Obelisk de Chavín de Huántar
Tello Obelisk - named for Peruvian archaeologist Julio C. Tello who
discovered it at the site of Chávin de Huántar. The object is not a
"Tello".
The iconography of this pillar monument is strikingly similar to the Maya glyphs. The caiman, the Goddess headdress of the Aztec Moon Disk and the scepter serpent/hands of Mayaland which some of the Mayan Lords used as their staff of authority. These scepters are found in the Dresden Codex and the Codex Borgia, and at Yaxchilan and Quiriguá. Double headed bars held by Maya with wristlets of Dragon heads are also present in Copan, on Stela P and Stela N.
Here on the Obelisk at Chávin de Huántar however, the hand/staff has not only the serpent but also the long tail-like hook used in the serpent/maniken scepters (Spinden p. 51, 52). For further information about the headdress of the Moon Goddess, see Aztec Moon Disk in the Aztec Center.
Other glyphs on this monument, are squared topped eyes, fanged jaws, and Even the sea shell (Texcoco ?) is included at one point. This square eyes are a part of the message on the Mayan Izapa Stela 25. It is said that when one has square eyes, they are "amazed" or "surprised" at something that is difficult to believe.
The sea shells (Strombus and Spondylus) clearly have to be from the area where the art work is found. The artists from any specific area only know their own samples, not the samples from STRANGERS, That indicates that the Maya or Aztecs were the visitors who carried with them their own religion and the descriptions of their gods and goddesses. The art work was then done by the Peruvians. Sailors do not tend to be sculptors of clumsy stone work. . . .the work would be too heavy to carry around with them. They did not mind lugging gold or gems though.
Why does one believe that there was no contact between North and South America? Local artists draw their own version of whatever they feel is important. The Religion of the fallen bird and the great caiman (crocodile)-like land with its scored fields which became verdant and non-violent would be that of a newly created Paradise. Could travelers from Peru have visited the land of the caiman in Mexico?
