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backward; more than a thousand engravings were taken into account, and not a single one was ignored. It didn't change anything. The illustrations on the Great Idol still constituted the most phenomenal calendar imaginable, and the astronomical dates depicted on it reach back as far as 27,000 years before the birth of Christ.
1.16. Excerpts from the calendar calculations by Dr. Hans Schindler Bellamy. Public domain image.
Professor Schindler Bellamy knew the problems that were likely to be stirred up with any dating that stretched that far back into the past. He knew of the ancient cultures of Egypt and Sumeria. Nevertheless, the engravings on the Great Idol show immutable periods. What could be done to solve this discrepancy? Professor Schindler Bellamy argued for a rise and fall of prehistoric cultures. There must have been, he argued, other high cultures before the Egyptian culture that had foundered and disappeared for whatever reasons. Unthinkable? Not really. After all, that is exactly what Plato reported two and a half millennia ago in his Laws. Back then he wrote of "earlier, frequent breakdowns of mankind caused by floods" from which "only a fragment of the human race was able to save itself. 1161 Anyone who knows Plato's writings also knows that the concept of earlier civilizations-including of course Atlantis-apocalypses and new civilizations did not arise with Hans Horbiger. This kind of lore is already thousands of years old.
rrefutable Evidence
Curiously enough, it is not even necessary to squabble about Tiwanaku's age. And not necessary to pick sides regarding the calendar theories, glacier melts, or cosmic catastrophes. Why not? It's because there is one extremely solid and incontestable argument-a piece of proof that is inarguable and inerasable. It is a marvel, that not even the most hard-nosed critic could ignore.
Geologist Alphons Stubel took precise measurements from some of the stone blocks from Puma Punku during the 1870s. These highly exact, technical drawings still exist. They can be seen in Stubel and Uhle's book, Die Ruinenstatte von Tiahuanaco im Hochland des alten Peru. I present some of them here so you can see for yourself: the pieces are measured with extreme precision.
Take a close look!
1.17. This picture shows a level of precision of measurement and workmanship that simply would not be possible with Stone Age tools. Public domain image.
1.18. The precision with which the blocks were cut is simply astounding. Public domain image.
1.19. Could Stone Age craftsmen really have produced such levels of accuracy and consistency?
'ithout Tools or Plans?
Nowadays, work like this would be carried out using milling machines and high-speed precision drills-water or air cooled. And these tools would be guided by stainless steel templates. Let's not forget that we're talking about hard diorite here. That means the tools that were used must have been harder than the blocks that were being worked. Let's add to this the fact that they would have needed some kind of levers and cranes to lift the preprepared blocks and fit them into each other without any kind of accidents or damage taking place. These blocks fit into each other like safe doors-but with a whole variety of surfaces, rectangles, squares, and levels. Modern concrete elements are utterly primitive compared with the techniques used in Puma Punku. Closing your eyes or just looking the other way doesn't cut the mustard here. Holy Atahualpa help us! Which Stone Age geniuses do they expect us to believe in? This turns their comfortable evolution theory on its head! The gray-green diorite block, with its immaculate smooth finish and its utterly precise, perpendicularly milled groove, is enough to pull the pants down on this Stone Age fairy tale on its ownlet alone the other pieces shown here.
Any claim or assertion is nothing more than an unproven assumption. But as far as Puma Punku is concerned, I'm not claiming anything-I'm talking
1.16. Excerpts from the calendar calculations by Dr. Hans Schindler Bellamy. Public domain image.
Professor Schindler Bellamy knew the problems that were likely to be stirred up with any dating that stretched that far back into the past. He knew of the ancient cultures of Egypt and Sumeria. Nevertheless, the engravings on the Great Idol show immutable periods. What could be done to solve this discrepancy? Professor Schindler Bellamy argued for a rise and fall of prehistoric cultures. There must have been, he argued, other high cultures before the Egyptian culture that had foundered and disappeared for whatever reasons. Unthinkable? Not really. After all, that is exactly what Plato reported two and a half millennia ago in his Laws. Back then he wrote of "earlier, frequent breakdowns of mankind caused by floods" from which "only a fragment of the human race was able to save itself. 1161 Anyone who knows Plato's writings also knows that the concept of earlier civilizations-including of course Atlantis-apocalypses and new civilizations did not arise with Hans Horbiger. This kind of lore is already thousands of years old.
rrefutable Evidence
Curiously enough, it is not even necessary to squabble about Tiwanaku's age. And not necessary to pick sides regarding the calendar theories, glacier melts, or cosmic catastrophes. Why not? It's because there is one extremely solid and incontestable argument-a piece of proof that is inarguable and inerasable. It is a marvel, that not even the most hard-nosed critic could ignore.
Geologist Alphons Stubel took precise measurements from some of the stone blocks from Puma Punku during the 1870s. These highly exact, technical drawings still exist. They can be seen in Stubel and Uhle's book, Die Ruinenstatte von Tiahuanaco im Hochland des alten Peru. I present some of them here so you can see for yourself: the pieces are measured with extreme precision.
Take a close look!
1.17. This picture shows a level of precision of measurement and workmanship that simply would not be possible with Stone Age tools. Public domain image.
1.18. The precision with which the blocks were cut is simply astounding. Public domain image.
1.19. Could Stone Age craftsmen really have produced such levels of accuracy and consistency?
'ithout Tools or Plans?
Nowadays, work like this would be carried out using milling machines and high-speed precision drills-water or air cooled. And these tools would be guided by stainless steel templates. Let's not forget that we're talking about hard diorite here. That means the tools that were used must have been harder than the blocks that were being worked. Let's add to this the fact that they would have needed some kind of levers and cranes to lift the preprepared blocks and fit them into each other without any kind of accidents or damage taking place. These blocks fit into each other like safe doors-but with a whole variety of surfaces, rectangles, squares, and levels. Modern concrete elements are utterly primitive compared with the techniques used in Puma Punku. Closing your eyes or just looking the other way doesn't cut the mustard here. Holy Atahualpa help us! Which Stone Age geniuses do they expect us to believe in? This turns their comfortable evolution theory on its head! The gray-green diorite block, with its immaculate smooth finish and its utterly precise, perpendicularly milled groove, is enough to pull the pants down on this Stone Age fairy tale on its ownlet alone the other pieces shown here.
Any claim or assertion is nothing more than an unproven assumption. But as far as Puma Punku is concerned, I'm not claiming anything-I'm talking
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