A very long time earlier than the Inka reigned, there have been in these components males within the method of giants, as grown as they confirmed the figures that have been sculpted within the stones. Pedro de Cieza de León Crónica de Perú (1553)

A Shocking Account

On a latest journey to Bolivia and Peru, looking the traces of the primeval civilization of Tiahuanaco and of the Inca, engineer Celso García Vargas heard maybe some of the superb accounts that resounds with a distant pre-Hispanic custom.

In truth, this account is a recent echo of the unique substrate of the gods of the Americas.

A number of years in the past, Celso García Vargas travelled to the Andean highlands. Close to the sacred website of Ollantaytambo (about 90 km northwest of Cuzco, the capital metropolis of the Tahuantinsuyo or Inca Empire ) he met a descendant of an indigenous Peruvian, who after a collection of conversations, spoke of a unprecedented expedition.

The indigenous informant spoke a couple of pilgrimage {that a} group of locals undertook to a sacred mountain related to a lake the place “the lights fall from the sky” and “earlier than daybreak they depart the lake and return to the celebs” (donde “las luces caen del cielo” y “antes del amanecer salen del lago y regresan a las estrellas”). At this mountain website, they held sure rituals. Whereas growing this exercise the pilgrims discovered a “massive tomb” during which they have been capable of see the “physique of an enormous”.

Astonished, I requested Celso García Vargas what phrase his informant particularly used. “Big” he replied undisturbed.

The informant additionally defined that they noticed the skull of the “large” having “two protuberances”.

If synthetic, technically this cranium can be an excessive tabular erect modification in its bilobal modality .

And, amazingly, in addition they discovered the ring, supposed of this large.

An instance of an Andean pre-Hispanic “lateral distortion” cranium. What was the unique mannequin? (Writer Offered)

The Custom of the Giants within the Americas

To most, simply the point out of “large” would invalidate and even ridicule this report. Strikingly, from the start of the so-called Discovery of America in 1492, Europeans of various nationalities elaborated data of the presence of “giants” virtually all through the geography of the continent. Thus, the “giants” are a part of the writings of Américo Vespucio, Bernal Díaz del Castillo, Pedro Cieza de León, Fernando de Montesinos, Fray Diego Durán, Joseph de Acosta, Francisco López de Gómara, Mariano Fernández de Echeverría y Veytia, Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Fernando de Alba Ixtlilxochitl, Fray José Mariano Rothea and Fray Andrés de Olmos amongst different chroniclers and explorers.

However have been the “ giants” the product of the European mentality of the time? Had been these stories a easy invention of the historians then? In that case, what may have been the explanation or goal? Would essentially the most prestigious students of the time, in lots of instances affiliated with the Catholic Church, dare to ‘invent’ one thing of this nature? Or, extra disturbingly, have been these data the results of genuine observations?

In opposition to all fashionable ideas and prejudices, pre-Hispanic traditions from Tierra del Fuego to Alaska file the existence of the “giants”. The custom of the Selk’nam of Tierra del Fuego spoke of the giants Cásquels, Kawtcho and the ‘large of the Hoste Island’.

In Patagonia, the locals and guests have recorded “giants” and their settlements, such because the Reino de los Gigantes –the “Kingdom of the Giants”– and the Volcán de los Gigantes –the “Volcano of the Giants” (Melimoyu).

The epithet of those giants have been “Viracochas”. That is, the Castellanized model of “Huarijochas” –previously Huari-Huarijochas. The etymological which means of this idea is related to the huaras or smelter, being Viracocha thus “metallurgist”.

Fretum Magellanicum. A map of Patagonia by Petrus Bertius of 1606 the place it was consignated the Patagonum Regio (“Kingdom of the Patagones”) and the Montañas de Gigantes (“Mountains of Giants”) in addition to the illustration two bearded giants with bows and arrows. (Writer Offered)

Particulars from the above map, exhibits the identify ‘Montanas de Gigantes’ and supposed representations of giants. (Writer Offered)

Within the sacred pre-Hispanic custom, the Viracochas were the White Gods that unfold the civilization within the Americas from South to North. Over time, the Andean myths that have been recorded by the conquistadores and the chroniclers, and even by the explorers throughout the twentieth century check with the existence of those inhabitants.

In relation to those “giants”, explorer and colonel, Percy Henry Fawcett , decided that the town of Tiahuanacu was constructed, like Sacsayhuamán and far of Cuzco, by a race that manipulated cyclopean rocks, and that sculpted them to suit so completely, that it’s inconceivable to introduce even the leaf of a knife between the joints, with out using any mortar. Considering these ruins, it’s not troublesome to consider within the custom which relates that they have been constructed by giants; certainly, it’s mentioned that skeletons of giants have been found within the stone tombs within the neighborhood of Cuzco.

What’s extra, the portentous city-port of Tiahuanaco and Puma Punku within the highlands of Bolivia was constructed in keeping with the custom by “giants”, that’s, the Viracochas. This is likely one of the the reason why Jesuit historian Bernabé Cobo expressed in relation to Tiahuanaco that its buildings are from earlier than the Flood, because it should have been a metropolis constructed by giants.

In his well-founded research Das Sonnentor von Tihuanaku und Hörbigers Welteislehre (“The Gate of the Solar of Tiahuanaco and the Doctrine of Common Ice of Hörbiger”, 1937) archaeologist Edmund Kiss wrote that Tiahuanaco was constructed by a race of giants or Viracochas.

Left: A element of the map of the New World of Diego Gutiérrez (1562) the place the Gigantvm Regio or “Kingdom of the Giants” seems in Patagonia. ( Public Domain /Writer Offered) Proper: Element of the map of Juan de la Cruz Cano and Olmedilla of 1775 the place the Volcán de los Gigantes [V. de los Gigantes] (“Volcano of the Giants”) is acknowledged in continental Chiloé, within the south of Chile. (Writer Offered/ Public Domain )

The invention of a tomb of giants in Puerto Deseado in Tierra del Fuego, Chile, in keeping with the data of the map America of 1615 by Theodor de Bry. The textual content of this map consigned with the letter H, signifies: Tombs of skeletons of very tall human beings, with bones of 10 to 11 toes [3.48 to 3.63 m], their skulls, as soon as opened, could possibly be positioned on our heads as in the event that they have been helmets. (Writer Offered)

As identified, the presence of the “giants” for Europeans has been recorded because the fifteenth century. On this regard, Mercedarian chronicler Fray Martín de Murúa reproduced the descriptions of the Amautas in regards to the succession of the good suns, or eras, preserved within the temple of Mama Oclio in Cuzco.

This associated to some outstanding accounts and notable fables, claiming that because the creation of the world till this time, 4 suns have handed, not together with this one which illuminates us these days.

The primary was misplaced by water.

The second falling from the sky to Earth and killing the giants that lived then – the bones that the Spaniards have discovered in other places belong to them.

The third solar disappeared by hearth. The fourth by air.

In regards to the fifth solar they’d an excellent account they usually painted it and marked within the temple of Curicancha and positioned of their quipus [the Andean mnemonic knots] till the 12 months of 1554.

Left: An 18th century engraving of a Patagonian large along with his household. Observe the similarity with the petroglyphic representations of the Viracochas or Chiles. Proper: A petroglyph group in Atacama, within the north of Chile, with the illustration of the Viracochas –the tallest anthropomorphic figures with a sort of halo round their heads– together with males and animals. (Writer Offered)

But, the custom of the “giants” is just not restricted to South America, nor to the data of Europeans, as in Mesoamerica there are additionally ample myths, legends and accounts about them. Some of the vital is discovered within the pre-Hispanic custom in regards to the first Solar in keeping with the Códice Vaticano Latino 3738:

First Solar, Matlactli Atl: It lasted 4008 years. Those that lived then ate water corn referred to as Atzizintli. On this age referred to as Tzontliiztac, “Head or White Hairs”, the Tzocuiliceque giants lived. The Solar was destroyed by water within the signal Matlactli Atl “10 Water”. It was referred to as Apachiohualiztli, “Flood, Deluge”, [this is] artwork or spell of everlasting rain. The lads have been reworked in fish. Some say {that a} couple was saved, Nene and Tata, who have been sheltered in an Ahuehuetl “an outdated tree that lives subsequent to the water”; whereas others remark that there have been seven {couples} who hid in a cave from which they left when the Flood was over and the waters descended. They repopulated Earth and have been worshiped as gods of their nations. The goddess who presided over this Period was Chalchiutlicue, “the one with the jade skirt”. ( Códice Vaticano Latino 3738)

Thus, whereas the giants have been recognized within the Andes as Viracochas they have been acknowledged as Tzocuiliceque in Mesoamerica!

One other chronicler of the historical past of the Americas, Fernando de Montesinos, in his fascinating e-book Memorias antiguas historiales y políticas del Perú (“Historical Recollections of Historical past and Politics of Peru”, 1570-1572), talks of the origin of the giants in Pirú within the chapter entitled ‘ What occurred within the time of this King in Cuzco’ . He talks of – nonetheless with the Christian filter – the stunning arrival of this group on the Peruvian Pacific coast, and in addition has partially glimpsed their future:

Whereas King Ayar Tacco Capac was very quiet in Cuzco, the ariolos and fortunetellers informed him how, desirous to appease the Illatici’s wrath, they discovered a really dangerous prognosis within the entrails of the sheep and rams that they’d sacrificed. The King took care of this, and some days later it got here to him how within the Llanos they’d disembarked, of rafts and canoes that made an excellent fleet, many unusual individuals, and that they have been populating, particularly on the shores of the rivers; and that they have been males of nice stature and had handed ahead…

…The spies additionally mentioned how the good and tall males had reached the purpose we now name Santa Elena, and controlling that land of Puerto Viejo, and that the natives have been fleeing them as a result of they used their our bodies badly. And it was not, for my part, to flee from sin, as a result of they too got to sodomy however due to the harm that their devices acquired of their religion that they use to remove their lives. Nevertheless it was a lot the surplus of those giants that the punishment of the divine justice occurred which punished them right away by sending hearth from heaven that all of a sudden consumed them. The Amautas fake right here, that their father the Solar, with highly regarded rays, burned them, as a result of in any other case they are going to end the world.

From this there are bones that God preserved for instance for these to return. A bone appears from the knee down, from the peak of a person. There are additionally some wells on the very tip of Santa Elena that have been made in a rock the place very recent and excellent water is taken; a piece of nice admiration.

King Ayar Tacco, suspicious of those individuals who have been populating in some locations within the mountains, as in Caxamarca and Huáitara and in all of the Llanos, left Cuzco with a big military with the intention of holding and imposing them. He got here to Andaguailas, and there he had information that the opposing individuals have been many and really misshapen. He modified his thoughts and contented himself with putting a garrison in Vilcas and in Lima Tambo, giving straight orders to the corporals to not let these unusual individuals go via Cuzco; however trusting little in others’ diligences and revealing the affect of the enemies he needed to be current in Lima Tambo, in entrance of them, as a result of he knew that they made gatherings and forts within the Llanos in opposition to him. He organized his individuals on this approach: By the hills he disposed many troopers who with gauges and massive stones hindered the enemy’s passage, forcing him to go by the street, that by Lima Tambo is slender, and in it he put the power of his individuals .

Memorias antiguas historiales y políticas del Perú, 1882

The place did the “giants” come from? What was their origin? Was it Patagonia as instructed by archaeologist Adolf Bandelier?

Regarding their future, and because it has been proven in a number of research, the hearth from heaven as referred by Fernando de Montesinos was actually the implications of the “Clovis Comet Impression”.

The final Nice Disaster !

Left: The destruction of the giants in keeping with historian Pedro Cieza de León within the Crónica del Perú. El Señorío de los Incas (“Chronicle of Peru. The Lordship of the Incas”. 1550). Simply as within the chronicle of Fernando de Montesinos, Cieza de León consigned the destruction of the giants by the hearth from heaven. Proper: A aid within the metropolis of Quito of the 12 months 1650 the place two bearded giants with golf equipment have been represented (Photograph by Rafael Videla Eissmann).

Fragmentary Proof

As defined within the previous paragraphs, the data of the “giants” within the pre-Hispanic custom of the Americas are a considerable truth. Much more, the “giants” –past the Christian prejudice of chroniclers and missionaries– have been actually the god-men of the pre-Diluvial age (see the First Solar, Matlactli Atl of the Mesoamerican Volkskunde: ‘They repopulated Earth and have been worshiped as gods of their nations .’) That is of the time that precedes the final world disaster or “Clovis Comet Impression” – 12,000 BP – a cosmic occasion that not solely smashed the megafauna within the continent but in addition generated a big lower of the unique inhabitants, the so referred to as Paleo-Individuals, the Dolichocephalic cranium group that preceded the Brachycephallic-Indigenous individuals.

Was the Dolichocephalic cranium substratum descendants of the “giants”? Had been they their offspring? It’s fairly attainable. All of the species that developed after the World Disaster grew to become smaller –whereas these earlier than 10,950 BC have been bigger and customarily extra strong than right now’s. To say some examples, simply within the continent of America: The American lions, horses and camels, mastodons-mammoths, short-faced bear, dire wolf, large beaver and large tortoises.

Is it only a coincidence?

What issue generated this organic modification? Was it the ‘new’ dynamic of Earth’s and Moon’s gravity, as promoted by the Glacial Cosmogony of Hans Hörbiger and Phillip Fauth?

Elementary data that will reinforce this concept was given by historian Pedro Cieza de León in his Crónica del Perú. El Señorío de los Incas (“Chronicle of Peru. The Lordship of the Incas”, 1550) which refers that after the world was in darkness (the disaster), the Solar arose in Titicaca Lake and that from the south got here Tici Viracocha, a white man of grown physique, who was of nice authority and veneration. This level is crucial, as a result of the data given by Cieza de León was based mostly on the traditions collected amongst Amautas and informants clearly states the migration from the south of the large Tici Viracocha, a “white man of grown physique”, who after finishing up his civilizing position went north to by no means be seen once more. In keeping with the file of Cieza de León, the indigenous normally named him for essentially the most half Tiseviracocha though within the Province of Collao they referred to as him Tuapaca and in different places Harnava.

Together with the data in chronicles there are fascinating engravings that describe the giants in addition to their tombs.

And So We Come to the Big’s Ring

Though laborious to show, the ring can be a peculiar artifact that echoes the existence of this group. Of a fairly rustic type, it presents the determine of a condor with a big three-feathered tail. Subsequent to it, the damaged remaining legs of what ought to be one other condor. The alloy – gold, silver and copper – is named Champi.

The interior diameter is 2.7 cm, or simply over an inch. The projection of the dimensions of this ring in a person can be of two.30-2.50 meters or 7 foot 7 inches to eight foot 2 inches.

The extraordinary ring of a ‘large’. The existence of this group, often known as Viracochas within the Andean world is distant. (Photographs courtesy of Celso García Vargas, 2019, Writer supplied).

(Photographs courtesy of Celso García Vargas, 2019, Writer supplied).

What was the which means of this uncommon piece of metallurgy? What significance did it have? What’s its antiquity? Are there different related items?

Cóndor is actually, the castellanization of Kuntur, being within the Andean custom initially Apu Kuntur –Sacred Condor . The Kuntur is the “Messenger of the Gods” and subsequently associated to Hannan Pacha or the “World of Above”, Kay Pacha the ‘floor’ of the World, and Uku Pacha the “World of Beneath”.

The symbolic significance of the condor within the pre-Hispanic world could be noticed within the presence of sixteen figures within the portentous Solar Gate of Tiahuanaco –the Metropolis of the Viracochas – as one of many divine beings that constitutes the calendar.

A element of the Solar Gate of Tiahuanaco. Within the second row there’s a sequence of men-condors carrying the Saturri or energy workers of the Andean custom. The central determine of the gate is Huirajocha Tauapácac and he carries in his left hand a workers with two condor heads. (Writer equipped)

Left: A Tiahuanaco censer. The same old white collar of feathers of the condor is right here represented by an eight pointed star, that is, an emblem of Venus â , and associated subsequently to Hannan Pacha or the “World of Above” (Photograph by Ernest Amoros / Nationwide Museum of the American Indian). Proper: A excessive aid with the determine of the Apu Kuntur of the Gran Pajaten Cultural Complicated in Peru. (Writer Offered)

Tiahuanaco was constructed by a race of ‘giants’. As historian Pedro Cieza de León wrote in his Crónica del Perú:

Earlier than they dominated [the Incas] the buildings have been made.

They might not say who made them, however they heard from their ancestors that in a single evening appeared all the things that may be seen there.

Due to this and since in addition they say bearded males have been seen in Titicaca who raised the buildings of Vinaque individuals, I say that it might be that earlier than the Incas dominated there was individuals of understanding in these kingdoms that got here by some half that isn’t recognized and who constructed these items.  Being few,  and the locals so many, they’d have been killed in wars.

In consequence, the existence of the “giants” is much from being a fable of the pre-Hispanic custom or an invention of the European chroniclers. They have been a preDiluvial group within the Americas that grew to become diminished by the final world disaster and whose descendants have been nonetheless alive throughout the reign of the Incas. The ring can be one putting archaeological proof of them.

Prime picture: The supposed giants ring, with condor ornament. Supply: Courtesy of Celso García Vargas / Writer equipped

By Rafael Videla Eissmann