The esoteric chronology of Daniel Ruzo, the great scholar of Marcahuasi
The Peruvian esoteric researcher Daniel Ruzo (1900-1991) spent much of his life studying some very particular places on the planet, such as Marcahuasi (Peru) and Tepoztlán (Mexico).
The Marcahuasi plateau is a legendary place: located at more than 4,000 meters above sea level in the Lima region, it has an approximate area of 4 square kilometers. In the center of the plateau are the remains of a pre-Inca citadel whose vestiges date back to the 8th century AD. In addition, scattered on the plateau (or perhaps correctly located), there are many megalithic, anthropomorphic, zoomorphic and mythological sculptures, as well as some petroglyphs and ideograms that Ruzo interpreted as the work of a lost antediluvian civilization, which he called Masma.
It should be added that traditional archaeologists have always denied that the strange rock formations of Marcahuasi are actually sculptures made by man in ancient times, and describe them simply as the result not only of the erosion, rain and wind in the course of time, but also from the fantasy of esoteric researchers.
The strange thing is that the megalithic sculptures are numerous and, starting with the most famous, the Monument to Humanity, they seem to be the fruit of very ancient human work. Others, however, seem to represent unique animals such as the lion or the horse, which became extinct in South America around 12,000 BC (they could be the smilodon and the American horse).
Daniel Ruzo's theory, which was in turn based on the intuitions and dreams of Pedro Astete, precisely indicated the men of the Masma culture as the first inhabitants of the plateau and as those who sculpted the megalithic statues.
From his book “Marcahuasi, the fantastic story of a discovery” (1974), it is deduced that Ruzo maintained that there were five different humanities on Earth, and that each of them occupied a period of 8608 years during which humans reached considerable levels of social and technological development, but then these achievements were erased by respective catastrophes of unprecedented proportions, which would be related, according to Ruzo, with the cycle of the precession of the equinoxes.
It is likely that Ruzo was influenced by the famous book “The Secret Doctrine” (1888), by the Russian esoteric writer Helena Blavatsky, in which the theory of the five humanities is explained, but, in any case, Ruzo's hypothesis differs from Blavatsky's theory, especially in the chronology.
After having studied sculptures and megalithic sites in Marcahuasi, Sacsayhuamán, Ollantaytambo (Peru), Tiahuanaco (Bolivia), Tepoztlán (Mexico), Fontainebleau (France), Stonehenge (England), Giza (Egypt), the Carpathians (Romania) plus an unspecified location in Brazil (Ingrejil ?), Ruzo came to the conclusion that the megalithic people who sculpted the statues of Marcahuasi and the megaliths of the other places he studied were the survivors of the universal flood, which according to him, occurred exactly in 6471 BC.
The techniques used by the megalithic people to sculpt the statues were, according to Ruzo, “unique”, since they allowed peculiar details to be perceived only when the Sun's rays illuminate them, on specific days and times of the year.
But who were the men of the Masma culture? And why, according to Ruzo, did they sculpt the Marcahuasi statues?
According to the Peruvian researcher, the fourth humanity was dominated by the culture of Atlantis, which had its center on the island of the same name, located near the current coast of Mauritania. When the first signs of the catastrophe known today as the “flood” appeared, which according to Ruzo occurred exactly when the Sun began to rise (during the equinoxes) with the constellation of Gemini in the background (which corresponds, according to his calculations, to 6471 BC) some Atlanteans took refuge in Mauritania, while others emigrated to Yemen.
Ruzo also believed that the Mauritanian Atlanteans gave rise to the Masma culture, while the Yemenite Atlanteans originated the Imiarite culture. As sea levels were rising and the catastrophe was approaching, both peoples sought refuge in the highlands and some isolated groups sailed to the New World. The Masma crossed the Atlantic, and ascending the Amazon River and its tributaries they reached the Andes, while the Imiaritas sailed east and reached South America crossing the Pacific Ocean.
According to Ruzo, 85 centuries ago a small groups of megalithic Masma and Imiaritas settled in the Andes, originating the Andean culture and founding the main places of worship: Marcahuasi, Sacsayhuamán and Tiahuanaco.
The statues of Marcahuasi would have been sculpted to leave posterity the knowledge of a great past. For example, the Egyptian Tueris (Taueret) (goddess of fertility, represented by a pregnant female hippopotamus) would have been carved to recall the distant Semitic origins of the Imiarites, as well as to illustrate the symbol of the “womb” or the “ Renaissance".
Likewise, Ruzo suggested that the cause that triggers the cyclical catastrophe, which occurs every 8,608 years, is the passage of the Sun through four zodiacal signs, caused by the change in the direction of the inclination of the Earth's axis or by the precession of the equinoxes.
The researcher believed that only at the entrance of three specific zodiac signs, respectively Gemini, Aquarius and Libra, do cyclical catastrophes occur, caused alternately by the elements air, earth, fire and water.
Following his logic, three universal cataclysms would therefore occur in the course of 25,824 years (1), the total time of the cycle of the precession of the equinoxes.
Recapitulating, Daniel Ruzo maintained that:
- The first humanity had reached the level of technological civilization in 40,903 BC and was destroyed by the element of air (tornadoes, disappearance of the atmosphere?), exactly in 32,295 BC, when the Sun entered Gemini.
- The second humanity was annihilated in 23687 BC by the element of earth (earthquakes?) when the Sun entered the sign of Aquarius.
- The third humanity was devastated in 15079 BC by the element of fire (volcanoes? meteorites?) when the Sun entered Libra.
- The fourth humanity was devastated by the water element (flood, end of ice ages?) exactly in 6471 BC, when the Sun entered Gemini again.
- The fifth humanity (the current one) will be demolished by the air element, when the Sun enters again under the sign of Aquarius, exactly in 2137 AD.
In order to verify if the intuitions and beliefs of Daniel Ruzo have are real, let us now analyze the scientific possibilities that the cyclical movements of the Earth in space can cause catastrophes or can trigger complex processes that cause ice ages and, therefore, the end of technological civilizations.
One of the first scientists to study in depth the interrelationships between the movements of the Earth in space and the alternation of glacial periods (or the possibility of other gigantic hecatombs) was the Serbian mathematician Milutin Milankovic (1879-1958).
Milankovic studied four movements of the Earth that affect ice ages: the eccentricity of the orbit (or how elliptical the orbit is), the inclination of the Earth's axis with respect to the ecliptic (which varies with a cycle of 41,000 years) the precession of the equinoxes (change in the direction of the inclination of the Earth's axis, which has a cycle of 25,776 years) and, finally, the oscillation of the ecliptic plane (which has a cycle of 70,000 years).
As for eccentricity, today we know that it is an important value, since minimal variations (caused by the attraction of other celestial bodies, particularly Jupiter and Saturn) could cause climate changes.
Some studies have shown that eccentricity varies with a cycle ranging from 95,000 to 125,000 years. The eccentricity of our orbit ranges from 0.005 (almost circular) to 0.058 (maximum eccentricity). Currently, this value is 0.017. When the eccentricity is maximum, the difference in solar radiation between the perihelion (minimum distance from the Sun) and the aphelion (maximum distance from the Sun) reaches 6.8% of the total (while today it is 3.4% of the total). According to the specialist James Croll (19th century), the periods of maximum eccentricity would correspond to the glacial periods, but this theory was questioned by other scholars.
Regarding the precession of the equinoxes, the movement of the Earth that was observed since ancient times, today it can be stated that it has a cycle of 25776 years.
When the Earth's axis points towards the Sun at perihelion, the northern hemisphere has large climate differences between winter and summer (the former very cold and the latter very hot), while in the southern hemisphere there would be no significant differences (mild winter and cool summer).
According to the French mathematician Joseph Ademar (19th century), the precession of the equinoxes would be the “cosmic engine” that caused the end of the Wisconsin-Würm glaciation, around 10,000 years ago. However, his theory was refuted by several climatologists.
Also the inclination of the Earth's axis with respect to the ecliptic (which varies with a cycle of 41,000 years) was indicated as a possible cause of the beginning of the ice ages, since an inclination of the Earth's axis of 24.5 degrees would correspond to very severe winters. It was precisely Milankovic who pointed out, on the contrary, the cool summers (therefore, the periods of minimum inclination) as the cause of the onset of glacial periods, since during these periods the snow accumulated during the winter would not be able to melt and thus could cause glaciation.
The combination of the three factors already mentioned, in addition to the oscillation of the ecliptic plane (which has a cycle of 70,000 years) has led several scholars to maintain that glaciations have a cycle of 100 millennia and that they are interspersed by glacial periods of 10 or 12,000 years old.
There are, however, other theories that suggest that the duration of the glacial periods is respectively 21, 40 or 400 millennia. However, these theories have not yet been universally accepted since other factors must also be considered, such as the distribution of continents on the Earth's surface, the possibility of the passage of comets and also the human impact on the Earth's atmosphere.
In addition, scientists have focused on analyzing the possibilities that Earth's movements are the cause of ice ages, but have not reached certain conclusions about the possibility of the cyclicality of other global catastrophes, such as increased volcanism on a global scale, the impact of giant asteroids, the change of polarity of the Earth or potentially dangerous periods of drought.
If the theory of the cyclicity of 100,000 years with interglacial intervals of 12,000 were true, one might think that we will soon enter a new ice age, but, in any case, no certain correlation has been found with the precession of the equinoxes, indicated by Ruzo as the key to the problem.
To this day, no one is able to say with absolute certainty when the next planetary catastrophe will occur and why it will be caused. In my opinion, in addition to scientists who rely on mathematical evidence, esoteric researchers should also be taken into account, who could, with their intuitions, point out the correct path to deepen and understand the past and try to prevent our future through of a holistic vision.
YURI LEVERATTO
