Grid of the Gods (28 page)

1)
The most sophisticated
technological evidence, stretching back to “High Antiquity”;

2)
A less sophisticated
layer of technological development, stretching back to “antiquity”; and,

3)
The least sophisticated
layer of technological development, comprising the known civilization of South America, the Incas.

This broad, tripartite chronological pattern is quite the crucial point, for we shall be returning to it later in this chapter in connection with
the actual
dating
of Tiahuanaco, but also in subsequent chapters when we consider the dating of places such as Teotihuacan in Mexico, and most importantly, Giza in Egypt.
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Witkowski outlines the complexity of attempting to machine the H Blocks and other stones found at Puma Punkhu, and just how precise the machined tolerances of these blocks really is:

A serial stonecutting of the blocks (of very hard andesite) was applied, characterized by a precision hardly achievable today! I cannot imagine a contemporary designer who would propose to build some large object of megalithic blocks having such complex shapes, reproduced with a precision of the order of one tenth of a millimeter (which is roughly the thickness of this sheet of paper), while the convex edges, formed by merging surfaces made with such a precision were to correspond with analogous concave two- or three-dimensional edges of other blocks. Such a designer would have to be crazy! But such precision can be found at Puma Punkhu!

The cutting machines currently in use (millers, for example) with rotating tools do not enable us to make such sharp concave edges, and in particular such sharp three dimensional concave corners merging three perpendicular surfaces — not to mention the serial production of them! Such a technology simply does not exist. You can make a precise surface and polish it, or connect two such surfaces with a convex or concave edge, but it would be quite a challenge to connect
three
such surfaces and create a 90o concave corner, still keeping the 0.1mm precision tolerance in the very corner!
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But such precise tolerances are not the
only
technological problem posed by Puma Punkhu.

The
other
problem posed by the H Blocks is that they have “almost 80 surfaces each!” Witkowski quips — not inaccurately — “I suspect that a contemporary engineer could not even imagine
designing them without a computer.”
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For Witkowski, the mere presence of such technological sophistication, in addition to a globally aligned system of sites, constitutes “a very serious challenge” to conventional academic views of the evolution of human civilization. Indeed, the contemporary historical, archaeological, and anthropological sciences seem utterly unwilling even to consider the facts.
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And let us note one final thing by way of a question: why would one need such an almost
optical
precision in the H Blocks? Such precision by the nature of the case implies that it served some
functional purpose
, as in a machine.

2. The Traditions Concerning Tiahuanaco

However, in order to fully appreciate the deep significance and implications of Puma Punkhu, we must now turn our attentions to the second site at Lake Titicaca, and to the second, later and intermediate layer of technological evidence and chronological progression: Tiahuanaco. Here, interestingly enough, we discover many of the traditions that we found associated with megalithic sites elsewhere in the world.

The first of these is evident by the ancient name for Tiahuanaco: Taypicala. Not surprisingly, this means “the Stone at the Centre,”
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giving yet another instance of the ancient “geomantic” practice of finding the center of a region. Indeed, the Inca tradition itself recognized that the ancient name of Tiahuanaco meant the Stone at the Center of the world.
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Even more interesting is the fact that when the first Spanish explorers arrived in the region and asked the local Aymara Indians if the structures at Tiahuanaco and Puma Punkhu had been built by the Incas, they were greeted with laughter. The Aymara explained that their ancestral tradition stated that the structures were built “long before the Inca reign” and that they had literally been built very
suddenly, in the span of one night!
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More interesting still, the site was also said to have been built by the first creations of the sun-god, Viracocha, who created a race of giants, who were later overthrown by a worldwide deluge when they had displeased him.
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This is, of course, not the first time we have encountered such traditions concerning these cyclopean megalithic structures, for we have already encountered similar traditions already with respect to Stonehenge in England, Baalbek in Lebanon, and even stone circles in Africa.

The sun-god Viracocha requires a closer look, for once again, as in the case of Vishnu, the symbolism surrounding this god is multi- layered, and indicative of a possible deeper physics, though it should be made clear that, just as Vishnu, Viracocha is also manifested and precisely described in the Andean traditions as a bearded, blue-eyed white man of large stature, and the giver of civilization to the Incas, just as we shall discover Quetzcoatl to be when we turn northward to Mexico.
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As the sun-god, however, Viracocha like Atum in Egypt and Vishnu in India and Indochina, was the great self-generative power in, and of, the cosmos.
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He is carved above the well-known “Gate of the Sun” at Tiahuanaco:

Viracocha’s Image on the Gate of the Sun at Tiahuanaco?

3. The Image of Vicacocha: A Schematic of a Technology?

There is something peculiar about this image, and it has haunted me ever since I first became aware of it many years ago. In
The Giza Death Star
, I observed the resemblance of this highly-stylized image to the schematic of a three-stage fission-fusion-fission hydrogen bomb.
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Let us recall the schematic of such a bomb from chapter one, and compare itto the image:

Comparison of Three Stage Hydrogen Bomb Schematic with Viracocha

Of course, such comparisons are suggestive, if not fanciful, but they do give one pause especially considering that Viracocha was a
sun
-
god. Even more suggestive is what happens when one rotates the Viracocha image 180 degrees on its vertical axis:

Viracocha Image Rotated 180o on its Vertical Axis

Upside-down, one cannot avoid the vague impression of the outlines of a bomb.

While such comparisons may be fanciful, there is a further tradition surrounding Viracocha that suggests that the comparison to modern technologies might not, indeed, be so questionable, and that is that Viracocha ushers in five new epochs, each one being heralded by a “new sun”, each epoch being called a
pachacuti
. This word signifies a literal “‘overturning of the world’ (according to Sir Clements Markham’s translation), and an ‘
overturning of space-time’
according to William Sullivan.”
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In other words, if one accepts the hypothesis that the anomalous yields of early h-bomb tests were in part the result of gating of energies from the variable conditions of the geometry of local celestial space-time, the peculiar resemblance of
the Viracocha image at the Sun Gate at Tiahuanaco to such devices, and the traditions of such over-turnings of space-time in the epochs or world ages that Viracocha destroys and then re-creates (one recalls Vishnu’s similar role), then the comparison may not be all that fanciful.

4. Traditions Connected Half a World Away

There is one final tradition concerning Viracocha that is also worth mentioning, for it illustrates yet another very bizarre and unusual connection with traditions half a world away in Mesopotamia, for there are traditions which hail the engineering accomplishments of Viracocha
and
his companions, who are called, suggestively, “messengers,” and “
the shining ones.”
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If this sounds vaguely familiar, it should, this precise term, “the shining ones,” was also used in some ancient Mesopotamian texts to describe the Annunaki, the Watchers, the race of “gods” that came to earth and, in some readings of the stories, helped to engineer the human race itself. They were thus designated because of the luminous character of their faces.
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As if this was not enough, there is another strange connection between the traditions of the Incas in the New World, and those of the Old World, for the Incas believed that the soul ascending to heaven after death was accompanied by black dogs, and in Egypt, the soul’s ascension was accompanied by Anubis and Upuaut, symbolized by black dogs.
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5. The Difficulty of Dating Tiahuanaco

Conventional and standard archaeological dating of Tiahuanaco is unusually divided over the date of the site, assigning a
terminus ante quem
to the second millennium BC, and a
terminus post quem
to as late
as the ninth century AD.
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All standard archaeological models of Tiahuanaco are, however, agreed that the site has nothing to do with the Incas.
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Even on the early dating of Tiahuanaco by conventional archaeology, this would make the site older than the Mayan ruins of Meso-America, and far older than the Inca empire.
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But these
termini ante et post quem
have always been challenged, even as early as the nineteenth century, by amateur archaeologists who have pointed out a number of problems even for the earliest dating. The French archaeologist Le Plongeon, for example, uncovered a layer of seashells after making some superficial excavations at the site, suggesting that it was once a seaport. He concluded from this that the site may have been antediluvian, a suggestion, notes Witkowski, that “turned out to be surprisingly long- lived.”
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This finding was echoed in the early twentieth century by the German-American Arthur Poznansky, who wrestled with the riddle of Tiahuanaco for almost thirty years.
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Poznansky’s reasons for this conclusion derived from his mapping of the site’s barely-visible remaining canals, leading him to conclude the city had once been surrounded by the lake, and the shoreline higher.
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