Alizzed again darkens
the door of that word.
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Chapter 41
City of the Sun,
Chamber of the Jackal
"Heliopolis (City of
the Sun) was referred to in the Bible as On but was
originally known in the Egyptian language as Innu, or Innu
Mehret- - meaning 'the pillar' or 'the northern pillar'. 3
It was a district of immense sanctity, associated with a
strange group of
nine
solar and stellar deities, and was old beyond reckoning when
Senuseret chose it as the site for his obelisk. Indeed,
together with Giza (and the distant southern city of Abydos)
Innu / Heliopolis was believed to have been part of the
first land that emerged from the primeval waters at the
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moment of creation, the
land of the 'First Time', where the gods had commenced their
rule on earth.4
Heliopolitan theology
rested on a creation-myth distinguished by a number of
unique and curious features. It taught that in the beginning
the universe had been filled with a dark, watery
nothingness, called the Nun. Out of this inert cosmic ocean
( described as ' shapeless, black with the blackness of the
blackest night' ) rose a mound of dry land on which Ra, the
Sun God, materialized in his self created form as Atum (
sometimes depicted as an old bearded man leaning on a staff
): 5
The sky had
not been created, the earth had not been created,
the
children of the earth
and the reptiles had not been fashioned in
that
place . . . I Atum,
was one by myself. . . There existed no
other
who worked with me .
. . 6"
It was at this,
other point of a turning circle. That Zed Aliz Zed
twizzled a skip n' a half on a fast turning
ha-penny.
Then at a Mother
point of that ever re-curring point that ever
was.
Alizzed and
whosever, distilled, a number or five, from out the in of
the
Magikalalphabet.
I
RA ATUM
I =
9th
number of the magikalphabet. . . R
=18
. . .A =
1
. . . A =
1
. . .T =
20.
. .U =
21
. . . M = 13
The Alizzed
then had that scribe add to reduce, reduce to
deduce
R A A T
U M
1 + 8 1 1 2+0
2+1 1+3
9 1 1 2 3 4
HOLY BIBLE
Scofield
References
JEREMIAH B.C.
590
Page 809
8 x 9 + 72
7 + 2
= 9
Chapter
33
Verse
3
x 33 =
99
"Call unto me, and I
will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things
which thou know-est
not."
That again said
the scribe. That again said Zed Aliz Zed
.
The scribe writ.
That again, again.
Fingerprints Of
The Gods
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Hancock
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Chapter
41
"Conscious of being
alone, this blessed and immortal being contrived to create
two divine offspring, Shu, god of the air and dryness, and
Tefnut the goddess of moisture: ' I thrust my phallus into
my closed hand. Imade my seed to enter my hand. Ipoured it
into my own mouth. I evacuated under the form of Shu, I
passed water under the form of Tefnut.'
7
Despite such
apparently inauspicious beginnings, Shu and Tefnut (who were
always described as 'Twins' and frequently depicted as
lions) grew to maturity, copulated and produced offspring of
their own: Geb the god of the earth and Nut, the goddess of
the sky. These two also mated, creating Osiris and Isis, Set
and Nepthys, and so completed the Ennead, the full company
of the Nine Gods of Heliopolis. Of the nine, Ra, Shu, Geb
and Osiris were said to have ruled in Egypt as Kings,
followed by Horus, and lastly - for
3226
years - by the
Ibis-headed wisdom god Thoth.8"
"
3226
years
"
3 x 2 x 2 x 6 =
72
Here, az if a
being out of kilter, the Alizzed magiked up the magic names
of Osiris, Iris, and Set, who then multiplied a
truth.
OSIRIS x IRIS x SET
= 72
THE RECURRENT
DREAM
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again watched in some amaze the Zed Ali Zed, in swift repeat
scatter the nine numbers amongst the letters of their
progress. At the throw of the ninth arm when in conjunction
set, the far yonder scribe made record of the
fall
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Added to all, minus
none, shared by everybody, multiplied in
abundance.
FINGERPRINTS
OF THE GODS
Graham Hancock
1995
Page 71
"Osiris, The ancient
Egyptian high god of death and
resurrection."
"
He was plotted
against by
seventy-two
members of his court, led by his brother- in -law
Set..."
"
Set, out
hunting in the marshes, discovered the coffer, opened it and
in a mad fury cut the royal corpse into
fourteen
pieces,"
seventy-two x
fourteen
72 x
14
1008
Ra and the
Eight
Page 273 /
274
"The precessional
numbers highlighted by Sellers in the Osiris myth are 360,
72 ,30, and 12."
"72 = the number of
years required for the equinoctial sun to complete a
precessional shift of one degree along with the
ecliptic;"
On direction from
the Alizzed, the scribe returned to the matter of still
waters, running still deeper.
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Chapter 45
Seventeen centuries of
kings
I walked on into the
deeper darkness, eventually finding my way to the Gallery of
Kings. It led off from the eastern edge of the inner
Hypostyle Hall about 200 feet from the entrance to the
temple.
To pass through the
gallery was to pass through time itself. On the wall to my
left was a list of 120 of the gods of Ancient Egypt,
together
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with the names of their
principal sanctuaries. On my right, covering an area of
perhaps ten feet by six feet, were the names of the 76
pharaohs who had preceded Seti1 to the throne: each name was
carved in hieroglyphs inside an oval
cartouche.
This tableau was
known as the 'Abydos King List'. Glowing with colours of
molten gold, it was designed to be read from left to right
and was divided into five vertical and three horizontal
registers it covered a grand expanse of almost 1700 years,
beginning around 3000 BC with the reign of Menes, first king
of the first dynasty, and ending with Seti's own reign
around 1300BC. At the extreme left stood two figures
exquisitely carved in high relief: Seti and his young son,
the future Ramesses II.
Hypogeum
Belonging to the
same class of historical documents as the Turin Papyrus and
the Palermo Stone, the list spoke eloqently of the
continuity of tradition. An inherant part of that tradition,
was the belief or memory of a First, Time long, long ago,
when the gods had ruled in Egypt. Principal among these gods
was Osiris, and it was therefore appropriate that the
Gallery of the Kings should provide access to a second
corridor, leading to the rear of the temple where a
marvellous building was located - one associated with Osiris
from the beginning of written records in Egypt 9 and
described by the Greek geographer Strabo (who visited Abydos
in the first century BC) as ' . . . a remarkable structure
built of solid stone {containing} a spring which lies at a
great depth, so that one descends to it down vaulted
galleries made of monoliths of surpassing size and
workmanship There is a canal leading to the place from the
great river . . .'
10
A few hundred years
after Strabo's visit when the religion of Ancient Egypt had
been supplanted by the new cult of Christianity, the silt of
the river and the sands of the desert began to drift into
the Osireion, filling it foot by foot, century by century by
century, until its upright monoliths and huge lintels were
buried and forgotten. And so it remained, out of sight and
out of mind, until the beginning of the twentieth century,
when the archeologists Flinders Petrie and Margaret Murray
began excavations. In their 1903 season of
digging
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they uncovered parts of a
hall and passageway, lying in the desert about 200 feet
south-west of the Seti I Temple and built in the
recognizable architectural style of the Nineteenth Dynasty.
However sandwiched between these remains and the rear of the
Temple, they found unmistakeable signs that 'a large
underground building' lay concealed.11 'This hypogeum',
wrote Margaret Murray, appears to Professor Petrie to be the
place that Strabo mentions,usually called Strabo's Well.12
This was good guesswork on the part of Petrie and Murray.
Shortage of cash, however, meant that their theory of a
buried building was not tested until the digging season of
1912-13. Then, under the direction of Professor Naville of
the Egypt Exploration Fund, a long transverse chamber was
cleared, at the end of which, to the north-east, was found a
massive stone gateway made up of cyclopean blocks of granite
and sandstone.
The next season, 1913
- 14, Naville and his team returned with 600 local helpers
and diligently cleared the whole of the huge underground
building:
What we discovered
[Naville wrote] is a gigantic construction of about
100 feet in length and 60 in width, built with the most
enormous stones that may be seen in Egypt. In the four sides
of the enclosure walls are cells, 17 in number, of the
height of a man and without ornamentation of any kind. The
building itself is divided into three naves, the middle one
being wider than those of the sides; the division is
produced by two collonades made of huge granite monoliths
supporting architraves of equal
size.13
Naville commented
with some astonishment on one block he measured in the
corner of the building's northern nave, a block more than
twenty - five feet long.14 Equally suprising was the fact
that the cells cut into the enclosure walls had no floors,
but turned out, as the excavations went deeper, to be filled
with increasingly moist sand and
earth:
The cells are
connected by a narrow ledge between two and three feet wide;
there is a ledge also on the opposite side of the nave, but
no floor at all, and in digging to a depth of 12 feet we
reached infilterated water. Even below the great gateway
there is no floor, and when there was water in front of it
the cells were probably reached with a small boat.15
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Diagram ommited.
Plan of the
Osireion.
The most ancient stone building in
Egypt
Water, water, everywhere
- this seemed to be the theme of the Osireion, which lay at
the bottom of the huge crater Naville and his men had
excavated in 1914. It was positioned some 50 feet below the
level of the floor of the Seti I Temple, almost flush with
the water-table, and was approached by a modern stairway
curving down to the south-east. Having descended this
stairway, I passed under the hulking lintel slabs of the
great gateway Naville (and Strabo) had described and crossed
a narrow footbridge - again modern- which brought me to a
large sandstone
plinth.
Measuring about 80
feet in length by 40 in width, this plinth was composed of
enormous paving blocks and was entirely surrounded by water.
Two pools, one rectanular and the other square, had been cut
into the plinth along the centre of its long axis and at
either end stairways led down to a depth of about 12 feet
below the water level. The plinth also supported the two
massive colonnades Naville mentioned in his report, each of
which consisted of five chunky rose - coloured granite
monoliths about eight feet square by 12 feet high and
weighing, on average, around 100 tons.16 The tops of these
huge columns were spanned by granite lintels and there was
evidence that the whole building had once been roofed over
with a series of even larger monolithic
slabs.17
To get a proper
understanding of the structure of the Osireion, I found it
helpful to raise myself directly above it in my mind's eye,
so that I could look down on it. This exercise was assisted
by the absence of the original roof which made it easier to
envisage the whole edifice in plan. Also helpful was the
fact that water had now seeped up to fill all of the
building's pools, cells and channels to a depth of a few
inches below the lip of the central plinth, as the original
designers had apparently intended it
should.18
Looking down in this
manner, it was immediately apparent that the plinth formed a
rectangular island, surrounded on all four sides by a
water-filled moat about 10feet wide. The moat was contained
by an immense, rectangular enclosure wall, no less than
20 feet thick,19 made of very large blocks of
red sandstone disposed in polygonal jigsaw puzzle patterns.
Into the huge thickness of this wall were set the 17 cells
mentioned in Naville's report. Six lay to the east, six to
the west,
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two to the south and
three to the north. Off the central of the three northern
cells lay a long transverse chamber, roofed with and
composed of limestone. A similar transverse chamber also of
limestone but no longer with an intact roof, lay immediately
south of the great gateway. Finally, the whole structure was
enclosed within an outer wall of limestone, thus completing
a sequence of inter-nested rectangles, i.e., from the
outside in, wall, wall moat
plinth.
Another notable and
outstandingly unusual feature of the Osireion was that it
was not even approximately aligned to the cardinal points.
Instead, like the way of the dead at Teotihuacan in Mexico,
it was oriented to the east of due north. Since Ancient
Egypt had been a civilization that could and normally did
achieve precise alignments for its buildings, it seemed to
me improbable that this apparently skewed orientation was
accidental. Moreover, although 50 feet higher the Seti I
temple was oriented along exactly the same axis - and again
not by accident. The question was: which was the older
building? Had the axis of the Osireion been
predetermined by axis of the Temple or vice versa? This it
turned out, was an issue over which considerable
controversy, now long forgotten, had once raged. In a debate
which had many connections with that surrounding the Sphinx
and the Valley Temple at Giza, eminent archeologists had
initially argued that the Osireion was a building of truly
immense antiquity, a view expressed by Professor Naville in
the London Times of 17 March
1914:
This monument raises
several important questions. As to its date, its great
similarity with the Temple of the Sphinx {as the Valley
Temple was then known] shows it to be of the same epoch
when building was made with enormous stones without any
ornament. This is character-istic of the oldest architecture
in Egypt. I should even say that we may call it the most
ancient stone building in
Egypt.20
Describing himself as
overawed by the 'grandeur and stern simplicity' of the
monument's central hall, with its remarkable granite
monoliths, and by 'the power of those ancients who could
bring from a distance and move such gigantic blocks',
Naville made a suggestion concerning the function the
Osireion might originally have been intended to serve:
'Evidently this huge construction was a large reservoir
where water was stored during the high nile . . . It is
curious that what we may consider as a beginning in
architecture is neither a temple nor a tomb, but a gigantic
pool, a waterwork . . .
21"
"In ...1914 it was
'the most ancient stone building in Egypt'. .
."
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" As Naville observed,
the Osireion's similarity to the Valley Temple at Giza
' showed it to be of the same epoch when building was / made
with enormous stones'. Likewise, until the end of her life,
Margaret Murray remained convinced that the Osireion was not
a cenotaph at all (least of all Seti's) She
said,
It was made for the
celebration of the mysteries of Osiris, and so far is unique
among all the surviving buildings of Egypt. It is clearly
early, for the great blocks of which it is built are of the
style of the Old Kingdom; the simplicity of the actual
building also points to it being of that early date.. .
."
"...Apart from the
Valley Temple and other cyclopean edifices on the Giza
Plateau, no other building remotely resembling the Osireion
is known from any other epoch of Egypt's long history. This
handful of supposedly Old Kingdom structures, built out of
giant megaliths, seem to belong in a unique category. They
resemble one another much more than they resemble any other
known style of architecture and in all cases there are
question-marks over their
identity.
Isn't this
precisely what one would expect of buildings not erected by
any historical pharaoh but dating back to prehistoric times?
Doesn't it make sense of the mysterious way in which the
Sphinx and the Valley Temple, and now the Osireion as well,
seem to have become vaguely connected with the names of
particular pharaohs ( Khafre and Seti I ), without ever
yielding a single piece of evidence that clearly and
unequivocally proves those pharaohs built the
structures concerned? "
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Chapter 22
City of the
Gods
The overwhelming
message of a large number of Central American legends is
that the Fourth Age of the world ended very badly. A
catastrophic deluge was followed by a long period during
which the light of the sun vanished from the sky and the air
was filled with a tenebrous darkness.
Then:
The gods gathered
together at Teotihuacan ['the place of the gods']
and wondered anxiously who was to be the next sun. Only the
sacred fire [ the material representation of
Huehueteotl, the god who gave life its beginning] could
be seen in the darkness, still quaking following the recent
chaos. Someone will have to sacrifice himself, throw himself
into the fire,' they cried, ' only then will there be a
Sun.'1
A drama ensued in
which two deities ( Nanahuatzin and Tecciztecatl ) immolated
themselves for the common good. One burned quickly in the
centre of the sacred fire; the other roasted slowly on the
chambers at its edge 'The gods waited for a long time
eventually the sky started to glow red as a at dawn. In the
east appeared the great sphere the sun, life-giving and
incandescent . .
.'2
It was at this moment
of cosmic rebirth that Quetzalcoatl manifested himself. His
mission was with humanity of the Fifth age. He therefore
took the form of a human being - a bearded white man, just
like Viracocha.
In the Andes,
Viracocha's capital was Tiahuanaco. In Central
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Quetzalcoatl's was the
supposed birth-place of the Fifth, Teotihuacan, the city of
the gods.3
The citadel, the
Temple and the Map of Heaven
Teotihuacan, 50
kilometres north -east of Mexico
City
I stood in the airy
enclosure of the Citadel and looked north across the morning
haze towards the Pyramids of the Sun and the Moon. Set amid
grey-green scrub country, and ringed by distant mountains,
these two great monuments played their parts in a symphony
of ruins strung out along the axis of the so-called 'Street
of the Dead'. The citadel lay at the approximate mid point
of this wide avenue which ran perfectly straight for more
than four kilometres. The Pyramid of the Moon was at its
northern extreme, The pyramid of the Sun offset somewhat to
its east.
In the context of
such a geometric site, an exact north-south or east-west
orientation might have been expected. It was Therefore
surprising that the architects who had planned Teotihuacan
had deliberately chosen to incline the Street of the Dead 15
" degrees "30 "minutes "east of north. There were several
theories as to why this eccentric orientation had been
selected, but none was especially convincing. Growing
numbers of scholars, however, were beginning to wonder
whether astronomical alignments might have been involved.
One, for example, had proposed that the Street of the Dead
might have bee'built to face the setting of the Pleiades at
the time it was constructed4 Another Professor Gerald
Hawkins, had suggested that a 'Sirius- Pleides axis' could
have played a part. 5 And Stansbury Hagar (secretary of the
Department of Ethnology at the Brooklyn Institute of the
Arts and Sciences), had suggested that the street might
represent the Milky
Way.6
Indeed Hagar went
further than this, seeing the portrayal of specific planets
and stars in many of the pyramids, mounds and other
structures that hovered like fixed satellites around the
axis of the Street of the Dead. His complete thesis was that
Teotihuacan had been designed as a kind of 'map of heaven':
' It reproduced on earth a supposed celestial plan of the
sky-world where dwelt the deities and spirits of the dead.
'7
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During the 1960s and
1970sHagar's intuitions were tested in the field by Hugh
Hartleston Jr, an American engineer resident in Mexico, who
carried out a comprehensive mathematical survey at
Teotihua-can Harleston reported his findings in October 1974
at the International Congress of Americanists.8 His paper,
which was full of daring and innovative ideas, contained
some particularly curious information about the Citadel and
about the Temple of Quetzalcoatl located at the eastern
extreme of this great square
compound.
The Temple was
regarded by scholars as one of the best-preserved
archaeological monuments in Central America. 9 This was
because the original, prehistoric structure had been
partially buried beneath another much later mound
immediately in front of it to the west. Excavation of that
mound had revealed the elegant six-stage pyramid that now
confronted me. It stood 72 feet high and its base covered an
area of 82000 square
feet.
Still bearing traces
of the original multicoloured paints which had coated it in
antiquity, the exposed Temple was a beautiful and strange
sight. The predominant sculptural motif was a series of huge
serpent heads protruding three-dimensionally out of the
facing blocks and lining the sides of the massive central
stairway. The elongated jaws of these oddly humanoid
reptiles were heavily endowed with fangs, and the upper lips
with a sort of handlebar moustache. Each serpent's thick
neck was ringed by an elaborate plume of feathers - the
unmistakable symbol of
Quetzalcoatl.10
What Harleston's
investigations had shown was that a complete mathematical
relationship appeared to exist among the principal
structures lined up along the Street of the Dead (and indeed
beyond it ) This relationship suggested something
extraordinary, namely that Teotihuacan might originally have
been designed as a precise scale- model of the solar system.
At any rate, if the centre line of the Temple of
Quetzalcoatl were taken as denoting the position of the sun,
markers laid out northwards from it along the axis of the
Street of the Dead seemed to indicate the correct orbital
distances of the inner planets, the asteroid belt, Jupiter,
Saturn (represented by the so-called 'Sun' Pyramid), Uranus
(by the 'Moon' Pyramid), and Neptune and Pluto, by as yet
unexcavated mounds some kilometres farther north.11
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If these correlations
were more than coincidental, then, at the very least, they
indicated the presence at Teotihuacan of an advanced
observational astronomy, one not surpassed by modern science
until a relatively late date. Uranus remained unknown to our
own astrono-mers until 1787, Neptune until 1846 and Pluto
until 1930. Even the most conservative estimate of
Teotihuacan's antiquity, by contrast, suggested that the
principal ingrediants of the site-plan (including the
Citadel, the Street of the Dead and the Pyramids of the Sun
and the Moon) must date back at least to the time of
Christ.12 No known civilization of that epoch, either in the
Old World or in the New, is supposed to have had any
knowledge at all of the outer planets - let alone to have
possessed accurate information concerning their orbital
distances from each other and from the sun.
Egypt and Mexico
- more coincidences?
After completing his
studies of the pyramids and avenues of Teotihuacan, Stasbury
Hagar concluded: 'We have not yet realized either the
importance or the refinement, or the widespread
distribu-tion throughout ancient America, of the
astronomical cult of which the celestial plan was a feature,
and of which Teotihuacan was one of the principal centres.
'13
But was this just an
astronomical 'cult'? Or was it something approximating more
closely to what we might call a science? And whether cult or
science, was it realistic to suppose that it had enjoyed
'widespread distribution' only in the Americas when there
was so much evidence liking it to other parts of the ancient
world?
For example,
archaeo-astronomers making use of the latest star-mapping
computer programmes had recently demonstrated that the three
world-famous pyramids on Egypt's Giza plateau formed an
exact terrestrial diagram of the three belt stars in the
constellation of Orion.14 Nor was this the limit of the
celestial map the Ancient Egyptian priests had created in
the sands on the west bank of the Nile. Included in their
overall vision, as we shall see in Parts VI and VII, there
was a natural feature - the river Nile- which was exactly
where it should be had it been designed to represent the
Milky Way.15
The incorporation of
a 'celestial plan' into key sites in Egypt and
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Mexico did not by any
means exclude religious functions. On the contrary, whatever
else they may have been intended for it is certain that the
monuments of Teotihuacan, like those of the Giza plateau,
played important religious roles in the lives of the
communities they
served.
Thus Central American
traditions collected in the sixteenth century by Father
Bernardino de Sahagun gave eloquent expression to a
widespread belief that Teotihuacan had fulfilled at least
one specific and important religious function in ancient
times. According to these legends the City of the Gods was
so known because 'the Lords therein buried, after their
deaths, did not perish but turned into gods. . . '16 In
other words, it was 'the place where men became gods'17 It
was additionally known as the place of those who had the
road of the gods',18 and 'the place where gods were
made'.19
Was it a coincidence,
I wondered, that this seemed to have been the religios
purpose of the three pyramids at Giza ? The archaic
hieroglyphs of the Pyramid Texts, the oldest coherent body
of writing in the world, left little room for doubt that the
ultimate objective of the rituals carried out within those
colossal structures was to bring about the deceased
pharaoh's transfigeration - to throw open the doors of the
firmament and to make a road' so that he might 'ascend into
the company of the
Gods'20
The notion of
pyramids as devices designed (presumably in some
metaphysical sense) 'to turn men into gods' was, it seemed
to me, too idiosyncratic and peculiar to have been arrived
at independently in both Ancient Egypt and Mexico. So, too,
was the idea of using the layout of sacred sites to
incorprate a celestial
plan.
Moreover, there were
other strange similarities that deserved to be
considered.
Just as at Giza,
three principal pyramids had been built at Teotihuacan: the
Pyramid / Temple of Quetzalcoatl, the Pyramid of theSun and
the Pyramid of the moon. Just as at Giza, the site plan was
not symetrical, as one might have expected, but involved two
structures in direct alignment with each other while the
third appeared to have been deliberately offset to one side.
Finally at Giza, the summits of the Great Pyramid and the
Pyramid of Cephren were level, even though the former was
taller building than the latter.
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Likewise, at Teotihuacan,
the summits of the Pyramids of the Sun and the Moon were
level even though the former was taller. The reason was the
same in both cases: the Great Pyramid was built on lower
ground than the Pyramid of Cephren, and the Pyramid of the
Sun on lower ground than the Pyramid of the Moon.
21
Could all this be
coincidence? Was it not more logical to conclude that there
was an ancient connection between Mexico and
Egypt?
For reasons I
have outlined in Chapters Eighteen and Nineteen I doubted
whether any direct, causal link was involved - at any rate
within historic times. Once again, however, as with the
Mayan calendar, and as with the early maps of Antartica, was
it not worth keeping an open mind to the possibility that we
might be dealing with legacy: that the pyramids of Egypt and
the ruins of Teotihuacan migh express the technology, the
geographical knowledge, the observational astronomy (and
perhaps also the religion ) of a forgotten civilisation of
the past which had once, as the Popol Vuh claimed,
'examined the four corners, the four points of the arch of
the sky, and the round face of the
earth'?
There was
widespread agreement among academics concerning the
antiquity of the Giza pyramids, thought to be about 4500
years old.22 No such unanimity existed with regard to
Teotihuacan. Neither the Street of the Dead, nor the Temple
of Quetzalcoatl,nor the pyramids of the Sun and the Moon had
ever been definitively dated.23 The majority of scholars
believed that the city had flourished between 100 BC and AD
600, but others argued strongly that it must have risen to
prominence much earlier, between 1500 and 1000BC. There were
others still who sought, largely on geological grounds, to
push the foundation date back to 4000 BC before the eruption
of the nearby volcano
Xitli.24
Amid all this
uncertainty about the age of Teotihuacan, I had not been
surprised to discover that no one had the faintest idea of
the
identity of those who
had actually built the largest and most remarkable
metropolis ever to have existed in the pre-Columbian New
World. 25 All that could be said for sure was this: when the
Aztecs, on their march to imperial power, first stumbled
upon the mysterious city in the twelfth century AD, its
colossal edifices and avenues were already old beyond
imagining and so densely overgrown
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that they seemed more
like natural features than works of man. 26 Attached to
them, however, was a thread of local legend, passed down
from generation to generation, which asserted that they had
been built by giants27 and that their purpose had been to
transform men into
gods."
"... We have already
considered the possibility that the Way of the Dead may have
served as a terrestrial counterpart of the Milky Way. Of
interest in this regard is the work of another American,
Alfred E. Schlemmer, who- like Hugh Harleston Jr - was an
engineer Schlemmer's field was technological forecasting,
with specific refer-ence to the prediction of earthwakes,31
on which he presented a paper
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at the Eleventh National
Convention of Chemical Engineers (in Mexico City in October
1971).
Schlemmers argument
was that the Street of the Dead might never have been a
street at all. Instead, it might originally have been laid
out as a row of linked reflecting pools, filled with water
which had descended through a series of locks from the
Pyramid of the Moon, at the northern extreme, to the citadel
in the south.
As I walked steadily
north wards towards the still-distant Moon Pyramid, it
seemed to me that this theory had several points in its
favour. For a start the 'Street' was blocked at regular
intervals by high partition walls, at the foot of which the
remains of well made sluices could clearly be seen.
Moreover, the lie of the land would have facilated a
north-south hydraulic flow since the base of the Moon
Pyramid stood on ground that was approximately 100 feet
higher than the area in front of the citadel. The partioned
sections could easily have been filled with water and might
indeed have served as reflecting pools.." "..Finally, the
Teotihuacan Mapping Project (financed by the National
Science Foundation in Washington DC and led by Professor
Rene Millon of the University of Rochester) had demonstrated
conclusively that the ancient city had possessed'many
carefully laid-out canals and systems of branching
waterways, artificially dredged into straightened portions
of a river, which formed a network within Teotihuacan and
ran all the way to [Lake Texcoco], now ten miles
distant but perhaps closer in antiquity' .
32
There was much
argument about what this vast hydraulic system had been
designed to do. Schlemmers contention was that the
particular waterway he had identified had been built to
serve a pragmatic purpose as a 'long-range seismic
monitor'-part of 'an ancient science, no longer understood'.
He painted out that remote earthquakes 'can cause standing
waves to form on a liquid surface right across the planet'
and suggested that the carefully graded and spaced
reflecting pools of the Street of the Dead might have been
designed 'to enable Teotihuacanos to read from the standing
waves formed there the location and strength of earthquakes
around the
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globe, thus allowing them
to predict such an occurrences in their own
area'.34
There was, of course,
no proof of Sclemmer's theory. However, when I remembered
the fixation with earthquakes and floods apparent everywhere
in Mexican mythology, and the equally obessive concern with
forecasting future events evident in the Maya calendar, I
felt less inclined to dismiss the apparently far-fetched
conclusions of the American engineer. If Schlemmer were
right, if the ancient Teotihu-canos had indeed understood
the principles of resonant vibration and had put them into
practice in seismic forecasting, the implication was that
they were the possessors of an advanced science. And if
people like Hagar and Harleston were right - if, for
example, a scale-model of the solar system had also been
built into the basic geometry of Teotihuacan - this too
suggested that the city was founded by a scientifically
evolved civilization not yet
identified.
I continued to walk
northwards along the Street of the Dead and turned east
towards the Pyramid of the Sun. Before reaching this great
monument, however, Ipaused to examine a ruined patio, the
principal feature of which was an ancient 'temple' which
concealed a perplexing mystery beneath its rock
floor.
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Chapter 23
The Sun and the Moon
and the way of the Dead
Some
archaeological discoveries are heralded with much fanfare;
others, for various reasons, are not. Among this latter
category must be included the thick and extensive layer of
sheet mica found sandwiched between two of the upper levels
of the Teotihuacan Pyramid of the Sun when it was probed for
restoration in 1906. The lack of interest which greeted this
discovery, and the absence of any follow-up studies to
determine its possible function is quite understandable
because the mica, which had a considerable commer-cial value
was removed and sold as soon as it had been
excavated..."
"...There
had also been a much more recent discovery of mica at
Teotihuacan(in the 'Mica
Temple') and
this too has passed almost without notice. Here the reason
is harder to explain because there has been no looting and
the mica remains on
site.2
One of a group of
buildings, the Mica Temple is situated around a patio
about 1000 feet south of the west face of the Pyramid of the
Sun. Directly under a floor paved with heavy rock slabs,
archeologists financed by the Viking Foundation excavated
two massive sheets of mica which had been carefully and
purposeively installed at some extremely remote date by a
people who must have been skilled in
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cutting and handling this
material. The sheets are ninety feet square and form two
layers. one laid directly on top of the
other.3
The scribe, now
knowing the score, noted carefully the page number, then
taking a word or two, divided, multipled, and in addition,
noted, that
'ninety
feet
square'
revealed the following, namely, That 90 divided by 12 iz
7.5. That 90 x 90 iz 8100. That 90 + 90 iz
180
and that 90 x 90 x 2 iz
16200
that divided by two iz
1800
and that 1 + 8 iz
9.
THAT iz THAT said Zed Aliz Zed. And so it
was.
After such pause for
quick breath, Brother Graham again put pen to paper, the
line of which, yon scribe dutifully copied,word for
word.
Page 1 + 8 + 9 =
18
1 + 8 = 9
1 x 8 x 9 =
72
7 + 2 = 9
" Mica is
a
not
a
uniform substance substance but contains trace elements of
different metals depending on the kind of rock formation in
which it is found. Typically these metals include potassium
and aluminium and also, in varying quantities, ferrous and
ferric iron, magnesium, lithium, manganese and titanium. The
trace elements in Teotihua-can's Mica Temple indicate that
the underfloor sheets belong to a type which occurs only in
Brazil, some 2000 miles away.4 Clearly, therefore the
builders of the Temple must have had a specific need for
this particular kind of mica and were prepared to go to
considerable lengths to obtain it, otherwise they could have
used the locally available variety more cheaply and
simply.
Mica does not leap to
mind as an obvious general-purpose flooring material. Its
use to form layers underneath a floor, and thus completely
out of sight, seems especially, bizarre when we remember
that no other ancient structure in the Americas, or anywhere
else in the world, has been found to contain a feature like
this.5
It is frustrating
that we will never be able to establish the exact position,
let alone the purpose, of the large sheet that Bartres
excavated and removed from the Pyramid of the Sun in 1906.
The two intact layers in the Mica Temple, on the other hand,
resting as they do in a place where they had no decorative
function, look as though they were designed to do a
particular job. Let us note in passing that mica posesses
characteristics which suit it especially well for a range of
technological applications. In modern industry, it is used
in the construction of capacitors and is valued as a thermal
and electric insulator. It is also opaque to fast neutrons
and can act as a moderator in nuclear
reactions.
The scribe inserts
a swift return from the come day go day
record.
Fingerprints Of
The Gods
Graham Hancock
1995
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189 /
1 x 8 x 9 = 72 " The Sun
and the Moon and the way of the
Dead
Pyramid of the Sun,
Teotihuacan,
Having climbed
more than 200 feet up a series of flights of stone stairs I
reached the summit and looked towards the zenith. It was
midday
19
May, and the sun was directly overhead, and the sun was
directly overhead, as it would be again on 25
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190
/
July. On these two dates,
and not by accident, the west face of the pyramid was
oriented precisely to the position of the setting sun.
6
"A more
curious but equally deliberate effect could be observed on
the equinoxes. 20 March and 22 September. Then the passage
of the sun's rays from south to north resulted at noon in
the progressive obliteration of a perfectly straight shadow
that ran along one of the lower stages of the western
facade. The whole process, from complete shadow to complete
illumination, took exactly
66.6
seconds. It had done so without fail, year - in year - out,
ever since the pyramid had been built and would continue to
do so until the giant edifice crumbled into dust.
7
What this meant of
course, was that at least one of the many functions of the
pyramid had been to serve as a 'perennial clock', precisely
signalling the equinoxes and thus facilating calendar
corrections as and when necessary for a people apparently
obsessed, like the Maya, with the elapse and measuring of
time. Another implication was that the master - builders of
Teotihuacan must have possessed an enormouse body of
astronomic and geodetic data and refferred to this data to
set the Sun Pyramid at the precise orientation necessary to
achieve the desired equinoctial effects."
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Chapter 10
The City at the Gate
of the Sun
"The early Spanish
travellers who visited the ruined Bolivian city of
Tiahuanaco at around the time of the conquest were impressed
by the sheer size of its buildings and by the atmosphere of
mystery that clung to them. 'I asked the natives whether
these edifices were built in the time of the Inca,' wrote
the chronicler Pedro Cieza de Leon, 'They laughed at the
question, affirming that they were made long before the
Incas reign and . . . that they had heard from their
forbears that everything to be seen there appeared suddenly
in the course of a single night . . . '1 Meanwhile another
Spanish visitor of the same period recorded a tradition
which said that the stones had been lifted miraculously off
the ground, 'They were carried through the air to the the
sound of a
trumpet.'2
Not long after the
conquest a detailed decription of the city was written by
the historian Garcilaso de la Vega.. No looting for treasure
or for building materials had yet taken place and, though
ravaged by the tooth of time, the site was still magnificent
enough to take his breath
away:
We must now say
something about the large and almost incredible buildings of
Tiahuanaco. There is an artificial hill, of great height,
built on stone foundations so that the earth will not slide.
There are gigantic figures carved in stone . . . these are
much worn which shows there great antiquity. There are
walls, the stones of which are so enormous it is difficult
to imagine what human force could have put
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them in place. And there
are the remains of strange buildings, the most remarkable
being stone portals, hewn out of solid rock; these stand on
bases anything up to 30 feet long, 15 feet wide and 6 feet
thick, base and portal being all of one piece . . . How, and
with the use of what tools or implements, massive works of
such size could be achieved are questions which we are
unable to answer . . . Nor can it be imagined how such
enormous stones could have been brought here . .
.3
That was in the
sixteenth century. more than 400 years later, at the end of
the twentieth century, I shared Garcilaso's puzzlement
Scattered around Tiahuanaco, in defiance of the looters who
had robbed the site of so much in recent years were
monoliths so big and cumbersome yet so well cut that they
almost seemed to be the work of super-beings.
Sunken
temple
Like a disciple at the
feet of his master, I sat on the floor of the sunken temple
and looked up at the enigmatic face which all the scholars
of Tiahuanaco believed was intended to represent Viracocha.
Untold centuries ago, unknown hands had carved this likeness
into a tall pillar of red rock. Though much eroded, it was
the likeness of a man of power . .
.
He had a high
forehead, and large, round eyes. His nose was straight,
narrow at the bridge flaring towards the nostrils. His lips
were full. His distinguishing feature, however, was his
stylish and imposing beard, which had the effect of making
his face broader at the jaws than at the temples. looking
more closely, I could see that the sculptor had portrayed a
man whose skin was shaved all around his lips with the
result that his moustache began high on his cheeks, roughly
parallel with the end of his nose. From there it curved
extravagantly down beside the corners of his mouth, forming
an exaggerated goatee at the chin, and then followed his
jawline back to his ears. Above and below the ears, on the
side of the head, were carved odd representations of
animals. Or perhaps it would be better to describe
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these carvings as
representations of odd animals, because they looked like
big, clumsy, prehistoric mammals with fat tails and club
feet.
There were other
points of interest. For example, the stone figure of
Viracocha had been sculpted with the hands and arms folded,
one below the other, over the front of a long, flowing robe.
On each side of this robe appeared the sinuous form of a
snake coiling upwards from ground to shoulder level. And as
I looked at this beautiful design (the original of which had
perhaps been embroidered on rich cloth) the picture that
came into my mind was of Viracocha as a wizard or a
sorcerer, a bearded, Merlin-like figure dressed in weird and
wonderful clothes, calling down fire from
heaven."
The Sphinx and
the Megaliths
John Ivimy
1973
Page 66
"The name Merlin is
supposed by some to be derived from that of the Celtic sky
God Myrddin, which would link this ancient tradition of
wizardry with the druids - the priests, doctors, and wise
men of the Celts who were the inhabitants of Britain and
France when the Romans
came"
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The Mystery of the
Megaliths
"Megalithic
Structures - that is to say, prehistoric monuments built
with stones of enormous size - exist in many parts of the
world. The most famous, if not the greatest number, are
found in the British Isles and in Brittany in the north-west
corner of France. They are of many different kinds - dolmens
or cromlechs (tables of two or more uprights supporting a
flat stone on top), chambered tombs, menhirs or great stones
standing alone, stone rings of various sizes and shapes
(circles, flattened circles, ellipses, and egg-shaped
rings), and straight avenues of standing stones arranged
like grids in multiple
rows.
Of all the megalithic
structures by far the best known and the best preserved is
the circular 'temple' of Stonehenge on Salisbury Plain. We
call it a temple because, in the words of the official
guide, 'almost everyone agrees that Stonehenge was a
temple',1 but we print the word in inverted commas because
there is no evidence to prove that it was ever in regular
use for religious worship, much less that it was originally
designed for that purpose. What was the original purpose of
the founders of Stonehenge is, in fact, the core of the
mystery that we are here attempting to
unravel.
From the point of
view of sheer size and complexity of structure perhaps the
most important of the megalithic sites is the great stone
ring at Avebury on the Marlborough Downs about 16 miles (25
kilometres) to the north. This is the centre of a cluster of
prehistoric stones and earthworks which include the
neolithic camp of Windmill Hill, the 350-foot (107 metres)
long West Kennet Long Barrow, and Silbury Hill, the biggest
man-made mound in Europe with a height of 130 feet (40
metres) and a base covering more than 5 acres
(2hectares)'
Of the single
megalithic stones by far the biggest is the great menhir of
Er Grah (Le Grand Menhir Brise), which lies broken in three
pieces on a peninsular in Quiberon Bay, South Brittany, not
far from the 1000-yard long stone avenues of Carnac. This
megalith once stood over 60 feet high and was clearly
visible from 10 miles across the sea. It is estimated to
weigh 340 tons. this is six or seven times the weight of the
biggest of the huge sarsen stones of Stonehenge, which
itself weighs 50
tons..."
In medieval times it
was believed, not unnaturally, that the erection of the
great stones at Stonehenge and elsewhere was the work of
magicians. There was no other possible explanation. In his
Histories of the Kings of Britain written in the
twelfth century, Geoffrey of Monmouth tells us that the
stones of Stonehenge were brought to England from Ireland by
the wizard Merlin to make a burial place for Britons who had
been treacherously slain by the Saxon leader Hengist at a
meeting to which he had invited them on Salisbury Plain. The
British King Ambrosius Aurelianus (reputedly the brother of
Uther Pedragon and uncle of King Arthur) wanted to build a
memorial for the dead men which would last for ever, but his
builders and masons could think of no way of doing this. So
he sent for Mer-lin, the magician, who answered him
thus:
' "If you want to
grace the burial-place of these men with some lasting
monument, send for the Giants' Ring which is on mount
Killaraus in Ireland. In that place there is a stone
construction which no man of this period could ever erect,
unless he combined great skill and artistry. The stones are
enormous and there is no one alive strong enough to move
them. If they are placed in posi-tion round this site, in
the way in which they are erected over there, they will
stand forever." '2
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'These stones' (said
Merlin) 'are connected with certain religious rites and they
have various properties which are medicinally important.
Many years ago the Giants transported them from the remotest
confines of Africa and set them up in Ireland at a time when
they inhabited that country. Their plan was that, whenever
they felt ill, baths should be prepared at the foot of the
stones: for they used to pour water over them and to run
this water into baths in which their sick were cured. What
is more, they mixed the water with herbal concoctions and so
healed their wounds. There is not a single stone among them
which hasn't some medicinal virtue.' "
Page 92
"Apollo, to whom the
spherical temple of the Hyperboreans was dedicated, was not
only a sun god: he was also a god of healing. Could there be
a connection here between the famed good health of those
people, the identity of the god they worshipped, and the
magic medicinal properties of the stones of the Giants Ring
which the wizard Merlin brought from Ireland in Geoffrey of
Monmouth's tale? And could there also be a connection
between the technical magic displayed in the erection of the
stones and the worship of Apollo in his third capacity as
god of technology and the
arts?
The men whom King
Aurelius sent to Ireland, according to Geoffrey, to fetch
the stones had first to fight a battle with the Irish. He
continues ..."
Stonehenge
Decoded
Gerald S Hawkins
1965
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" 'The Britons . . . made
choice of Uther Pendragon the king's brother, with fifteen
thousand men, to attend to this business.' The armada put to
sea 'with a prosperous gale.' The irish heard of the
proposed seizure of their monument, and king Gilloman raised
a 'huge army,' vowing that the Britons should not 'carry off
from us the very
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smallest stone of the
Dance.' But the invaders 'fell upon them straightway at the
double-quick . . . prevailed . . . pressed forward to mount
Killaraus . . . '
Then the would-be
monument-movers were faced with the problem of how to
transport those great stones. ' They tried huge hawsers . .
. ropes . . . scaling ladders [memories of the lists of
weapons in Caesar's Gallic Wars!] . . .never a
whit the forwarder . . .' Merlin had to take over. He burst
out laughing and put together his own engines . . . laid the
stones down so lightly as none would believe . . .bade carry
them to the ships,' and they all 'returned unto Britain with
joy' and there 'set them up about the compass of the
burial-ground in such wise as they had stood . . . and
proved yet once again how skill surpasseth
strength.'
Geoffrey added that
Uther Pendragon, and King, or Emperor Constantine, were both
buried at
Stonehenge.
Most of Geoffrey's
story is useful only as entertainment but there are certain
bits of it that merit consideration or if not consideration
at least comment. ITEM:: Stonehenge was certainly not built
to c ommemorate either Saxon or British dead - but it is
interesting that the old legend so firmly links it with such
a use, when it was only recently found to have been a place
of burial. ITEM: Geoffrey said that its stones were of
supreme 'virtue.' It is true that there was general
reverence for the mystic powers of stones for a long time
after the coming of Christ - in 452A.D. the Synod of Arles
denounced those 'who venerate trees wells and stones' and
such de-nouncement was repeated by Charlemange and others
down to recent times - but modern discoveries, to be
discussed later, have demonstrated the possibility that the
stones of Stone-henge may have been regarded by their
original erectors as of especially sovereign powers. Two
stones were crucial in the legend of Arthur: the unknown lad
became king by literally one twist of the wrist - he grasped
that mysterious sword and lightly and fiercely pulled it out
of the stone' -... " The S ' word again, intercepted Zed
Aliz. " and then the only man, or being, who could have
saved him became asotted and doted on one of the ladies of
the lake. . . that height Nimue . . . and always Merlin lay
about the lady to have her maidenhood, and she was ever
passing weary of him,
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and would fain have been
delivered of him, for she was afeard of him because he was a
devil's son . . .and so on a time it happed that Merlin
showed to her in a rock whereas was a great wonder . . . so
by her subtle working she made Merlin to go under that stone
to let her wit of the marvels there,but she wrote so there
for him that he came never out for all the craft he could do
and Merlin thus entombed beneath that stone - the fate of
king and kingdom was sealed
"
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"...It is interesting
that in the legend Merlin did not resort to simple magic to
whisk the stones from the old site to the new. He was of
course more than capable of that: legendizers other than
Geoffrey state that he transported the stones by his 'word
of power' only. Could it be that there lurks folk-memory of
actual moving of Merlin's
'engines'?
In the realm of purer
myth, there may be more than engin-eering connection between
Merlin and Stonehenge. Some mythographers have thought that
the name 'Merlin' is a corruption of the name of the ancient
Celtic sky god 'Myrddin,' who might have been worshipped at
stone monuments. A Welsh triad states that the whole of
Britain, before men came was called 'Clas Myrddin,' or
'Merlin's Enclosure.' The Welsh folklorist John Rhys in an
1886 Hibbert Lecture said, "I have come to the conclusion
that we cannot do better than follow the story of Geoffrey,
which makes Stonehenge the work of Merlin Emrys, commanded
by another Emrys, which Iinterpret to mean that the temple
belonged to the Celtic Zeus, whose later legendary self we
have in Merlin.' In 1899
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Professor A.T. Evans
wrote in the Archaeological Review that Stonehenge
was an advanced representation of sepulchral architecture, '
where the cult or worship of departed ancestors may have
become associated with the worship of the Celtic Zeus; the
form under which the divinity was worshipped would have been
that of his sacred oak.'
"
FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS
Graham Hancock
1985
Page 87
Images of extinct
species
"Leaving the fish-garbed
figures, I came at last to the Gateway of the Sun, located
in the north-west comer of the
Kalasasaya.
It proved to be a
freestanding monolith of grey-green andesite about 12 1/2
feet wide, 10 feet high and 18 inches thick, weighing an
estimated 10 tons.14 Perhaps best envisaged as a sort of Arc
de Triomphe, though on a much smaller scale, it looked in
this setting like a door connecting two invisible dimensions
- a door between nowhere and nothing. The stonework was of
exceptionally high quality and authorities agreed that it
was 'one of the archaeological wonders of the Americas'.15
Its most enigmatic feature was the so- alled 'calendar
frieze' carved into its eastern facade along the top of the
portal.
At its centre, in an
elevated position, this frieze was dominated by what
scholars took to be another representation of Viracocha,16
but this time in his more terrifying aspect as the god-king
who could call down fire from heaven. His gentle, fatherly
side was still expressed: tears of compassion were running
down his cheeks. But his face was set stem and hard, his
tiara was regal and imposing, and in either hand he grasped
a thunderbolt.17 In the interpretation given by Joseph
Campbell, one of the twentieth century's best-known students
of myth, 'The meaning is that the grace that pours into the
universe
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through the sun door is
the same as the energy of the bolt that annihilates and is
itself indestructible. .
.'18
I turned my head to
right and left, slowly studying the remainder of the frieze.
It was a beautifully balanced piece of sculpture with three
rows of eight figures, twenty-four in all, lined up on
either side of the elevated central image~ Many attempts,
none of them particularly convincing, have been made to
explain the assumed calendrical function of these
figures.19
All that could really be said for sure was that they had a
peculiar, bloodless, cartoon like quality, and that there
was something coldly mathematical, almost machinelike, about
the I way they seemed to march in regimented lines towards
Viracocha."
ZAZAZAZAZAZAZAZAZA
I
A . . . . .9 . . . . Z
My God, said
the scribe to Alizzed you were gone such a long time I
thought you were never coming back. And, said the scribe,
indicating the shadows of time past, 'those of tomorrow
could not help but wonder, about the why's and wherefores of
it all, wheresoever were
you?
I
AZIN THEE ME SHE AND HE
Descended the depths,
in order to ascend the
heights
All the way there,
and all the way back.
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