We have already talked about the mysteries of the ancient city of the American continent - Tiahuanaco more than once. We also wrote about strange events and finds on the moon. The aforementioned riddles, known for thousands of years, have not yet found a clear scientific explanation. In such cases, all sorts of "crazy" hypotheses are often born, in which an attempt is made to comprehend what science cannot explain, and sometimes links are revealed between such phenomena and objects that, it would seem, cannot be connected with each other. One of such cases will be discussed below.
When and where was it built?
The ruins of this city are located at an altitude of almost 4000 meters off the shores of Lake Titicaca in northern Bolivia, on the Altiplano plain, surrounded by the snow-capped Cordillera ridges. Tiahuanaco got its name after the inhabitants left it forever. Who these people were and what they called the city, historians do not know.
They say that a messenger came running to the Supreme Inca Mayte Kapak, who had stopped to rest among the ruins of the ancient city, with the news from the capital of the empire - Cuzco. The ruler appreciated the diligence of the messenger, comparing him with the swift-footed guanaco - a relative of the lamas - and allegedly told him: "Tia Huanaco" ("You are fast as a guanaco"). This is how the current name of the city appeared.
Who founded Tiahuanaco and when? The Indians who lived in these parts at the time of the invasion of the Spaniards believed that such a large city was erected by a long-extinct tribe of giants. The researchers did not believe this, but they attributed the city to an incredibly ancient origin. So, the Bolivian researcher of Austrian origin Arthur Poznansky, who devoted half his life to the study of Tiahuanaco, argued that the city was founded at least 12-17 thousand years ago. And the archaeologist Kh. S. Belami believed that the city was 250 thousand years old.
As already mentioned, Tiahuanaco lies over Lake Titicaca in a basin surrounded by mountains. On their slopes there are traces of the ancient shores of the lake. Having connected the former opposite banks with a straight line, we will see that the ancient water mirror was located obliquely in relation to the present one. At the same time, at a distance of 620 kilometers, the deviation is more than 300 meters.
If we transfer the data to the isohypses (geodetic horizontals) of the Earth's surface in this region of South America, it turns out that the Andes in the vicinity of Tiahuanaco were an island in the ocean, the level of which then reached the level of Lake Titicaca, that is, it was almost 4000 meters higher. In addition, Lake Titicaca is salty.
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From the above, it follows that Tiahuanaco was built on the seashore or a body of water communicating with it. This is confirmed by the ruins of port facilities, shells, the remains of fossil marine animals and images of flying fish found on its territory. And such a port city could exist only before the rise of the Andes. However, the rise of the Andes and the lowering of the water level of the World Ocean are attributed by geologists to the Tertiary period (60-70 million years ago), that is, to the time when, according to modern science, there were no people on Earth.
Moonless era
In the 5th century BC. e. the Greek philosopher and astronomer Anaxagoras of Clazomenus in his writings mentioned sources that have not come down to us, where it was claimed that the moon appeared in the sky after the emergence of the Earth. In the III century BC. e. another Greek philosopher and poet, Apollonius of Rhodes, in his work "Argonautica" quotes the words of the great Aristotle about the ancient inhabitants of Arcadia - a region on the Peloponnese peninsula - who "ate acorns, and this was in those days when there was no moon in the sky."
Gate and staircase of the Kalasasaya temple in Tiahuanaco.
The writer and historian Plutarch, who lived at the turn of the 1st-2nd centuries A. D. e., mentions one of the rulers of Arcadia by the name Proselenos, which means "dolunny", and his subjects Proselenites. Modern scientists do not deny the possibility of a "moonless" stage in human history. According to one explanation, the Moon was once a planet of the solar system, but as a result of some cosmic catastrophe, it left its orbit, approached the Earth, was captured by gravity and turned into its satellite. How it was in reality Let us ask ourselves the question: what could have caused the rise of the Andes (that is, the lowering of the sea level) by as much as four kilometers and keeping them so until our time? And can the Moon be related to this process?
The answer to these questions is given by one of the "crazy" hypotheses. According to her, hundreds of millions, and maybe billions of years ago, a giant spaceship with numerous representatives of an alien civilization appeared in near-earth space. He entered geostationary orbit and hovered motionless over the Western Hemisphere of the Earth at an altitude of 36,000 kilometers. This is how the Moon appeared over our planet.
Under the influence of the attraction of the Moon, which was then more than ten times closer to the Earth, the shape of our planet became egg-shaped, and huge masses of water were concentrated on its sublunar surface. The aliens considered the Earth a suitable "experimental ground" for active intervention in the development of life on it and began intensive work to improve the living creatures living on the planet. As a result, over time, the same civilization arose on Earth, whose "point" traces are occasionally found by modern people in the layers of the earth's crust, which are hundreds of millions of years old. Judging by some findings, that civilization was far superior to the current one in terms of technical development.
Space catastrophe
And then something happened on Earth and in near space, which entailed terrible and irreversible consequences. This, apparently, is the story of the ancient Indian epic "Mahabharata", which tells about three cities in space and the war of the gods, which led to the death of cities:
“When these three cities appeared in the sky, the god Mahadev struck them with a terrible ray in the form of three beams … When the cities began to burn, Parvati [the wife of the god Shiva] hurried there to see this spectacle.”
It can be assumed that it is talking about some kind of cataclysm, which caused, in particular, the descent of the Moon from its geostationary orbit and the beginning of its accelerating rotation around the Earth. And in Greek mythology there is a story about Phaethon, the son of the sun god Helios, who, driving his father's chariot, could not hold back the fire-breathing horses, and they, approaching the Earth, almost burned her. To prevent a catastrophe, Zeus struck Phaethon with a lightning strike, and he, blazing, fell into the river.
After that, our planet for a long time and painfully acquired its present appearance, redistributed the waters of the World Ocean. These processes caused powerful earthquakes and gigantic floods. Memories of this nightmare have survived to this day. If we consider that he was reflected in the description of the Flood (Bible, Genesis, ch. 7, 8), then the "rebirth" lasted about 375 days.
As a result of such a global catastrophe on Earth, traces of the previous civilization were destroyed, and a handful of surviving people, gradually degrading, turned into cave inhabitants of the Stone Age.
Formation of Atlantis
After the war of the gods, besides the Moon, one of the space stations that were located in the space between the Earth and the Moon and served as "transshipment bases" also survived. To save this station and its inhabitants, the only way remained was to send it to Earth. It was decided to go down on the water, as this reduced the risk of an accident. In general, the landing was successful, despite the fact that the station - after passing through the atmosphere and hitting the water - was seriously damaged. To prevent it from sinking, it should have been placed on solid ground. The surviving vimans - the predecessors of the current shuttles - conducted aerial reconnaissance and found a group of islands that surrounded a fairly deep bay. The station was sent there, so that when the water level dropped, it would sink to the bottom and eventually end up on land.
It was this space object that later became the capital of Atlantis, and its crew became Atlanteans. It is appropriate to recall here that the average diameter of the moon is now over 3400 kilometers. So the dimensions of the surviving space station were, apparently, appropriate and could well correspond to the dimensions of Atlantis (according to Plato): the diameter is more than 2000 meters, the height is about 180 meters.
After the space around the station turned into a vast valley surrounded by mountains, the Atlanteans began to survey the Earth's surface. They searched for the surviving people and were engaged in their training and development, brought up activity and independence in them, and also worked on their genetic improvement. The result was the appearance of Neanderthals, Cro-Magnons and, apparently, those people whose skull volume was up to 2300 cubic meters. cm (in a modern man, as a rule, it does not exceed 1400 cubic cm). And these "brainy guys" lived, judging by the finds of their remains on the territory of Morocco and Algeria, about 12,000 years ago, that is, just in the last period of the existence of Atlantis, and then, like it, disappeared forever from the surface of the Earth.
Atlantes became teachers, mentors and enlighteners for the surviving inhabitants of our planet, laid the foundations of a new civilization. Well, people revered them for gods, perceived them as their saviors. It is just such, the deities-founders of the state and culture, that they remained in the collective memory of peoples - in Sumer, Ancient Egypt, among the primitive inhabitants of the American continent.
Ilya KONSTANTINOV
