An Extraordinary Discovery: A Giant’s Ring of the Inca Era?

A very long time earlier than the Inka reigned, there have been in these elements males in the method of giants, as grown as they confirmed the figures that had been sculpted in the stones. Pedro de Cieza de León Crónica de Perú (1553)

A Surprising Account

On a current journey to Bolivia and Peru, looking out the traces of the primeval civilization of Tiahuanaco and of the Inca, engineer Celso García Vargas heard maybe one of the most superb accounts that resounds with a distant pre-Hispanic custom.

In truth, this account is a up to date echo of the authentic substrate of the gods of the Americas.

A few years in the past, Celso García Vargas travelled to the Andean highlands. Near the sacred website of Ollantaytambo (about 90 km northwest of Cuzco, the capital metropolis of the Tahuantinsuyo or Inca Empire ) he met a descendant of an indigenous Peruvian, who after a collection of conversations, spoke of a unprecedented expedition.

The indigenous informant spoke a couple of pilgrimage {that a} group of locals undertook to a sacred mountain related to a lake the place “the lights fall from the sky” and “before dawn they leave the lake and return to the stars” (donde “las luces caen del cielo” y “antes del amanecer salen del lago y regresan a las estrellas”). At this mountain website, they held sure rituals. While growing this exercise the pilgrims discovered a “large tomb” wherein they had been in a position to see the “body of a giant”.

Astonished, I requested Celso García Vargas what phrase his informant particularly used. “Giant” he replied undisturbed.

The informant additionally defined that they noticed the cranium of the “giant” having “two protuberances”.

If synthetic, technically this cranium could be an excessive tabular erect modification in its bilobal modality .

And, amazingly, in addition they discovered the ring, supposed of this large.

An instance of an Andean pre-Hispanic “lateral distortion” cranium. What was the authentic mannequin? (Author Provided)

The Tradition of the Giants in the Americas

To most, simply the point out of “giant” would invalidate and even ridicule this report. Strikingly, from the starting of the so-called Discovery of America in 1492, Europeans of totally different nationalities elaborated information of the presence of “giants” virtually all through the geography of the continent. Thus, the “giants” are half of the writings of Américo Vespucio, Bernal Díaz del Castillo, Pedro Cieza de León, Fernando de Montesinos, Fray Diego Durán, Joseph de Acosta, Francisco López de Gómara, Mariano Fernández de Echeverría y Veytia, Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Fernando de Alba Ixtlilxochitl, Fray José Mariano Rothea and Fray Andrés de Olmos amongst different chroniclers and explorers.

But had been the “ giants” the product of the European mentality of the time? Were these reviews a easy invention of the historians then? If so, what may have been the purpose or goal? Would the most prestigious students of the time, in lots of instances affiliated with the Catholic Church, dare to ‘invent’ one thing of this nature? Or, extra disturbingly, had been these information the consequence of genuine observations?

Against all trendy ideas and prejudices, pre-Hispanic traditions from Tierra del Fuego to Alaska report the existence of the “giants”. The custom of the Selk’nam of Tierra del Fuego spoke of the giants Cásquels, Kawtcho and the ‘giant of the Hoste Island’.

In Patagonia, the locals and guests have recorded “giants” and their settlements, resembling the Reino de los Gigantes –the “Kingdom of the Giants”– and the Volcán de los Gigantes –the “Volcano of the Giants” (Melimoyu).

The epithet of these giants had been “Viracochas”. This is, the Castellanized model of “Huarijochas” –previously Huari-Huarijochas. The etymological which means of this idea is related to the huaras or smelter, being Viracocha thus “metallurgist”.

Fretum Magellanicum. A map of Patagonia by Petrus Bertius of 1606 the place it was consignated the Patagonum Regio (“Kingdom of the Patagones”) and the Montañas de Gigantes (“Mountains of Giants”) in addition to the illustration two bearded giants with bows and arrows. (Author Provided)

Details from the above map, exhibits the title ‘Montanas de Gigantes’ and supposed representations of giants. (Author Provided)

In the sacred pre-Hispanic custom, the Viracochas had been the White Gods that unfold the civilization in the Americas from South to North. Over time, the Andean myths that had been recorded by the conquistadores and the chroniclers, and even by the explorers throughout the twentieth century seek advice from the existence of these inhabitants.

In relation to those “giants”, explorer and colonel, Percy Henry Fawcett , decided that the metropolis of Tiahuanacu was constructed, like Sacsayhuamán and far of Cuzco, by a race that manipulated cyclopean rocks, and that sculpted them to suit so completely, that it’s not possible to introduce even the leaf of a knife between the joints, with out the use of any mortar. Contemplating these ruins, it’s not troublesome to consider in the custom which relates that they had been constructed by giants; certainly, it’s mentioned that skeletons of giants have been found in the stone tombs in the neighborhood of Cuzco.

What’s extra, the portentous city-port of Tiahuanaco and Puma Punku in the highlands of Bolivia was constructed based on the custom by “giants”, that’s, the Viracochas. This is one of the the explanation why Jesuit historian Bernabé Cobo expressed in relation to Tiahuanaco that its buildings are from earlier than the Flood, because it will need to have been a metropolis constructed by giants.

In his well-founded examine Das Sonnentor von Tihuanaku und Hörbigers Welteislehre (“The Gate of the Sun of Tiahuanaco and the Doctrine of Universal Ice of Hörbiger”, 1937) archaeologist Edmund Kiss wrote that Tiahuanaco was constructed by a race of giants or Viracochas.

Left: A element of the map of the New World of Diego Gutiérrez (1562) the place the Gigantvm Regio or “Kingdom of the Giants” seems in Patagonia. ( Public Domain /Author Provided) Right: Detail of the map of Juan de la Cruz Cano and Olmedilla of 1775 the place the Volcán de los Gigantes [V. de los Gigantes] (“Volcano of the Giants”) is acknowledged in continental Chiloé, in the south of Chile. (Author Provided/ Public Domain )

The discovery of a tomb of giants in Puerto Deseado in Tierra del Fuego, Chile, based on the info of the map America of 1615 by Theodor de Bry. The textual content of this map consigned with the letter H, signifies: Tombs of skeletons of very tall human beings, with bones of 10 to 11 toes [3.48 to 3.63 m], their skulls, as soon as opened, could possibly be positioned on our heads as in the event that they had been helmets. (Author Provided)

As identified, the presence of the “giants” for Europeans has been recorded since the fifteenth century. In this regard, Mercedarian chronicler Fray Martín de Murúa reproduced the descriptions of the Amautas about the succession of the nice suns, or eras, preserved in the temple of Mama Oclio in Cuzco.

This associated to some outstanding accounts and notable fables, claiming that since the creation of the world till this time, 4 suns have handed, not together with this one which illuminates us at the current time.

The first was misplaced by water.

The second falling from the sky to Earth and killing the giants that lived then – the bones that the Spaniards have discovered elsewhere belong to them.

The third solar disappeared by hearth. The fourth by air.

About the fifth solar they’d an important account they usually painted it and marked in the temple of Curicancha and positioned of their quipus [the Andean mnemonic knots] till the 12 months of 1554.

Left: An 18th century engraving of a Patagonian large together with his household. Note the similarity with the petroglyphic representations of the Viracochas or Chiles. Right: A petroglyph group in Atacama, in the north of Chile, with the illustration of the Viracochas –the tallest anthropomorphic figures with a sort of halo round their heads– together with males and animals. (Author Provided)

Yet, the custom of the “giants” will not be restricted to South America, nor to the information of Europeans, as in Mesoamerica there are additionally ample myths, legends and accounts about them. One of the most important is present in the pre-Hispanic custom about the first Sun based on the Códice Vaticano Latino 3738:

First Sun, Matlactli Atl: It lasted 4008 years. Those who lived then ate water corn referred to as Atzizintli. In this age referred to as Tzontliiztac, “Head or White Hairs”, the Tzocuiliceque giants lived. The Sun was destroyed by water in the signal Matlactli Atl “10 Water”. It was referred to as Apachiohualiztli, “Flood, Deluge”, [this is] artwork or spell of everlasting rain. The males had been remodeled in fish. Some say {that a} couple was saved, Nene and Tata, who had been sheltered in an Ahuehuetl “an old tree that lives next to the water”; whereas others remark that there have been seven {couples} who hid in a cave from which they left when the Flood was over and the waters descended. They repopulated Earth and had been worshiped as gods of their nations. The goddess who presided over this Era was Chalchiutlicue, “the one with the jade skirt”. ( Códice Vaticano Latino 3738)

Thus, whereas the giants had been recognized in the Andes as Viracochas they had been acknowledged as Tzocuiliceque in Mesoamerica!

Another chronicler of the historical past of the Americas, Fernando de Montesinos, in his fascinating e-book Memorias antiguas historiales y políticas del Perú (“Ancient Memories of History and Politics of Peru”, 1570-1572), talks of the origin of the giants in Pirú in the chapter entitled ‘ What happened in the time of this King in Cuzco’ . He talks of – nonetheless with the Christian filter – the stunning arrival of this group on the Peruvian Pacific coast, and likewise has partially glimpsed their future:

While King Ayar Tacco Capac was very quiet in Cuzco, the ariolos and fortunetellers advised him how, eager to appease the Illatici’s wrath, they discovered a really dangerous prognosis in the entrails of the sheep and rams that they’d sacrificed. The King took care of this, and some days later it got here to him how in the Llanos they’d disembarked, of rafts and canoes that made an important fleet, many unusual individuals, and that they had been populating, particularly on the shores of the rivers; and that they had been males of nice stature and had handed ahead…

…The spies additionally mentioned how the nice and tall males had reached the level we now name Santa Elena, and controlling that land of Puerto Viejo, and that the natives had been fleeing them as a result of they used their our bodies badly. And it was not, in my view, to flee from sin, as a result of they too got to sodomy however as a result of of the injury that their devices acquired of their religion that they use to remove their lives. But it was a lot the extra of these giants that the punishment of the divine justice befell which punished them right away by sending hearth from heaven that all of a sudden consumed them. The Amautas faux right here, that their father the Sun, with highly regarded rays, burned them, as a result of in any other case they may end the world.

From this there are bones that God preserved for example for these to come back. A bone seems to be from the knee down, from the top of a person. There are additionally some wells on the very tip of Santa Elena that had been made in a rock the place very recent and superb water is taken; a piece of nice admiration.

King Ayar Tacco, suspicious of these individuals who had been populating in some locations in the mountains, as in Caxamarca and Huáitara and in all the Llanos, left Cuzco with a big military with the intention of holding and implementing them. He got here to Andaguailas, and there he had information that the opposing individuals had been many and really misshapen. He modified his thoughts and contented himself with inserting a garrison in Vilcas and in Lima Tambo, giving straight orders to the corporals to not let these unusual individuals move by means of Cuzco; however trusting little in others’ diligences and revealing the influence of the enemies he needed to be current in Lima Tambo, in entrance of them, as a result of he knew that they made gatherings and forts in the Llanos in opposition to him. He organized his individuals on this method: By the hills he disposed many troopers who with gauges and large stones hindered the enemy’s passage, forcing him to go by the highway, that by Lima Tambo is slim, and in it he put the power of his individuals .

Memorias antiguas historiales y políticas del Perú, 1882

Where did the “giants” come from? What was their origin? Was it Patagonia as advised by archaeologist Adolf Bandelier?

Concerning their future, and because it has been proven in a number of research, the hearth from heaven as referred by Fernando de Montesinos was in actual fact the penalties of the “Clovis Comet Impact”.

The final Great Catastrophe !

Left: The destruction of the giants based on historian Pedro Cieza de León in the Crónica del Perú. El Señorío de los Incas (“Chronicle of Peru. The Lordship of the Incas”. 1550). Just as in the chronicle of Fernando de Montesinos, Cieza de León consigned the destruction of the giants by the hearth from heaven. Right: A reduction in the metropolis of Quito of the 12 months 1650 the place two bearded giants with golf equipment have been represented (Photo by Rafael Videla Eissmann).

Fragmentary Evidence

As defined in the previous paragraphs, the information of the “giants” in the pre-Hispanic custom of the Americas are a considerable truth. Even extra, the “giants” –past the Christian prejudice of chroniclers and missionaries– had been in actual fact the god-men of the pre-Diluvial age (see the First Sun, Matlactli Atl of the Mesoamerican Volkskunde: ‘They repopulated Earth and were worshiped as gods in their nations .’) This is of the time that precedes the final world disaster or “Clovis Comet Impact” – 12,000 BP – a cosmic occasion that not solely smashed the megafauna in the continent but in addition generated a big lower of the authentic inhabitants, the so referred to as Paleo-Americans, the Dolichocephalic cranium group that preceded the Brachycephallic-Indigenous individuals.

Was the Dolichocephalic cranium substratum descendants of the “giants”? Were they their offspring? It is sort of doable. All the species that developed after the World Catastrophe turned smaller –whereas these earlier than 10,950 BC had been bigger and customarily extra strong than as we speak’s. To point out some examples, simply in the continent of America: The American lions, horses and camels, mastodons-mammoths, short-faced bear, dire wolf, large beaver and large tortoises.

Is it only a coincidence?

What issue generated this organic modification? Was it the ‘new’ dynamic of Earth’s and Moon’s gravity, as promoted by the Glacial Cosmogony of Hans Hörbiger and Phillip Fauth?

Fundamental info that will reinforce this concept was given by historian Pedro Cieza de León in his Crónica del Perú. El Señorío de los Incas (“Chronicle of Peru. The Lordship of the Incas”, 1550) which refers that after the world was in darkness (the disaster), the Sun arose in Titicaca Lake and that from the south got here Tici Viracocha, a white man of grown physique, who was of nice authority and veneration. This level is important, as a result of the info given by Cieza de León was based mostly on the traditions collected amongst Amautas and informants clearly states the migration from the south of the large Tici Viracocha, a “white man of grown body”, who after finishing up his civilizing function went north to by no means be seen once more. According to the report of Cieza de León, the indigenous normally named him for the most half Tiseviracocha though in the Province of Collao they referred to as him Tuapaca and in different places Harnava.

Along with the information in chronicles there are attention-grabbing engravings that describe the giants in addition to their tombs.

And So We Come to the Giant’s Ring

Although laborious to show, the ring could be a peculiar artifact that echoes the existence of this group. Of a fairly rustic type, it presents the determine of a condor with a big three-feathered tail. Next to it, the damaged remaining legs of what needs to be one other condor. The alloy – gold, silver and copper – is named Champi.

The inside diameter is 2.7 cm, or simply over an inch. The projection of the measurement of this ring in a person could be of 2.30-2.50 meters or 7 foot 7 inches to eight foot 2 inches.

The extraordinary ring of a ‘giant’. The existence of this group, often called Viracochas in the Andean world is distant. (Photos courtesy of Celso García Vargas, 2019, Author supplied).

(Photos courtesy of Celso García Vargas, 2019, Author supplied).

What was the which means of this uncommon piece of metallurgy? What significance did it have? What is its antiquity? Are there different comparable items?

Cóndor is in actual fact, the castellanization of Kuntur, being in the Andean custom initially Apu Kuntur –Sacred Condor . The Kuntur is the “Messenger of the Gods” and subsequently associated to Hannan Pacha or the “World of Above”, Kay Pacha the ‘surface’ of the World, and Uku Pacha the “World of Below”.

The symbolic significance of the condor in the pre-Hispanic world could be noticed in the presence of sixteen figures in the portentous Sun Gate of Tiahuanaco –the Metropolis of the Viracochas – as one of the divine beings that constitutes the calendar.

A element of the Sun Gate of Tiahuanaco. In the second row there’s a sequence of men-condors carrying the Saturri or energy employees of the Andean custom. The central determine of the gate is Huirajocha Tauapácac and he carries in his left hand a employees with two condor heads. (Author provided)

Left: A Tiahuanaco censer. The ordinary white collar of feathers of the condor is right here represented by an eight pointed star, that is, a logo of Venus â , and associated subsequently to Hannan Pacha or the “World of Above” (Photo by Ernest Amoros / National Museum of the American Indian). Right: A excessive reduction with the determine of the Apu Kuntur of the Gran Pajaten Cultural Complex in Peru. (Author Provided)

Tiahuanaco was constructed by a race of ‘giants’. As historian Pedro Cieza de León wrote in his Crónica del Perú:

Before they dominated [the Incas] the buildings had been made.

They couldn’t say who made them, however they heard from their ancestors that in a single night time appeared the whole lot that may be seen there.

Because of this and since in addition they say bearded males had been seen in Titicaca who raised the buildings of Vinaque individuals, I say that it might be that earlier than the Incas dominated there was individuals of understanding in these kingdoms that got here by some half that isn’t recognized and who constructed this stuff.  Being few,  and the locals so many, they’d have been killed in wars.

In consequence, the existence of the “giants” is way from being a fable of the pre-Hispanic custom or an invention of the European chroniclers. They had been a preDiluvial group in the Americas that turned diminished by the final world disaster and whose descendants had been nonetheless alive throughout the reign of the Incas. The ring could be one placing archaeological proof of them.

Top picture: The supposed giants ring, with condor ornament. Source: Courtesy of Celso García Vargas / Author provided

By Rafael Videla Eissmann