ANCIENT ASTRONAUT THEORY: ALIEN ARCHAEOLOGY #4

TIWANAKU ALIEN
AND EVOLUTION

Ancient Astronaut Engravings Viewed from a Biological Perspective

One of the things that the alien legacy has taught us is that it is possible for water-based life forms to achieve higher technology. In other words, the prolonged and complicated transition from water to land is not an essential step. This sharply weakens the arguments of scientists who would like to believe that technology is unique to humankind: the evolutionary progression from amoeba to technology can be short-circuited.

It was mentioned on a biology blog that archaeological engravings from the Tiwanaku civilization in Bolivia are unlikely to be depicting an ancient astronaut for the reason that, even with an aquatic tail, the creature still looks too much like a human. The underlying argument was that the evolution of life forms is so diverse that it is highly unlikely an alien would come out looking even remotely like us. In essence, this is the opposite side of the pendulum to Hollywood's consistent imaging of aliens as humanoids.

The biologist ignored the decorative and symbolic imagery added by the Tiwanaku artists and did not consider the given premise of an aquatic alien inside helmeted spacesuit. I have to assume, therefore, the biologist noted that the creature had two arms and two eyes, and since humans have two arms and two eyes, the biologist concluded that this cannot be an alien.

What should intelligent aliens look like? Or, to phrase it another way, what should we expect interstellar travelers who come here to look like? This is not a complete unknown. If the aliens are capable of interstellar travel, they obviously achieved higher technology. What is necessary to achieve technology? My opinion on this is that to achieve technology, a life form would need a complex brain and the ability to see and manipulate objects. This implies eyes, fingered appendages, and perhaps a head relatively large compared to overall body size. The Tiwanaku alien has all these features.

The biologist might counter that the issue is not that aliens have eyes, but the number of eyes. Here on Earth, higher animal forms evolved with two eyes. For example, mammals, birds, fish, reptiles, and insects all have two eyes, but on another planet the number of eyes would be different. There, perhaps, the life forms would randomly have one, three, four, or even ten eyes. Is that true? Is the number of eyes a random event in the evolutionary process?

Astronomers searching for extraterrestrial intelligence are looking for planets similar to Earth regarding temperature and chemical composition because they know life evolved here, so it is logical to assume that life might also evolve on other similar planets. Likewise, with similar planetary history, we might expect the evolutionary process on those other planets to progress similarly to how it progressed here.

Question: Was the evolution of animal life with two eyes on Earth a random event, so much so that we should expect extraterrestrial life to have a different number of eyes? I think not. Why? It is called natural selection or survival of the fittest. Two eyes are the minimum required to give depth perception and concentrated focus. Perhaps early on Earth there were animals with five or ten eyes, but with a brain too small to orientate five directions, such species quickly became extinct. Only two eyes survived. Should we expect something radically different on another Earth-like planet? No. It is reasonable to expect intelligent aliens to have two eyes, just like humans.

It is also reasonable to expect alien life forms to be imaginable from the diversity of life forms we see on Earth, past and present. The Tiwanaku alien has features similar to a fish (fish mouth that seems to be breathing inside a water-filled helmet), features similar to a lobster (sea creature with two forward appendages for manipulating objects), and features similar to humans (large head and fingered upper appendages). Only four fingers are depicted in the Tiwanaku drawings, versus our five, but this easily falls within evolutionary feasibility. The alien's three-pod aquatic tail is also an imaginable evolutionary development.

I think the biologist's appreciation for the potentially enormous diversity of life forms in the universe is admirable. For those life forms that develop higher technology, however, it is likely, not unlikely, that they will have something in common with humans.

Article by Gersiane de Brito.

On the Evolutionary Front

SEX

Animal species on Earth tend to be divided into two sexes: male and female, and this is likely to be the case on an alien planet as well. To get to the point, the sky god's tail of blossoming “flowers” looks like something designed to attract lovers, and literature deemed written by the sky god provides strong support for improvements in the status of women. For practical reasons, I usually refer to the sky god as “he” or “him” on this website, but more likely than not, this ancient astronaut was a female.

SIZE

Prior to the arrival of the sky god, the artists of Tiwanaku made sculptures of giants, and in giant size. Since they were not averse to making things in large size, the image of the sky god on top of the Gateway of the Sun may reflect his real size. In other words, the sky god may have been a relatively small creature, perhaps measuring no more than a meter in length from head to tail.

TEETH

The full frontal images of the sky god do not depict him with teeth, but that does not necessarily mean that he did not have teeth. It could mean only that the teeth were not depicted. Meanwhile, an isolated facial image does show teeth. More likely than not, the species of this ancient astronaut evolved as carnivorous fish.

TAIL

The aquatic tail likely provided locomotion and upright balance support when the species was evolving in water. On land, the ancient astronaut most likely relied on elevation technology built into his instruments to maintain an upright position.

ARMS

Two arms are the minimum requirement for the ability to grab hold of large objects, just like two eyes are the minimum requirement for depth perception and one mouth is the minimum requirement for eating. It is reasonable to expect advanced aliens to have two arms, two eyes, and one mouth. Note that on Earth, for all its diversity in animal life forms, we rarely see more than two eyes or more than one mouth, nor do we find apes with more than two arms. We should also expect to see legs or lower limbs, but only for land-based aliens, not for water-based aliens.

FINGERS

No alien is going to achieve technology without the ability to manipulate objects including the ability to push buttons. There is no universal requirement here. It depends upon the complexity of what needs to be held or manipulated. Four fingers and one thumb could be ideal for creatures that need to climb trees and pick fruits, but sea life might be able to get by with three fingers and one thumb. Please look at these Axolotl images.

SEA LIFE

Some scientists have noticed that a) humans are a land-based creature, and b) humans have achieved technology,, concluding that only land-based creatures can achieved technology. (Well, not everyone has studied logic.) It seems that at some point in early Earth history: a) the waters on this planet temporarily dried up, or b) the waters on this planet became toxic to animal life due to volcanic eruptions, collisions with comets, or whatever, thereby stifling water-based evolution and forcing the migration to land. But an alien planet here or there may have escaped those comet attacks. In any case, on Earth we see signs of sea life (lobsters and crayfish, for example) developing the ability to manipulate objects, and from there it is an easy enough step to put something afloat on the surface of your sea and begin to make use of air and fire. Nonetheless, evolutionary similarities between the axolotl species of Mexico and the ancient astronaut suggest that the surface of the alien's planet had land as well as water, or perhaps the land reappeared prior to achieving advanced technology.

[The axolotl is an aquatic creature with four-fingered hands, corresponding to the alien's four-fingered hands. It also has four gill slits with rakers which may correspond to the four protrusions from the alien's head area, and it has vestigial teeth corresponding to Tiwanaku's depiction of teeth. Moreover, the azolotl has powerful regenerative capabilities, quite ideal for long space flights!]

This is another sculpture from the Tiahuanaco (Tiwanaku) museum in La Paz, and once again the primitive nature of the drawings suggests that this stone was brought back to Tiwanaku from the Cuzco (Cusco) region of Peru. While the artists of Tiwanaku depicted the alien with head symbolism (fish heads, bird heads, puma heads, and human heads), the people of Cuzco seemed to have noticed an evolutionary similarity between the alien and the Earth creature known as the sea turtle. This is logical:

1) the sea turtle is a sea creature with appendages

2) the sea turtle is a sea creature that is capable of leaving the sea

3) the sea turtle has a protective outer shell, similar in concept to the alien's astronaut helmet and spacesuit.

This sculpture also reaffirms the alien's descent from the sky in a spiral motion, and it surrounds the communications device with "waves." These waves appear on the Sun Disk of Cuzco but are hard to find in native Tiwanaku artwork.

"Our biologists look at the enormous diversity of life on Earth and conclude that intelligent alien life can look like pretty much anything. Dead wrong. The Tiwanaku drawings of an ancient astronaut teach us that, like the laws of planetary formation or whatever, the laws of evolution are universal. Two eyes here, two eyes there. Two arms here, two arms there, and so forth."

--Morten St. George

The Sun Disk images and the extraneous stones found in Tiahuanaco lend support to Morten St.. George's contention that Cuzco was a second place of direct contact between the Andean sky god and the Andeans. However, St. George has no archaeological evidence that this contact took place, specifically, in the Plaza of Cuzco. For this, he is relying on the alleged written legacy of the ancient astronaut. In a passage that relates to the ancient astronaut herself, she refers to the Plaza of Cuzco as “sacred.”

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