sexta-feira, 20 de julho de 2012

Ancient Places - Sacsayhuaman

Sacsayhuaman:


  The ancient fortress of Sacsayhuaman resides on the top of a mountain above the city of Cuzco, Peru.

  Some specialists even say that this fortress pre-dates the Inca civilization, that these huge stone walls were already placed when the Inca moved in, and made this region their empires capital.




   We can see that these stones are huge, they, individually, weight dozens of tones, maybe even thousands of tones. To pull a 1 tone stone are needed 10 to 20 men, but in this case we would have needed thousands and thousands of men, to pull only one stone at a time.




  By these images we see that these stones were moved to the site from the quarry, they were cut cirurgicaly to fit one and another, and articulate to form there gigantic walls, that, in some cases they form indestructible structures.   

  The problem is that the Incas didn´t have this kind of technology, because the stone mainly used in Sacsayhuaman fortress is granite, and the only mineral that could be used to cut this stone perfectly is diamond. And archaeologists didn’t find any evidences of the use of Diamond in any of their constructs. And even so, the cuts in the stone are so perfect, that only a laser cutting type of machine could do. 
 


      Inca tales tell us that the original builders were an unnamed race of people, lead by a powerful God, who descended from the skies, called Viracocha, that visited the South American people, and gave them all kind of technology. But his physical characteristics were a little different from the native population; he was a tall, pale skin, and white haired being, making himself stand out. Thus considering him a God.

 

How and what, was he? And why did he come here?

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