GMTA! I only discovered this website YESTERDAY! Evidence to the extent of agriculture in the region is breathtaking:
http://www.realatlantis.com/atlantiscanals.htm
In EIU by V he writes ‘sometime in the remote past the Altiplano was at or below sea level, so that originally it’s lakes were part of a sea gulf. The last upheaval, however, took place in an early historical period, after the city of Tiahuanacu had been built; the lakes were dragged up, and the Altiplano and the entire chain of the Andes rose to their present height.’
Puma Punku, truly startles the imagination. It seems to be the remains of a great wharf (for Lake Titicaca long ago lapped upon the shores of Tiahuanaco) and a massive, four-part, now collapsed building. One of the construction blocks from which the pier was fashioned weighs an estimated 440 tons (equal to nearly 600 full-size cars) and several other blocks laying about are between 100 and 150 tons.
...from EIU: '...Once Tiahuanacu was at the water's edge; then Lake Titicaca was ninety feet higher, as it's old strand line discloses. But this strand line is tilted and in other places it is more than 360 feet above the present level of the lake. There are numerous raised beaches; and stress was put on "the freshness of many of the strandlines and the modern character of such fossils as occur."
http://www.realatlantis.com/atlantisoriginsinlegends.htm
” Bouysse-Cassagne, indicating that Thunupa was a god venerated in the sixteenth century by Aymara speakers, notes that Thunupa may have well existed in earlier times (1988: 77). Wachtel (1990) claims even greater antiquity for Thunupa than for Viracocha, arguing that Thunupa may be a pre-Aymara god, perhaps of Puquina origin. Thunupa, thought to be especially important to the area round Lake Titicaca, is particularly associated with water (Molina R. n.d.). Wachtel describes him as the maker of terrestrial water...
http://www.realatlantis.com/storynativeviewpoint.htm
Imagine you are a Greek priest listening to a traveller giving an account of where he came from and for this, I will use the words of Plato:
First of all I live on a continent the size of North Africa and Asia combined. It is located in the Atlantic Ocean opposite the Pillars of Hercules. In the centre of the continent, next to the sea and midway along the longest side of the continent there is a plain. This plain is completely level, it is of rectangular shape and elongated and is enclosed by mountains. It is high above the level of the ocean. In the mountains there are many streams and villages also a great number of mastodons. There are many mines including gold, silver, tin, copper and the second most valuable metal – orichalcum – called tumbaga in our language and which is a natural alloy of copper and gold. When the surface is polished the copper dissolves out and the gold remains giving a sparkling surface.
But the part where I live was formerly the capital of the whole country. It is a volcanic island located in the centre of the plain and five miles from the sea.
It was originally the home of the god of rivers and watercourses, a friend to mankind called Tunapa – in Greek as you say, Poseidon, who married a person who lived on a hill called Asanaque or in Greek, Cleito and had four pairs of twin offspring – although five pairs is sometimes recounted by the Greeks...
http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/critias.html
There are certain similarities I’ll grant, but the chariots, horses and weapons are a stumbling block IMO.
Tunapa/Poseidon? Saturn Myth?
