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Storytelling is an ancient shamanic oral tradition that preserves important knowledge for future generations. The storytellers of the Indians of the Lake Titicaca region told legends about stone structures beneath the lake waters, which explorers searched for unsuccessfully. Then in 1980 ACE, Hugo Boero Rojo, a Bolivian scholar, guided by information from the local Indians, located monumental ruins with stone roads and temples built from gigantic blocks of stone about fifteen to twenty metres beneath the surface of the lake off the coast of Puerto Acosta, Bolivia. Rojo concluded that the findings indicated the existence of an advanced pre-Columbian civilization long before the arrival of the Spaniards. Some archaeologists have placed the timeframe for the Tiahuanaco culture at more than twelve thousand years before the present era. From the ancient past to more recent times, South American Indians have used the title Vairacocha when they address white people. Chronicle records depict the residents of ancient Tiahuanaco, the Vairacochas, as a fair skinned people who wore long white robes. Vairacocha, a creator, benefactor teacher god, was portrayed as a fair skinned man with a white beard who wore sandals and a long white robe. There seems to be a common thread which links together the various Peruvian cultures with Vairacocha and the Tiahuanaco site at Lake Titicaca which also borders Bolivia.
The religion of the
Tiahuanaco area revolves around the god Vairacocha who is usually depicted with
a radiant halo around his head, holding a staff in each hand. On the bas
relief on the upper part of the "Sun Gate" at Tiahuanaco there is a image of a
sun god.
The monolithic "Sun Gate" has also been called the Calendar Gate because the gateway calendar sculpture was a repository for the astronomical, mathematical, and scientific knowledge of the ancient peoples of Tiahuanaco, who counted using pictorial or conceptual units of measurement. Vairacocha was a peace loving shaman with the cougar, condor, falcon and snake for animal totems. According to the legends, a belligerent evil people dressed in short clothes came to the sacred lake of Titicaca. Their discordant presence forced god Vairacocha and his people, the Vairacochas, to leave Tiahuanaco, promising that they would return one day. That day has now come. Many of the ancient Peruvian goddesses and gods including Apo-Inti, Capachuaca, Chasca, Huanacauri, Ilyapa, Mamacocha. Mama-Kilya, Mama-Wanka, Manco-Wawki, Pacacamac, Pacamama, and Vairacocha have all come back to the Earth to serve the peoples of the planet as Archangels and Hierarchs of the Twelve Universal Rays. For more information about them please see their individual pages with have descriptions of their Sacred Site focal points which can be accessed from Archangels of Twelve Universal Rays and Hierarchs of Twelve Universal Rays. From analysis of the arrangement of the geometrical elements on the Calendar Gate, researchers have surmised that the original inhabitants of Tiahuanaco divided the circle both mathematically and astronomically.
They knew trigonometry and
how to measure angles and their functions. They were also able to calculate
squares, square roots, and fractions. Although they do not appear to have used
the duodecimal system, the number eleven and multiples of the number eleven
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