Statue found by archaeologists while digging in Olmec ruins at La Venta, Mexico
Posted on 07/14/2002 2:08:47 PM PDT by blam
"THE LEGEND OF THE CLOUD PEOPLE"
Gran Villaya, the city of "Cloud People", the largest pre-Columbian city of the Americas, was once inhabited by the Chachapoyas, legend says, a group of tall, blue-eyed blondes. Today the ancient city is shrouded by overgrowth in the high tropical rain forest of northern Peru, but just a millennium ago, it was still a grand metropolis of fortresses and farms that covered 100 square miles.
The Chachapoyas were conquered by the Incas in 1480. Spaniards reported it, the Incas reported it, and as you go deeper into the dense jungle, tall, blonde, blue-eyed people are still found. Up until very recently, some of these people still used mummy caves (like their Aryan-Egyptian relatives).
There are 10,000 stone structures, complex units of circular buildings. Stairways run up terraces for several hundred yards, and there are underground caverns and about 24,000 circular structures of cut limestone. Kirelap, a great elliptical fortress whose walls soar to 60 feet, and which is thought to have once reached 150 feet, defends Gran Villaya from the east.
From the west, the city and its agricultural terraces are guarded by a chain of fortifications. Local myths trace the Chachapoya culture to the 10th century BC.
The people there were architects, farmers, and engineers who built aqueducts, canals, bridges, and once were in contact with the seas. The archaeological discoveries of Gran Villaya have already located 43 lost cities high in the Andes.
Researchers have found roads built from huge stones leading down to the Amazon. There are few stones in the jungle, so they were likely transported there. Pizzaro, the Spanish conqueror of Peru, recording the persistence of white blood at that time, wrote that "The ruling class in the kingdom of Peru was fair-skinned with fair hair about the color of ripe wheat."
Anthropologists in 1971 discovered a tribe of white-skinned Indians in the depths of these jungles. English explorer Colonel P.H. Fawcett, wrote in 1924 of also finding remote South American tribes with blue eyes and auburn hair.
For additional reading:
"THE POLAR MYTH IN SCIENCE, SYMBOLISM, AND NAZI SURVIVAL" - J. Godwin (Serpents' Occult Books- PO Box 290644 Pt, Orange, FL 32129)
"IN SEARCH OF THE WHITE GOD"- Hutchinson "CONQUEST BY MAN" -Paul Hermann (Harper)
I wouldn't get to up tight about any of this information, some people believe all of it, some, parts of it and some, none at all. It's just FYI.
You would do well to read Minotaur: Sir Arthur Evans and the Archaeology of Minoan Myth, by Arthur MacGillivray. He does a pretty good job of pointing out the historic and ongoing role (and peril) of subjectivity in developing archaeological theories. Significant evidence is often discovered by creative imagination extrapolating upon fragmentry information, yet often such information can lead us wildly astray.
Some of us realize that these bits and pieces are necessarily gathered in strange places because the "academic community" is a tyranny of opinion in search of grant money, and thus destructively limits the breadth, depth, and objectivity of current research. Thus, your comments will have ZERO credibility with me unless you address the specifics. I never said I agreed or accepted all of what is here. I didn't ask for a blanket refutation, but a critique of individual data. So far, all I hear is blather. I do think the ancients had a more extensive global commerce than we realize and there is plenty of physical evidence to support that contention, not the least of which is predominant weather and current patterns.
Statue found by archaeologists while digging in Olmec ruins at La Venta, Mexico
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