At the pre-Aztec city of Teotihuacán, archaeologists found a river of liquid mercury and the minerals mica and pyrite. Ancient astronaut theorists suspect this was not merely part of a ritual for a glittery effect. Instead, they think these elements were in place as part of advanced technology we have yet to understand. Were the elaborate tunnels and structures truly part of some an electromagnetic power plant that tapped into the natural energies of the planet?
A massive fire
Although the mysterious city of Teotihuacán thrived, home to 200,000 people at one point, it collapsed around the time of a giant fire that left burn marks across wide areas of the site. Ancient astronaut theorists think the hypothetical power plant caused the blast. The fires cover an extensive area of the city.
Mainstream archaeologists, however, believe the fires came deliberately during an uprising of the people. The poor rose up against the elite of the city, leading to the downfall of Teotihuacán until the Aztecs found it abandoned much later.
Before the ‘explosion’ or uprising if you prefer, the city flourished between 100 B.C. and A.D. 650. However, we must note the culture was a brutal one. Many people and animals were sacrificed in rituals. Remains of decapitated people, as well as wolves, jaguars, pumas, rattlesnakes, and eagles, were discovered under the Temple of the Moon in 2004.
The city features two enormous structures, the 213-foot-tall Pyramid of the Sun, the third-largest Pyramid in the world. Next comes the 147-foot-tall Temple of the Moon and the Temple of Quetzalcoatl, the feathered serpent, and a large thoroughfare, the Avenue of the Dead.
The layout of the city, covering over 20 square kilometers, is carefully planned, and scholars note that it is intricately aligned with celestial bodies.
“The positioning of temples and pyramids in alignment with the sun on the June solstice and the Pleiades suggests calendar dates were important in rituals, and the presence of buried offerings and sacrificial victims illustrates the belief in the necessity to appease various gods, especially those associated with climate and fertility.”
The layout of Teotihuacán via YouTube
The place is extremely impressive and one wonders how it would even be possible to build at all, much less in ancient times.
Secret passageways
In 2003, a heavy rainstorm opened up a three-foot-wide sinkhole at the Temple of Quetzalcoatl and researchers have been excavating the site since. They discovered entrances to a 338-foot corridor sealed off with boulders 2,000 years ago. The tunnel was nearly 60 feet below the temple.
By 2009, they could use advanced radar, 3D scanning, infrared cameras, and even remote-controlled robots to lead the explorations.
Before that, archaeologists found a tunnel underneath the Temple of the Sun, looted before archaeologists entered in the 90s.
Despite so many finds, there was no evidence at all of any tombs, thus no evidence of who ruled the city. Try as they might to find out who created this place, we just don’t know yet.
However, the archaeologists had found a treasure trove of over 100,000 + artifacts, and they were only beginning. Some of what they found: statues of jaguars, sparkling jade statues, boxes of beetle wings, rubber balls used in an ancient ball game, balls of amber, necklaces, twin carved black stone statues, bones from bears, birds, and jaguars, and ancient jars of corn. Also, Discovery described a “six-level pyramid decorated with snake-like creatures.”
Then they found something bizarre: Mercury and the mineral pyrite hand-embedded into the tunnel. Also, hundreds of mysterious yellow orbs that range from four to 12 centimeters across. Scientists remain baffled as to what their purpose could be.
“Fifty feet in, we stopped at a small inlet carved into the wall. Not long before, Gómez and his colleagues had discovered traces of mercury in the tunnel, which Gómez believed served as symbolic representations of water, as well as the mineral pyrite, which was embedded in the rock by hand. In semi-darkness, Gómez explained, the shards of pyrite emit a throbbing, metallic glow. To demonstrate, he unscrewed the nearest light bulb. The pyrite came to life, like a distant galaxy. It was possible, in that moment, to imagine what the tunnel’s designers might have felt more than a thousand years ago: 40 feet underground, they’d replicated the experience of standing amid the stars.”
A river of mercury
While the mainstream archaeologists note that mercury and pyrite have “known associations with the supernatural among ancient Mesoamericans,” one has to wonder. Mercury is the first known superconductor, but would that be known to these ancient people?
Pyrite, known as “Fool’s Gold,” would have given the tunnels a sparkling appearance. The mineral is also used to start fires by creating sparks.
Although Smithsonian seemed to downplay the find of mercury, the Guardian later reported in 2017 that there were large quantities of liquid mercury found. It was reported as the first time the toxic substance was found in an ancient site in Mexico, and it may have been used to create a silvery underground river.
Archaeologists from the University of California, Berkeley say the dangerous substance was also found at three other sites around Central America. They believe the shimmering quality alone was why it was used, as it appeared “somewhat magical … there for ritual purposes or symbolic purposes.”
“In 2014, archaeologists found three large chambers at the end of the tunnel, almost 20 meters beneath the temple. Excitement mounted with the Discovery the following year that the Earth appeared to have been sculpted into elegant miniature landscapes depicting mountains and valleys, with drops of mercury deposited to symbolize sacred rivers or lakes.”
Annabeth Headreck, a professor at the University of Denver, made a comparison to mythology from across the planet in Greece:
“The shimmering, reflective qualities of liquid mercury may have resembled “an underworld river, not that different from the river Styx,” Headrick said, “if only in the concept that it’s the entrance to the supernatural world and the entrance to the underworld.”
Thermal insulators and superconductors
The archaeologists suggest they heated cinnabar, which was used for a blood-red pigment. This process produces mercury ore, but as we know, it can be deadly to handle.
In addition to mercury and pyrite, the archaeologists found mica, which often used in today’s electronics as a superior thermal insulator.
“Most of the mica at Teotihuacan was found and removed from the Pyramid of the Sun in the 1900s. Because of its value, it was consequently sold.”
liquid mercury and tunnels lined with mica via YouTube
According to Sacred Sites, there used to be quite a lot of mica, and it covered the Pyramid of the Sun:
“There are several fascinating mysteries about the grand city and its pyramids. One of the most interesting concerns the massive, one-foot thick, sheet of granulated mica that until recently covered the entire top level of the Pyramid of the Sun. Removed and sold for profit by an unscrupulous site-restorer in the early 1900’s, the mica had long ago been transported from a mine thousands of miles away in South America. How had the great quantity of mica been brought from such a distance and, equally important, for what purpose had the pyramid been covered with the rare stone? One scientist has suggested that the mica, being a highly efficient energy conductor, could have been used as part of a receiving device for long wave-length celestial radiations. The incoming celestial energy would have been captured by the massive bulk of the pyramid and its sacred geometrical construction, and focused into the snake-like cave beneath the pyramid. This energy, available for human use at any time of the year, would be specially concentrated at certain periods within solar, lunar and stellar cycles. These specific periods were noted by using astronomical observation devices which exist in different places around the geomantically aligned city of Teotihuacan.”
Fool’s Gold
After watching this show, one can’t help but ask more questions. Was mercury simply part of a ritual, chosen because it was shimmering and beautiful, like Fool’s Gold? Or was it part of some ancient technology? If it were merely part of a ritual, why was there so much of it? Why were tunnels lined with minerals, similar to the way the pyramids of Egypt have tunnels lined with granite?
Is it foolish to think that this giant city was built with help from extraterrestrials who came with advanced technology? Or is it foolish to think that these massive complex structures were created by ordinary humans practicing rituals with shiny minerals and toxic elements?
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As fans of the Ancient Aliens series on the History channel, some episodes really stand out. Season 12, Episode 7, titled “City of the Gods,” is one such example. Although even fans may have some doubts about the often wild ideas and questions about extraterrestrials, this show was stunning. It was so fascinating that this article will be made up of two parts.
The episode covers the Mesoamerican pre-Aztec city of Teotihuacán (pronounced tay-oh-tee-wah-KAHN), founded sometime around 400 BC. Teotihuacán translates as ‘the place where men become gods’ in Nahuatl, the language of the Aztecs. The name also translates to “birthplace of the gods,” or “the place where gods were born.”
Nobody knows for sure who built the city, not even the Aztecs, who named the place. It’s a mystery that, of course, leads the show to point to possible ancient aliens. In this case, it seems more probable after you learn more.
Keep in mind, Teotihuacán stumps mainstream archaeologists. According to Smithsonian:
“They took their secrets with them. Today, even after more than a century of excavation at the site, there is an extraordinary amount we do not know about the Teotihuacanos. They did have some kind of quasi-hieroglyphic written language, but we haven’t cracked it; we don’t know what tongue was spoken inside the city, or even what the natives called the place. We have a conception of the religion they practiced, but we don’t know much about the priestly class, or the relative piety of the city’s citizenry, or the makeup of the courts or the military.”
“We don’t know exactly what led to the city’s founding, or who ruled over it during its half-millennium of dominance, or what exactly caused its fall. As Matthew Robb, the curator of Mesoamerican art at San Francisco’s de Young Museum, told me, ‘This city wasn’t designed to answer our questions.’”
The largest city in the western hemisphere before the 15th century, Teotihuacán is an eight-square mile city. In its day, it functioned like a modern-day Manhattan, with thousands of apartment-like family dwellings built around the center.
This ancient Mesoamerican metropolis seemed to spring out of nowhere. With roughly 100,000 to 200,000 residents at its peak, the city required substantial infrastructure and resources. However, it had no military structures at all, which may be partly why it later collapsed after 700 years.
The ancient city of Teotihuacán via YouTube
A theory suggests that the poorer classes rose up against the elite. There is evidence of a great fire around this time, and ancient astronaut theorists suspect it was due to an explosion at the main Pyramid and the Avenue of the Dead. They suspect it served as an electromagnetic power plant at one time, tapping into the resonant power of the Earth.
Was mercury part of the technology for spacecraft at Teotihuacán? Considering that the element is mentioned in ancient Indian texts as integral to flying ships called Vimanas, it remains a possibility.
“So here we have the idea that this mercury is being found at archeological sites is really part of the propulsion of some of the craft that the extraterrestrials were using here on Earth,” says author David Childress.
In part two, we’ll take a closer look at these discoveries at Teotihuacán and the giant fire that ancient astronaut theorists believe erupted from the ‘power plant.’
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Some 3,000 years ago, astrologers working for the king of the Assyrian empire kept a close eye on the skies, and what they found and recorded on cuneiform tablets can give us incredibly valuable insights into things such as solar flares and other cosmological happenings that are just as relevant today as they were when first recorded.
Ancient Originsnotes that approximately 2,700 years ago, astrologers observed something that caught their eye, and they recorded the event on stone tablets:
“(The astrologers) wrote about an unusual red glow in the sky. A University of Tsukuba team found that there are at least three ancient cuneiform tablets that mention such an event, sometimes described as a ‘red cloud’ or with text saying ‘red covers the sky.’”
According to Science Daily, those observations were compared against carbon-14 concentrations in tree rings from that same time period, and what they found is nothing short of incredible:
“These were probably manifestations of what we call today stable auroral red arcs, consisting of light emitted by electrons in atmospheric oxygen atoms after being excited by intense magnetic fields. While we usually think of aurorae as confined to northern latitudes, during periods of strong magnetic activity, as with a solar mass ejection, they may be observed much further south. Moreover, because of changes in the Earth’s magnetic field over time, the Middle East was closer to the geomagnetic pole during this period in history.”
A cuneiform tablet such as the ones used in Assyria (Via Wikimedia Commons)
A Helping Hand From the Ancient Assyrians
It turns out that the Assyrians may be able to lend a helping hand to modern-day scientists who are also studying the sun.
Researchers writing in the Astrophysical Letters Journalexplain that solar events are an even bigger threat now than they were thousands of years ago:
“These space weather events constitute a significant threat to a modern civilization, because of its increasing dependency on an electronic infrastructure.”
Think about it: A massive solar flare such as the one described by the Assyrians could negatively impact cell phone towers and internet connections. We already know that satellites and spacecraft are highly vulnerable to such happenings. How long could our modern, interconnected world last without the telecommunications devices we all rely on?
In a sense, we can learn a great deal from the Assyrians, and that knowledge may allow us to prepare for future solar events:
“From a historical point of view it’s interesting because these cuneiform tablets are believed to be the earliest records of these kind of solar events, pushing information back on that phenomena by at least a century. So, the ancient Assyrian astrologers who wrote the texts have provided another example of how learning about the past can help enhance the present, and sometimes even ‘predict’ the future.”
Ancient astrologers did more than just watch the sun and its effects on Earth. They also tracked comets, meteors, and planetary movements, or other celestial events that might portend good or bad omens for their societies.
The job of being an astrologer was very serious and highly respected, Sarah Roberts writes:
“When reading these signs, the priests were primarily concerned with what was happening in the state as a whole and in the life of the king as the central figure of the state. They also believed that they could undertake rituals to appease the gods and mitigate any negative warnings revealed by the stars.”
Astronomers or astrologists at work in the 14th century (Via Wikimedia Commons)
The Path to Scientific Exploration
It may sound ridiculous to suggest that astrology led the way to scientific knowledge, but in many ways that just so happens to be exactly what transpired with the work of the ancient Assyrian astrologers:
“Babylonian astronomers had developed an empirical approach to predicting planetary movement by the 8th century BC. Their studies were later adopted and developed by the ancient Greeks and included some good illustrations of ancient Babylonians using advanced mathematical methods. For example, they used calculus to track Jupiter – a key planet in their minds due to the link they created between Jupiter and their key god, Marduk.”
Man has been contemplating his place in the universe for centuries, and eventually, our interest in the stars led to the space program which has taken us to places in our solar system which were once little more than a dream. Our ancient forefathers laid the path for what would later come to pass, and we owe them a debt of gratitude for taking the time to record what they saw as they too stared into the night sky.
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