Megalithic Marvels - The Inca Mystery: Viracocha, Elongated Skulls & Lost Technology (rewind)

Episode Date: August 28, 2026

The Inca Empire remains one of the most fascinating civilizations of the ancient world—but its origins may be even more mysterious than its rise to power. In this episode, we explore the legends of Viracocha, enigmatic elongated skulls, feathered-serpent symbolism, and the extraordinary megalithic stonework found throughout the Andes. Did the Inca develop these remarkable building traditions themselves, or did they inherit knowledge and sacred sites from civilizations that came before them?

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Inca rulers and it lasted unofficially from about 1,280 to 1533. However, I need to state that these first eight Inca rulers are considered by many to be like legendary, mythological kings because of their existence is tied to mythology. These mythological or legendary kings were said to have descended from the sun god and they held great power over the people of the empire. But according to the mainstream timeline of history when it comes to the Inca, 1438 would mark the official start of the empire when Emperor Pachacutec began to rule.

And the Inca is considered their country, kings to be the Sapa Inca or the son of the sun. Now originally the Inca empire is called Tawan Tensuyu by its subjects, and that's Quechuan for the realm of the four parts. And the realm of the four parts or the Inca Empire as it's become known was really the largest pre-Columbian empire in America. Now the Inca Empire was known as Tawan Tensu Yu by its subjects. The administrative, political, and military center of the empire was located in the city of present-day Kusco, also known as the Puma City. If you Google Kusko Puma and you can find an aerial view of it, there is some photos you can see where you can see the outline of what it was an ancient Puma. And according to historical

data, it was Inka Emperor Pachyotec who began rebuilding the city into the shape of Apuma in 1438. Now, the Inca has incorporated a large portion of Western South America centered on the Andean Mountains for their empire. And at its largest point, the empire joined modern-day Peru with what are now Western Ecuador, western and south-central Bolivia, northwest Argentina, and in the south-central Bolivia, and in the southwestern most tip of Colombia and a large portion of modern-day Chile. At its height, this empire ruled over 10 million-plus subjects. Now, the Inca Empire was unique in that it lacked many of the features associated with civilizations in the old world. I found a quote from anthropologist Gordon McWain who states that, quote, the Incas were able to construct one of the

greatest imperial states in human history without the use of the wheel, draft animals, knowledge of iron or steel, or even a system of writing. And later, I'll go deeper into why I think the Inca were seemingly able to emerge out of nowhere and thrive like this. And I think it's because they had a little bit of help. We'll just say that. Now, the Inca Empire functioned largely without money and without markets. Instead, the exchange of goods and services was based on reciprocity between individuals and groups and Inca rulers. Taxes consisted of labor obligations of a person to the empire, where the Inca rulers essentially

theoretically owned all the means of production. So they reciprocated back by granting access to land and goods and providing food and drink and celebratory feasts their subjects. Now I should note that the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire began in 1532. And this was shortly after the Inca Civil War, where the last Sapa Inca, which means the emperor, of the empire at that time, he was captured and killed on the orders of conquistur Francisco Pizarro. And this marked the beginning of Spanish rule or occupation. Now, the remnants of the empire retreated to the remote juncture. of Vilcambamba, Peru, and established the small Neo-Inca state, which was conquered by the Spanish in 1572.

Now, when the Spanish arrived to this incredible empire of the Incas, they gave it the name Peru to what the natives knew as, again, Tawan Tensu. Now, the name Inca Empire originated from the chroniclers of the 16th century. So the Inca did not necessarily have a written language as we know of one. So they did not really leave behind their own written accounts of their cultural or worship practices. So much of what is known about the Inca, about their past lies with what the Spanish said about them in their journals and the artifacts that we still have today. Now, while the term Inca today is translated as ruler or lord in Quechuan, this term does not, simply refer to the king. But it also describes the Inca nobles. So in this sense, the Inca nobles were basically a small percentage of the total population of the empire. So the ruling class was probably somewhere

between 15,000 to 40,000, but the population they ruled over was 10 million plus people. Again, it's important to note that the word Inca does not refer to the general population, but to this highest class of society who protected their royal bloodlines by breeding with each other. These Peruvian monarchs availed themselves to the right of polygamy to a very liberal extent, leaving behind families of 100 to even 200 children per emperor sometimes. insane. Now let's talk about the religion and the beliefs of the Inca and some of their practices. So the Inca and most other Central and South American cultures such as the Maya, the Aztec, they worshipped these plumed serpent deities or the feathered serpent.

And this plumed serpent kind of first makes an appearance in the archaeological record like over 2,000 years ago in the heartland of the Olmec civilization at a site known as La Venta in the present-day state of Tabasco, Mexico. Here archaeologists discovered a carving of a snake, a sporting a beak, and a feathered crest, and under the Olmex, Leventa flourished from 900 BC to somewhere between 300 to 200 BC. So they're credited the Olmex as like the mother's civilization in Mesoamerica. And these Omecs likely spread their beliefs throughout the region, including their belief in this plume serpent deity. This deity was known by the Aztecs as Quetzekwadal, the feathered serpent or plume serpent that was one of the most important gods in ancient

Mesoamerican pantheon. The Maya, for instance, referred to this same deity as Ku Klukukon. And to the Inca he was called Viracocha, who they believed created all living things, whose name literally translates as seafoam. And so Veracocha to the Inca, this feathered serpent, was really believed to have emerged from Lake Titicaca, further south from Kusko. And so these plumed serpent deities were not just worshipped as distant gods, but it's important to note, were credited with the founding of the literal civilizations, the giving of secret knowledge, living even amongst the people and teaching them the occult sciences before then departing over the sea. And ancient legends and oral traditions even talk about how these deities manifested as tall, bearded white men with blue

eyes. Now, as Timothy Albarino pointed out on an interview I did with him not too long ago, there's like three tiers of the Viracocha's when it comes to the ancient Andean legends. Number one, there's Veracocha, the supreme creator deity of the Inca, who is said to have destroyed the evil giants with a flood. It's very interesting when you get into the ancient legends of the Andes and the Inca. Two and five Canadians will hear the words you have cancer. That's why every step and dollar raised matters. On September 19th, join thousands in Toronto for the Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation walk.

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And this is when number two, the Veracotches arrived. And again, according to these legends, they had fair skin, white skin, beards, long hair, and cloaks. And they held staffs in their hands. And their leader was called Contiki Veracocha. Now, some accounts say, again, that they had blue eyes. And they went throughout the Andes along the path of the Veracotcha to the survivors. and they began to civilize them. And then again, according to legends, they disappeared over the sea and said they would one day return.

And this leads us to number three. Many of the Quechuan people believe that the Veracocha's were an ancient civilization that also live underneath the Andes Mountains. And there are even reports, and again, legends, oral traditions from the natives themselves of the locals encountering these varicoches, who showed up even in flying craft that were shiny and disc-like, and they even speak telepathically,

they can heal the sick, and then they disappear. Now, many other forms of worship persisted in the Inca Empire, most of them concerning the local sacred Huaccas. When I'm in Peru, one of my favorite things, to do is not go to the big famous sites like Machu Picchu and Sokseh, Waman, as amazing as a czar. But you go high up into the Kusko highlands, way above the city, way up in the foothills of the mountains, and you see these huaccas everywhere. What's a hawaka? It was considered a holy site to the Inca, a religious site where they would worship. And it's usually where you see, in the middle of nowhere,

let's say you'll see a big rock outcropping emerging from the earth and you go around it and you see literally what looks like a precision trapezoidal triangle cut into it and i'll explain who i think actually made this but again to the inca this was holy and this is where they would perform uh worship and the inca leadership encouraged uh worship a sun worship to inti their sun god and these huacas, the Inca would bring out their most prized sacred possessions, which were these mummified bodies with elongated skulls. And we'll talk more about this in a little bit. But they would bring out these mummies during the annual solstices, and they would place these in the huaccas, in these megalithic portal-looking faux doors. And according to the Inca's

own legends on the solstice when the sun would hit at a certain time, these mummified, elongated, skull, humanoids would become animated. And they would literally speak telepathically to the Inca and give them orders and teach them about worship. And I believe even demand sacrifice. So let's talk about sacrifice because the Inca and the Maya, the Aztecs, they're all known for unfortunately being big into human sacrifices. But when an Inca emperor died a massive quantity of his riches, his jewels was buried with him. And sadly, a number of his attendance, favorite concubines amounting. Sometimes it is said, get this, to a thousand people who were buried in his tomb with him.

Now, it is said that as many as 4,000 servants, court officials and concubines were killed upon the death of Inca Hualana Kapak in 1527. Now, the Inca's performed child sacrifice around, again, their important events, such as the death of Asapa Inca, which means emperor, during a famine and stuff like that. Now let's talk a little bit more about the deeper origins of the Inca. Where did they really come from? Now I should note that the Inca Empire was preceded by two large-scale empires that we for

sure know about in the Andes. One was the Tijuana civilization. The mainstream timeline on this is that they ruled from 300 to 1180. And this was near Lake Titicaca at sites such as Tijuana and Puma Punku, although I believe somebody way predated them there. And then there was the Worry culture. And they dwelt around 600 to 1,100 AD. And this was near the Peruvian site of Ayacucho.

But the Wari also occupied the Kusco area for about 400 years. So it's important to note that many of the characteristics of the Inca Empire were derived from this earlier, these other Andean cultures. And to these earlier civilizations, maybe owed many of the accomplishments credited to the Inca Empire. But what's more? Author William Prescott, who wrote one of the most important books about the conquest of Peru in the 1800s,

called the Conquest of Peru, states this, quote, we may reasonably conclude that there existed in the, the country a race advanced in civilization before the time of the Incas and in conformity with nearly every tradition, we may derive this race from the neighborhood of Lake Titicaca. A conclusion strongly confirmed by the imposing architectural remains which still endure. So William Prescott, this guy who chronicled the entire conquest of Peru and deeply read all of these accounts by the Spanish chroniclers about the Inca came to the conclusion that clearly

the Inca found these megaliths in Peru, that the Inca came to Kusko and they chose it as their capital because of the foundations of these massive, multi-ton, megalithic marvels were strewn everywhere. And so the Inca built their dwellings on top of these megaliths. Now, while mainstream archaeology today will say that the Inca built everything you see in Peru, built the megaliths. Again, many of the local natives who speak Quechuan and Amara will tell you that the megalithic constructions were built by a race of prediluvians, basically by a race who existed before a worldwide flood in ages past, who existed.

before this great cataclysm who had ancient knowledge and technology to build these incredible constructions. And again, many of the legends allude to this ancient race who existed before this great cataclysm to being giants. Now, to put a bow on this, I need to mention what's known as the legend of the Hanan Pacha, or the three worlds. And this was something that really sunk into my brain on my last trip to Peru this last October when I really heard about this more in depth. So the legend of the Hanan Pasha describes three different worlds and or three different civilizations. So this legend is like 3D in nature. So number one, you have the Hanan Pacha. And this phrase stands for the first culture. This would be this first civilization with a

advanced technology that existed in prehistory, who came along and literally shaped the bedrocks and engineered the biggest cyclopean megalis. Earlier I mentioned these Huaccas that the Inca worshipped at all over the Inca highlands or all over the Kusko Highlands. You'll see a giant rock outcropping. You'll find caves. You go into them. It's like they were laser precision cut with lost technology.

This was the Hanan Pacha, the first culture, the first civilization, the first builders who I believe had this lost ancient technology. And again, I'm not the first one to say this or to come to this conclusion. Now, according to the Inca oral traditions, the Hanan Pacha also refers to the highest of the three worlds, or the three levels of consciousness in the Inca frame of mind. and the Hanan Pacha is represented by the Condor. And you'll see the Condor symbology all over the Andes, even at one of my favorite sites known as Oiante Tambo in the Sacred Valley there, not far from Machu Picchu.

At this site, Oiante Tambo is what's known as the Temple of the Condor. And it's this area of this massive site where you see all these incredible megalithic walls and what looks like fountains. But shadowing all of this above literally is a massive condor that was shaped, carved out of the mountainous outcropping. It's like a gigantic condor that's six stories high.

You literally see the beak, the eye, the head, the wings. Okay, let's talk about number two in this legend. They're called the Uranpacha. This was the second culture that came along later after the first culture, the Hanan Pacha. And the Uren Pacha are thought to have engineered the smaller-sized precision mortarless walls. I believe, according to this legend, the Uren Pacha, they didn't have the complete knowledge like the Hanan Pacha did, but they had fragments of the knowledge and maybe even some tools in some of the advanced technology that allowed them to keep building mortarless, constructions, but not on the massive scale that the Hanan Pacha could.

For example, you can do a Google image search of Soxaywaman, that site in Peru, massive 100-plus-ton blocks compared to Google the Cori-Concha in Kusko. And this is a construction that I think might belong to the Urn-Pacha. It's still mortarless, it's megalithic, but it's just on a smaller scale. with small blocks, but it's precision. So there's still clearly some ancient technology involved, but the blocks aren't necessarily interlocking, like at Soximon, but they're just precision squares put together.

But you still see like ancient drill holes inside these blocks. So again, I believe they still had some of the knowledge and some of the technology. And the Urenpacha, the second class is also said to represent. represent the middle world and refers to the mid-level of consciousness whose animal representation is that of the Puma. And again, you see the Puma embedded everywhere from the city of Kusco literally in the shape of a Puma. Two and five Canadians will hear the words, you have cancer. That's why every step and dollar raised matters. On September 19th, join thousands in Toronto for the Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation Walk.

yourself, friends, and family to walk 21 kilometers in support of life-saving research. Together, we can carry the fire and help create a world free from the fear of cancer. Register today at pmcfwalk.ca.ca. Even in different walls, you'll see Puma's, an entire Puma body, you'll see Puma Paws hidden in these blocks. So the Puma, I believe, is one of the most ancient symbols of the VMAs. Andes of the Hanan pacha, but the Urunpacha really symbolized it. Finally, we have the Ukanpacha, the third culture, the last culture, who came along and built

on top of the previous two. And I believe this symbolizes the Wori culture I talked about and or the Inca. This was the third culture. Again, they built on top of the previous two cultures using copper chisels and stone hammers. And they tried to replicate the previous works, but they couldn't, so they used mortar with clay. And they used small rough stones. And the Ucan Pacha is the lower or the underworld. And their symbol is the serpent called Amaru in Ketua.

And this is why I believe all over Peru and in Kusko downtown, in the stones, you'll see the serpent symbology everywhere. On single blocks, you'll see the serpent hidden in massive walls. So the serpent was a big symbol in Peru as well. And it's incredible to me how the ink is seemingly did not interfere or alter the works of the other two cultures, but harmoniously added onto what existed before. Now in closing, when you go to some of the museums around Peru and Kusco, you're going to see some massive elongated skulls. skulls. And no, I do not believe these massive ones are cradle headboarded. I believe these are

natural elongated skulls. They were born that way. Many other schools are cradle headboarded, and I believe the cradle headboarded schools were a general population trying to look like the elite rulers. Now, the biggest collection of elongated skulls in the world is in Peru, in Paracas, just a couple hours southwest of Kusko along the coast, where in the 1920s archaeologist Julio Tello began uncovering thousands of these huge elongated skulls that date between 2 to 3,000 years old, clearly far earlier than the Inca.

And these skulls have so many genetic anomalies associated with them. There's no way they were made to be like that just, to cradle headboarding. They've got larger eye sockets than normal skulls, larger jaw bones, they're missing sagittal sutures on the skulls, and so many more other anomalies. They've got 25 to 30 percent more cranial mass than average than a normal skull like ours does. Some of them, like the Chango skull at the Ica Museum, I would guesstimate has 50 percent more cranial volume than ours. The point is, cradle headboarding can't create more cranial mass. And so these things were born like this. What's more? The last several years, there's been many discoveries of numerous

schools of infants and newborns with huge skulls born right out of the womb. So this was genetic. I believe these were some kind of hybrids. Some theorize that this, these descended from the Nephilim of Genesis is six in the Bible. But why do I bring this up? Because in the museums of Kusko, you'll see a lot of what I would say are naturally elongated skulls that are said to be from the Royal Inca. And these all had dark reddish hair, just like the Pirocus from two and three thousand years ago had dark reddish hair. So in closing, is it possible that the royalty of the Inca descended from the Paracas, who died out two to three thousand years ago down in the Paracus region. Maybe they migrated up to Kusko and became the Inca. And there's, again,

researchers who have done a lot more detailed research into the DNA of these Paracas skulls like Brian Forster and L.M. Marzuli. And also what's little known is the Inca performed artificial cranial deformation on their own royal children in order to physically distinguish themselves from the common people. So as stated earlier, some of them appear to have this dark red hair. So there you have it. That is my breakdown on the incredible Inca Empire, this amazing civilization that thrived in Peru in the present-day Kusko area.

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