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THE HUNAHPÚ MASK — A NEW ARTIFACT FOR DELTA GREEN

Added 2018-12-17 22:00:50 +0000 UTC

Located on a dig in an unmarked mound in Louisiana in 1967 by self-proclaimed archaeologist Teilhard Boucher, the Hunahpú mask — sometimes called the “god mask” — is considered by most in-the-know as a fake, albeit a very clever one. After 1973, it was entirely ignored, and vanished from official record. No one knows its current location.

When the mask was revealed in the summer of love, it was a sensation and considered the northernmost example of Mayan culture found to that date. Its artistic origins could not be debated, as the mosaic tiles, colors and themes were clearly of a Mayan source, or, as Boucher claimed, from a source before the Maya. Still, many experts had their doubts, not the least of which was that Boucher was not an archaeologist at all, but a former milk-man who had simply declared himself one.

It certainly does not help that Boucher was later arrested in Agde France by authorities in 1973 for various crimes involving counterfeiting and art theft. Since the discovery of the mask, the archaeologist had been living an extravagant lifestyle, fueled by his strange meetings where small groups of well-to-do people came to see the mask, and later, to see the “spirit” purported to live in the mask.

In St-Pierre prison, Boucher grew more and more manic in his proclamations about the dangers the mask represented, up until his death in 1981. His last few days saw an interview by a documentary crew hoping to catalog Bouchers’ crimes, who were instead told a disturbing tale that began, Boucher claimed, 50,000 years before in what would be eventually known at Oklahoma.