Marcahuasi's secret
Marcahuasi is a mythical place: for some, it is the magnetic and gravitational center of the planet, where a prodigious civilization lived 85 centuries ago; For others, it is just a spectacular plateau at about 4000 meters high, where the remains of a pre-Inca culture are located and where atmospheric agents shaped many rocks into the shape of human faces and animal bodies.
My trip to Marcahuasi began in Lima, from where I took a bus to get to Chosica, a city located an hour away from the capital of Peru. The Peruvian researcher Paul Mazzei accompanied me.
From Chosica you take a direct bus to San Pedro de Casta, a small town located at about 3,200 meters above sea level, the base point for excursions to Marcahuasi and which was founded in the years after the conquest of Peru in a place that was already inhabited. by natives and was called Orcohuasi (house on the hill, house on the mountain).
The popular legends of the town tell of mythical ethnic groups that lived in the valley since the beginning of time. According to these stories, the first settlers of the plateau were the Carashatos, primitive cannibals who ate raw meat and based their lives on strange superstitions. Then came the Huaris, intelligent giants who used fire and who mastered the art of modeling stones. Finally, the Varayoq arrived, pre-Inca peoples who integrated into Tahuantisuyo.
Upon arriving in San Pedro de Casta, Paul Mazzei introduced me to Manuel Olivares, a friendly man of more than eighty years of life, eight of which he worked with the esoteric Daniel Ruzo, one of the greatest scholars of Marcahuasi.
Manuel Olivares is the man who best knows the so-called sacred plateau in the world, but he could not accompany us because unfortunately his vision has degenerated greatly, although his physique still allows him to walk up to 4000 meters high, something he did only two years before. In any case, he gave us very valuable information about the areas to visit and, most of all, about the ideal time to observe certain rocks and interpret their correct meaning, taking advantage of the solar lighting.
The next day we left around 6:30 and in just two hours of easy walking, we reached the Marcahuasi plateau. The sun shone in a clear blue sky, an ideal condition to appreciate the enormous stones of Marcahuasi and the pre-Inca citadel, located near them.
Indeed, this rock jungle attracts a lot of attention. Some of them look like a set of human faces and profiles (the so-called monument to humanity), others are anthropomorphic (the political king, the prophet) and there are also some zoomorphic (the toad, the African lion, the llama). On this visit you can even see funerary urns (or chullpas) and a little further away are the surprising remains of a pre-Inca village, precisely called Marcahuasi (in Quechua: house of the sovereign, but the inhabitants of San Pedro de Casta translate it per house in the highlands).
My friend Paul Mazzei and I went into the ruined town and filmed some funeral urns. It is estimated that the population of the plateau may have reached a number of 500 to 1,000 inhabitants, in a period between the eighth and fourteenth century AD.
But who were these ancient inhabitants of the plateau? And above all, what are the theories that explain the way of life of these remote cultures?
The first scholar to explore Marcahuasi and analyze it scientifically was the greatest Peruvian archaeologist, Julio C. Tello, who in 1923 toured the plateau and, after carefully examining the funerary urns, mummies and ceramics found at the site, maintained that the builders of the pre-Inca village must have belonged to the Yunga or Huanca culture (which flourished from 800 AD until the conquest of Pachacutec in 1476 AD). According to Tello, the place called the fortress, a set of enormous stones arranged one on top of the other, located further from the so-called amphitheater, was nothing other than a sacred site where the Yunga performed their sacred rites and worshiped their Divinity, called Wallallo.
In the 1950s, the Peruvian esoteric researcher Daniel Ruzo (1900-1991) stayed in Marcahuasi for several years studying the rocks and trying to interpret what according to him were enigmatic statues sculpted by a very ancient megalithic culture that he called Masma.
It should be noted that Daniel Ruzo was an admirer of the Peruvian esoteric Pedro Astete (1871-1940). In fact, the name Masma derives from a dream of Astete's that was referred to Ruzo.
Below is an excerpt from the book The Fantastic History of a Discovery, by Daniel Ruzo, published in 1973:
The most imposing of the sacred mountains on Earth, the one with the most beautiful decoration, is at the gates of Lima, eighty kilometers to the east, in the foothills of the Andes. A powerful people, creators of a complete culture, made it - more than eighty-five centuries ago - a reservoir of rainwater to irrigate the lands that surround it during the six dry months. He turned the plateau into an impregnable fortress and a religious center with four enormous altars. He gave his dead to the condors and decorated its three square kilometers with hundreds of wonderful sculptures that no one can deny. He spent so many hours of work on these works and decoration that we can assure that he enjoyed a flourishing economy for centuries.
The famous Italian writer Peter Kolosimo also described Marcahuasi in his book It is not terrestrial, implying that the creators of the strange sculptures were “Gods who came from heaven” in a very remote period, shortly after the flood.
In my opinion, only few stones were actually sculpted by man, while the majority is the product of erosion by wind and rain over millions of years. However, it would be desirable that more in-depth studies be carried out on the pre-Inca village, in order to better understand the Yunga (or Huanca) culture that built it approximately twelve centuries ago.
However, the intuitions of Ruzo and Kolosimo, although they are not supported by scientific dating evidence or archaeological stratigraphy, must be taken into consideration and must be respected, if only because they can open the way to new and important research that They could get amazing results.
Not everything on the Marcahuasi plateau has been explored: in the area called Infiernillo there are underground passages where Ruzo tried to enter, having to give up because oxygen was scarce (remember that in some points of the plateau they reach 4,200 meters and Ruzo was already 60 years old). To explore them you would need sophisticated equipment that includes oxygen pumps and thermal tracksuits.
Furthermore, just nine kilometers from Marcahuasi there is a very strange face sculpted into a large rock. In some ways it is reminiscent of the face of Mars that caused a sensation some time ago. It could just be a strange play of light, but in any case it would be interesting to organize an exploration in the area to verify if there is archaeological evidence in the field.
As you can see, Marcahuasi still contains many mysteries, which few people with an open and free mind can access. Perhaps the secret of Marcahuasi, like that of an ancient megalithic culture that dominated South America just after the flood, is hidden in some cave in the Andes.
Our civilization, not very interested in the enigmas of the past, distracted and busy destroying resources without worrying about the environment, lost sight of the ancient teachings of our ancestors, but I am sure that, by recovering them, our life on Earth could improve, not only on the level of spirituality but also on the level of reciprocal respect both between humans and between them and animals.
YURI LEVERATTO
