[Renfield]

Twin Dragons / Serpents Balusters Running Down Temple Sides

Sacred Corbel Arch Architecture

Third Eye Dot Between Eyes On Forehead

[Renfield]

GGG Ping...

[svcw]

Interesting

[Mamzelle]

If this is based on sculpture and architecture, it is very thin evidence. All of these designs are natural things that a culture would design. If you want to make a really sturdy tower from which to dominate a landscape, the most stable and easy design is a pyramid. I built stacked-stone retaining walls for an earthen bank, and this is the only way for an amateur to do it. The other evidence are doorways and the sculptures are profoundly different, one blocky and squared and the other lavishly curved.

What you need are stories, language and music to make the case.

[DesertRhino]

Don’t understand it well enough to truly know if the cultures are related or not. But i do know one thing,, a culture that understood astronomy and could build such buildings, and do such amazing stone masonry,,could have certainly have built boats and ships.

Remember, it wasnt so long ago that America was populated onlt by landbridge over Bering straits, and a southward spread 12,000 years ago. Now it’s all but a certainty that clovis culture came from europe much earlier following the last ice sheet. Also,,,sites in South America predate the old 12,000 year rule.
This is a tough field in which to truly establish hard facts. And it’s changing rapidly.

[Joe 6-pack]

IBTIGTG

(In before the inevitable Giorgio Tsoukalos graphic)

[HangnJudge]

PAGING Thor Heyerdahl...

[vladimir998]

In real terms there is clearly no relationship or even a strong similarity between the two cultures.

Ethnic relationship between the two = ZERO
Religious relationship between the two = ZERO
Known contacts between the two = ZERO
Similarities in architecture, art, etc. = minimal at most, and all accidental when you consider what is involved.

[Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)]

And from whom did the American Indians (north America) get the bows and arrows?

This is all omitted from all these scholarly blah blahs.

[x]

Gee, that Malcolm X really got around, didn't he?

For some reason, pyramids are found in a lot of different cultures. It's the "stairway to heaven" idea, I guess.

Motifs like dragons are also found in very different parts of the world.

[lefty-lie-spy]

This is very interesting, but us skeptics know that correlation is not causation. I love this kind of stuff, but written as it is here its just too Erik Von Danniken. But fun to consider nonetheless

[wolfcreek]

Don’t know about the Balinese but, the Mayans Or ancesters of) are considered a lower class of people in their own land.

Politics and hate cloud history once again?

[cerberus]

The Cosmic Serpent by Jeremy Narby presents an intriguing hypothesis about this type of thing.

http://deoxy.org/narbystew.htm