or in order better to say, to signal my father who under was something here that luccicava. It was its shipment, and we all gave a great work in order to help it to remove that immense amount of pietrame. Lubaantun means in fact "place of fallen stones". It came granted to me to collect it, because I had been before to see it ". The object had been found just under what it seemed to have been the altar of a tempio Mayan. The date remembered from mrs. Anna is 1924, in discord with one its previous declaration in which it had said to have found it just the day of its seventeenth birthday, like saying three later years. That that it had found, consisted in the advanced part of the skull, because the rest, that is the jaw, had been scovata three months after under other ruins, in a situated one leggermente discosto regarding the first one. Resosi account that that precious object was an inheritance of the local aborigines, direct descendants of ancient and evoluto the people that had realized it, Mitchell-Hedges had decided to leave it people of the place. When but, during the season of rains of 1927 it was being gotten ready to to make I re-enter in England, the maggiorenti of the place glielo had given back, in sign of gratefulness, for its gentility and the correctness of its behavior. As we know, also the Mayan is a wonderful one, intriguer enigma. Even if their antichi ancestors go back to approximately 1500 years before ours were, the closing of their extraordinary civilization was recorded alone between the 700 and 900 AC. During this phase the Mayan developed the highest civilization that knew the writing, the mathematics, she had a precise calendar and she realized imposing scultoree and architectonic works. Then, of blow, all it was scomparso, the Mayan civilization was collapsed and no anchor today knows because. Someone speaks about natural catastrophes and earthquakes, but not there are replies. Neither traces of violences are had. Insomma, a mystery. He seems that the Mayan abandoned voluntarily their cities in order to disperse itself in other disperse localities. After that their civilization, a time and mirabile, were ripiombata in the anonymity. Also the partial decifrazione of written theirs not is of great aid. According to Mitchell-Hedges one tightened correlation between the Mayan and the continent leggendario of Atlantis existed, than the legend it says has been submergeeed from waters of the Atlantic ocean in the night of the times. An other explorer, colonel Percy Fawcett, supported to have found the tests attesting that the survivors of Atlantis had caught up the South America and that in Brasi them was hidden the answer to many interrogated to you. In the 1924 Fawcett he was scomparso in the course of a shipment in Brasi them. Mitchell-Hedges agreed with its hypothesis, but it thought that the Atlantidei was allocates to you to north more, in the penisola.dello.yucatan or in the Central.America. The shipment in Honduras in the course of which it had been found the skull, was time to demonstrate just this theory. Mitchell-Hedges had not traced some test in merit, but in compensation it had succeeded to come R-at the head of some regarding indications the lost treasure of celebre the Sir Henry Morgan, the pirata one that in XVII the century it had taken (with not little cruelty) the city of Panama hat. Which thing we know, in truth, of the "skull of the destiny"? Of important, almost null. It turns out gained from an only block of crystalline cliff or clear quartz. According to Mitchell-Hedges it boasted approximately 3600 years; that it wanted to before say at least thousand years still of the first historical traces attributed to the civilization of the Mayan. In order to realize it 150 years had been necessary at least, in order to clean up and to carve, little little, the hard quartz block with the most fine sand action. In its “Gli extraland torneranno?” Erich von Daniken still goes beyond, when it says (mistaking): "In the skull and its perfect invoice, not there is trace that reveals the use of a famous tool of working to we". For he, in fact, the skull has been elaborated from the "antichi astronauts", those same visitors to which we must the construction of the Great Pyramid. An expert of crystals, Frank Dorland, has confessed of being in a position to realizing a similar object in three years, on condition but of being able to decide of all the average puttinges to disposition from he puts into effect them technology. On purpose of the origin of the skull, the experts have various ideas. For some he came realized in Mexico, carving a coming from crystalline block from the hollow Mexicans of the county of Calaveras or from California, and he must not more have than 500 years. If this dating is corrected, contrasts in full load with supported how much from Mitchell-Hedges, that it said to have found again it between the ruins of ancient tempio a Mayan one, abandoned from at least a thousand of years. With respect to the Aztecs - the most probable constructors of the skull - they only founded their large one understood them Tenochtitlan in the 1325 d.C. Sin that this is but the hypothesis shared from the greater part of those who has had to that to make with the skull. Not there are doubts on the fact that Mike Mitchell-Hedges was a man of absolute value, like of other song nobody it can doubt of the great devozione and fidelity shown in its confronts from the adoptive daughter Anna. When they were themselves meets to you to Toronto in 1917, Anna was one small orphan of seven years. Anna called itself the Guillon and, at the moment, it had been entrusted a man who had all the intentions to get rid some locking up it in a orfanotrofio. Touched from its painful vicissitude, Mitchell-Hedges had decided to adopt it, completing a gesture that nobody of the two would never have regret in the course of the life. Beyond to the courage and the formidable overhong of explorer, the contrary of Scoti captain or of already cited Fawcelt colonel, Mitchell-Hedges was a decidedly vulcanico type, more neighbor to those fanfarone of Morgan captain, the pirata one on the tracks of whose Mike treasure had been put. He was a full man of sense of the humour, ironico, that it loved to chain the next one telling - and perhaps also writing - amazing history and fascinating. Same it admitted of must its life of adventurer to the juvenile reading of the works Laugh Haggard and to storys of Lost World di Sir Conan Doyle; of other song its same books were aligned on this registry - reflecting the character of a man who, after all, even though mature, was remained with the mind and the mentality of a boy. Insomma, was not less inclined to the lie of how much it could not be a been born elisabettiano adventurer for mistake outside from just the time. Badly the languages support that Mitchell-Hedges had bought the skull of crystal to London, if were carried it near the ruins of Lubaantun in order to make to find it to the daughter just the day of its seventeenth (or fourteenth) birthday. An action, to said of many, of which he would have been senz' other able one. Also from the reading of its autobiography of 1954, evince that the facts were not carried out in way therefore to delineate slowly and, as Anna narrates to you from the daughter. One would expect that one discovered therefore important to merits at least some page to us of taken care of description and instead nothing of all this. Only little lines, with this mysterious annotation: "I do not have reasons to reveal to nobody in which way they have come in possession of the crystal skull". Honestly, it is not understood because, from the moment that, to the contrary, the daughter Anna if it occupies some in detailed way somewhat. Perhaps because it could have increased the merits of the adoptive father? All this turns out still more outlandish if it is only considered that Mike spends little pages not to describe in way never precise how much some other objects of much smaller importance finds again to you in the course of the diggings to Lubaantun. Without to observe that also also the minimal citations to the skull scompaiono completely in the edition American of the book. It comes to ask itself: of agreement not to want more to support the lie, but because not to be useful for the occasion in order to say the truth? From part its Anna Mitchell-Hedges has not never had hesitations to fully confirm the story of the ritrovamento. The journalist of the "Daily Express" Donald Seaman, tells to have felt it to narrate directly from the mrs.. In the 1962 Seaman, occupied in the writing of an espionage book, he was himself imbattuto in the photography of a recently discovered spy, Gordon Lonsdale, where the man was ritratto in means to two women of average age. Taken care of searches they had revealed that one of the two was Anna Mitchell-Hedges. Made curious from the strange connection - than it made mrs. us Anna with a recognized spy? - Seaman had contacted it near its house of Reading, asking for being able to meet it. Obtained the consent, Seaman it had gone, making oneself to accompany from photographer Robert Girling. To the age mrs. Anna was one vigorous, appealing to mrs. in the full load of its cinquant’anni, ready to receive them agghindata in its beautiful dress. The relative history to the photography had been revealed enough banal. It had been released to the inside of an historical castle, where it and some its friends were themselves accidentally find again to speak to you with the man, met on the moment, than then she would have been found to the center of celebre the case of espionage of the case of Portland. A photographer professional to hunting of customers was passed just in that moment, had noticed the brought together group and had proposed to release one photography. Anna had paid the release and some day after had received the photography to house. Never more it had not seen neither felt to speak about Lonsdale until to that moment. To that point, nearly disappointed to have made them to run since she to Reading in order to discover a nonexistent case, a mere triviality, like wanting itself to sdebitare, it had then asked if they wished to see the famous one “teschio of the destino”. Nobody of the two had never felt some to speak before, and therefore, more than other for courtesy, they had consented. Anna had lead them in bedroom, where, trying to tentoni behind the espalier of the bed, she had pulled outside something. Expecting to see an object not larger than an egg, Seaman had been astonished in stating that the thing enclosed in a newsprint that mrs. Anna had extracted gives behind the bed, was instead great how much a cabbage. Then they were moves to you in the hall where mrs. Anna had carried out the package. It is Seaman that Girling was literally remained sbigottiti in the presence of the that beautifulst and only object, supported on the table. The skull, large like that one of a man, seemed gained from a perfect diamond: in the light of the twilight assumed a tonality verdastra, nearly like if it shone of an own inner light or was illuminated to of under. The inferior jaw was mobile as that human, particular that it added a touch of extraordinary realistic effect all together. Returning, they were finds you of agreement in stating that until that moment nobody of the two beautiful one had never seen an object much and above all, therefore strangely alarming. Mrs. Anna had said they that she be a matter herself of the "skull of the destiny", found again in a tempio Mayan in 1927. The name it had been given from the aborigines, convinced that in virtue of its sovrannaturali powers the object went dealt with the maximum respect and great reverenza. Legends on gone persons were already bloomed encounter to serious misfortunes for the single fact not to have enough respected the mysterious skull. The story was continued. In that by now far away 1927, its father had put itself on the traces of the fabulous treasure of the pirata Henry Morgan, than the legend he said buried in 1671. He had come to know that in the situated zone around the archaeological one of Lubaantun, in British Honduras, many between the NATO to you called Hawkins and Morgan. It was an opportunity; for more its father he was convinced that in those places they always were lands the survivors to you of the destroyed Atlantis. However, the skull had been only manufatto the ancient one that was resolutions to find. Hour that the father not was more (was died in 1959), Anna had intention to return in Honduras to the hunting of the treasure and in order to put with deep the necessary ones for the shipment she had thought to sell the skull, and an ancient ciotola donated from Nell Gwyn to king Cario II on whose authenticities already favorably had expressed the experts. "But how much could be worth the skull" Seaman had asked. "Perhaps a quarter of million dollars". "God mine! But you do not have fear to hold it to you in house, under the bed " "Not just, task of being able to hold head to whichever malintenzionato" had answered decided mrs. Anna, and bearing away little a skirt it had put in extension one colt 45. For a sure moment Seaman to the continuation like reporter had been believed that the "Daily Express" could have financed the shipment to the search of the treasure of Morgan, sending. But the idea was not piaciuta and the direction of the newspaper had cassata it. Seaman us was remained badly, but never more it had not been able to forget the vision about that extraordinary object that seemed living of one own light. In spite of that, as already we have specified, the history of the ritrovamento of continuous Lubaantun to remain dubbia. Norman Hammond, an archaeologist who also had lead some diggings in the situated one, in its book on Lubaantun, on purpose does not spend a single line of the skull, explaining to Joe Nickell, a somewhat skeptical investigator (than company the introduction to the volume) that it had not been a voluntary forgetfulness since the object did not have just null to that to see with situated the archaeological one. "the crystal of rocca is not stone that naturally finds in the Mayan area" and then continues specifying that the nearer localities where he is rintracciabile they are those of Oxaca, in the south of Mexico, and of they of Mexico goes, where they had been finds to you other skulls similar, but much smaller, than invoicing Aztec. Firm Hammond not here. It declares, as from tests it documents them, than mrs. Anna Mitchell-Hedges never had not been to Lubaantun, what that would have been also confirmed from some members the archaeological shipment of the father. Hammond is expressed also with respect to the object. According to he it could be a “memento mori” (a whichever realized object in order to remind us that we must all die) ascrivibile to the XVI or XVII the century. If a rinascimentale origin is not improbable, considered the refinement with which the shape from the great crystalline block has been obtained, also a origin from the Chinese dynasty Quing, like object to place on the European market, cannot be discarded to cuor light. From part ours, once picked in Mitchell-Hedges chestnut - in particular its clamorous lie to have participated as to supporter armed to the mission Mexican with Pancho Villa and to have fought in the battle of Laredo - and verified that it had lost a cause against the "Daily Express" that in 1928 had accused to have on purpose constructed it that history only for procurarsi of the free publicity, we confess that also we, to a sure moment, have thought that all that that he was mounted around the history of the skull was not nient' other that imagination, pure invention. In truth, the first official citation of the skull had appeared on one review from the title it: "the man. Review salary of anthropological sciences ", where two experts confronted the skull with an other, plus similar small but, conserved to the British Museum. Our skull had but an other name, was the "skull of Burney. The personage in issue was Sydney Burney, an art expert, which in 1943 he had delivered to Sotheby' s for one auction sale to it. Siccome nobody had offered to the 340 pounds of the price base, Burney had decided to resume it. In 1944 it was successful to sell it for 400 pounds just to Mitchell-Hedges. When Nickell had asked explanations for all this the daughter, mrs. Anna had explained that the father had delivered it to Burney like pledge in order to finance an archaeological shipment, and that it was itself a lot indignato when he had known that Burney had put it in sale because for null it was not authorized. Sin that is not succeeded in some way in knowing with inequivocabile certainty if Mitchell-Hedges already possessed the object before 1944. March 1933 and addressed to some civil employee of the museum exists instead a letter signed from the same Burney, dated 21, in which it is specified that before having it to us, the skull was belonged to a collector from which Burney had bought it and that before still it had made part of the collection of an other English collector. From these testimonies, it seemed therefore that Mitchell-Hedges had invented of healthy it plants the storiella of the tempio Mayan and that, from part its, the adoptive daughter had continued to maintain it lives the false vicissitude like sign of gratefulness towards the man who, adopting it from piccina, had given one carried out decisive to its life. The same one is worth for the affirmations attributed to Mitchell-Hedges being to which the crystal skull had been used "for procurare the dead women of someone" (in merit mrs. Anna joked, citing those words like test of the sense of the humour of the adoptive father) and for some other references to the possessed sovrannaturali powers from the object; emblematic it is the storiella of a fotoreporter that it was schizzato via literally terrorizzato from the room buia where the skull was found, because, while it was in order to photograph it, the lamp of the flash was exploded with strong blow going in thousand pieces. Insomma, a tangle of facts for a history that seems annoying indeed, species when someone revealed that to a careful observation adjustments to the teeth of the mobile jaw obtained with one could be noticed mechanical emery polishing. For the greater part of the attache's to the jobs, the mystery that encircles the skull of the destiny other would not be that one gross putting in scene, false beautiful and a good one. It must go cautious and a judgment completely negative would be premature. As well as in order to begin, the other crystal skull - that smaller and "decidedly less perfect one" - conserved to the British Museum (placed in top to the perron of the Museum of the man, near Piccadilly Circus to London) comes accepted as genuine and also on it they have been observes signs to you of mechanical grinding. E’ intact risaputo that the craftsmen Mayan made size use mechanical circulars set in action from the action of one cordicella stiff through an arc. Both the skulls come from Mexico. That one conserved to London came acquired the Museum gioielliere Tiffany di New York in 1898 for one spold of 120 pounds. In order to dispel every suspicion, in 1963 mrs. Anna Mitchell-Hedges has allowed to already cited the expert one of stones and crystals Frank Dorland to on loan take the precious object for being able to examine it with calm in California being subjected it to all necessary the thought tests of verification. One of the more amazing conclusions to which Dorland it was landed, consisted in the observation that the object could have had also dodicimila years and that null it prohibited had been ritoccato and worked in times succeeded to you. Dorland had sent the crystal to the laboratories of the Hewlett-Packard Electronics, than, between the other, it was taken care of oscillating crystals. One first answer reported that the invoice of the object had demanded much time of job, perhaps, quite, three hundred years (two times the time, already more than consisting, denounced from the same Mitchell-Hedges). If the opinion is corrected - what that we think senz' other - it means that it was be a matter of an object to religious valence, realized from some sacerdotal and conserved order in a tempio. In such case it had to be connected to some practical divinatoria. It was held on the altar - covered and protect from the light, just like the crystal balls of the veggenti - and came only exposed in the course of determined ceremonies, in order to perhaps illuminate the way that lead in the afterlife. Dorland reports also that, being to some declarations of friends of Mitchell-Hedges, in recent times the skull had been carried in the West from the Templari Knights of return from the crusades and the Saint Earth. Once in Europe, they had guarded it with great venerazione in their secret center of London. From here then, several the other vicissitudini that had carried it on the market of the antique dealing. This history is as well as reasonable how much that one of the tempio Mayan. The order of the Templari Knights, founded in the 1118 from Ugo di Payens di Champagne, was congrega religious a whose primary scope was that one to dedicate the life for the defense of the Saint Earth and protection of the pilgrims who oed to you. The obtained happened one from the Order had been therefore immediate and extraordinary that its wealth had grown to excess, until becoming leggendaria. But this wealth had been its same sentence. On the treasure to templare in fact the king of France put down the eyes, Filippo the Beautiful one, whose cases languivano. 13 October of 1307 he ordered to the arrest in mass of all the Templari. They were accused of black magic, blasfemia, sexual renunciation to Christ and perversions. One of the more terrible accusations said worshippers to them of the satanico demon Bafometto, in the shape of one speaking head or of a human skull. One said that the cordigli that they were usual to carry to the flanks in order to tighten their dresses, they were cargos of magical powers derives to you from the assets wrapped around the mysterious speaking head. Some between the less infamanti accusations, have been assessed like veritiere from the historians. Between these the certainty that celebrated magical rituals. Under the persecution of Filippo, hundreds of Templari fell. A slaughter that but was revealed useless, inasmuch as the king did not succeed to put the hands on their treasure. Since it is almost certain that the venerato skull the Templari Knights had to be a human skull, the hypothesis that could be that one of crystal, saying of the destiny, for how much strange one we cannot reject it a priori. That to say on purpose of the presumed recognized "mystical" powers to the object? Mrs. Anna said that Adrian Conan Doyle, brother of celebre the Arthur, could not not only sopportare the sight of the skull, but it succeeded to it impossible to be in the same room. The negative feeling that attacked it was therefore overbearing to notice some also when the object, to its insaputa, present but was held hidden. Affirmations as these come normally labeled like desire to give life and to support one legend; but here that, endured, Frank Dorland refutes to us asserting that after much passed time to contact with the stone, also it had convinced itself of its mystical property. As an example, it was capitato to it sovente to hear "acute scampanellii of silverplated bells, light but absolutely perceptible" or "you play and religious songs". Instead, fixing the skull carefully, it was capitato to see "other skulls to it, high mounts, hands and aces". Before the time that had had the skull in house, had perceived in distinguished way the roar of felines of the giungla. It can be dealt, obviously, of pure suggestion; nevertheless that that a day happened to continuation of the visit of the satanista Anton LaVey cannot in some way to fall back in the category allucinato it. LaVey had called Dorland for fargli knowing that the crystal skull had been created from Satana and that it belonged to its demonic church. (LaVey possesses, evidently, a great sense of the humour beyond that a good ones fiuto in order is made of the free publicity). The visit of the satanista had been concluded with LaVey that had taken delight in for some moment to play the organ of Dorland. When if n' it had gone it was by now too much late for still being able to go to ricoverare the precious skull in the safe deposit box where Dorland was usual to guard it and therefore had had it to hold in house. In the night, he is he that the moglie had been waked up and more resumptions from some strange noises and sounds. Come down to the flat land had not found nothing of anomalous. The morning but, had uncovered with great surprise that some objects of it knows was outside place and that quite the receiver of a telephone found itself outside, in the garden of the neighbors, in front of their door of income. The theory proposed from Dorland does not preview that the skull "is possessed" from a some spirit (poltergeist), but in the case of that evening, its crystalline substance had absorbed the negative presence of LaVey that, coming in contrast with its energies, had given place to the production of physical effects infested them. The clairvoyants say to resort to the crystal balls for their veggenze, because they would be in a position to absorbing the vital energies. The cover with the violaceo or dark cloth servants to prevent that these energies are dispersed in daylight. Effectively, sin from the antichi times, from when the magic is been born, crystals always they have been held in high consideration from the operating ones for their portentosi hidden powers. For how much it can seem strange, behind this theory a scientific substrate exists. In order at least a decade, the biologist Rupert Sheldrake has gone in turn to declare that the acquaintance between the living beings, animals and men, is a process that verification also through that it calls morfica resonance. The eclatante case from he used in order to give of an example, is that one of the monkeys of the island of Kojirna, to the wide one of the coast of Japan, that they had learned to wash potatoes in the water of the sea because knows them rendered more saporite. Some time after, the zoologo Lyall Watson, author of “Lifetide”, it had uncovered that a group of other monkeys living on near islands, but with no connection with the original group, had learned and adopted the same technique. The process of mollica resonance can be assimilated to a species of telepathy and according to Sheldrake a decisive role in the evolution plays. The stranger thing is that this singular process of learning is active not only with the living beings, but also with the not living world of as, as an example, that one of crystals. Some new substances chemistries, crystallize experimentally with much difficulty; but once that the process verification to the inside of some laboratory, as of spell he becomes practical easy and accessible ovunque, in all the other laboratories. At first it had been believed that this spread could depend on the fact that crystal traces withheld in the dresses and hats of the experimenters were diffused gradually in the other laboratories, but it has been be a matter of a theory that has had short life for being replaced from the other most credible one. It seems, in fact, that also the crystals, to the par of the living beings, can learn through the process of the morfica resonance. In this perspective the idea that the crystals can absorb living energy more not outlandish neither absurd sound therefore. We think that it will be somewhat difficult to go back on purpose to the truth of the "skull of the destiny", but its total conserved rassomiglianza with that smallest one to the British Museum suggests one invoice to us Aztec. That that we know of the civilization Aztec - of its religion based also on the human sacrifices - pushes us to believe that the skull can have been created like object to religious valence, perhaps to fine divinatori, is worth to say, for being used with the same modalities with which the today clairvoyants they use the crystal balls. But, any is the reason for which this extraordinary object came realized, all those who have had to that to make with it they are without a shadow of doubt agrees in saying that draft of one of the beautifulst objects never seen the world.