Nasca/Maya Astronomers, Part II

In Part I, it was discovered that the blue star which may have become a nova as two comets slammed into its surface. (See the Birth of the Fifth Sun)The blazing star is located above a constellation called Ophiuchus. It was in this constellation where two similar Nasca ("radish") images seemed to fit. One of these "radish" forms were also found in the Madrid Codex on page 37C as an ear plug of God L. Because one "radish" is visible in the ear, the other is assumed to be in the unseen ear of God L, who is located within the mouth of a jaguar. A spotted jaguar is know to be a Maya symbol of the night skies.

The Bee image of a flying god has to be related to a stinging element. Ophiuchus has a blocky appearance with a pointed roof. It has two extra areas on each side where the radishes appear to fit. The area on the left stretches out into the Milky Way, just about where there is a break in the star formation. It gives the appearance of bees either coming or going from a hive. This alone is not very convincing. The two places that use a bee-god image most prominently are near the sea coast at Tulum, and in the Mississippi area of the US.

A major meteorite impact trail, culminating at the ocean edge near the Carolina Bays, begins in the west on the other side of the Mississippi River with tiny meteorite pieces called tektites. If even smaller pieces fell on people or animals, they would sting and produce burns just as was found on the dead in Papua, New Guinea on July 17, 1998 and earlier in Russia, in 1911 when the animals nearby got burn leisons on their flesh. Only with the two connections: the Comets originated near the constellation Ophiuchus. These two comets then became meteors which dropped meteorites called tektites over a broad expanse of land and sea and even smaller elements that burned as they fell on humans or animals in the area.

On the other hand, Richard H. Allen, in his book Star Names: Their Lore and Meaningidentifies the constellation Ophiuchus as "the serpent holder." His information comes from Indo-Eurasian sources. He did not use any data from the pre-Columbian Americas.

In spite of the lack, the Inca version of a god is shown as a serpent holder with a pointed hat which appears to fit into top of the Ophiuchus constellation. Also, the coat of arms of the Inca shows a serpent that is attached to each side of the royal headband (almost as earrings).

On the other side of the world, where Shiva meditates under a hood of seven serpents, his wife playfully covered his eyes. This automatically produced a "third" eye which almost destroyed the world. Other gods that may verify this destructive element from their foreheads are: Roman Jupiter with Minerva in full shining armour emerging from his head and ready for battle or the Greek Zeus with Athena, also dressed in full shining armor. However, Homer gave a special function to Athena, both in the Iliad and in the Odyssey. She was not only a warrior, but is also an arbitrator. She had the knowledge and forethought to attempt to pacify an enemy first. Only if she was unsuccessful, did she use her weapons of destruction. As the myth of the serpent holder got further and further from its source in the Americas, it became more benign.

The Serpent Holder

Not only are the gods of the Inca, serpent holders, as above, but they also have serpents at the ends of the hair, skirts, and shoulders. The Caiman monument discovered by Sr. Tello at Chavan de Huantar has two sets of "hands" with serpents as bracelets similar to those found in El Templo Mayor on the Moon Monument of the Aztecs in Tenochtitlán. Other glyphic representations on this monument indicate that there may have been strong cross-cultural interchanges between the Inca and those in Meso-America. The ³radish² images, both in the Madrid Codex and on the floor of the Nasca Plains, help to reinforce the presumption of a cross-cultural interchange.

The migratory route to Meso-America goes through Guatemala. In Kuminalyuju, the "serpent-holder" is a person with rainbow glyphs on his body. The Big Bird of Hawaii is said to have a great rainbow colored tail. The Australian aborigines have creations stories about the rainbow serpent. The Chinese Phoenix bird that fought with the Sky dragon has two long tail feathers of fire instead. On the continent of the Americas, the Quetzal bird has two long iridescent tail feathers. His mating dance is to climb as high into the sky as he can fly and drop straight down until he pulls out of the dive, very, very close to the ground. Apparently, the closer to the ground that he can pull out of the dive, the more brave he appears to his intended mate.

When the Guatemala figure of the rainbow man/serpent holder is placed on top of the constellation Ophiuchus, it also appears to fit. The ends of the serpent fall where the radish forms would be located.

The Yucatan has double headed "Serpent holder" rulers.Instead of holding the serpents overhead as the Guatemala version, God L replaced the Ophiuchus constellation with the introduction of the earplugs that have the appearance of "radishes." However, to be a "serpent holder" was an essental part of the government makeup, at least until Pacal of Palenque was born. His image changed the Maya concept from "serpent holder" to "born of a serpent with the tail of K'awil".

In Peru, the colony of Orejones (long ears because of heavy, ornate earplugs as the Meso-Americans wore), came into a favored status with the Inca. One such group came from Lake Poopo, sacred to the moon. They were from a tribe of Pacific coast slaves called Quillacas: Quilla = Moon. Their ruler was called Tacuilla: Ta = ?; Cuilla (or quilla) = Moon. (Osborne, p. 79.)

One can assume that Lake Poopo was somewhere near Popayan, but it is more likely that the lake was in the bowl of the Altiplano of Mexico at the base of Popocatepetl. In the Aztec area, the Moon Goddess has a pair of strange sandals, a crayola crayon-type headdress together with bracelets on both arms and legs, all similar to items on the monument found at Chavan de Huantar.

The accepted historical record tells us that Oaxaca and the Yucatan had metallurgy processes similar to that of Ecuador in the Inca Empire. The Inca aware of the process of triangulation from sky to earth, had devised a system of measuring both and were well associated with the northern continent. It is possible that with all the land available to them, the Nasca plain actually was a training ground for those who were learning stellar geometry and basic trigonomety for astrology and astronomy.

The Three Marias indicate that one of the nearby stars was a rebel. One of the Three Marias is identified with the Llama and her young in the constellation Lyra: Urcuchillay which is identified in a star cross, together with Catachillay which is Deneb. A variation of this word is Ur'quchillay, which is supposed to be the planet Venus, even though a rare Inca name for Venus is actually a combination word "katachillay ur'quchillay." What is interesting is that both words by themselves are related to the Summer Triangle of the Southern clime which is in December, a northern Summer constellation. Also the pronounciation is so similar that it could have been "heard" and defined independently on different occassions.
  1. Urcuchillay = Ur'quchillay
  2. Catachillay = katachillay

It is accepted that El Lucero (Lucifero) is supposed to indicate Satan, not Venus. With the Inquisition as strong as it was in the Americas, it would not be unreasonable to say that it was extremely necessary to make a lot of double talk, and give misinformation when possible, so that the gods of the Inca, Maya, and Aztec were safe from the eyes of the new church.

The Summer (Winter) Triangle was the apparent "hearthstones" of the gods, especially that of God L, or Ophiuchus as the god/constellation. Since most of the friars were from north of the Equator (in Spain), they would not recognize any winter constellation except Orion which is actually the most prominent one in the skies most of the time since it sits square on the Celestial Equator. The Summer Triangle (both North and South of the Equator) would have been ignored in favor of the one they recognized best.
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