The Inca did not build the original temples at Machu Picchu or Cusco.

Our story gets so much larger when we listen to the wisdom keepers of the ancient traditions. The histories known to the old cultures around the world tell of highly advanced ancient civilizations; and of the coming and going of ages punctuated by world cataclysms. Where ‘modern science’ has dismissed the histories as given by indigenous cultures as mere myth; there are now a few brave researchers, who are willing to face the rejection of the mainstream academics and are publishing the suppressed evidence supporting the knowledge of our ancient ancestors.

In the Americas during the European invasion, after the church sanctioned destruction of so much of the arts and records, a few of the Spanish got around to asking the native history keepers their stories. What was then told and chronicled is quite different than what is generally accepted today. During the 1600’s, in Peru, the Spanish chronicler Fernando Montesinos recorded the histories of the Quechua speaking peoples of Cusco, Peru, those now called Inca.*

The Quechua historians told Montesinos and other Spanish chroniclers, that before the last empire there had been much older lineages. The prior peoples and lineages existed through epochs of thousands of years called ‘Suns’. These time periods, often ended by cataclysms, were also reported by the indigenous of both North and Mesoamerica; in fact humanity’s history, told as such, is a worldwide tradition. Both the South and the Mesoamerican historians count five of these Suns. The Andeans began their count of the ages with the time of the "gods", called the Wiracochas. The second age was of the giants. Third was a time of primitive uncivilized man; perhaps they were people struggling to reemerge from one of the times of world cataclysms. Fourth was the age of the semi-divine hero kings. In the fifth age were the human kings, of whom the Inca of Cusco were the last of the line. This is all so wonderfully parallel to the histories given by the Sumerian, Egyptian, Judaic, Greek and other old cultures.

Montesinos, basing much of his work on the reports of other Spanish writers who were reporting just after the conquest, found that the Quechua of Cusco had a list of kings that would span 3,000 years up the last dynasty; monarchies that began 4,400 years BP (before present). Add to that the ages the Andeans claim came before and we are considering more than ten thousand years, perhaps much more.

The history traditions of various cultures in South America claim that in ages past a highly advanced people landed on the shores of the Pacific Ocean to mingle with the indigenous; but from where did they come? Could we consider here the legends of an ancient motherland in the Pacific called Mu**? Here also I will carefully offer the extremely mistreated name of Atlantis. The credibility of both these concepts has suffered much in the hands of scientifically and spiritually ungrounded people printing their make-believe and fantasies. But now much good and solid evidence is being amounted supporting the historical knowing of our world’s old root cultures.

In the 1600’s Blas Valera, a Spanish/Quechua mix, was one of the first to record Andean history that claimed that the highly advanced ancestors, the Wiracochas, came from the sea, then on to settle at Lake Titicaca. They were tall, of a light colored skin and bearded, unlike the smaller and beardless red skinned indigenous. Their center was the city Tiwanacu***, near Lake Titicaca where still today there are found statues of bearded men. There had been a statue of a bearded Wiracocha in a Cusco temple reported early during the Spanish occupation. Also on a cliff across from the ruins of Ollantaytambo there is what looks like a large carving of the bearded face of a Wiracocha.

The language of the Wiracochas, Aymara, is still spoken today by their descendents living around Lake Titicaca. Some linguists feel that it is one of the oldest of languages. Oddly it has no irregularities, a perfect syntax, suggesting that rather than evolving haphazardly it was created. Also suggesting a high level of sophistication attained even before the appearance of the ancient culture at Tiwanacu. This is similar to the sudden appearance of the advanced cultures in Summeria, Egypt and Mesoamerica.

The history/legends say that the culture at Tiwanacu was peaceful and won the goodwill of the natives in extended lands through trade and sharing of their advanced scientific skills in medicine, metallurgy, agriculture, animal husbandry and even writing. The writing was later outlawed and destroyed by Andean ruler priests (once again a fanatic priesthood showing themselves to be to the detriment of humanities’ advancement). Scraps of the writing that survived appear similar to the writing forms used on Easter Island, the Indo-European Indus Valley and of the Hittites (now there’s a strange trail to follow).

The indigenous history also tells that Wiracochas had flying machines and they were known to travel along a line called the Route of Wiracocha. Maria Schulten de D’Ebneth in her book "La Ruta de Wiracocha" reported on their flight plan and landing points. The line originated at Tiwanacu and passed ruler straight, at a 45-degree angle to the equator, through to Quito, today’s capital of Ecuador and an ancient sacred site, then on to the coast. The maverick historian and author, Zecharia Sitchin, reports a history of the same type of line and use, running at a 45-degree angle to the equator, in the Middle East of long ago Summeria. It appears that there has been both a world culture and a science, now lost, which knew to use these lines and angles to facilitate fight.

On the desert floor of Nasca, in southern coastal Peru, highly artistic figures were drawn using one continuous line. Some the figures are hundreds of meters across and are not fully discernable from close to the ground. In the late 1500’s Luis de Monzon, a Spanish magistrate, reported native Nasca legends of the Wiracochas relating to the origins of the drawings. This makes sense if the Wiracochas had flying machines. One of the Nasca drawings looks much like an airplane. The written history of India also tells of flying machines many thousands of years ago; and on an Egyptian temple wall there are pictures that look like flying machines.

The route of the Wiracochas passes through the ruins of Machu Picchu, Ollantaytambo, Cusco and Tiwanacu, places where today there are found classic megalithic or gigantic stone structures. The massive stones are today's most dramatic evidence of the highly advanced ancient civilizations. At Machu Picchu, high up on a sharp mountain ridge, stones weighing more than 200 tons were placed in the temple walls. At Ollantaytambo are building stones of 250 tons that were brought from behind a peak on the opposite side of the valley. At Sacsaywaman near Cusco, in the extensive walls of gigantic stones, there is one that weighs 360-tons.

At Tiwanacu the most massive stones include one weighing 470 tons, brought from perhaps more than 30 kilometers away. Some of the stone now found at the site was brought from 322 km/200 miles away regardless of the fact that there is plenty of nearby stone. Think about dragging through the mountains the weight of some 500 cars. Could the old log roller and a lot of rope theory hold up under that one? How few decades has our present level of technology been able to move that kind weight that far? Without a large hard surfaced road how would our cranes fare in those steep mountains? Today's highways have a 40-ton limit and our largest earthmoving trucks working in open pit mines hold about 350-tons.

Some researchers claim that the stupendous weights of Giza's pyramids in Egypt were brought from more than 1,000 km/600miles away. The greatest known megalithic example is in Baalbek, Lebanon where one block weighs 1,200 tons. How much of today's technology would be needed to accomplish the task of moving and placing this kind of extreme weight? Our old steam and diesel locomotives weighed 200-tons, so to move Baalbek's stone you would stack the weight equivalent to six locomotives and drag it through he hills; log rollers, grass ropes and a lot of slaves? Give me a break!

Garcilaso de la Vega, born of a Spanish father and a royal Inca mother grew up in the Inca court soon after the conquest. Vega reported that the stones of Cusco’s Sacsaywaman Temple were brought from perhaps 70 kilometers away through hard mountainous terrain. He also wrote about the stone the Inca failed to move. A one point they had decided that they needed to copy the glory of the ancient ones. So they got together a lot of men and rope to move one of the massive blocks that was found laying by itself; but the stone got away from them on a hill, killing many of the slave workers. The Inca at the time of their later empire were unable to move even just one of the megalithic building stones! Thus the Inca could not have built the original temples at Machu Picchu or Cusco. They, like various other cultures that had lived there before, only built on or around the colossal stones they came to find were already there. The Quechua historians themselves claimed the mighty works were the result of the ‘gods’ and giants in ages past (bones of people 3.5mts/12ft have been found in the area of Machu Picchu; world wide evidence of extra large humanoids has been systematically unpublished and suppressed despite having been mentioned in the Christian bible).

Along with the techno-magic of moving of these massive stones their amazing joints were cut multi-angled. Instead of, say the four joining sides of a squared block, the megalithic works of art at times have at times ten or more curving faces connecting with the stones around them. These many joining faces fit perfectly smooth all the way through the thickness of the large stones. So perfect are these joints that still today, after many major recorded earthquakes, a blade cannot be inserted between most of them. It would be hard enough to lift these immense weights into place, add to that the science of cutting multiple angles to fit so perfectly.

Further evidence of the ancient culture’s high level of technology is found at Ollantaytambo and Tiwanacu. There some of the megalithic building stones were joined together using stabilizing metal pins. The pins were of metal alloy that contained nickel not found in South America! The complicated alloys used can only be mixed at very high temperatures. Some researchers feel that the pins were poured molten into place on site. This would necessitate the use of forges that were both high powered and mobile. This kind of ancient construction technology has also been found in Egypt. Later, the Incas, having only the use of only an inferior bronze, were a culture vastly techno-inferior.

Also attributed to the Inca Empire are the more than 23,000km/13,800 miles of surfaced roads that ran mostly in two arteries, through the central and costal Andes, with many connecting branches. While the Incan armies used these roadways to their military advantage, the duration of their Empire was less than 100 years; indeed the time of their military hyper-expansion was much less than that. From a people not knowing the use of the wheel or hard metals, it is too much to believe that they could accomplish such a massive project in so few decades. Rather, they only built on what was already there.

Standard history claims that the culture of Tiwanacu was at its height about 1,500 yrs. BP. Archeologists find much evidence of a culture there at that time period as befits the accepted theories but the engineers of the megalithic (gigantic stone) constructions are of another much more ancient time. In "Fingerprints of the Gods" Graham Hancock points out Tiwanacu carvings in stone and metal figures of what appear to be animals that went extinct 13,000 yrs ago! These were temperate mammals, suited to lowland warm weather not like the high and cold Titicaca region of today. This is the same story as the temperate or warm climate tigers, fruit trees and mastodons that are found flash frozen in the arctic. A report in the American Scientific Magazine tells of fossil bones of a temperate animal from the same time period have been found and, at 2,500mt/9,000ft above sea level in the high and cold Andes. Could the land have changed so dramatically, and risen so recently? While the native histories say so, such ideas are absolute heresy to today’s accepted geologic schools. Perhaps someday evidences yet to be accepted will be able to radically change current theories (like what it took the European schools to accept that the world isn’t flat).

The bones of the people of the old Tiwanacu culture are found all jumbled together with shells by a gigantic wave and covered by volcanic ash in extreme cataclysmic demise. How long ago were there shellfish in Titicaca? Some forms of marine life are still occasionally found in the, now, fresh water lake. Moreover, where in time do we fit in the ruins that have been found under the water of Lake Titicaca? The Tiwanacu ruins are at present more than 20km away from and 30 meters higher than the lake. Geologists report that 12,000 years ago and then again 10,000 years ago earth movement dramatically lowered the lake levels by about 30m. These movements appear to be tied in with the demise of the early culture.

Usually using the method of carbon dating archeologists are able to date a variety of artifacts and rubbish found at the ancient sites; thus giving educated guesses as to when the rubbish was left there. This may not reflect when the original megalithic construction was performed. Today even the method of carbon dating is under serious questioning and has been shown to be at times wildly erratic. Conflicting evidence is discarded to use only what fits with the accepted theories.

The dating method of archaeoastronomy uses the astrophysical position of our planet to work out the dates of megalithic buildings. The Earth has a wobble as it spins on its axis, this wobble moves in a nearly 26,000-year cycle of clock like precision. This movement changes our view of the stars so that about every 2,000 years there will be another of the zodiacal constellations above the eastern horizon the hour before the spring equinox sunrise. We have been moving into the Age of Aquarius due to this movement. In his book "Cusco, the Celestial City" Stansbury Hagar reported that Cusco was divided into 12 wards relating to the zodiacal houses, the first was in Aries, 4,000 years ago. The megalithic construction could have been in place long before the laying out of that part of the city plan. The Andean zodiac mirrors the zodiacal Euro-Asiatic pictures in use today, try to fit that into the theories claiming there was no early movement across the oceans.

Another planetary movement is the obliquity or the tilt of our axis in relation to our plane of orbit around the sun. Currently we are tilting 23.5 degrees, at times this will move 21 to24 degrees, also moving in regular patterns of more than 40,000 years.

The advanced ancient civilizations often built their important stone works in relation to the planetary cardinal points and created windows that were aligned to the solstice sunrise of their times. It is possible to measure how many degrees off from true these solstice or equinox markers are today to conjecture how many thousands of years ago the buildings were put in place. In the 1920’s and 30’s Professor Muller, University of Potsdam, and a team of international scientists studied for some years in the Andes. Using the mathematics of archaeoastronomy they found the ‘sun’ temples of Cusco/Machu Picchu to be between 4,000 and 6,000 years old; the time reported by the Quechua historians to be of the semi-divine heroes and the beginnings of the human kings. These buildings, though finely constructed, are not near the skillful works of the larger stone works of the megalithic structures and again the megalithic works may be many thousands of years older.

In the early 1900’s Arthur Posnansky conducted decades of scientific study at Tiwanacu. Through archaeoastronomy mathematics he came to date the structures there at 15,000 to 17,000 yrs. BP, numbers that were unacceptable to the scientific community. The German Astronomical Commission sent a team led by Dr. Hans Ludendorff, including Professor Muller, to study and measure in Tiwanacu from 1926 to 1928. They came to agree that Posnansky’s date could be correct but depending on where the astronomical readings of the temple called Kalasasaya are done, it could be dated at 12,000 yrs. BP or 6,000 yrs. BP. Posnansky agreed that these dates might be easier to accept. Today Posnansky is reviled by mainstream archeology, despite his decades of ground breaking scientific data, Muller was nearly banned from anymore astrophysical work and the academic world decided to simply ignore the evidence not fitting their theories of "primitive" man in the Americas. More recently, in the 1990’s, Oswaldo Rivera, the Director of Bolivian National Institute of Archaeology along with the archaeoastronomer Professor Neil Steede came to agree that Tiwanacu is at least 12,000 years old.

The temple of Kalasasaya, where the archaeoastronomy study of Tiwanacu was centered, is impressive but still the stones used in its construction are nowhere near the craftsmanship of the classic megalithic stones at nearby Puma Punku. There the massive blocks, including the one reported to weigh 470 tons, lie jumbled by what had to be a horrendous cataclysm. Obviously the upheavals that destroyed Puma Punku stuck before the times of the Kalasasaya temple. Here we may need to end the worthiness of using the earth tilt as a measure if the pole positions changed radically 13,000 yrs ago. Again the question, how long ago were the ‘gods’ moving their megalithic building stones?

All this is only reporting on the Tiwanacu structures found above ground while it is known that buried below there are even more layers of the ancient city. This is similar to the buried city north of Mexico City. Not only were multiple layers of cities built upon cities found there, but also the whole thing has been tilted up on its side proving massive geologic upheaval since the time of several ages of inhabitation.

There is so much more to our past than we have been led to believe. The theories of entrenched academia have yet to crawl out from under our current Dark Age that in part had been imposed upon the western world by the Church of Rome. Just 200 years ago, Archbishop Ussher declared that, according to the Christian Bible, that the planet had been created only 6,000 years ago. To openly disagree Rome’s mandates had long proved deadly so the academia of the western world had to base their history theories upon this supposition; in the same way Egyptologists have suffered under the edicts of fundamentalist Moslems who are also stuck on the 6,000 year idea. Today’s academics has done little better in deciding that humanity has been civilized just 6,000 yrs, before that all human type creatures had always been primitive. Anyone within the system that dares offer evidence to the contrary faces occupational death.

The standard accepted theory is that humans migrated to the Americas just 30,000 yrs. BP where they remained primitive and uncivilized until 3,000 yrs. BP. However, recently even mainstream archeologists were able to date sophisticated pyramids near Lima, Peru as having been built at least 4,600 yrs. BP. Now they even claim evidence of 6,000 years in the temple complex of Cahuachi in the midst of the Nasca lines.

In his book "Our Cosmic Ancestors" Maurice Chatelain reports that the Mayan astronomer’s chronology goes back more than 51,000 years. They also recorded points 93 and 403 million years ago that correspond to cosmic cycles, especially sun activity cycles, which have only recently been (re)-discovered. The Egyptian calendar also had been established more than 51,000 years ago. The Hindu calendar goes back 9,000 years, though they also speak of vast cyclic ages.

In "Hamlet’s Mill" Santillana and Von Dechend present a study of worldwide myths which share a symbolic and mathematical language relating to the precession of the equinoxes. This requires the knowledge of time spans in excess of 4,000 years. Santillana and Von Dechend figured that the high-tech coded language was worked out at least 8,000 yrs. BP. The "myths" give eyewitness accounts of the world cataclysms. Were some of these witnessed during the end of the ice age or crustal shift circa 13,000 BP?

Immanuel Velokovsky, an early researcher who dared step out of the mainstream, was occupationally crucified by the status stuck academics. He was among the first to present the evidence of cataclysmic events in his books "Earth in Upheaval" and "Worlds in Collision". Along with geologic evidence he cites the written records of China, Egypt, Greece and the Jewish exodus which give eye witness accounts of catastrophic floods, fires, earthquakes and even the shifting of the earth’s cardinal points so that their scientists had to realign themselves to a new north, south, east and west. At this time was reported the world wide experience of the sun not rising one day over the Americas and the sun staying in the sky an extra day in the Middle East. This is major earth-shift and these are events recorded only around 3,500 years ago! Accepting this could really mess up even the use of archaeoastronomy. It will sure be great when we find a reliable way of dating these stone structures. We do know that around 13,000 BP the earth went through major cataclysmic upheavals and that the old cultures remember them.

Graham Hancock in "Fingerprints of the Gods" points out an interesting thread of similarities in the Christ like figures that show up to help struggling humanity after the cataclysms. The stories report how the few people that survive the earth upheavals are knocked back to savagery by horrible events, unable to remember how to start a fire, clothe themselves or cultivate food. The wise ones show up then and reinstate sciences of agriculture, medicine, metallurgy and architecture. They are recorded as sharing the idea of advancement through peace rather than violence and while talking of one God they didn’t establish formalized religions. When their missions were completed they all left the areas of their work, usually by sea, promising to return again. That kind of stuff thrills me; it gives hope that somewhere there are those who actually know what is going on here.

The work Charles Hapgood brought to light the ancient maps with evidence of a mathematically sophisticated globe spanning seafaring culture. These maps, showing the Antarctic ice free, would have to be made at least 9,000 years ago. The maps showing no gap between Asia and Alaska would have been made more than 14,000 yrs BP. Hapgood’s research has supported the theory of the earth’s crust catastrophically sliding, rapidly moving the position of the north and south poles by thousands of kilometers, that could be a source of the demise of the ancient advanced world cultures.

Some of today’s best research throwing light on the extreme antiquity of human development is found in the writings of Michael Cremo. He presents exhaustive evidence to the vast amount of skeletons stuffed into archeologist’s closets. If the facts didn’t fit the time frames accept by the holy school of Darwin and the ascent of man from ape like brutes, just 35,000 yrs. BP, then the facts would be hidden. Along with examining the skeletons, Cremo gives the gory accounts of the occupational demise of various individuals who tried to bring to light our greater history. While it is true that there were ‘brutish’ humanoids in the tens of thousands of years ago, there have also been found many remains of fully formed, what would be called ‘modern humanity’ dating back to 300 million years ago! Sophisticated metal alloys and highly technical hard tile ceramics have been found in geologic strata of this time period. These guys weren’t just using primitive stone tools. Some of the wildest finds are the finely inscribed metal alloy spheres found in an African mine. They were brought out of rock strata believed to be more than a billion years old!

Then there are all those ancient culture histories of migrations from off world, but that’s a whole other story and can-of-worms I don’t care to open just now. Also, many are the wise cultures that have remained in respectful contact, in continued two-way communicated guidance with their ancestors; but that too, in itself, is another awesome story, moving in dimensional directions not necessarily so linear-time dependent.

Anyway…
Our ancestral heritage is much richer than commonly known,
our story is so much larger than we have been told.
Hey cousin, we are ancient family.