Showing posts with label Caochyll. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Caochyll. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 17, 2015

Mysterious Plant of the Amazon - Caochyll

By Liliana Usvat
Blog 296-365


In Peru and Greece there are buildings of the gigantic and perfectly fitted stones. One theory about how they were built is that they were constructed by using a now lost technique of softening and shaping the rock.

Hiram Bingham the discoverer of Machu Picchu wrote in his book "Across South America" of a plant he had heard of whose juices softened rock so that it could be worked into tightly fitted masonry.

In his book Exploration Fawcett, Colonel Faucett told of how he had heard that the stones were fitted together by means of liquid that softened stone to the consistency of clay. 

Brian Fawcett who edited his father's book  tells the following story. A friend of his who worked at the mining camp at 14000 feet at Cerro di Pasco in Central Peru discovered a jan in an Incan or pre Incan grave. He opened the jar thinking it was chichia an alcoholic drink., breaking the still intact ancient wax steal. Later the jar was accidentally knocked over onto a rock.

Quote Fawcett, "About ten minutes later I bent over the rock and casually examined the pool of spilled liquid. It was no longer liquid. The whole patch were it had beed and the rock under it were as soft as wet cement. It was as though the stone had melted like was under the influence of heat."

Fawcett seemed to think that the plant might be found on the Pyrene River in the Cauncho Country of Peru.

It is described as having dark reddish leaves and being about a foot high.

"There is a mysterious plant (caochyll) The juice once extracted, property soften the stone. Incas allowed to shape the stone as a vulgar paste bread, says Colonel Fawcett in his memoirs "

In his book The Ancient Stones Speak, David Zink quotes a “psychic reading,” giving the name of the plant as Caochyll, saying it has sparse leaves with reddish veins and stand about three to four feet high.

Another story is told in South America of a biologist observing an unfamiliar bird in the Amazon. He watched it making a nest on a rock face by rubbing the rock with a twig. The sap of the twig dissolved the rock, making a hollow in which the bird could make his nest.

Question

Can we find and identify  this plant?
Is still exist or was lost forever?
it is still possible to exist and have a different name?



Links

Here is a link of Peruvian Plants which one might be?

http://www.ayahuascaassociation.org/category/plants/plant-directory/