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So let’s talk a bit about the geoglyphs of the Tiwanaku culture:
I’ve taken a look via google on the entire area: modern day landfarms are covering the whole area. It’s a bit tricky to see the geoglyphs. And it’s even trickier with the obvious erosion that took place; some lines are not well defined.
Also, this is the first time that we have a combination of landfarms from ancient times combined with the geoglyphs; we didn’t see this with the Paracas and the Nazca cultures, nor the Wari by the way – anons shouldn’t forget that the Tiwanaku culture is connected to the Wari and experts are sometimes unable to make certain attribution of the artifacts since both cultures have terribly similar pottery. Here, it seems the ancient landfarms were submerged in water, like little irrigation tunnels. So imagine these geoglyphs inondated with water. How would they look from above? The water would shine and be mirror like with the sun up, right? This is interesting. And is the use of water for irrigation, the reason behind erosion of the geoglyphs? Or is that due the area being totally submerged by Sea water?
Also, according to this article, wells were used as “Eyes” of the bird designs. This is totally new = we haven’t seen this with the other cultures. We don’t have the agriculture-geoglyph connection with the Nazca and the Paracas cultures. This is the first time we see such connection and I have no idea how it all fits together, nor how it’s all connected to astronomy and constellations. But it is notable that these were found around the lake where there is a very old sunken temple at the bottom. So are the geoglyphs connected to agriculture, religion and astronomy in the same time? When there is a connection to religion, there is also connection to astronomy because of divination and reading of the stars. So anons, as you can see this needs further digging and more researching.
I’m very interested, very, in the second geoglyph design picture I’ve attached with this page = the geoglyph is spread on a small hill. What got my attention, despite the obvious erosion, are the lines on the flanks of this hill = it’s like they are rays from a disk. Sure it’s not perfect because the damage to the geoglyph is obvious but if you look at it from above, it looks like a disk or a sun with rays emenating from it. On this specific geoglyph, it seems we have only HALF a rayed disk, not a full one. It’s as if they adapted the design to the terrain and used the sun rays to fill the hill slopes, while they used geometric or zoomorphic designs to fill flat terrain.
It’s obvious these geoglyphs are much older from the ones we have with the Paracas and the Nazca cultures. So this makes me wonder if those 2 younger cultures didn’t come across the geoglyphs of Titicaca lake area and then decided to imitate them ? Or was the site of the Tiwanaku culture abandoned by its citizens for some specific reason and a migration occurred; and the migrants took that knowledge with them and re-used it, re-applied elsewhere?
If we follow the scattered petroglyphs in the area, will we also find the routes taken by these migrants = drawing them on rocks near their new settlements as they moved on? Or since they lacked the materials (in some cases) to draw the geoglyphs, did they go for a smaller scale with the petroglyphs? Or are the petroglyphs simply drafts for the geoglyphs? It’s important to note that we don’t have any geoglyphs near the petroglyphs in Ancient Egypt nor in Mesoamerica, not to my knowledge anyway. It seems like the petroglyphs are more likely to be some type of “records” = the survivors of the Flood need to record some important information on matrials that doesn’t disintegrate easily = durable, so they carved on the sturdiest thing they could easily get access to = rocks.
This is bringing me to the idea that Tiwanaku and the Lake Titicaca are the STARTING POINT for most cultures in the area. What do I mean there? I say Tiwanaku is EXACTLY like Teotihuacan = both were the starting point = the point of origin to the many cultures in the area = the Flood survivors build those 2 cities at first, but something happened and forced them to migrate and even separate, forming many cultures and civilizations.
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