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The centre's several buildings are known as the The fact that some "renegades" do not apply carbon Kalasasaya Temple, the Semi-subterranean Temple, a _ dates to the stone ruins themselves is no indication so-called "Palace" and the Acapana Pyramid. A few _ that years of archaeological work is being ignored, as other buildings are in evidence. Many of the building | some complain. It is the depiction of extinct Pleistocene blocks weigh close to 200 tons (Posnansky, 1945). The — animals (not being addressed by most experts) which Acapana Pyramid is a step pyramid and, like the Great — prohibits the acceptance of the carbon dates usually Pyramid, is aligned perfectly with the cardinal applied to the megalithic contructions. How can an directions. It was originally covered with smooth animal which has never been seen be carved onto andesite stone, only 10 per cent of which is still in monuments? In addition, there are geological features place. The ruinous state of the pyramid is due tostone which are not being faced—and one dare not even pirates having carried off the stones for building mention archaeoastronomy to archaeologists. materials in La Paz. The most important edifice for dating purposes is In the centre of the Semi-subterranean Temple wasa the Kalasasaya ("Place of Vertical Stones"). Rather 24-foot-tall monolithic statue sculpted out of red _ than being in alignment with the cardinal directions, it sandstone. Although carvings cover much of its body, _ is slightly offset to the northwest. In its southwestern the lower half of the statue is covered with fish scales, corner is a large statue called "The Idol", opposite the reminding one of the Mesopotamian deity Oannes, Sun Gate. Knowing that many ancient cultures who conveyed special knowledge to mankind. This incorporated astronomical alignments into the huge monolith was unknown until uncovered during orientation of their most sacred buildings, the Bennett's excavations in 1934. orientation of the Kalasasaya It has since been carried to La 9 caught the attention of Paz and erected in a plaza ...the transportation of engineer Professor Arturo road the much larger stone 400-ton stones over thonaine tiene 1995) monolith, Bennett found a immense distances could Since the Earth is tilted on bearded statue. It has large onl have been accomplished its axis in respect to the plane round eyes, a straight narrow See . of the solar system, the nose and an oval mouth, and it by a civilisation (hitherto resulting angle is known as the tands about feet tall. * bliquity of the ecliptic. At Rays of lightning ure carved on unknown) with advanced eed is tilted at Jr angle the forehead, and technologies. of 23 degrees 17 minutes—but unidentifiable animals are it was not always so. Earth's carved around the head. His axis oscillates between 22 arms are crossed over his ankle-length tunic, which is degrees 1.0 minute to an extreme of 24 degrees 5.0 decorated with pumas around the hem. Serpents minutes. One complete oscillation takes roughly ascend on each side, reminding one of Quetzalcoatl, 41,000 years to complete. Posnansky had a number of the culture-hero of the Toltecs. astronomers from highly respected institutions check The conventional practice of dating Tiahuanacu is his theory, and they concluded that the Kalasasaya based on carbon dating of numerous examples of | Temple indicated a tilt amounting to 23 degrees 8.0 pottery, small statues and other artefacts. An obvious minutes 48 seconds (Posnansky, 1945). This seemed fact ignored by orthodox archaeologists is that it is 0 point to a date circa 15,000 BC. Of course, the common for late arrivals to be awed by old ruins __ professional archaeologists went into orbit! (attributing their origin to gods or giants) and then to Such a date would explain the depiction of animals incorporate those very images in their own pottery, hat have been extinct for 12,000 years. The fact that textiles, etc. It may be a colossal mistake to fuse the Tiahuanacu appears to include piers and docking areas cultures into one, skewing dates of the megalithic or hundreds of ships, yet is now elevated to an stone ruins to match those of later artefacts. altitude of over two miles above sea level, has caused As a result of these problems, several major some archaeologists to seek another purpose for these archaeological authorities describe the dating of the eatures. buildings and sculptures at Tiahuanacu as "insecure" Finally, the transportation of 400-ton stones over (Mason, 1968; Willey, 1971; et al.). Stone ruins cannot immense distances could only have been be carbon dated. The only way that stone buildings | accomplished by a civilisation (hitherto unknown) with can be dated is if, perchance, organic material advanced technologies. happened to be mashed beneath stones during the It's not out of the question that a worldwide actual erection of the edifices. Carbon-dating cataclysm could create mountains almost overnight in techniques may then be applied to such recovered certain places, thereby raising a seaport high above its organic material. original level. Salty Lake Titicaca itself seems to be a only have been accomplished by a civilisation (hitherto unknown) with advanced technologies. NEXUS ¢ 43 ...the transportation of 400-ton stones over immense distances could APRIL - MAY 2009 www.nexusmagazine.com