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The
pyramid is a type of architecture present all over the world,
to the point to be hypothesized a common cultural source that
has inspired these monuments. An ancestral people widespread
all over the world, on whose traces we of Sator ws are for a
long time. A lot of analogies have emerged in these months,
to the point to be shown the presence of a megalithic civilization
millennia before how much thought by the official History. But
two islands exist that virtually introduce identical constructions
that can give us the key of reading this mystery. The distance
that separates in fact Sicily from the island of Tenerife, in
the Canaries, it is of thousand of km, but if we observe the
terraces pyramids realized in volcanic stone in both these places,
we realize of the existance of a common heritage. The Sicilian
Pyramids are known from about ten years but only recently their
antiquity is understood. In the Valley of the Alcantara river,
to the northern slopes of the Etna Volcano, near Catania, they
are at least ten, and all show the same structures. About ten
meters height and twenty-thirty wide, are composed of black
volcanic stones methodically positioned without concrete, according
to a scheme exceptionally accurate. |
| (Above) One of the
unbelievable Sicilian pyramids, situated in the Valley of the
Alcantara, to the feet of the Etna Volcano, near Catania. |
The pyramids show
terraces, staircases and in some cases a shape strongly lengthened,
typical of pyramidal temples as those present in Mexico and in the
Peru. This characteristic have an immediate comparison with the
greatest European megalithic monument: the mound ("Cairn")
of Barnenez, in Brittany (France), to about fifty km from Saint
Malo. Dating back according to the archaeologists to an epoch between
5000 and the 4400 BCE, the colossal monument (along 70 meters, wide
26 and height 8) show clearly the same structure of the Sicilian
Pyramids, beginning to unhinge the theories of some Italian historians
that consider the constructions of the Valley of the Alcantara only
mere observation places built between the XVI and the XIX centuries.
According to ignorant people, the pyramids would be simple places
for checking the job of the farmers. But the history is different,
The pyramids were not built in recent times. It deals with imposing
monuments as they show only also the photos that we show in exclusive:
it is not possible to build similar works without the joined job
of about hundred of workers and technicians specialized in the placing
of the rocks. Sicily is full of "dry walls" (without concrete),
but these ones are formidable to absorb the earthquakes and the
popular stories could narrate a periodical restauration. The antisismic
function and the general sturdiness of these sacred buildings, directed
to the cardinal points, it is common to other famous insular pyramids,
those present in the Canaries Isles, precisely in the island of
Tenerife.
| (Above) The
pyramids of Sicily show characteristics already known in the
world. A terraces structure, notable dimensions and access ramps
to the peak. All accompanied by a perfect orientation with the
cardinal points. It deals with constructions realized by hundreds,
perhaps thousand of men, well organized and in possession of
notable scientific knowledges. (Below, to the left and to the
center) Impossible not to notice the similarities with the Pyramids
of Guimar, in the Canaries, in Tenerife: although better preserved
and recently restored, the same constructive care and the same
astronomic precision is noticed. (To the right) The mound of
Barnenez, in Brittany, dated 4400 BCE but perhaps more ancient,
is considered the greatest megalithic monument of Europe and
show analogies in the shape and in the realization of the Sicilian
pyramids. |
The Pyramids of Güimar
are situated in a specific place on the oriental coast of the African
islands but of Spanish sovereignity. Considered likewise to the
Sicilians ones only farmers product, in reality they show exceptional
astronomic connotations that were discovered by the explorer Thor
Heyerdahl. This famous Norwegian researcher went to the Canaries
in the Sixties to show the possibility to cross the Atlantic with
boats typical of ancient Egypt or of the Phoenician ones. (With
the boat made of papyrus rushes denominated "Ra II" it
showed in 1970 that it was possible to travel from Morocco to Barbados
in 57 days exploiting favorable winds and Gulf Stream. A possibility
evidently known by Christopher Columbus and adopted on the occasion
of the first trip to America in 1492). But what mostly surprised
Heyerdahl and his collaborators, were the megalithic structures
that were present in Tenerife. The astronomic language so familiar
to our ancestors was present on the top of the Pyramids of Güimar:
in the day of the summer solstice from the base of the heighest
pyramid the people was able (and are able still today) to observe
the Sun go down behind the peak of a mountain to the horizon, to
go beyond it and to plough a last piece of sky before definitely
disappearing behind the adjacent peak. To the morning of the winter
solstice on the pyramids instead it is possible to climb following
the run of the Sun through a stairway on their western side. Heyerdahl,
explorer and not archaeologist, didn't want to express himself on
the people that could have built similar works, but he affirmed
that the pyramids of Güimar could have a connection with the
mythical Atlantis.
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| (Above,
to the left) Map of the Mediterranean that reproduces the migrations
of the Crô-Magnon people beginning from 35000 years ago.
From a common Berber origin developped iberian-ligures populations,
that at the end were installed in Sicily forming the people
of the Sicans, strongly similar to the Guanches that instead
migrated in the Canaries, more Westward, being isolated for
millennia. (To the center) A portrait of one of the last Guanches:
they are evident the Crô-Magnons characteristic of that
people. (To the right) A Guanches mummy, a thirty year-old girl,
perfectly preserved, with tall cheekbones and red hair. |
Atlantis? The Canaries
in such sense offer dozens of signs. To start from the position
in the middle of the Atlantic ocean up to its mysterious people,
the Guanches, that lived up to the arrival of the Spaniards, before
succumbing, genetically boundless by intermarriages. But from the
archaeological discoveries and above all from the Genetics, today
we are able to know a lot of this stock and the connection with
the people that built the Sicilian pyramids. The Guanches were known
since the antiquity from the Phoenicians and from the Carthaginians,
that discovered the Canaries during their trips. This people had
evident Caucasian characteristics of Crô-Magnon origin: very
tall, white skin and blonde or red hair, the Guanches lived in caves
on slant of the mountains but they had great skill in manifacturing;
pacific people, matriarchal, proud of the liberty and of his relationship
with the Nature, they adored stellar divinities, a Mother Goddess
and the God of Sun as the Egyptians, and they practised the art
of the mummification. According to the thesis more affirmed based
on genetic tests of the mitocondrial Dna, the Guanches were strongly
similar to the Berbers of the Nordafrica and in fact these populations
are today still representatives of a original Indo-European stock.
The Crô-Magnon variant of the Homo Sapiens Sapiens in fact,
was born in Africa around 50000 years ago and spread beginning from
40000 years ago in Asia and Europe. In North Africa people that
would be subsequently became Berbers, crossed the Strait of Gibiltar
and established in Spain, giving origin to the Preindo-European
civilization of the Ligures. In the same period likewise other people
Pre-Berberes crossed the line of sea between the coast of Morocco
and the Canaries, giving origin to the people of Guanches. An extreme
thesis? Certainly in Europe the migratory tides were at least two,
one through Spain and the Mediterranean coast up to Italy, and the
second one through the Middle East and Balkans. Both these tides,
if it doesn't deal with the same population, they were bearers of
advanced astronomic and religious notions and they were characterized
for the systematic erection, in particular places, of heavy megaliths
and the modelling of semi-natural pyramids. The same could have
happened in the Canaries, where this primitive people however was
isolated and without the possibility to effect its commercial and
cultural exchanges.
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Guanches could have held back, in the myths and in the habits,
the memory of the First People that gave origin to the megalithic
civilization. The Guanches could not however evolve industrially,
remaining in natural harmony with the surrounding environment.
After all the Canaries are a heaven in such sense and they are
endowed with food and water in abundance, as well as of sure
shelters and lumber as fuel. What else could have they need?
The Guanches populations of the various islands, quickly lost
the ability of sailing and each ones remained in a sort of enclave
and if the contacts among the various islands of the archipelago
were possible, surely were not realizable commercial long ray
exchanges (not even having America nearby). The arrival of the
Carthaginians didn't change the life of the Guanches, and not
even the arrival of the Romans, that named the Canaries Lucky
Islands. Plinio the Old broadly described them, however not
quoting the presence of some people except the discovery, by
the Latin sailors, of megalithic temples and dolmens. Evidently
the Guanches believed that the visitors were dangerous enemies
and they found shelter in their inacessible caves. They have
the right reason to fear the Romans. But the Canaries, after
centuries of forgetfulness, were rediscoveries from Genoan navigators
and the Knights Templars toward the end of the XIII Century.
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| (Above)
A reconstructive diorama of the caves lived by the Guanches,
in this case Pueblo Chico, at Tenerife. It deals with a practical
and effective life-style, not at all primitive. |
The famous writer
Giovanni Boccaccio spoke for a long time of this rediscovery and
described the Guanches in the detail, before the Spanish invasions
of the XV Century swept away the traces of this mysterious people.
But what is the connection between the pyramids of Güimar and
the Guanches? Surely the pyramids were not built by them, but by
their ancestors. But really at Güimar a Guanches installation
has been found inside one of the pyramids, sign that the place was
known and populated.
An ethnic base ancient about ten thousand of years however brings
us to the people of the Sicans, the first inhabitant of Sicily.
The History teaches us that the Sicans, were not Indo-European people
(this is false, according to us the Sicans are Crô-Magnon),
lived the area in the south of Spain corresponding to the modern
Andalusia. Fighting, always according to the historians, with the
autochtonous populations of Ligures, the Sicans directed toward
Sicily, where they installed around the 3000 BCE. Numerous studies
exist regarding the Sicans, the most interesting of which, affirms
that, contrarily than held, there are some strong physical and genetic
similarities between these first Sicilians and the Berbers. The
Berbers, once more! The white population of Crô-Magnon native
in the North Africa tightly seems releated with the Sicans, that
after all they were native of southern Spain, therefore a step away
from Africa. In prehistoric times, preceding the end of the last
Glaciation happened 12000 years ago, Sicily was notably nearer besides
to Africa following the lowering of the sea level, a colonization
making possible directed from Tunisia of the Sicily.
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(Above) In Gran Canaria island,
near the Cenobio Valeron, are visible these caves, inhabited
from the Guanches up to the XV Century. The structure is similar
to a beehive. (To the center) Always in Gran Canaria, near
the Roque Nublo, a Guanches cave on a slope shows the natural
defenses used by the ancient inhabitants of the island. (To
the right) In the widest caves the population practised the
art of the mummification, likewise to the Egyptians.
(Below, to the left) A system of dwelling-places analogous
to those of the Guanches are present in Sicily, near Cassibile,
in the near Syracuse, and also near the necropolis of Pantalica
(to the center): a tangle of caves dug in the rock, on the
slopes. (To the right) Also the Ligures adopted an analogous
system for their necropolies, as in this photo took on the
slopes of the Olgisio Mountain: sign of a common cultural
and genetic society of the Crô-Magnon people.
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It also it is necessary
to say that, as we have seen regarding the study on the origins
of the city of Rome, the Sicans and the Ligures had a common housing
nucleus in the area where the Eternal City would have risen. The
two populations deducted to be of common stock: the Roman installation
had important functions of union among the north Preindo-European
people, the Ligures, and those in the south, the Sicans. We have
many evidencies that show the similarities both of the Ligures people
and those of Sicans: we ask ourselfs if these first inhabitants
of the Mediterranean were a homogeneous people. The caves of Mount
Olgisio, near Piacenza, those of Pantalica on the Iblei Mountains
and those of Cassibile next to Syracuse, are only some examples
of identical housing conformation. In the fact, caves and grottoes,
often dug on canyons and precipices. Analogous troglodytean structures
are found in the Canaries, it is obvious, but also in other African
areas, for example in Morocco on the mountains of the Atlas, or
more southward, in the Mali, in the cliffs of Bandjagara lived by
the Dogons. Other similarities are present in the caves of the whole
Asia. But this people of Berber origin finds further derivations.
The Ligures were so named by the Greeks, but their original name
was Libui or Libi, a name that introduces an unbelievable assonance
with the territory of Libya, as if they were native of that region.
However they were certainly the first inhabitants of Italy, with
their presence from the 20-25000 BCE right in the region that takes
the name from them, Liguria. The Berbers have been populated the
Nordafrican area from at least 40000 years and the Sicans probably
occupied Sicily much longer before of how hypothesized by the historians:
here is the people that built the pyramids! The pyramids of Sicily,
certainly, but not only, perhaps. Evidences of the Bosnian area
of Visoko confirm of 36000 year-old ancient pyramids, and we also
see affinity with the Egyptian people. This people was very multiethnic
and some pharaon have Indo-European characteristics (the clearest
example is that of Ramses II, with a notable stature and red hair).
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However,
the genetic Berber affinities of Guanches, Sicans and Iberians,
Ligures and so many other primordial people should not forget
us that the testimonies of that incredibly ancient epoch are
vivid and present still today: only the mental idleness or the
excessive care prevent from seeing the widespread megalithic
traces. What to say in fact of the Pyramid of Pietraperzia?
Placed in the heart of Sicily, near of Enna, it deals with a
construction of rectangular plant, 55 meters long, wide 30 and
13 meters height, that showes in the outskirtses traces of inhabited
caves, laboratories for the workmanship of the flint, four megalithic
staircases carved in the rock directed according to the cardinal
points and a throne in stone similar to those discovered in
France and Spain and used for propitiatory purposes and ritual
of fertility. |
| (Above)
The unbelievable structure of Pietraperzia, near Enna: it deals
with a pyramid of rectangular plant, 55 meters long. |
The structure, as
it happens in Tenerife and in the Valley of the Alcantara, it is
terraced, with degrading platforms, while the perimeter is surrounded
by a vast circular area that well exemplifies the sense of the astronomic
symbols (the belonging of the pyramid to the cycle of the universe).
On a forum of Archaeology we have found the following news, that
we integrally bring: "The European Union
and a partnership of scholars of Tenerife (among which Vicente Valensia
Alfonso of Tenerife that has already worked with the Univ. of the
Maine in the Spanish site of Güimar) have created a collaboration
to study the whole area of Pietraperzia. A stratigraphical study
will be effected under the supervision of the prof. E. Anati with
the aid of an aerostatic ball to effect aerial surveys on a vast
surrounding area. The objective is, because of the presence of numerous
necropolies in the proximities, the search of a correlated village
to the site." We allow us to suggest to the researchers
to observe in the caves, instead of looking for foundations of imaginary
huts that were not used by these Preindo-Europeans. But beyond this
note on the method, it deals with a first, valid approach to the
comparative study of these structures, but it needs that the archaeologist
put aside their medievalism and attribute to the correct epoch these
structures, that little by little are coming out in the whole Sicily.
Lorena Bianchi
| (Above) Details
of the pyramids of the Valley of the Alcantara: the ramps of
the stairways and the terraces, put to comparison with the structures
of Tenerife (after all to the right). (Below) The pyramidal
shape and the platform on the summit are evident, and this particular
is similar to the Mexicans and Peruvians temples, and of course
to the Canarian pyramids. Sign of a common symbolism to the
most ancient populations of the world. The mark of a primitive
civilization? |
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