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when the conquistadors led by francisco pizarro first encountered the incas, they were greeted as gods, "virachochas", because their lighter skin and beards resembled that of a divine race of people which had previously lived there a long time ago and then left

also the aztec god quetzalcoatl and several other deities from central and south american pantheons are described in legends as being white bearded men
(side-note: mormons belief quetzalcoatl to have been jesus)

when the spaniards came to lake titicaca, up in the andes, they found tiahuanaco
when asked who had left these enormous ruins, chronicler cieza de leon was told these things had been made long before the inca had come to power, made by men like the spaniards themselves

the white men had abandoned their statues and gone with their leader, con-ticci viracocha, first up to cuzco, and then down to the pacific
they were given the inca name of viracocha, or "sea foam", because they were white skinned and vanished like foam over the sea

the conquistador, pedro pizarro, reported that while the masses of andes indians were small and dark, the members of the ruling inca family were tall with red hair and light skinned, who the inca believed were the last descendants of the viracochas

top: specimen of european-like hair on pre-inca head from makat tampu, near lima, peru
note the fine texture, wavyness, and light color of the hair
bottom: samples of human hair from some of the bearers of the pre-inca high-culture at nazca, coastal south peru

hair color and texture of some of the bearers of the extinct pre-inca high cultures in peru
1, 5, 7, 9 from makat tampu, near lima
3, 6, 8, 10, 12 from paracas peninsula
2, 4, 11 from nazca

codex vaticanus 3738

mummy bundle from paracas, coastal peru
the wrappings, which are more than two-thousand years old, have been opened to expose the mummy-head wearing long braids of blonde human hair

yellow-haieed navigator plunging from his craft to the fishes of the sea
detail from the same old maya wallpaintings in the temple at chitzen itza

mural paintings from temple of the warriors, chitzen itza, yucatan
light-colored men in the bay are apparently packing up to retreat by sea

... while others to the right defend a village, or are taken away as prisoners in the procession of victors and captives on the road bellow

sacrifice of one of the light-skinned, light-haired seafarers
the artists/priests who made these depictions in mayan temples were well acquainted with individuals who resembled columbus long before their arrival
the question being: who in the world were these people

note: unmixed new world natives cannot grow beards and what facial hair they do have is thin/sparse

mummies (mostly from the cemetery of chauchilla at nazca)

more artifacts from the pre-colombian era moche, nasca, wari, olemc, ica, chimú, and inca cultures

according to contemporary textbooks, all natives to the americas arrived from asia a la the so-called bearings, the bridge of land between eastern siberia and alaksa, that emerged from the bering sea after the water accumulated in the form of glaciers

"another fundamental implication of hrdlicka's theory that was in practicality unjustified, was was that there should be visible a clear chronological chain of development along the 'north-south axis'
cultural remainsfrom north america should be clearly older than . . .

those from central america, and those in turn should be significantly older than the south american ones
in other words, the youngest cultures should be from the far south, or at any rate shouldn't be anything very old in the far south
that too was quite bizarre . . .

as a scientific idea, for there is no such clear correlation

for example: if we take a look at a map of central america showing the chronology of cultures, the following order will emerge

let's start with the southern section of central america:

1. we will see the olmecs, which was the oldest civilization there
the first remains date from 12th century bc, the last ones from the first century bc
they occupied the territory of the southernmost part oc mexico and guaremala

2. in the adjacent territory, slightly to the west, emerged in the 5th century bc a similar culture of zapotecs and mixtecs
it lasted quite a long time and disappeared from the scene in the 15th century ad

3. at the same time latitude, or more precisely, in the territory occupied earlier by the olmecs, flourished the mayan civilization, for around one-thousand years, beginning in the 1st century bc
and then the great trek northward began

4. in the 2nd century ad there appeared the teotihuacan civilization in central mexico
it was succeeded by the toltecs and the aztecs, who are the youngest, and at the same time, the most northern central american civilization

5. the only cultural center in today's u.s that possessed a city, the casas grandes, appeared only in the 7th century ad, almost two thousand years after the olmecs in the south

how is this supposed to support the migration from the north"

igor witkowski's axis of the world

for over a century the mysterious ruins of the cliff dwellings in nevada and elsewhere in the western usa have baffled archeologists and historians

square stone structures were foreign to the american indians, and their local folklore claimed they are created by the 'anasazi'

the buildings are, however, currently shown off to tourists as american indian created structures

if american Indians did indeed build these structures, why were they living in buffalo skin tents when Europeans colonized after the 1500s

on 28th of july 1996, a dramatic find was made in the state of washington: a well-preserved skeleton was found in the columbia river in kennewick
this skeleton is known as kennewick man, nearly wholly intact with a stone arroshead lodged in his pelvic bone...

are so obviously white, that forensic anthropologists and local police first thought he was killed in the 19th century at about 45 years old

radiocarbon dating his finger bone has shown it to have an age of at least nine-thousand years

this has been the end of the thread, with the success of this one, it is entirely possible i will be doing the tocharians tomorrow if there is interest in the topic

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