Sunday, May 9, 2021

Based on Chakana, the sriyantra´s geoglyph and a symbol of a 600 kms diameter could be seen from space near Cordoba, Argentina

The Sriyantra tantric symbol (1) (also called shrichakra ;“wheel of Shri” (2) represented by the geoglyph of 600 km in diameter with the center near Cordoba, Argentina) was etched in the pampas many millenniums before. Its pre-historic age, authorship, purpose, etc. need to be examined since it was created before the writing was used in Egypt or Babilon. The design using lines, canals, ponds, water tanks, etc. which were created at least 40.000 years ago (before last glaciation period). The detailed field inspection by multi-disciplinary team of specialists is necessary to answer some fundamental questions about its origin, age, resaons for its creation, etc. The Sriyantra's 9 constituent triangles vary in size and shape and intersect to form 43 smaller triangles, organized in 5 concentric levels. Together they represent the totality of the cosmos and express Advaita (non-duality) for a meditating follower (3). Early descriptions of Sriyantra exist only in the Vedic tradition, in the oldest text coming to us form the Indus Valley culture. In Brahmavidya (Adyar Library) Subhash Kak argues that the description of Sri Yantra is identical to the yantra described in the Śvetāśvatara Upanisad (3) in 6th century b.C. (4); its earliest version was written in Sanskrit, was translated later into Arabic, and only in the middle of the 19th century it surfaced in major European languages).


author: C.H.Dabrowski
source: @IVarsovienne via Google Earth

In the Shri Vidya school of Hindu tantra, the Sri Yantra (Sanskrit "sacred instrument") is a diagram formed by nine interlocking triangles that surround and radiate out from the central point. 

source: www.sriyantraresearch.com

It represents the goddess in her form of Shri Lalita or Tripura Sundari, "the beauty of the three worlds (Heaven, Earth, Hell)". The worship of the Sri Chakra is central to the Shri Vidya system of Hindu worship and is probably the most famous visual image in all of Hindu Tantric tradition. Its literature and practice is perhaps more systematic than that of any other Shakta sect (4). Four isosceles triangles with the apices upwards, representing Shiva (masculine energy) and five isosceles triangles with the apices downward, symbolizing Shakti (feminine energy) are balanced. Its design composed of nine triangles is also known as the Navayoni Chakra. (5)



source:
www.sriyantraresearch.com

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Notes:

1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shri_Yantra Accessed 31 May 2021.                           

2) Britannica, The Editors of Encyclopaedia. "Yantra". Encyclopedia Britannica, 26 Nov. 2003, https://www.britannica.com/topic/yantra. Accessed 6 June 2021.

3) https://www.wisdomlib.org/definition/shri-yantra Accessed 31 May 2021.               

4) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shri_Yantra Accessed 31 May 2021. 

5) https://www.wisdomlib.org/definition/shri-yantra Accessed 31 May 2021.                                                                                    6) https://www.wisdomlib.org/definition/shrividya Accessed 31 May 2021.

Friday, April 30, 2021

Chakana is the Andean cultures´s symbol based on the Sriyantra

Chakana is the popular element of the life and traditional designs in the life of many Andean cultures. 

Image result for pachamama chakana
Chakana also served as the calendar and guide to important agricultural events ie sowing,   etc.



Where possibly does the inspiration for this form come from? 
We think that Chakana is derived from the base of the Lingam, which is represented in the form of Sriyantra.  We associate this form made of 43 triangles with the Hindu tradition, but  it has been used in the Indus Valley culture, and appeared even earlier, probably as early as in the Sumerian iconography. 

The first document referring to the form of Chakana is the freehand drawn image in the manuscript of Pachacuti Yamqui dated in 1613. This form resembling the cross represents the idea of  the genesis of the world Andean (executed on sheet of gold in the Coricancha temple in Cusco). This document has many interpretations which have been deduced  from it (Pachacuti Yamqui [1613], 1993: 208; Milla Villena, 1983)
  
Representación de la idea de génesis de Joan de Santa Cruz Pachacuti Yamqui (1613). Fuente: Milla Villena (1983 [1613]: 232); y Milla Euribe (1990: 10)
 

The constellation Chakana or “Southern Cross” is understood as an orienting compass seen in the sky of the southern hemisphere of the globe, the Pacha in quechua. This constellation is always pointing towards the south pole and, therefore, providing - night to night - orientation throughout the year. 
The speculative idea that the amautas  (quechua - wise men), priests-astronomers and pre-Columbian architects “were lowering” the stars from the sky reflecting them in water mirrors, was not necessary to understand the form.  Focusing on  two lines, of different lengths, which only together make up the cross. On this basis, they built a square whose sides correspond to the short line and the diagonal to the long line— and then a polyvalent matrix that they in turn called Chakana.32 Thus, the Chakana was transformed —in its expression as a polyvalent matrix— into the guiding axis of high Andean culture (Fig. 1 and 6) .33 In this way, it is: “[…] represents this mystery of the universal chakana which builds between the living and the inert, between the feminine and the masculine, between the past and the future ”(Estermann, 2008: 228). 

 
Lets take a look at the recently renovated chullpas from Bolivia, they show two rhombus with series of triangles at the perimeter - and we will compare this with the synthesized design of the Sri yantra on the right. 

 



sources: Leonora Arriagada Peters Avatars of Form in the Space-time Pacha 2020
Milla Villena, Carlos (1983). Génesis de la cultura andina. Lima: Colegio de Arquitectos




Sunday, April 11, 2021

Lake Titicaca Hydraulic Civilization (43,000 - 12,900 BP) introduction

Results from the Jebel Irhoud site dating (a pre-modern phase in H.Sapiens evolution re: C.Stringer & J. Galway 2017) are confirming our theory that approx. 40,000 yrs ago in the vicinity of the the Lake Titicaca had begun a process on a large scale, during which concentrated and multilevel human activities took place, resulting in the creation of the Lake Titicaca Hydraulic Civilization (LTHC).

This process lasted until approx. 12,900 BP which corresponds to the Younger Dryas event, and it was then when catastrophic floods had changed drastically human conditions and a pattern of human existence in South and North America.

Initial phase was related to the extensive mining activities which were carried on for several thousands of years on a gigantic scale, and of which the final purpose we do not understand at this point. With depletion of important metallic minerals, the Mining Phase (approx. 40,000-21,000 BP) wained and was followed by the second Limited Phase (21,000-15,000 BP), during which the abandoned mines and degraded sites were slowly being adapted for the agricultural use. Corresponding climatic change forced new patters of behavior in the dryer and less friendly conditions, resulting the transition to the third Agricultural phase (17,000 - 12,900 BP), more known and important for our understanding of the global history , during which local population multiplied and created an extensive system of andenes and during which important ceremonial centers in Pucara and Tiwanaku were built. An extensive earthwork was carried out leading to create remote large water reservoirs (eg. Acmanuncocha, Laguna Sumbila, etc.) connected with surface canals, and alternatively with dugout ´rivers´ and perhaps complemented by ´dugout and cover´ underground puquis; unusually large coastal works re-shaped the Lake Arapa; evidence of aqueducts did not surfaced at this point, but we are not excluding their existence. This phase has been treated in more detail by other researchers.

see:  Karl August Wittfogel (1896–1988), in his book Oriental Despotism: A Comparative Study of Total Power (1957)

Tuesday, March 16, 2021

Atla-n-tis, the legendary continent which almost completely disappeared in 12th century b.C. in the Indian Ocean is also called Mauritia....

The mythical continent which almost disappeared around 1200 b.C., and was the original home to the Sea People who invaded Egypt and the kingdoms of the Mediterranean Sea according to the Instituto Varsovienne - was called Mauritia.  
Atlantida, the earth of the Atla-s like creatures who lived on the Pacific Ocean coast of both North and South America. They were responsible for construction of the first pyramids (coastal areas of Chile and Peru) and their advanced technology were transported to Africa and Asia first. From islands of Japon and Western Africa they colonized the rest of the continents, finally reaching Europe.
When Plato spoke of the events which led to the disappearance of the Atlantic about a 1000 years before him, he was referring to the aftermath of the cataclysm which has mobilize the survivors of the gigantic floods and tsunamis the land of Amer-ians who came from todays North and South America.

Mauritia (Lemuria) was hypothesized as a land bridge, now sunken, which would account for certain discontinuities in biogeography.


The north wall of Medinet Habu is often used to illustrate the Egyptian campaign against the Sea Peoples (the Sea Peoples was first described by Emanuell de Rouge in 1855) what has come to be known as the Battle of Delta.  wikipedia


Medinet Habu Second Pylon, showing wide view and a close-up sketch of the left-hand side relief in which Amon, with Mut behind him, extends a sword to Rameses III who is leading three lines of prisoners. wikipedia

Between 190,000 - 60,000 years ago two groups of survivors of the gigantic tsunami which swept continental coasts of the Pacific Ocean, existed:


1.) the Eastern group which crossed Patagonia (Chilean/Argentina), sailed across the ocean and settled the Atlantic coast of Africa (1), but did not stop there until  finally they colonized the Mauritia, creating there the powerful civilization. Subsequently, from Mauritia they colonized all coasts of the Indian Ocean and were responsible for creation of the Indus Valley and Babylonian cultures. Their advanced technology and  the writing system allowed them to invade the portions of Asia and Egypt after 1200 a.C. and within 600 years they blended into the existing populations. 

2.) the Western group which from the Eastern Island travelled through the remaining Oceania islands to Japan first, then through Western Siberia to the Altai mountains in Siberia where the remains of the Denisova hominin were found. 




Mauritia was a Precambrian microcontinent that was situated between India and Madagascar until their separation about 70 million years ago. Mauritia separated itself from Indian subcontinent about 60 million years ago and further fragmented into a ribbon-like structure as the mid-ocean ridge jumped several times. The jumps of the mid-ocean ridge are thought to have been caused of its interaction with the Réunion hotspot as it passed under the West margin of the Indian continent and then under Mauritia. Presently the fragments of Mauritia include Laccadives–Maldives–Chagos Ridge, Nazareth Bank, Saya de Malha Bank, Hawkins Bank, islands of Réunion and Mauritius, where the continual crust is buried under basaltic lavas of the Réunion hotspot.  

wikipedia A. Early Cretaceous, B. Late Cretaceous, C. Paleocene, D. present day (right/below)

see also Chris Stringer´s 2017 article on 317834005_On_the_origin_of_our_species

notes: 
(1) In 1870 biologist Ernst Haeckel stated that Mauritia/Lemuria could be the ancestral home of mankind ; doing so he shifted the scope of geology/zoogeography theory into the realm of the contemporary issue of the origin of man, ensuring the theory's popularity outside of the framework of the scientific community

Scientists unlock the 'Cosmos' on the Antikythera Mechanism, the world's first computer

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Antikythera Mechanism discovered in the 19th century off the coast of Island Antikythera




Monday, February 22, 2021

The Twenty Four Histories


The Twenty-Four Histories (Chinese二十四史pinyinÈrshísì ShǐWade–GilesErh-shih-szu shih), also known as the Orthodox Histories (Chinese正史pinyinZhèngshǐ), are the Chinese official historical books covering a period from 3000 BC to the Ming dynasty in the 17th century.

The Han dynasty official Sima Qian established many of the conventions of the genre, but the form was not fixed until much later. Starting with the Tang dynasty, each dynasty established an official office to write the history of its predecessor using official court records. As fixed and edited in the Qing dynasty, the whole set contains 3213 volumes and about 40 million words. It is considered one of the most important sources on Chinese history and culture.[1]

The title "Twenty-Four Histories" dates from 1775 which was the 40th year in the reign of the Qianlong Emperor. This was when the last volume, the History of Ming was reworked and a complete set of the histories produced.

These works were begun by one historian and completed by an heir, usually of the next generation.