Pacific SEAPORT THAT HAD BEEN THRUST
12,000 FEET ABOVE SEA LEVEL.
Titicaca, at 12,000 feet altitude, it is the highest navigable
lake in the world. But did you know that 12,000 years ago Titicaca was on sea
level?
MOUNTAINS RAISED “RECENTLY”
It is popularly speculated that mountain uplifts occurred over
millions of years, until about a million years ago. But listen to the eminent
geologist Bailey Willis, regarding the Asian mountains: “The great mountain
chains challenge credulity by their extreme youth.” (Bailey Willis, Research in
Asia. II, p.24)
On the former surf line of the raised beaches at Valparaiso,
Chile, now at 1,300 feet, the seashells are not even decayed - a clear
indication of a “recent” up thrust. Geologist J.S. Lee reports convincing
evidence that “the mountain ranges in western China have been elevated since the
Glacial Age.” (J.S. Lee, The Geology of China, p.207)
In Kashmir, Helmut de Terra found deposits of a sea bottom at
an elevation of 5,000 feet or more and tilted, at an angle of 40 degrees. And
the shock is that: “These deposits contain Paleolithic [‘Old Stone Age’] fossils.”
(Arnold Heim and August Gousser, The Throne of the Gods, An Account of the
First Swiss Expedition to the Himalayas, p.218) The fact is that this change
occurred in historical times, “however fantastic changes so extensive may seem
to a modern geologist.”
Citing extensive evidence, Immanuel Velikovsky concludes that
“the great massif of the Himalayas rose to its present height in the age of
modern, actually historical man. . . With their topmost peaks the mountains
have shattered the entire scheme of the geology of the ‘long, long ago’.” (Velikovsky,
Earth in Upheaval, p.76)
A shock indeed! It can be demonstrated that the mountain
chains of the Caucasus, China, Tibet, the Rockies, the Alps and the Andes all
rose to their present heights in historical times. We have the same “late”
dating from all parts of the earth.
THE ANDES RANGE
At 11,500 feet, a curious whitish streak runs along the side
of the mountain range for over 300 miles. It is composed of the calcified remains
of marine plants. This shows that these slopes were once part of the seashore. In
fact, many lakes up in the Andes region are completely salt. One such lake is
Titicaca.
A watermark of salt along the lake shore now runs at an angle
to the water level. Originally it must have been horizontal. Clearly the land
was not only thrust up to its present altitude, but was tilted in the process. Not
only is the water saline. On the beach of this lake high in the mountains, there
are seashells as well as traces of seaweed. The lake must have been a bay or
inlet of the sea. Even today, various sea creatures (including sea horses) survive
in the lake.
Today this lofty, almost sterile region is capable of sustaining
only a scant population. Yet here we are confronted with a colossal mystery. Traces
of a huge city lie at the southern side of the lake. In the fifteenth century,
Spanish conquistador Cieca de Leon reported his astonishment at seeing ancient
gateways hewn from solid stone 30 feet long and 15 feet high and pivoting.
These ruins of Tiahuanaco, in Bolivia, are extensive. It is
obvious that a great city once existed here. But here is the mystery. At an
altitude of 13,000 feet, maize will not bear fruit. Yet endless agricultural terraces,
now abandoned, rise as high as 18,400 feet above sea level, and continue up
under the snow to some unidentified altitude.
Such an abundance of cornfields must have supported a huge
population. The region is too high and too barren to do this now. Could the
site once have been lower? You see, if the Andes were 2- to 3,000 feet lower
than now, maize would ripen around Lake Titicaca and the city of Tiahuanaco
could support the large population for which it was evidently built.
ONCE A SEAPORT
But here is an even greater surprise… the remains of an ocean
quay. That’s right, an ocean quay. It suggests that the city, when built, was
at sea level - 12,500 feet lower! The remains near the stadium of Tiahuanaco show
five distinct landing places. The harbors have dredged holes and a canal which
heads inland. The docks are vast - and one wharf is big enough to take hundreds
of ships. So we’re faced now with a sea harbor at 12,500 feet altitude and 200
miles inland! Staggering, isn’t it? Well, someone says, perhaps these gigantic
docks were intended for ships on Lake Titicaca. Good try. But I’ll tell you why
not.
You see, they face in the opposite direction from the lake.
Not only that the mooring rings on the stone piers were so large that they
could only have been used by ocean-liner sized vessels. This place - I tell you
- was a seaport on the Pacific coast. AND IT WAS THRUST, SO TO SPEAK, TWO MILES
INTO THE SKY! Now, how about that? You’ve probably heard it said that mountain
making took “long ages”. That in the case of the Andes (the second highest
mountain range on earth), it occurred more than a million years ago.
Well, I’m sorry to be a spoil sport. But the change in altitude
occurred AFTER the city was built. I would suggest about 4,000 years ago. And
since only a few intermediate surf lines can be detected, the elevation could
not have proceeded little by little.
The explorer Colonel H.P. Fawcett, who travelled this region
early last century, was persuaded by the evidence that Tiahuanaco had been destroyed
by the terrible seismic upheavals which accompanied the raising of the Andes to
their present height. (Fawcett, Exploration Fawcett: The Travel Diaries and
Notes of Colonel H.P. Fawcett) And I believe he got that right.
WORK INTERRUPTED
There is some evidence that the monoliths of the city were
not entirely finished when the catastrophe struck and suddenly raised the whole
city and lake 12,500 feet. Cast-down builders’ tools were found in the ruins
when the Spaniards came upon the place in the 16th century. The heaps of blocks
of masoned stone bear evidence of sudden abandonment… men fleeing for their
lives, taken by surprise.
After the disaster, the populace lay buried in gullies that
had become mass graves, covered by silt. Fragments of skeletons, both of
animals and men, lay scattered among the ruins. Jewels, pottery and tools were
found mixed in utmost confusion. This massive uplifting exposed a continental
shelf which is now the desert lowlands of Peru and northern Chile.
WITNESSED BY SURVIVORS
In the traditions of the Ugha Mongulala tribe of the western
Amazon jungle, the South American continent was “… still flat and soft like a
lamb’s back, … the Great River still flowed on either side.” But then came a
cataclysm: “The Great River was rent by a new mountain range and now it flowed
swiftly toward the East. Enormous forests grew on its banks… In the West, where
giant mountains had surged up, people froze in the bitter cold of the high
altitudes.” (Karl Brugger, The Chronicle of Akakor, 1977)
Upswellings of other mountains may have been as violent. These
were never forgotten by the inhabitants.For example, the Washo Indians of
California say their ancestors witnessed the uplifting of the North American sierras
from the plains. Various other tribes of the Americas likewise recall in their
oral history the memory of new mountains being raised and others flattened.
(Velikovsky, Worlds in Collision, p.102)
RELIEF FROM STRESS CONTINUES
After the Great Flood of 2345 BC, it took the earth’s crust
millennia to settle down. During the tectonic adjustments, lava continued to
flow. Isolated areas of land were submerged or raised thousands of feet.
Today these effects are being felt only to a comparatively
minor degree. Still, it should be mentioned that even in modern times, the
ocean has been known to raise or lower its islands or its depths, as much as
thousands of feet. No need to invoke long evolutionary periods. THE EARTH’S
SURFACE CAN CHANGE RAPIDLY. There are many recent examples of rapid up or down thrusts.
LAND RISES 4,000 FEET - IN OUR 21ST CENTURY
During the earthquake which occurred off the northern tip of
Sumatra on December 26, 2004, the sea bottom in the Straits of Malacca uplifted
almost 4,000 feet in only about 3 minutes.
The US-based National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, which
analyses spy satellite imagery and produces maps and charts for the Defense
Department, was reported to have received information that one area of the
Straits of Malacca, which separates Malaysia from the Indonesian island of Sumatra
had its depth cut from 4,060 feet to 105 feet.
In another affected area, a merchant marine ship logged that the depth was cut
from 3,855 feet to just 92 feet. (Star newspaper, Kuala Lumpur, January. 13, 2005,
quoting a report in the shipping journal, Portsworld.)
The US Navy reportedly sent two ships to re-chart the waters.
Sonar images from British navy ship HMS Scott showed the massive uplift of a
large area 10 kilometers wide and up to 1.5 kilometers high (4,800 feet plus).
Yes, land CAN rise or sink quickly… even in our day. It does
NOT require millions of years. Besides various continents rising and falling
11,720 years ago, (date determined by two Norwegians studying Antarctic Ice core graphs) The
entire continent of Antarctic was pushed up several thousand feet,
Additionally, heaps of bones were piled up on the Kamchatka Peninsula in
Russia. All the camels, horses and mastodons in North America were suddenly
exterminated. There were no more horses in North America until the Spaniards
brought them over in the 15th Century. Whole mastodons were
quick-frozen with green food in their mouths and in their stomachs.
FROM A RADIO INVERVIEW I DID WITH Mark Schneider Ohio Exopolotics:
If we have
time I also want to talk about Robert Shoch’s examination of the stone city
near Lake Titicaca. He mentions several authors who have speculated about how
the ancient cities were raised up over 11,000 feet…
Tiahuanaco
Dr. Robert Schoch, Ph. D. (of
Egyptian Sphinx dating fame) has become a regular contributor to Atlantis
Rising magazine. In the May/June 2013 issue his article WHERE ATLANTIS MEETS
LEMURIA he examines the ancient ruins of Tiahuanaco and Puma Punku.
“…there are
also persistent stories of ancient, now extinct animals depicted in the
carvings that decorate some of the stone work at Tiahuanaco. In particular, it is claimed that toxodons are depicted
on the Sun gate/ this would be incredibly significant if true, as toxodons (an
animal indigenous to South America that looked a bit like a cross between a
rhinoceros and a hippo) are generally believed to have gone extinct about
14,500 years ago. (shortly before the close of the last ice age) but these
supposed depictions of toxodon heads are not convincing to me. I am not sure
what they represent.”
“Other
arguments for the extreme age of Puma Punku have been proposed by the archeolo-astronomical
studies of Arthur Posnansky (1873 – 1946). In particular he was convinced that
onf of the major structures at Tiahuanaco
known as the Kalasasaya, was a solar temple.
He observed that when one )stands at the center of the west wall of
Kalasasaya … the north and south pillars of the east wall are so located that
the sun would rise at the solstices on the outer corners of these pillars . . .
Now then if at the solstices, one observes the sunrise without the aid of
instruments, it will be noted that it does indeed still come up on the corners
of these pillars. However, if we examine this phenomenon with precision
instruments, we note a difference of approximately eighteen minutes [of arc, or
0.3 degrees], which represents the change in the obliquity of the eclipse
between that of the period in which the Kalasasaya was built and that which is
has today” (see his 1945 book, Tiahuanaco
The cradle of American man, vol. 2 p.88).
Using the
best analysis of his day on the changing obliquity of the ecliptic, Posnansky
estimated that his portion of Tiahuanaco
dates back an astounding 17,000 (circa
15,000 BCE).
Dr. Schoch writes:
“A single catastrophic event perhaps a fly-by or hit of an asteroid, could have
shifted Earth’s axis and caused the discrepancy. Or if Lake Titicaca and Tiahuanaco were suddenly and
catastrophically given a new geographic
and topographic position (FOR INSTAQNCE A SUDDEN DRAMATIC RISE OF THE
Andes), then this could surely account for the “misalignment” of the temple.”
The German
novelist, architect, and archeologist Edmond Kiss (1886 – 1969), and H. s.
Belamy. (possibley a pseudonym if Han Schindler, (1901 – 1982) and his colleague
Peter Allan, reinterpreted Tiwanaku in terms of geological theories of Austrian engineer Hans Hoeberger
(1860 – 1931). In his Wellteislehre (world Ice Theory); also known as Glazial
Kosmogonie [Glacial Cosmology]), Horbiger postulated (among other things) that
before Earth captured its present Moon, there were other satellites that acted
as moons, each of which spiraled closer and closer to Earth over periods of
millennia before exploding, disintegrating, or impacting Earth and causing
cataclysms on our planet. At different
epochs with different “moons our Earth had different numbers of days in the
year and differing numbers of revolutions of the then current moon around
Earth.
I take it Robert
Schoch hasn’t read my book, COSMOLOGICAL ICE AGES where we used online
computers to compute impact forces necessary to tilt Earth 23.5 degrees and
raise Puma Punka up 12,000 feet from sea level in 15 minutes.
Furthermore,
depending on the position of the current moon relative to Earth, it would
affect ice accumulation (expanding ice ages), the levels of the oceans in
different parts of the world due to gravitational effects, and so forth. All in
all, those authors argued, Horbiger’s theory could explain the cataclysmic
destruction of Tiahuanaco; and
furthermore it would date the site to a much older period, a period prior to
earth’s capture of our current Moon.
I concur with Robert
Schoch’s analysis on this point. It took me three years of web searches to find
the book IN THE BEGINNING by Immanuel Velikovski where the ancient Greeks talk
about a time on Earth when there was no moon. (Chapter 3). To read the book
type the first words of the bible into Google, “IN THE BEGINNING.”
Bellamy and
Allan took the analysis even further. In two detailed monographics they
analyzed the Sun Gate and the Great Idol (a magnificent monolithic, red
sand-stone statue found in Tiwanaku which stands over seven meters [over
24-feet tall] as ancient calendars.
By their
interpretations, the calendar on the sun gate records a time with a different
satellite other than our Moon, when the year consisted of 290 days, whereas the
calendar of the Great Idol records a yea consisting of 288 days. Utilizing
various assumptions and extrapolations (see their 2959 book, The Great Idol of Tiahuanaco), Bellamy and Allan
ultimately concluded that Tiahuanaco
reached its height about twenty-seven thousand years ago and was destroyed when
the then Moon disintegrated circa twenty-two-thousand years ago. This they
refer to as the first civilization f humankind. In terms of our previous
discussion, might we think of as the Lemurian Civilization.
Post Tiahuanaco time, Bellamy and Allan
speculate that “The Second Civilization.” Which they explicitly suggest might
be equated with Atlantis, developed during a period when Earth lacked a moon,
circa twenty-two thousand years ago to around thirteen thousand five hundred –
even eleven thousand five hundred, years ago.
[I agree with Robert
Schoch on this as my research discovered where two Norwegians studying
Antarctic ice core graphs came up with a time that Earth came out of the last
Ice Age of 11,720 years ago. This fits within Bellamy and Allan’s time line.]
“This
period ended catastrophically with the capture of our present Moon, which
marked the destruction of Atlantis, in terms of classical geology the end of
the last Ice Age. Finally according to these authors, after a hiatus of
thousands of years, “The third and last Civilization,” of which we are members,
arose first in Egypt and Samaria bout 7,000 to 6,000 years ago.
Certainly
these ideas are controversial, and I am not her endorsing them, but I find them
fascinating and worthy of further consideration even if many of the details may
be questionable. Robert Schoch writes, “I do not believe we have fully
explained the mysteries of Tiahuanaco.”
I firmly believe Robert Schoch is on
the right track. It is heartening to me to see other scientists trying to
explain the mysteries of Puma Punku and Tiahuanaco. I hope to make him aware of
my impact research and the light sources that take Earth out and in to Ice
Ages…
Nothing in the main stream history books can explain all off
these sudden cataclysmic events. I and several others don’t believe our Moon
was not in the sky prior to 11,720 years ago.
Darwin also was convinced the Moon had not been up there for
many millions of years and ran the math backward. He could get no closer to
Earth than fifty miles. My co-author and I thought that the moon was actually
bounced off the Earth and it had a 20-mile deep coating of ice covering the Maria.
(The black Maria facing Earth have very few crater impacts so something was
protecting them.)
In my book COSMOLOGICAL ICE AGES I used an online impact
computer Arizona EDU/Impact effects. I put the mass of the Moon in there 7.35
e20 kilograms, the mass of the earth 5.98e24 kilograms, a speed of 2 kilometers
per second and an angle of 11 degrees (space shuttle re-entry angle). The
impact data that came back is it would depress the Earth’s crust five kilometers
and it would bounce back up to 1.3 kilometers. The force of the impact would be
about 700-terramegatons.
The average depth of the Arctic Ocean is 1.3 kilometers and
there is one area that is 5 kilometers deep. The shape of the Arctic Ocean is
roughly circular and one third the diameter of the Moon. The Moon impact would
explain the extinction of all the animals in North America and the freezing of
the mastodons.
Apparently we had
summers and winters prior to the arrival of our modern Moon because the Earth
was in a more elliptical orbit around the sun. The year was 360 days—the same
number of degrees in a circle. Is this where the 360-degree circle came from?
The Earth’s oceans weren’t very productive and there was little land available
for large populations of humans and animals because it was in Ice Age. Ice caps
extended down to northern Florida and Kansas. Ice covered the Greenland and the
British Isles as far south as Spain. The California redwoods were spared and
most of Alaska was not covered with ice as mastodons and horses roamed freely.
The actual rotational pole was near the southern tip of Greenland. See the maps
in my book COSMOLOGICAL ICE AGES.
The force of the impact was transmitted around the liquid core
of the earth forcing the continents of South America and Antarctica up several
thousand feet in a few minutes.
