THE INCAS. THE CHILDREN OF THE SUN. Túpac Inca Yupanqui: the “Christopher Columbus” of Oceania Paperback – February 11, 2025

This book definitively demolishes a “myth” of Western official historiography, the European discovery of Oceania. The story told here is well known: on his voyage to circumnavigate the globe between 1519 and 1521, Magellan reached the Mariana Islands in the Pacific. About three decades after the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus, Europeans had thus discovered the existence of a new part of the world. It would then take two and a half centuries — until the English explorer James Cook — to have an exact representation of the immense Oceanian continent.Nevertheless…Nevertheless, various chronicles from the 16th century report a different story. For example, according to what the Spanish explorer and writer Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa writes in his Historia de los Incas, Túpac Yupanqui, the future Inca emperor, set out to conquer the Pacific Ocean with an impressive fleet of balsa rafts, carrying more than twenty thousand experienced soldiers, in 1465. Other chroniclers of the time report similar news: the writer Miguel Cabello de Balboa and the friar Martín de Murúa.What is the truth? The Author cites all the clues and evidence that would already be available to scholars on the relationships between the peoples of South America and those of Polynesia in pre-Columbian times. In the academic world, however, it is claimed that, if there were any relationships, these were due to the exploits of the Polynesians, expert navigators, and certainly not to the initiative of peoples like the Incas, who lacked the necessary skills and technology to attempt ocean crossings. Binda dismantles this historical falsehood, bringing to attention evidence concerning the great seafaring skills of the Manteño-Huancavilca and Chincha civilisations, located on the coasts of present-day Ecuador and Peru. The expert navigators of these seafaring cultures were virtually unrivalled in crossing the Pacific Ocean with their efficient, fast and unsinkable vessels, the balsas. They guided and transported Túpac Yupanqui and his twenty thousand soldiers to Oceania. As the book relates, repeated crossings of the Pacific Ocean have been made from South America to Polynesia, Melanesia, and Australia in recent times, using rafts built precisely on the model of the ancient South American balsas, to demonstrate that transoceanic voyages were not only possible, but were not too complicated either in pre-Columbian times. For example, the Spaniard Vital Alsar made two incredible crossings from Ecuador to Australia in 1970 and 1973, with one and three balsas respectively, definitively demonstrating the feasibility of this type of voyage across the Ocean. However, the indisputable proof of the arrival of the Incas on the islands of the Pacific Ocean lies in the presence of numerous petroglyphs, of sure Andean origin, engraved on the stones of various islands in Polynesia, Melanesia, and Micronesia. Through a capillary and documented reconstruction, the Author shows how all the main ideograms (semantic logograms) of the Pakasqa Codex — the secret writing of the Incas, discovered by the Author himself — are unequivocally carved in the rocks. By following the petroglyphs on those islands, he is even able to show the reader the most probable route followed by the Inca fleet: South America, Marquesas Islands, Gambier Islands, Society Islands, New Caledonia Archipelago, New Guinea Island, Bismarck Archipelago, Pohnpei Island (Ponape), South America.In 1465, Túpac Yupanqui, the future Inca emperor, successfully conducted the largest transoceanic crossing ever attempted up to that time, and can be considered, to all intents and purposes, the “Christopher Columbus” of Oceania. Ironically, Túpac Yupanqui discovered the “Brand New World”, Oceania, almost thirty years before the European discovery of the “New World”.This book is the story and together the scientific demonstration of that incredible adventure. Read more