UPDATED 2 JANUARY, 2021 - By Mark Andrew Carpenter
https://www.ancient-origins.net/ancient-places-americas/teotihuacan-builders-0014750
New research is rewriting the story of Teotihuacan and human history!
In the heart of central Mexico, surrounded by majestic mountains and volatile volcanoes, is the Valley of Mexico Basin. There, hidden in plain sight stands Teotihuacan, a vast vexing complex of pyramids, temples, causeways, and subterranean tunnels. Despite recent attempts by the INAH (National Institute of Anthropology and History) to alter its name, Teotihuacan means “City of the Gods,” “The Place Where Men Become Gods,” or “The Place Where the Gods Were Created.” The word nemesis is defined as the inescapable agent of someone’s or something’s downfall. Teotihuacan is the nemesis of academic human history paradigms. The more this site’s chronology, iconography, and engineering is analyzed, the greater the magnitude of devastation inflicted on the obsolete narrative.
A Summary of the Crumbling Perspective
Even the authorities concede that the origins and founding of Teotihuacan is a mystery. Their best guess (a biased, preconceived and unfounded notion) is that around 300 - 200 BC, 6,000 unknown Mesoamericans united into a larger group and began to establish the city state. As the fable goes, the erroneously named Pyramid of the Sun was completed around 100 AD and the entire city reached its peak around 450 AD housing 150-250,000 citizens - making it one of the largest cities on Earth at the time.
One undisputed fact worth mentioning is that the mining and processing of obsidian (rare volcanic glass) was a major industry occurring at Teotihuacan, and the city was the source of it throughout Mesoamerica. The Maya, Aztec, Zapotec, Toltec and every other Mesoamerican culture regarded obsidian as sacred and therefore regarded the source of it a place of reverence. Similar to the obsidian production, the mainstream position on the downfall of the city is fairly certain; the elite residences show evidence of fire damage, this combined with other ancient textual evidence from around the region indicates that Teotihuacan’s elite were deposed in a violent revolt between 650-750 AD.
Teotihuacán-style mask, Classical period.
The problems and inadequacies with the conventional positions on Teotihuacan are so numerous and so fundamental, that leading institutions typically just avoid them in both research implications and discussion. At this point, a necessary disclaimer is required; this is not an indictment or underestimation of the ingenuity or capabilities of the ancient Mesoamerican people, it is simply an unflinching exploration of the extreme logistics, utterly unknown identity of these elite rulers, their mysterious methods, motivations, and finally, the cognitive dissonance this site instills in the experts. In her essay on Teotihuacan, Dr. Maya Jimenez sums it up nicely:
“The Aztecs attributed names and significance to its buildings but had no contact with this earlier culture. Very little is known of these people who built Teotihuacan, and as a result much of our knowledge of the site, its art, and Teotihuacan culture is derived from Aztec sources. Largely created before 250 CE, Teotihuacan is a testament to its people, who built the first American city on a grid plan.”
Pyramid of the Sun and the Avenue of the Dead at Teotihuacan.
Complex City Planning From Day One
Recent research has disproven the long held position that Teotihuacan was built and rebuilt in stages over centuries of expansion. A minority of researchers long suspected that the entire city was developed according to an original masterplan, and this has now been confirmed with advances in lidar technology and the deciphering of the “pecked-cross circles” found throughout the city. These markers enabled the engineers to construct the city with very precise geographical and astronomical alignments; furthermore, the San Juan River was modified and diverted to flow through the center of the city before returning to its natural course.
All of these features, the precise longitude/latitude alignments, the diversion of the river, and the grid planning, all are clear implications that these unknown builders were no strangers to such endeavors; not only that, but they were up to something more than simply constructing a place for suitable habitation. In other words, the diversion of the river was absolutely unnecessary in terms of water utilization, as was the orientation and grid system in terms of practical necessity.
Megalithic Materials
One credit to the conventional researchers is a recent study on the provenance of the limestone at Teotihuacan. Barba and Cordova, in their 1999 study, remark on what an astonishing feat the acquisition, processing, and transportation of the limestone must have been. The quantities are staggering and the quarries are between 60 kilometers (37 miles) and 160 kilometers (99 miles) away.
“The amount of lime plaster used in the city is amazing: preliminary calculations have allowed an estimation of at least 12 million square meters of architectural surfaces in the whole city, covered with lime plaster.” Unlike Egyptology, in which construction techniques are hotly debated, the Teotihuacan construction is so mysterious that the alleged experts prefer to remain silent on this subject in an attempt to sweep a complex of giant pyramids under the proverbial rug.
Carving details of Quetzalcoatl Pyramid at Teotihuacan Ruins in Mexico . ( diegograndi /Adobe Stock)
Academic researchers have noted that while the primary alignment of the city grid is very precise, they don’t point to the current North or South cardinal directions, but to the Northern most point of the city, which seems to have been very important, as the entire complex was designed around this coordinate. But what these experts are failing to consider is that the site may be much more ancient than they are prepared to accept, and hypothetically, if it were much more ancient, than this alignment begins to make more sense.
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