Teotiukan - the city of ancient mysteries

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

The city of Teotihuacan existed near the current Mexican capital Mexico City from the 2nd century BC to the 7th century AD. Unlike other modern Central American cities with a rather chaotic arrangement of buildings, in Teotihuacan they were concentrated along a four-kilometer central highway 400 meters wide, paved with huge stone slabs.

Some scholars generally do not consider Teotihuacan a city in the conventional sense of the word. A number of discoveries made during the excavations show that the entire architectural ensemble, created according to a single, detailed design, in its purpose was, rather, close to the ancient Egyptian complex of pyramids and religious buildings in Giza, and also had something else, before still unresolved purpose.

Road of the dead

Pyramid of the sun

For some reason, scientists called the central highway of the city the Road of the Dead (El Camino de los Muertos), although they seemed to have no prerequisites for this. The road is oriented from south to north and all the way up in this direction at an angle of 30, so if you stand at its beginning, at the southern end, it seems that it leads directly to the sky. The Road of the Dead begins from a complex of buildings under the general name of the Citadel (Ciudadela). And a little further, continuing the complex from the eastern side, rises a giant five-tiered pyramid of the Sun. Its height is 64 meters, the dimensions of the base are 222 × 225 meters. At the opposite, northern end of the Road, there is a 42-meter pyramid of the Moon. According to archaeologists, both of these pyramids were erected no later than the end of the 1st millennium BC.

On both sides of the Road of the Dead, along its entire length, on powerful stone platforms-foundations, there are numerous step pyramids of smaller sizes. Among the buildings of the Citadel, located on a square plot of land with an area of 16 hectares, stands out for its impressive size 32-meter pyramid of the temple of the supreme god Quetzalcoatl - the Feathered Serpent. The building is richly decorated with elements of sculptural decoration, mainly depictions of feather-covered snakes and demonic creatures with huge eyes.

Stone model of the solar system

"Great Goddess Teotihuacan" (mural)

One of the researchers of Teotihuacan, American archaeologist and historian Hugh Harleston Jr., in the middle of the twentieth century, established that two "standard" units of length were used in the design and construction of the city. One was 57 meters, the other, called "hunab" ("unit" in the Mayan language) - 1.6 meters.

Further research led Harleston to surprising discoveries. After reproducing the layout of the city and its computer processing, it turned out that nine of its main structures are located in relation to the pyramid of the Sun at distances proportional to the distance from our star to all nine planets of the solar system known to us. This discovery confirmed the hypothesis that Teotihuacan was a cult and "scientific" complex, reproducing the layout of its buildings a model of the solar system.

It is appropriate to recall here that people knew about the first six planets in antiquity, but they only became aware of the existence of Uranus in 1781, Neptune in 1846, and Pluto only in 1930.

So who, more than 2000 years ago, created in the city a model of our "near space" with a full set of planets?

However, the amazing discoveries in the ruins of Teotihuacan do not end there. Since the 1980s, inside some buildings in Teotihuacan, archaeologists have discovered premises of unknown purpose. So, in 1983, inside one of the structures of the Citadel complex, deep underground, a room was found, in the ceiling of which, for 30 meters, layers of masonry alternated with layers of mica, and the thickness of such a "puff cake" reached 1.5 meters. Further research gave rise to another mystery: the mica in the "pie" turned out to be muscovite - the kind that is not found in Central America.

In modern industry, mica is widely used as an excellent electrical and thermal insulation material that can withstand temperatures up to 800 C. In addition, mica has good transparency: after all, "in the old days" it was through mica windows that their hostesses watched the flame in kerosene stoves in the kitchens.

But who and why needed these properties of mica 2000 years ago on the territory where, according to modern concepts, people lived in the Stone Age?

What a Polish journalist saw and learned

In the 1970s, Polish journalist Stanislav Khadyna visited Teotihuacan. There, his "guide" was a Mexican archaeologist, Professor Ramirez. Here is how Khadina describes her impressions of visiting Teotihuacan in the book “Conquest of the Continent” (Na podbój kontynentu): “… We walk along the back side of the Citadel. I look at the compass, trying to determine where is the north, but the needle rushes along the scale like crazy. Ramirez points north with his hand. Why are there such powerful magnetic fields? In the end, the arrow calms down, but … indicates the direction of the line connecting the centers of the Temple of Quetzalcoatl, the Pyramid of the Sun and the mountain peak Cerro Gordo, that is, not at all to the north, but with a deviation of 17 from the east-west direction. We go along this invisible line. But here Ramirez turns to the right, the compass needle obediently turns after him and again stops at 17”.

Travelers move away from the buildings of the Citadel and begin to climb a path that winds along the gentle slope of Cerro Gordo. Suddenly Ramirez stops, apologizes and … blindfolds Khadina. Then he follows Ramirez, like a blind man for a guide. 15-20 minutes pass, and Khadina feels that they have entered a closed space. But the blindfold was removed. They are in a cave, three tunnels go out of it in different directions. Above the entrances to the tunnels, hieroglyphs, surprisingly similar to Egyptian ones, glow - each with its own color.

“These are the hieroglyphs of the Mayan Toltec writing,” Ramirez says. - The fact that they are very similar to the Egyptian ceases to seem surprising if you recognize the fact of the existence of Atlantis.

The travelers went deep into one of the tunnels, which soon led them to a new underground room, this time clearly of artificial origin. Here, the walls and ceiling are completely lined with plates of mica, shining brightly in the rays of electric flashlights. The Grotto of the Sun is the most appropriate name for this room.

According to Professor Ramirez, once the entire pyramid of the Sun was covered with mica and on clear days it shone dazzlingly in the rays of the deity, in whose honor the ancient builders erected it. Moreover, he added, this coating, apparently, had not only a decorative or ritual purpose. The Vatican archives contain a manuscript by Father Pedro de los Rios, the so-called Vatican Code. It talks about the great pyramids that were built by giants. But they did not finish building the pyramids, because the gods began to throw lightning at the giants. It is clear that this is a legend. But if we assume that the pyramids were really subjected to impacts of powerful electrical discharges, then it is difficult to find a more reliable protection against them than a coating of mica plates.

Why are the discoveries of archaeologists "classified"?

Serpentine mask

To this question from a Polish journalist, Professor Ramirez replied: “Most of the discoveries made on the territory of the complex … do not fit into the generally accepted ideas … about the past of the American continent and its inhabitants. But we … a group of archaeologists, researchers and scientists involved in these discoveries cannot offer a reasonable explanation for much of what we have found … That is why we are in no hurry to announce our findings to the whole world. After all, most scientists adhering to traditional … scientific views would take our messages very skeptically, and the most zealous, what good, would be accused of bias, invention, falsification and other unsightly acts.

We continue to search - both for new artifacts and explanations for all our amazing finds … After all, the history of archeology knows a lot of similar situations. For decades, strange clay pots with iron rods and copper cylinders mounted inside, which were considered some kind of cult objects, lay in the basements of museums. And then someone guessed to pour electrolyte into them. And the cult pots gave an electric current: it turned out that these were galvanic cells, and they were made … about two thousand years ago.

Or here are the stylized figurines of fantastic birds found at the beginning of the twentieth century … in South America. They were considered either toys or cult attributes and hid in storerooms. Years, decades passed … [they] were brought out into the light of day, carefully examined. And it turned out that in outline they are surprisingly reminiscent of … modern supersonic fighters. The birds, whose age totaled more than one and a half thousand years, were blown in a wind tunnel, and they demonstrated very good flying qualities.

It is possible that we will eventually find an answer to the riddles of Teotihuacan, and it will turn out to be just as unexpected.

As for blindfolding you before visiting the Grotto of the Sun, everything is simple. After all, you did not make a secret of your trip here and your upcoming meeting with me. The meeting took place, and you visited the most interesting places, including underground rooms with tunnels, which only a few people had visited before. As a journalist, you are obliged to write about what you saw. But where exactly you saw all this, you will not be able to tell "for reasons beyond your control." continents ".