Not far from Cuzco (Peru), at an altitude of more than 3.5 thousand meters above sea level, there is one of the most impressive archaeological complexes called Sacsayhuaman, which is translated from the language of the South American Indian people of Quechua as “fed falcon”. Three tiers of zigzag walls with a length of 300 meters and a total height of over 15 meters are the "visiting card" of Sacsayhuaman.
In the plan of Cuzco, resembling a puma, Sacsayhuaman is, as it were, her teeth. According to one of the versions, the Incas built the city, trying to display in its plan a puma - a sacred animal for them, and the walls of Sacsayhuaman allegedly depicted teeth in the mouth of a puma. Another version says that the zigzag shape of the walls is the result of the Indians' worship of the god of lightning.
Wikipedia defines Sacsayhuaman as a citadel, garrison, and temple complex. Historians claim that Sacsayhuaman is a fortress created by the Incas to protect the capital of their empire. Historians do not have enough imagination to imagine the technical means with which our ancestors cut down, transported and processed monolithic stone blocks of a fantastic defensive structure in a remote place.
Alternative historians deny the purpose of the structure as a fortress. The discrepancy between the version of academic science and the real facts in Sacsayhuaman is very large.
Sacsayhuaman, apparently, is such an ancient structure that even the Incas did not have information about the real creators of the zigzag walls. In the chronicles of Garcilaso de La Vega, the authors of the construction of Sacsayhuaman are not named at all - he only retells local legends in his own words: “… these three walls were erected as if by magic, created by demons, not people - there are so many stones in them, and so they are huge … to believe that these stones were carved in the quarries, since the Indians had neither iron nor steel tools to extract and hew them."
Sacsayhuaman occupies more than three thousand hectares and includes a variety of structures, some of these structures were really created by the Incas, something - an older and more highly developed civilization.
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The zigzag walls were built of huge blocks that were delivered across rugged mountainous terrain from quarries located at a distance of several tens of kilometers, and the delivery of large blocks was not single, but massive. The weight of the boulders of the lower tier is several hundred tons, the weight of the largest block, which reaches more than 8 meters in height, is estimated at about 3500 tons. Huge blocks of andesite, a very hard and difficult material to work, form a polygonal masonry with stones fitting to each other without any mortar.
Behind three tiers of powerful walls, there is a small hill on which there are ruins from several structures that can be attributed to the Inca period. The remains of these structures were discovered during archaeological excavations in the early 30s of the twentieth century, when the foundations of the towers described by Garcilaso de La Vega were found. Three concentric rings remain of the main tower, which historians believe were the base of its three tiers or levels. The walls of the tower were decorated with life-size images of plants and animals made of gold and silver. The original height of the tower and its purpose are unknown. According to one version, it was a water tower, according to another - a "sundial". Excavations at the top of the hill are still ongoing.
Most of all, in Sacsayhuaman, the masonry of zigzag walls is striking, especially in the lower tier, which is composed of the largest blocks. Apparently for the creators of these walls, the movement of monoliths weighing hundreds of tons and the processing of solid andesite were absolutely no problem. It is difficult to imagine with the help of what technologies and with what tool the blocks of solid andesite were processed in such a way that the ideal conjugation of the joints was achieved. Some block surfaces are even polished.
Stone processing technologies in Sacsayhuaman are similar to the traces left on the walls of granite quarries in the Egyptian Aswan. Apparently, the ancient highly technologically advanced civilization that erected Egyptian monuments of antiquity possessed the same technologies as the builders of the zigzag walls of Sacsayhuaman. Perhaps it was the same civilization in Egypt and South America?
Erich von Daniken writes in his book “Messages and Signs from Space”: “Our fantasy, exhausted by the technical achievements of our time, finally falls into a stupor when we find ourselves in front of a block of about 20 thousand tons. On the way back, at a distance of several hundred meters from the fortifications of Sacsayhuaman, in a crater on the side of a mountain there is a monster: a single block of stone the size of a five-story building. It is immaculately crafted in the best traditions of artisans - it has steps and platforms, it is decorated with spirals and holes. Is it possible to refute the assertion that the processing of this unprecedented block of stone could not have been an occupation of the Incas at their leisure, but had to serve some - today still inexplicable - purpose? So that the solution of the riddle is not too easy for us, a huge block also stands on the head, that is, the steps lead from the ceiling from top to bottom;the holes point in different directions, like the places where shells hit; strange indentations, shaped like chairs, float in space. Who can imagine that this lump was hewn, transported and processed by human hands and human strength? What force overturned her? What titanic forces were at work here? And for what?"
In the masonry of the lower tier of the walls of Sacsayhuaman, in the places corresponding to the "points of the teeth", the largest stones were placed. For some reason, the builders reinforced the "teeth" with huge monoliths in the central part of the wall. What for? One of the versions of alternative historians: this shape of the walls is convenient in order to reduce the impact on it, for example, of a shock wave, since a shock wave that falls on the sides of the "teeth" not "in the forehead", but at an angle, significantly reduces its impact on masonry.
What exactly the walls of Sacsayhuaman protected - some kind of observation post on the top of the hill or the city itself, is not so important. It is important that they took over the main shock wave generated by the explosion and significantly reduced its impact.
It remains a mystery - what could have generated the shock wave, and where did it come from? Researchers have proposed a version that this could be a shock wave that occurred when missiles or some other aircraft were launched, taking off from the open space opposite the walls of Sacsayhuaman, where modern Indians still hold their "cult" events.
Opposite the walls of Sayxayhuaman, behind a flat empty space, is the so-called "large pool", which the Incas allegedly created for ritual purposes. The "ritual pool" looks more like a crater from a powerful explosion that lasted over time, and the crater, which is located just opposite the central part of the zigzag walls of Sacsayhuaman. Perhaps this was the source of the shock wave?
Was Sacsayhuaman a fortress built to protect Cuzco? Andrei Sklyarov put forward a version that Sacsayhuaman was built by an ancient highly developed civilization not at all as a fortress, but as a testing ground for explosions - testing of some kind of weapon. Moreover, if we take into account the size of the funnel, then the power of the corresponding explosion turns out to be quite comparable to the explosion of a nuclear bomb.
In the book "Peru and Bolivia long before the Incas", analyzing the traces of the destruction of ancient cities in South America, Sklyarov wrote about a possible global armed conflict between representatives of an ancient highly developed civilization, which in legends and traditions is called "The War of the Gods." Perhaps Sacsayhuaman is in this war and was it a nuclear test site?
Author: Valentina Zhitanskaya