MAYA, EGYPTIAN AND SUMERIAN: Alignments and similarities (slightly) random
A lot of studies has been done and hundreds of books have been written about the Egyptian pyramids, the Aztec pyramids, and the Mesopotamian ziggurats and generally the other megalithic monuments scattered around the globe. Few books, however, have examined the correspondences of the orientation of these monuments to the another.
Almost all authors stop at the alignment that these monuments present with the heliacal rising, with a particular star or constellation, coincidences in any case not to be underestimated but all in all so far accepted (and not even always nor by all) arguing that peoples of different places and times may nevertheless have had the same idea in taking the stars as an immutable reference point (even if there is to be reckoned with the precession of the equinoxes) for the calculation of time, or for the design of civil works.
On the alignment of these monuments with each other, and on 'non-elemental' analogies presented by individual monuments very few works has been carried.
It is little known, for example, that the ruins of the Esagila, the sacred complex dedicated to Marduk and his wife Sarpanit, presents a curious feature: the ziggurat that supported the Holy Sanctorum with the statues of the gods has the same number of steps and the same deviation from the 'true north' as the Aztec Pyramid of the Sun. No small coincidence since Marduk was a solar deity.
The Eninnu of Lagash, also in Mesopotamia, dedicated to Enlil, and the Egishshirgal of Ur dedicated to Nannar (the Sumerian moon god) and his wife NinGal, designed by Ningishzidda, a lunar deity who was Marduk's brother, have the same number of steps and the same deviation from 'true north' as the Aztec Pyramid of the Moon.
The Girsu dedicated to Ninurta, also in Lagash, has in its courtyard a series of seven vertical megaliths arranged in a circle with one of them slightly shifted forward from the hypothetical circle, exactly like the first phase of Stonehenge.
If we join with a straight line the Hexagila, the center of the Giza complex, and the Aztec Sun and Moon Pyramids complex and Stonehenge, these 3 points deviate from the imaginary straight line by less than 1°.
Lagash also lies on this line being less than 1° from Babylon.
- point 1: Esagila - Babylon (2400 B.C.) / Girsu - Lagash (c. 2150 B.C.)
- point 2: Pyramids of Giza - Egypt (orthodox: 2500 b.c.e. - Sitchin: 10500 b.c.e.)
- point 3: Teotihuacan - Mexico (orthodox: 2400-1400 b.c.e. - Sitchin 8000 b.c.e. approx.)
- point 4: Stonehenge - Britain (2900-2100 b.c.e.)
Also in a straight line lie Bad Tibira, the Mesopotamian metallurgical center in Sumerian times, the Giza complex, and Machu Pichu, the ancient Tampu Toco, a Peruvian metallurgical center.
Mesopotamia and Egypt are quite close geographically and culturally, so we should not be surprised to find artistic similarities. But to find such pronounced similarities between these two civilizations, the Maya, who supposedly lived thousands of years later, and thousands of miles away, without according to official history these could have come into contact, is truly shocking. Yet Egyptian sphinxes and Maya/Aztec sphinxes, both with human faces, have the same type of headdress that reaches up to the neck, engraved with horizontal 'grooves'.
Both types of headgear have a snake on their foreheads. This is perfectly consistent with the identification Zecharia Sitchin gives of the Ningishzidda/Quetzalcoatl characters. Egyptian headdresses would display a snake in the name of Thot, identified by Sitchin in the Sumerian deity Ningishzidda, of Enkite lineage and therefore represented by the snake (like Enki and Marduk), and Mayan ones in the name of Quetzalcoatl, the 'feathered serpent' worshipped by the Aztecs, Maya and Incas, who is also traced to the figure of Ningishzidda/Thot.
It has been said in so many books that the three pyramids of Giza mirror the arrangement of Orion's belt, as if to duplicate on earth a stellar structure in which the ancient Egyptians identified the home of Osiris, the Duat, according to the principle: as it is in the sky so in held.
This alignment, however, is not the only one worthy of note. There is another alignment that inextricably links the pyramid complex of Giza with that of Teotihuacan.
In both cases we have two major pyramids lying aligned in a straight line, and a minor pyramid lying slightly to the left of this imaginary line. In the case of Teotihuacan we have an angle of 18°, while in the case of Giza 13°.
Both sites have astronomical references and are devoted to the worship of the dead:
- From Giza (Rosteau) the ka of the pharaoh begins his journey to the Duat
- Teotihuacan represents the 'path of the dead,' the corridor that runs alongside the buildings is still called the 'corridor of the dead.'
The Teotihuacan site is linked to the cult of Quetzalcoatl, the Giza site to Thot, both linked to the figures of the serpent and the 'bird:
- Quetzalcoatl: the winged serpent
- Thot: head of ibis with a snake on it - also Thot corresponds to the Greek Hermes, whose symbol, the caduceus, contains the two intertwined snakes and whose helmet has bird's wings.
However, the similarities do not stop there. We can find many more by studying the finds in the three regions. Take for example the technique by which the megalithic stones of the monuments were held together. Apart from the form itself, what is astonishing is the appearance of the same technique at the same time in two such distant areas. And let us also remember that, according to official history, while the Egyptians in 2500 B.C. were already expert builders, the ancestors of the Maya were only a little less than primitive people.
Here are two examples of 'hinges' used by the two civilizations to hold large stones together in their constructions:
In both Mesopotamia and Central America, bas-reliefs and sculptures have been found with the same enigmatic error. They depict deities or characters with two left hands.
At first this was interpreted by some writers as an 'error of perspective' due to not being able to correctly represent in the same figure the two hands arranged one with the palm toward the viewer, and the other with the back. However, this is an explanation that does not stand, since those who produced these sculptures and reliefs also made colossal architectural works with stone parallelepipeds weighing from 2 to 200 tons, managing to orient, carve and align them perfectly. Proof of a truly phenomenal and precise concept of perspective. It would also be too far-fetched to assume that 2 civilizations over 3000 years and 6000 km apart, had the same 'perspective problem'.
And what about the incredible detail of the negroid features of the Olmec statues of Central America?
Could it be that all these similarities are just coincidences? Or could it be that the Mesopotamian and Egyptian populations were closely related to each other and to the peoples of the Central and South American continent?
