Where else are stoneworks like these found?
It may be that the only other place on earth is
Easter Island. The most
remote inhabited place in the world, this barren speck of land boasts over 500
gigantic, long-eared stone statues called Moai. There are curious connections
between the Andes and Easter Island. For as long as we know, Easter Island has
had the potato and the totora reed, both of Andean origin. In the oldest
legends, Easter Island was called "The Navel of the World." Cuzco was called the
same.
Thor Heyerdahl explored the island in an ongoing effort to prove his theory that
people came to Easter Island from the East, sailing the prevailing currents. He
believed that the walls there of the Andean style were not built by those who
carved the Moai, but by an earlier civilization.
A study of underwater topography and plate tectonics suggests to some a
startling possibility.
Look at a map of the Pacific ocean floor just off the western coast of South
America. There is an underwater ridge that connects to the coast of Peru at the
fabled Nazca Plain. From there it extends out in a jagged line to Easter Island.
These two locations are at the opposite edges of the Nazca Plate.
From the NOAA map
Measured and
Estimated Seafloor Topography.
The Nazca Ridge is on the Nazca tectonic plate. This plate is sliding under
the South American Plate. As this happens the edge of the Nazca plate pushes
under the South American plate, lifting it's edge. This is usually a smooth and
steady subduction, but a global catastrophe of Noachean magnitude would call off
all bets.
From
a USGS map
The most-accepted current scientific model for earth change today is
uniformitarianism. According to this model, geological changes are now and
always have been a gradual process. This theory is being challenged by the
proponents of catastrophism, which posits that sometimes sudden and dramatic
changes occur on our Terra-not-so-firma. (The pummeling that comet
Shoemaker-Levy 9 gave Jupiter in 1994 gave Catastrophism a good boost.)
There is ample evidence that Lake Titicaca, now at an elevation of 12,500
feet above sea-level, was once at sea-level. I am suggesting that the Nazca
ridge, or part of it, might once have been above sea-level. This would have
provided a partial landbridge between Easter Island and South America.
 The
Nazca Plain, which is directly inland from the juncture of the Nazca ridge and
South America, is as strange as Easter Island. It is covered with a jumble of
lines and drawings so huge that they can only be comprehended from the air. Many
theories have been proposed to explain these markings, but none of them that I
know of have taken underwater topography into account. Both the markings of the
Nazca Plain and the statues of Easter Island seem the work of peoples possessed.
Could it be that these extraordinary efforts are the reaching-out of those whose
ancestors' connection had been severed?
The Catastrophe
What may have been the cause is a matter of debate, but it is widely agreed
that something earth-shaking occurred around 9,600 B.C. It was then that large
numbers of flora and fauna species (among them the Mammoth and the Mastodon)
disappeared. It has also been theorized by respected scientists that the axis of
the earth shifted at that time. There are flood legends recounting world-wide
catastrophe in almost every society on earth.
If such a world-wide jolt occurred, it is quite possible that the Nazca Plate
could slip suddenly under the South America plate, drastically lowering the one
and raising the other.
© 2003-2004 by Richard Nisbet.
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Cataclysm:
Compelling Evidence of a Cosmic Catastrophe in 9500 B. C.
by D. S. Allan, J. B. Delair
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"Cusco Tales" by Richard Nisbet
A slice of Cusco life. Mostly true stories by a gringo
who has had an ongoing love affair with the town for 28 years. Funny,
irreverent, adventurous, literate...the places and people of Cusco.
The bars and discos, the peddlers and priests, the guides, the
gurus...and the girls. Laced throughout with Inca history as well as
views of contemporary and ancient culture. Comes with a CD-ROM "The
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Richard Nisbet is author of the book "Cusco Tales." He has been
an actor, theatre director, college instructor, photographer, film
maker, carpenter, owner of a post production studio in Santa Monica
and has also poked his nose into many other ventures. He has two
daughters, both smarter than himself, and two grandchildren, who'll
hopefully be smarter than all of us. Richard now divides his time
unevenly between Cusco Peru and Santa Monica, CA
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