Not one of these statues stands today. The greed of civilization has literally devastated Tiahuanaco with vandalism and thievery.
However, vandals through the centuries who visited this fabulous storehouse of prehistory did what most do who have the treasure fever – they ignored the intellectual values which were less obvious. The great stone gate in the temple of Kalasasaya has inscriptions across its arch and on its pillars which, to the untrained eye, appear to be but meaningless picture carvings. It remained for Arthur Posnanski to realize its importance; lie was followed by Wendell Bennett and John Phillips; then Hans Schindler Bellamy and Peter Allan completed the picture with their brilliant deciphering and translation of the pictures, so aptly described in their book, The Calendar of Tiahuanaco. Their later book, The Great Idol of Tiahuanaco, evinces further their brilliance in deciphering and translating the picture symbols carved in a monolithic statue excavated from a buried temple. This book not only explains their deciphering and translating, but tells of the arduous work performed in order to preserve the tremendous monolith. The only thing they don’t explain is why ibis huge statue has two left hands and no right hand!
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The works of Bellamy and Allan show many things concerning the calendar and time standards of Tiahuanaco in two different epochs, probably the Caspian and Hudson Bay eras. The details and differences between hours, days and years then and now I shall leave to those who wish to read those books. The main point of their discussion which should be noted here is that the Idol and the Calendar both recorded that, during both eras, a retrograde moon satellite orbited around the Earth. During the Idol’s era – probably 29,000 to 18,500 years ago – the satellite was approximately 24,150 miles from the Earth; and during the Calendar Gate’s era – probably 18,500 to 11,500 years ago – the satellite was approximately 23,360 miles from the Earth.
Obviously the moon-satellite was far closer to our planet than our present moon. Obviously it passed the Roche limit of approximately 8,000 miles from the Earth and disintegrated, accounting for many legends of prehistory of terrible impacts with the Earth by asteroids or comets.
Where did the moon-satellite come from? How did our planet capture it? And, of course, where did our present moon-satellite come from? When did our planet capture it? And how and why did it happen? If Tiahuanaco and its moon-satellite are to make any sense for us, these questions must be answered.
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