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237 need an engineering degree to realize that these stones were cut, drilled, and shaped by someone with incredible tech- nological ability and sophisticated equipment; indeed, one would doubt whether stones could be so shaped nowadays. The puzzle is compounded by the mystery of what purpose did these technological miracles serve; obviously, for some unknown yet highly sophisticated purpose. If it was to serve as casting dies for complex instruments, what—and whose— were those instruments? Clearly, one can think only of the Anunnaki as possessing both the technology to make those “dies” and to use them or their end products. The main outpost of the Anunnaki was situated a few miles inland, at a site now known as Tiwanacu (earlier spelled Tiahuanacu), now belonging to Bolivia. One of the first European explorers to reach it in modern times, George Squier, described the place in his book Peru Illus- trated as “The Baalbec of the New world”—a comparison more valid than he realized. The next main modern explorer of Tiwanaku, Arthur Pos- nansky (Tihuanacu—The Cradle of American Man), reached astounding conclusions regarding the site’s age. The princi- pal aboveground structures in Tiwanaku (there are numerous subterranean ones) include the Akapana, an artificial hill riddled with channels, conduits, and sluices whose purpose is discussed in The Lost Realms. A tourist favorite is a stone gateway known as the Gate of the Sun, a prominent struc- ture that was also cut from a single boulder, with some of the precision exhibited at Puma-Punku. It probably served an astronomical purpose and undoubtedly a calendrical one, as the carved images on the archway indicate; those carvings are dominated by the larger image of the god Viracocha holding the lightning weapon that clearly emulated the Near Eastern Adad/Teshub (Fig. 106). Indeed, in The Lost Realms Ihave suggested that he was Adad/Teshub. The Gate of the Sun is so positioned that it forms an as- tronomical observation unit with the third prominent struc- ture at Tiwanaku, called the Kalasasaya. It is a large rectangular structure with a sunken central courtyard and is surrounded by standing stone pillars. Posnansky’s suggstion When the Gods Left Earth