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238 that the Kalasasaya served as an observatory has been con- firmed by subsequent explorers; his conclusion, based on Sir Norman Lockyer’s archaeoastronomy guidelines, that the astronomical alignments of the Kalasasaya show that it was built thousands of years before the Incas was so incredible that German astronomical institutions sent teams of scien- tists to check this out. Their report, and subsequent additional verifications (viz. the scientific journal Baesseler Archiv, volume 14) affirmed that the Kalasasaya’s orientation un- questionably matched the Earth’s obliquity either in 10,000 B.C.E. or 4000 B.C.E. Either date, I wrote in The Lost Realms, was fine with me—the earlier soon after the Deluge, when the gold-obtain- ing operations began there, or the later date, when Anu vis- ited; both dates matched the activities of the Anunnaki there, and the evidence for the presence of the Enlilite gods is all over the place. Archaeological, geological, and mineralogical research at the site and in the area confirmed that Tiwanaku also served as a metallurgical center. Based on various finds and the im- THE END OF DAYS FIGURE 106