article_snippet: One such adventurer even suggested that the White City Of Gold was in fact known as the White City of the Monkey God, and saw an ancient civilization worship a giant simian deity, symbolized by a large statue.
article_snippet: Theodore Morde, writing of Theodore Morde adventures in US  magazine The American Weekly, said that local tribes people told Theodore Morde of the monkey worshiping civilization and went on with even more outlandish suggestions that a monkey from the White City Of Gold.
article_snippet: Locals even told Theodore Morde that one 'monkey god' from the White City Of Gold kidnapped a local woman and bred half-human, half-chimp children.
article_snippet: one 'monkey god' from the city kidnapped a local woman and bred half-human, half-chimp children were then hunted for revenge.
article_snippet: Morde said that local people told Morde of a huge monkey temple inhabited by a civilization known as the Chorotegas, and claimed to have fond evidence of such a place on Morde expedition in 1939-40.
article_snippet: Incredible: The aerial shots taken by National Geographic show luscious forestland where the City Of The Monkey God once thrived .
article_snippet: According to Theodore Morde, stone effigies of monkeys lined the approach to the city's central temple, which was built in the shape of the monkey God.
article_snippet: Theodore Morde described the myth: 'One day three of the hairy men who looked like great apes walked into an Indian village and carried off three of an Indian village most beautiful and pleasing maidens. '
article_snippet: the hairy men who looked like great apes took the girls back into the caves high in the mountains to live with the girls and bear the girls children. '
article_snippet: From this union came, however, not human nor partly human children but the small Urus or monkeys.'
article_snippet: Other reports claim there once stood a giant monkey-shaped temple.
article_snippet: There were also tales of a monkey stealing three women in the city and raping three women to create half-monkey, half-human babies, warranting the name: The City Of God.
article_snippet: it inspired the Dance Of The Dead Monkeys, during which locals roast monkeys over a fire in an apparent act of revenge for stealing monkeys virgins.
article_snippet: Centuries later, in 1939, Theodore Morde rediscovered the site, and learned from locals that Theodore Morde was home to the myth of the monkey God.
highlights_snippet: American explorer in the 1940s said people believed a monkey God raped women and had half-monkey babies .