Posted on 02/01/2006 4:27:40 PM PST by blam
The City of the White Men
There isn't much left of the city of Tiahuanaco in Bolivia, South America. In the 1500's, the Spanish systematically destroyed the buildings. Later, many of the stone blocks were looted for houses in a nearby village. Most recently more stone was taken to lay a railroad right-of-way.
Despite this, what is left is still a sight to see. Tiahuanaco is old. It was already in ruins when the Incas took over the area in 1200 A.D.. It is situated on a mountain at an altitude of 12,500 feet and boasts a pyramid 700 feet long, 500 feet wide and 50 feet tall. There is also a temple 440 feet long topped with columns up to 14 feet high that may have once supported a roof.
The most impressive thing about Tiahuanaco isn't its architecture, though. It's the legend about who built it. According to traditions the city was constructed by a group of white skinned-strangers with beards. The leader was named Viracocha. According to an early European explorer ,it was said that Viracocha, "gave rules to men how they should live, and he spoke lovingly to them with much kindness, admonishing them they should be kind to each other..."
There are similar stories about visits by a bearded white man among the Aztec and Mayans. He was called Quetzalcoatl by the Aztecs and Kukulcan by the Mayans. How did white men arrive in Peru long before the Spanish did? Archaeologists estimate the city was founded around 200 A.D. If the legends are true, who are these people? Some have suggested that the Egyptians, Cretans, Greeks, Phoenicians or even Irish monks may have crossed the Atlantic to visit South America. The explorer Thor Heyerdahl even built a boat of reeds and sailed it across the ocean to prove the Egyptians could have made such a voyage.
There is no solid evidence to prove any of these theories, so who these white men were and why they built Tiahuanaco may remain a mystery that may never be solved.
I am not surprised by White Indians in America. I saw that link before. I have seen how Indians are depicted in artwork. They look really big, light skinned, and tall. I would be surprised if American Indians came from Cro-Magnon man. I have read that Navajo language is similar to Basque of Spain and France.
This may explain it?
The Relationship Between The Basque And Ainu
BTW, I was reading the book "Collapse" by Jared Diamond last night and he said that the Vikings of Greenland survived for a while on the ptarmigan bird. Didn't know what it was previously.
There are many finds of human remains found in North America dating back over 10,000 years. Since these finds are not PC, they receive very little media coverage.
Um, wow. This has to be probably the most overtly Eurocentric nonsense that I’ve ever had the displeasure of reading. No wonder the history of underrepresented peoples is so held back, because we have white men traveling across oceans and stealing people’s cultures(sarcasm). The author kills two birds with one stone here by concluding that white men actually did build Tiahuanaco based on some silly myth about a bearded pale-skinned “GOD” and based on nothing else whatsoever. Then while postulating who it could have been, they include Egyptians who aren’t even white today, let alone in the past and live in Africa where their civilization was spawned, not Europe! OMG this is so ridiculous that I don’t know what else to say besides death to Eurocentrism!
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America B.C.A fascinating letter I received from a Shoshone Indian who had been traveling in the Basque country of Spain tells of his recognition of Shoshone words over there, including his own name, whose Shoshone meaning proved to match the meaning attached to a similar word by the modern Basques. Unfortunately I mislaid this interesting letter. If the Shoshone scholar who wrote to me should chance to see these words I hope he will forgive me and contact me again. The modern Basque settlers of Idaho may perhaps bring forth a linguist to investigate matters raised in this chapter. [p 173]
by Barry Fell
(1976)
find it in a nearby library
The Blackfeet Indians also have that Rh Negative blood. I have heard they called themselves “the blood”. I am a blood-brother of them.
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