Ancient Aliens - Resurrecting Puma Punku

Episode Date: July 3, 2025

Puma Punku in Bolivia features some of the largest stone blocks on Earth, each carved with incredible precision. But the blocks lie scattered across the landscape, baffling archaeologists as ...to what the ancient site might have been. Could new advancements in technology help to solve a centuries old puzzle–and offer proof of alien intervention on Earth?See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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Starting point is 00:00:01 High in the Andes Mountains, more than 150 massive stone blocks lie scattered on the ground. Puma Punku is one of the most enigmatic places on planet Earth. Some of the stone blocks are over a hundred tons. The ancient blocks are carved with incredible precision. It's an amazing piece of engineering that is beyond its time. But the origins and purpose of Puma Punku remain completely unknown. Mainstream archaeology says that this side is 1,500 years old, but anyone you talk to in that community will tell you is much, much older. Could new advancements in
Starting point is 00:00:43 technology finally help to solve a centuries-old puzzle and offer proof of alien intervention on Earth? The locals say it was not us who made these platforms. It was the gods, the gods who descended from the sky. There is a doorway in the universe. Beyond it is the promise of truth. It demands we question everything we have ever been taught. The evidence is all around us. The future is right before our eyes.
Starting point is 00:01:23 We are not alone. We have never been alone. The Inca Empire, Peru, 1540. High in the Andes Mountains, Spanish explorer Pedro Ciazza de Leon is searching for the Inca capital of Kuyasuya, just south of Lake Titicaca, at an elevation of nearly 13,000 feet. He comes upon extraordinary ruins covering roughly two and a half square miles. It is the ancient settlement of Tijuanau. De Leon spends many months investigating this site and writes in his chronicles that Tijuanau contains impressive stone walls, idols of human figures, and great doorways. He also writes about an area
Starting point is 00:02:14 south of the main archaeological site called Puma Punku, or Gate of the Puma. It features stone blocks so enormous he does not understand how they could be moved by humans. And they are carved with the precision that, according to De Leon, could not be accomplished with the tools available to the Inca. This is ancient astronaut theorist, Giorgio Suclos. Pedro Cizza de Leon says that the local population, which was Inca, told him that this place was not built by the Inca's, but it was built hundreds of years before. If the Inca themselves have said that it was not the Inca, well, then who were the pre-Inca's? And there we are confronted with a gigantic question mark.
Starting point is 00:03:05 What the giant blocks formed is completely unknown. And nearly five centuries after its discovery by DeLeon, Puma Punku remains as mysterious as ever. This is archaeologist Ed Barnhart, Ph.D., director of Maya Exploration Center. It's out in this really open, high plains. Most of the stones in Puma Punku are huge. The biggest is 130 tons. There's another one that's 85 tons. Even the small ones are multi-ton.
Starting point is 00:03:39 So these are huge. Here is Brian Forrester, author of The Enigma of Tijuanauunaku and Puma Punu. The platform Alidica is in the center of Puma Punku, and it's in fact the foundation. So it consists of enormous slabs of red sandstone that were brought from a quarry eight miles to the west, over two mountain ranges. So how that was accomplished, I have no idea. Here is geo-archologist Carolyn Whitehill, Ph.D. Another really fascinating aspect of the Puma Punku site is the distribution of these blocks.
Starting point is 00:04:15 Some of them are still upright in the position that they were originally constructed in. Most of them are strewn about. It looks like you're in a child's playroom, and blocks have just been knocked over from some sort of a structure that was built. This is Hugh Newman, co-opened, author of Megalith, Studies in Stone.
Starting point is 00:04:33 It looks like it's been destroyed by a kind of tsunami or something. It's got mud piled up everywhere, giant stone sticking out of it at crazy angles. It remains unknown whether the structures of Puma Punku were destroyed by a cataclysm, or if the construction project was simply abandoned before it was finished. But the roughly 150 megalithic blocks that can be found at the site today revealed that the builders possessed astounding stone working abilities. Pumapunku has these megalithic blocks that are perfectly cut, that all of their angles are completely right angles. There's these ones in particular called H blocks that look like a big capital H. They have kind of fade lines going in where they carved the same shape in a couple of different layers deeper and deeper into the stone.
Starting point is 00:05:31 and its precision is really mind-pockling. Travis Taylor, PhD, is an astrophysicist and aerospace engineer. There are grooves that are cut with perfect 90-degree angles. It looks like they were so precise that they were done with modern-day milling machine tools. Here is David Shildress, author of Technology of the Gods. There's stones, there too, that have a lot of drill holes and saw cuts. and things like that in them. It's an amazing piece of engineering
Starting point is 00:06:06 that is beyond its time. Predominantly, we have two types of stone at Puma Punku, and that is red sandstone and gray andesite. They have found tools made of copper and of iron and bronze at Puma Punku, and with those tools, you can absolutely cut the sandstone. However, you cannot cut the gray and the side blocks with bronze or with copper or with iron. What's interesting to is that the stone blocks that we find at Puma Punku, the surface is as if
Starting point is 00:06:46 you're touching glass. It is perfection. So to me, it's possible that our ancestors figured out a way to vitrify stone. And we have evidence here of some. in time of a heat tool. In 1903, Arthur Posnansky, an Austrian engineer, explorer, and amateur archaeologist traveled to Puma Punku, which by that time was located in western Bolivia. Posnansky began the most thorough study of the site ever conducted.
Starting point is 00:07:19 Arthur Posnansky was born in Vienna, Austria in the 19th century and in his early 20s he moved to South America. But very soon after that, he became fascinated by Puma Pungu and specifically. spent almost the rest of his life studying and researching that location. Arthur Posnansky lived and researched at Puma Punku from 1904 until 1945. He was there for 41 years and he absolutely fell in love not only with the landscapes there, but also with that culture that put a spell on him and it was his biggest siren call. When speaking with the Imira elders, they speak very, very fondly of the archaeologist
Starting point is 00:08:07 Posnasky because he respected them and he respected their culture and he talked to them about what they knew about these sites. And one of the places that they're in agreement is that the site is much older than it's believed to be by mainstream archaeologists. Mainstream scholars believe the site was constructed about 1,500 years ago. But Posnansky proposed that that Puma Punku was much, much older. By examining the structures and what he believed was their original alignment with the stars, he dated the ruins to about 15,000 BC.
Starting point is 00:08:44 Arthur Posnansky suggests that Puma Pumku would line up with stellar objects about 17,000 years ago. The local indigenous people, the Imara, they actually have a mythology that Puma Punku has been around for maybe as much as 17,000 years. The Aymara people have occupied the area of modern-day Peru and Bolivia for at least 800 years, and lived alongside the Inca when Pedro Ciazza de Leon arrived in Tijuana in the 16th century.
Starting point is 00:09:20 Both the Inca and the Aymara told De Leon and other Spanish chroniclers, Not only that Puma Punku was built long before their time, but also that it was the work of the gods. Here is ancient astronaut theorist, Eric von Danikin. The locals said it was not us who made this. It was the gods who did it in one night, the gods who descended from the sky. So normally every culture says, oh yes, we did it.
Starting point is 00:09:52 We had the knowledge, we were strong enough. In that case, Puma Pumku, the locals say it was not us who made these platforms, it was the gods. Which gods? Extraterials. The mystery of Puma Punku has persisted for centuries. But now, thanks to new archaeological research and cutting-edge technology, experts believe they may finally be able to accurately reconstruct the ancient megalithic site. And in the process, perhaps answer some of the long-standing questions about Puma-Punku's age, how it was built, and its potential extraterrestrial origins.
Starting point is 00:10:39 Western Bolivia, 1995. Archaeologist Alexi Vranich is preparing to excavate an ancient structure at the site of Tewanaku for his PhD thesis. When the project runs into complications, a local archaeological team invites instead to visit the ruins of Puma Punku. The Puma Punko is located at Tijuana, just a little bit south of the village. It's one of the more dramatic landscapes you can find at 13,000 feet above sea levels. And you simply don't expect to find something so impressive in such a desolate landscape.
Starting point is 00:11:17 I remember seeing it and I had no idea what I was looking at. It was a confusing mess and I'd never seen anything like it. Upon seeing Puma Punku, Ranage decides to make the site the new focus of his excavation project. I lived in the village with the Imara Indians, and these are local people that have been there for centuries, and they work directly with me, so I got to know the culture very well. They're excellent excavators, but they also held it in high esteem within their cosmological world. When you speak to the elders of Amara, they will tell you that this was actually built by the gods, that these were gods that came down.
Starting point is 00:11:58 Jorge Delgado, an Inca by birth and heritage, says that in the native tradition, the gods connected with Pumapunku are known as the Space Brothers. The Space Brothers brought some information, ways, how we can become one with stones. In the Indian world, we understand that there is some energies that is connecting with the cosmos, and keep transmitting.
Starting point is 00:12:27 I believe that Puma Punku, Tijuana, they are places of power. When I go there, I have the feeling that I may come from the stars. I have the feeling that I don't know much of the history of my beloved planet. The first known photograph of Puma Punku was taken in 1893, and the site has tried
Starting point is 00:12:54 transformed dramatically since that time. In fact, the entire area of Tijuana is like a giant puzzle with many pieces missing or moved. Half of Tionaku town was built with Puma Punku Stone and with Tionaku Stone from the ancient sites. I mean, there is one block at a gas station. The cathedral or the church of Tijuana, a third of it is Puma Puma Puma-Tu
Starting point is 00:13:24 Tijuana rock. It puts a giant damper on trying to figure out what did Puma Punku look like in its heyday. Even the Bolivian government has been responsible for altering the landscape. In the 1950s, the Bolivian government decided that they wanted to have ruins, similar to what Peru had for Machu Picchu, or Mexico had for Teotihuacan. So it's a very progressive agenda to give the Bolivian people a pre-Columbian identity. But the result for archaeology was a bit of a disaster. They moved around a lot of stone and did a lot of questionable reconstructions. While performing excavations at the ancient site, Dr. Vranich decided to embark on his own
Starting point is 00:14:13 reconstruction project in hopes of answering some of Puma-Punku's many mysteries. Vranich's reconstruction would be computer generated, and the first step was to precisely measure every stone block. I used a lot of interesting and new technologies from laser scanners to photogrammetry, but the best method ended up being tape measure, pen and paper. And I used the notes from scholars from over a century ago, from the 1840s to the 1890s, Then recently, an architect from UC Berkeley did a lot of the drawings of these stones, and that became the basis for the reconstruction.
Starting point is 00:14:59 Once Dr. Vranage completed the arduous task of documenting the measurements of every known stone block and slab at Puma Punku, he 3D printed them at UCLA, where he was working as a research associate and visiting assistant professor. With help from his students, he began putting together the puzzle pieces. We had a lot of pieces and we had no idea how to go about putting it together. There was a couple of rules that have been found on how some of these stones or how some of the ornaments fit. Certain types of windows or niches are always found in certain patterns or in certain combinations.
Starting point is 00:15:41 We continued to play with this model probably for over a year and we were almost at our wits end going, we're not going to be able to put this together. When we finally had a moment of insight, we're able to put together two different pieces that formed what one wall of the temple would have looked like. Dr. Vranich and his students had discovered what he calls the Tijuanau Rosetta Stone. That allowed us to find the other pieces and fit them together. And once we had that, we realized we actually had a miniature version of the Puma Punko down to almost exact size, 0.57 in scale. That was one of those aha moments that almost surprises you. For an archaeologist, it's one of those moments that you live for. Once Dr. Vranich and his students established how
Starting point is 00:16:33 the pieces fit together, they were able to do a complete reconstruction of Puma Punku. Puma Pumco, it's two different things in a way. One of them is the entire temple complex, which is almost half a kilometer long. There's a main platform, there's a plaza in front of it. It's a couple of different walls. So it's a substantial building. But surrounding the inner courtyard, you would have had these buildings that we're reconstructing right now. So we're reconstructing the main religious and ritual focus of this larger temple
Starting point is 00:17:09 complex. The Puma Punko, probably it formed part of the religious ideology that Tijuana was an important place on earth where all the forces of the heavens and the underworld were mediated to create a fertile and safe earth. Dr. Vranich had assembled the most complete model of Puma Punku ever constructed. But just how accurate is it? And could it provide the key to solving the centuries-old mystery of Puma Punku. All. Pay off your home, travel for life, drive a Ferrari. In celebration of the world premiere of the Monopoly Big Board Buckslot Machine by Aristocrat Gaming, Yamava Resort and Casino at San Manuel is giving one person a $1.6 million
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Starting point is 00:18:12 Hasbro is not a sponsor of this promotion. Over the past 20 years, archaeologist Dr. Alexi Vranich has taken detailed measurements of every existing megalithic block at Puma Pumku and had them 3D printed. By working with his model, he has developed a theory
Starting point is 00:18:33 on how the ancient site was originally constructed. On March 5, 2024, he invited Georgiosuclos and aerospace engineer Dr. Travis Taylor to a workspace in Los Angeles to share the results of his research. Tell me what this template is that's on the table top here. This represents the sandstone foundation for this building of the Puma Punko. And it printed out was simply too cumbersome.
Starting point is 00:19:02 So we put it out on paper. Put that in scale for me. How far is this piece of paper? So this one's about maybe 70 meters long, about 12 meters. Okay. And consisting of how many platforms? So we have 17 different pieces of sandstone that would have completed a very flat surface, and there's an excellent chance it probably would have extended another 12 meters this way.
Starting point is 00:19:26 When I saw the model in person, I was like, I cannot believe my eyes. It almost looked like a very long and rectangular building with multiple structures lining up a long avenue. Alexi, clearly this is a passion for you. My question is, if I were to compare all the cuts and everything to the actual one, how closely would they compare? No, they wouldn't. Really? I wanted to know what these blocks looked like when they were made, not how they were damaged
Starting point is 00:20:01 or worn over the years. I needed to know how were these things meant to fit. So you would suggest then that these blocks are what they actually are what they actually. actually looked like when they were made. Exactly. Well, that's amazing. I mean, the first time I was there was in 1995. And in 1995, one of the most fascinating blocks
Starting point is 00:20:27 I've seen is this guy right here. This stone, this is what you were looking at. Yes. So it's a stone, it's a window within a window, within a window. Wow. You have to have done ground penetrating radar and other sensor measurements out there.
Starting point is 00:20:44 Is there more to it underneath the surface that we're not seeing here? We actually did one of the most extensive ground penetrating radar surveys for the entire continent. And then UNESCO went by and did a drone survey and picked up every tiny bump across the surface. And yeah, they definitely showed
Starting point is 00:21:03 that the Puma Punko is quite large and there's a lot more of these stones. Do you have any conclusion what any of this means? This is a temple. It's a ceremonial place. That's clearly evident. Alexi, looking at all the parts here, I could probably come up with a billion combinations. So how certain are you that this is the right combination or that there's iterations of it, versions of it, or something completely different that this could have possibly been?
Starting point is 00:21:32 You know what? I'm fairly confident about the general form and the location of certain things. That's for sure. While working with his 3D printed model, Alexi made an extraordinary discovery about the purpose of the intricately carved blocks at Puma-Pumku. It's forced perception. It's a door within a door, within a door, within a door. What direction is this facing? So this is facing west. Oh, so it would see a sunset. Yes, yes.
Starting point is 00:22:03 It would be very interesting to note what time of year does the sun actually set up? perfectly such that it illuminates the very center of that infinity door. It won't line up exactly right now, but you could project that backwards in time, and it would tell us when the sun lined up on that spot. You could use this to date this room. Right. Determined to solve the mystery of Puma Punku, Dr. Vranich has released his 3D printing diagrams to the public and has challenged other researchers to reconstruct the ancient site as well.
Starting point is 00:22:39 There's a lot of pieces that I haven't been able to place. So that's why I placed all of this information online along with the basic instructions. I would love for people to download this, print them out. My model is good for the moment, but it's the basic model. We can add a lot of things to it. What Alexi has done is absolutely fantastic. Now anyone can take all the pieces there and see if they can put them together in a way that makes sense to them. And sooner or later, someone is going to figure out what all these pieces built,
Starting point is 00:23:16 what they were, why were they there. Now that accurate measurements of Puma Punku are available online, could this mark the beginning of a new era of discovery? Perhaps further clues can be found by examining another model of Puma Punku that reveals that the site bears striking similarities to some of the most ancient constructions on Earth, the University of California, San Diego. 3D data visualization expert Scott McAvoy runs the University Library's digital media lab. He is also known for his CGI reconstructions of ISIS destroyed sites in the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra. Archaeological reconstruction is a way to put a lot of different data together in a way that we can draw, connections between ourselves and the way things were in the past.
Starting point is 00:24:13 If a picture is worth a thousand words, a 3D model must be worth a million. Puma Punku is a perfect target for this work. It's dripping with mystery, and it's very enticing. Now, he has applied the data collected by Dr. Alexi Vranich to create a digital 3D wireframe of Puma Punku. Hey, Scott. Good to see you. Good to see you. On March 28, 2024, Scott invited archaeologist Dr. Ed Barnhart, who has conducted his own
Starting point is 00:24:44 on-the-ground investigations of Puma-Punku to review his model and discuss his findings. I've been to Puma-Punku three different times. I have wandered this thing and looking at it from different angles, feeling stupid that I can't figure out how any of these things go together. Well, that's where technology can really help us. Let me show you what we got. This is a puzzle with probably 40% of its pieces missing. I think it was calculated like 10% of the pieces are maybe here.
Starting point is 00:25:14 Oh my gosh. Yeah, we're missing a lot. This is only 150 bricks. You know, if we put these up by volume, I think it's going to make up like half of the front facade. Oh my gosh. Here we're starting with the satellite image of Puma Bunku. And then we overlay Alexi's map.
Starting point is 00:25:32 Here we have a basic 3D model. model of the platform around it, the plaza on the outside, and we see that this temple is at the entrance to this sunken courtyard. That is fascinating. From the incisions on the foundation here, I feel pretty comfortable extruding the walls, you know, raising these up to the height of the doorway and trying to fill in that space. Okay, that does make sense. make sense. So there seems to be an implied symmetry here. There seems to be a pattern. This side reflects this side, so we're moving forward based on that. Wow. That makes logical sense to me because the other parts of Tiovinaka we can see all adhere to a basic symmetry. Well there, you know, there's so many more pieces here that I wasn't even able to find a place for,
Starting point is 00:26:31 especially these tub stones here. You know, one of the real clues is these little guys right here, these where we believe metal kind of eye bars would keep them clasps. Those are exactly the kind of pieces that I'm focused on to say like, okay, this puzzle piece has to fit with this one. Yeah, these are great. The type of connection Dr. Barnhart is referring to is commonly called a keystone cut. On the blocks at Pumapuku are what we called keystone cuts.
Starting point is 00:27:04 And these keystone cuts are notches like a T-notch set on the edge of a block that match a T-notch on another edge of a block. And then molten metal was poured into those notches as a fastener. So these keystone cuts are fascinating because they're found not just at Pumapuncu and Tijuanau in Bolivia. They're found in Peru. They're found in Egypt. They found in Greece, and they even found it Anchor Watts in Cambodia. So does this prove that there was like a worldwide technological civilization that shared this knowledge? From the ancient astronaut perspective, our ancestors all went to the same masonry school,
Starting point is 00:27:50 meaning the same extraterrestrial teachers visited at Pumapunku, and the same teachers visited at Ankara Wat. Is it possible that Puma Punku was visited by otherworldly beings in the distant past? Ancient astronaut theorists say yes, and suggests Puma Punku presents evidence that could push back the entire timeline of human civilization. Muncie, Indiana, April 9, 2024. At Ball State University, Georgia, Pseuclos is meeting with Professor of Electronic Art, John Philwalk, who used the data gathered
Starting point is 00:28:36 by Dr. Alexi Vranich to develop his own model of Puma Punku. This was probably the most challenging reconstruction we've ever done. So how then did you come up with that particular structure? The first thing really we tried to do was reconstruct the foundation because that really informed sort of the growth of the building out of that. And a lot of the blocks are very specific to certain spots. Oh, wow. Then we create a motif that expands around the structures.
Starting point is 00:29:06 You know, to me it seems very mystical. The patterning of the doorways within doorways within doorways. I mean, really suggests an idea of a transition. It points to me toward another reality, maybe the afterlife to honor ancestors. John Philwalk's reconstruction, much like the model built by Dr. Alexi Vranich, contains doorways within doorways, which he believes points to the site having served a religious function. But the question remains, for who?
Starting point is 00:29:41 In 1945, after studying Puma Punku for more than four decades, archaeologist Arthur Posnansky published his findings in a book called Tiwanaku, The Cradle of American Man. And in it, he proposed that the structures found throughout the Tijuana site, including Puma Pumku, were built roughly 17,000 years ago. The reason why he did that is because of astronomical facts that he found at Tijuanau these astronomical markers only line up properly around 15,000 BC. Archaeologists have been getting dates that are more like 500 AD. But the dating is difficult.
Starting point is 00:30:33 Even today, archaeologists are not in agreement of the dates of Tijuanau and Pumpuku. Posnansky based his dating on features at a site located less than one mile northeast of Puma Punku, called Kala Sassaya. John Philwak digitally recreated Kala Sassaya, with its central sunken courtyard and many monoliths in order to look for celestial alignment that might corroborate Posnanski's dating. We're looking at Klasicaea and Klasica Sia does have a beautiful equinex alignment. You'll see the sun just sits there right on top of the stone. Kai. That's gorgeous. Oh, how cool is that?
Starting point is 00:31:14 So we worked with NASA's JPL Horizons group to provide data on any kind of visible celestial bodies looking at 15,000 BC. And what did you find? So there were some interesting alignments, I have to say, at Kalesasaya, because there's all the verticals that point around. So we investigated that from the center monument, looking outward toward those hosts as almost like in Stonehenge
Starting point is 00:31:41 where you look and you can cite, you know, solstice or equinox and that kind of thing. That would essentially indicate that Posnansky's calculations in this particular case were correct. I mean, I think that's possible. There are alignments. Wow.
Starting point is 00:31:58 Okay. That date back 15,000 BC. I mean, you know, all of this would essentially rewrite South American history and this is something to be excited about. Yeah. If the Colise-Saias structure at Tiwanaku can be dated to 15,000 BC, is it possible that Puma-Punku is that old as well? There's no logic as to why modern archaeologists put one fence around Puma-Pum-Punku. one fence around Puma Punku and another around Tewanaku. They're both the same location.
Starting point is 00:32:29 It's clear they were both built at the same time by the same builders in the very, very distant past. Some researchers also believe that the remote location of Puma Punku would make more sense if it had been built 17,000 years ago because at that time, it may have overlooked Lake Tidicaca. If you look at the geomorphology, if you look at the sediments that have been a deposit
Starting point is 00:32:54 around the site, you can see that the lake was at one point much, much larger. This is Andrew Collins, author of Origins of the Gods. Lake Titicaca, today is many miles away from Puma Ponku. But in the past, it is believed that this was actually much closer to Puma Punku. So we're looking at Lake Titicaca right now. So where is, in this image, where is Puma Punku located? Yeah, so right, so at the tail end of the lake here on the south, kind of east corner, if you come out here into the plains,
Starting point is 00:33:31 it's like a little bit offset into that area, that flat area. Okay, and the idea is that long ago, Lake Titicaca was much, much larger, and so that Puma Punku and Tijuana may have been a harbor or a port to Lake Titicaca. It certainly would make sense, and water is such a dominant feature at the site, as you know, with the canal structures and drainage. systems and all of that. So that connection to water obviously is really important. According to some experts, Puma Punku's proximity to Lake Tidikaka in the distant past could
Starting point is 00:34:05 also explain why the site appears to have experienced a cataclysmic event. I think what was responsible was a massive explosion of the volcano of Cerrocapia between 12,800 and 11,600 years ago. right next to that volcano is the deepest part of the lake, which is 800 to 900 feet deep. So I think the debris that came from the volcano created a tsunami that lifted up the soil and sediment at the bottom of the shallow part of the lake
Starting point is 00:34:39 and literally buried Puma Punku and parts of Tijuanau. There is a possibility that Dr. Posnansky's calculations are correct, and Puma Punku may date back as far as 15,000 years BC. And if that is the case, that is one of those times where in many cultures around the world, including the ancient Egyptians, are referring to a golden age when the so-called gods
Starting point is 00:35:10 mingled amongst humankind. So was this an early memory of first contact? Could it be that Puma Punku was built more than 17,000 years? years ago and has a connection to otherworldly visitors. Perhaps further clues can be found by examining a gigantic stone gateway that might be the final piece of the puzzle. When investigating the ruins of Puma Punku for insights about its mysterious origins, ancient
Starting point is 00:35:46 astronaut theorists believe some of the most compelling clues can be found by examining a giant stone doorway. That stands less than a mile away in central Tijuanau. Called the Gate of the Sun, it is 10 feet tall, 13 feet wide, and was carved from a single piece of antasite stone that weighs more than 10 tons. Here is author and investigative mythologist William Henry. Perhaps one of the most iconic works of Tijuanau is the Gate of the Sun. It was found nearby and ultimately moved to its present location. They think that it could well have been actually the entrance or gateway to Pumapunku.
Starting point is 00:36:29 It features the Inca god Viracocha, who's the god of creation, who's portrayed as a sort of a humanoid figure with rays coming off his head. Interestingly, the god Viraculture is holding two staffs, and this is the most ancient version of Viraculture. And so to find that there is really quite a star. It was astonishing. He said that Viracocha himself, the great god of the Andes, was actually the person who instigated the construction of Tijuana and Pumapunku. So what's particularly fascinating about the Gate of the Sun is that on either side of Viracocha are these figures on each side, and they are birdmen.
Starting point is 00:37:14 Viracocha is flanked with 48 winged beings. Now, why would these beings have wings attached to them? Well, because our ancestors try to signify flight. What I think is depicted on the gate of the sun is a type of a celestial pantheon, suggesting that whoever came and imparted knowledge at Tionake and Puma Punku were beings that had a celestial connection, meaning they came from. the sky. Could it be that the figures carved on the gate of the sun are depictions of extraterrestrials who arrived in Puma Punku in the distant past? If Puma Punku was some sort of
Starting point is 00:38:02 temple complex, as Alexi Vranich, Scott McAvoy and John Filwick have all envisioned, was it built to connect with these beings? For now, there remain more questions than answers. But many researchers believe that solving the mystery of Puma Punku could lead to even more profound revelations. Puma Punko will be a mystery for a lot of people for a long time. And there are a lot of aspects and facets of that society we don't know about. Archaeologists will be able to work there for many generations. We can continue to excavate and do more advanced analysis to try to find out a little bit more about Puma Punko and T.
Starting point is 00:38:48 in Akka society. Puma Pungu is unique in terms of its construction. It's astonishing level of accuracy, flat surfaces almost laser flat, so it makes it one of the most enigmatic and fascinating ancient locations on the planet. The level of technology required to create Puma Pungu would defy 21st century technologies. So how that was accomplished, I have no idea. Even to this day, with all the recreations. Nobody really has figured out yet what that place looked like when it was finished. What was Puma Punku made for? Your guess is as good as mine. But we may have a eureka moment where together we will unlock the great mystery of Puma Punku. Since Spanish explorers first came upon Puma Pumku, nearly five centuries ago,
Starting point is 00:39:48 The ruins have remained one of the ancient world's greatest mysteries, like the pyramids that stand on Egypt's Giza Plateau, the enormous Moai statues of Easter Island, and the monoliths of Stonehenge. Might Pumapunku point to a history that is much different than we've imagined? Perhaps modern technology will soon reveal Puma Punku's long-held secrets, and the truth about our alien ancestors.

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