The expedition led by Elias Sotomayor in 1984 managed to discover a large treasure of the oldest artifacts. In the Ecuadorian La Mana mountain range, 300 stone products were found in a tunnel at a depth of over ninety meters.
It is not possible to determine the exact age of the finds at the moment. However, it is already known that they do not belong to any of the famous cultures of this region. The symbols and signs carved into the stone clearly refer to Sanskrit, but not to the later version, but rather to the early one. A number of scholars have defined this language as Proto-Sanskrit.
Before the discovery of Sotomayor, Sanskrit had never been associated with the American continent; rather, it was attributed to the cultures of Europe, Asia and northern Africa. For example, it is believed that the ancient Egyptian writing was built on its basis. Now scientists, drawing various scientific parallels, are trying to "connect" these centers of culture and find out the origin of the mysterious treasure.
A pyramid with an eye and a stone cobra were found in the finds
The distance from La Mana to Giza is 0.3 times the circumference of the Earth. The word La Mana itself is not typical of the places where the array is located; it does not carry any semantic meaning in local languages and dialects. But in Sanskrit "mana" means mind, meaning mind. Scientists suggest that the name of the area went to the peoples living in it now from their predecessors, who may have come to America from Asia.
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The finds themselves are unusual for Central America. Despite the similarity of the American and Egyptian pyramids, they have a number of significant technical differences. The stone pyramid discovered by the Sotomayor expedition most of all resembles in its shape the huge pyramids in Giza.
Unusual items
But her riddles do not end there either. There are thirteen rows of masonry carved into the pyramid. In the upper part of it there is an image of an open eye, or, in the mystical tradition, an "all-seeing eye". Thus, the pyramid found at La Mana is an accurate representation of the Masonic sign, known to most of mankind for its one US dollar bill.
Another striking find of the Sotomayor expedition is the image of the king cobra, made with great art from stone. And it's not even about the high level of art of ancient artisans. Everything is much more mysterious, because the king cobra is not found in America. Its habitat is the tropical rainforests of India.
However, the quality of her image leaves not the slightest doubt that the artist personally saw this snake. Thus, either the object with the image of a snake applied to it, or its author, had to move from Asia to America across the ocean in ancient times, when, as it is believed, no means existed for this. Riddles multiply.
Perhaps the answer can be suggested by Sotomayor's third stunning find. One of the oldest globes on Earth, also made of stone, was also discovered in the La Mana tunnel. On the far from ideal ball, for the manufacture of which, perhaps, the master simply spared efforts, but a rounded boulder, images of the continents familiar from school times are applied.
But even a layman is immediately struck by the differences. If the outlines of Italy, Greece, the Persian Gulf, the Dead Sea and India differ little from modern ones, then the planet looks completely different from the coast of Southeast Asia towards America. Huge masses of land are depicted where now only the boundless sea splashes.
The Caribbean Islands and the Florida Peninsula are completely absent. Just below the equator, in the Pacific Ocean, there is a giant island, roughly the size of modern Madagascar. Modern Japan is part of a gigantic mainland that stretches to the shores of America and stretches far south.
Perhaps this is the legendary continent of Mu, whose existence in ancient times was assumed by the Japanese scientist M. Kimura. Subsequently, as he argued, this continent sank to the bottom of the ocean, like the Atlantis described by Plato. However, a number of scholars suggest that it was Mu who was described by Plato under the name Atlantis. The presence of this continent turns the journey from Asia to America in ancient times from an impossible event into a completely feasible and, possibly, routine.
The genetic links between American Indians and Asians have long been proven, and the presence in antiquity of a continent connecting these parts of the world is quite capable of explaining their origin. It remains to add that the find in La Mana, apparently, is the oldest map in the world, and its estimated age is at least 12,000 years.
Other findings of Sotomayor are no less interesting. In particular, a "service" of thirteen bowls was found. Twelve of them are ideally equal in volume, and the thirteenth is much larger. If you fill 12 small bowls with liquid to the brim, and then drain them into a large one, then it will fill exactly to the brim. All bowls are made of jade. The purity of their processing makes us assume that the ancients had a technology for processing stone, similar to the modern lathe.
Almost all of Sotomayor's findings glow in ultraviolet light. And then on some of them, multi-colored images of stars appear, or rather, the constellation Orion, the star Aldebaran and the twin stars Castor and Pollux. Why this particular area of the sky attracted the attention of ancient masters, it remains only to guess.
Glow
A number of finds depict converging circles clearly associated with Sanskrit mandala concepts. It is interesting that this idea entered the Indian concept of the structure of the world practically unchanged. “Everything that an Indian does is in a circle, because it is the Power of Peace. Everything happens in circles, and everything tries to be round … Everything that the Power of the World does is done in a circle, said the famous Indian leader Black Elk in 1863.
So far, the finds made by Sotomayor raise more questions than they answer. But they once again confirm the thesis that our information about the history of the Earth and mankind is still very far from perfect.