In West Java, Indonesia, a group of experts has finished initial exploration of a mountain that is said to contain a pyramid larger than the Giza pyramid. If carbon dating stands, it will be the oldest and largest pyramid ever found. It is said that inscriptions have been found on the mountain that indicate Indian rulers flying in their Vimanas, and a drawing of the pyramid the way it looked when occupied, 6000-10000 years ago.
The continent of Lemuria was quite possibly the home of whoever was the original builder of Garut pyramid, and when Lemuria dropped into the Indian Ocean, these people were displaced and dispersed to the North. They probably were even the Sumerian and Egyptian pyramid designers' and builders' ancestors, and carried the technology into the surrounding areas with them, forming the new civilizations that would exhibit their need and love for everything pyramidal when it came to spiritual needs.
The oldest pyramid found in North America as of today is Cuicuilco. It was a stepped and leveled pyramid that wasnt really all that tall, but was quite large in it's footprint.
Originally it was over 100 feet tall and 400 feet in diameter. The main thing one notices aboout the structure, is the stepped concentric circles which comprise the top half of the pyramid. This indicates a type of building that is similar to the mounds built by early American Indians. It also resembles a building method talked about by Plato in his stories of Atlantis. Most likely, the South American peoples were just continuing the method of construction that their ancestors had perfected in North America throughout thousands of years.
Who was the architect in the beginning, and where were they from? What brought the idea of the pyramid to the prehistoric Americans? Was the pyramid just a logical continuation of the burial mound structure, or was there another reason for their being built?
As the mound builders got more accomplished, and learned new building methods to speed up construction, the pyramid revolution was on. Meso-american societies built thousands of pyramids in all sizes and shapes throughout Mexico and Central America. Some were nomadic, taking their ideas farther South every year and intermingling with other tribal peoples in South America.
The pyramidal structures built throughout this phase all had a common thread in their shape and purpose. They were the ceremonial and spiritual centers of their respective civilizations. They all had different levels, that were used for different purposes. They were built in a squat expansive manner.
The designs of the American pyramids are not unique in the world. Off the coast of japan, is a submerged stepped pyramid that is very similar to Cuicuilco.
The underwater site of Yonaguni near Japan is a fascinating pyramid structure that has been submerged ever since a cataclysm of unknown time and proportion took place there.
It clearly is the remains of a ceremonial pyramid structure that would have had to be built by a somewhat advanced culture. The Yonaguni pyramid has a stepped design with different platforms and passageways that shows striking similarities to Cuicuilco and other pyramids around the world. It may likely have been submerged when the mythical continent of Lemuria was lost under the Pacific sometime in the distant past.
The civilizations of Teotihuacan and Tenochtitlan were the two most advanced in Mesoamerican history. The two pyramid complexes they built were second to none in high technology and design, and stand today as if they were built yesterday. In both of these constructions we see the telltale stepped levels with steep stairs made for ascending to the stars with the gods of the time. The similarities dont stop there, though. Both sites are known to be ceremonial and spiritual, and entire societies thrived around them during their heyday. This is the case for all of the pyramid societies. The need to live at it's base or nearby, and to look to the pyramid for all of the answers to life's questions.
As far as the Inca are concerned, they built mud brick and corn husk pyramids starting over a thousand years ago. They seemed, however to take a turn at some point away from pyramid building and concentrated on more domesticated structures well before the rest of the MesoAmerican civilizations. Perhaps they saw no need to build such monuments to their Gods, and saw the importance of them as minor, in the drudge of ancient daily life.
The Ziggurats of Sumeria were probably the first pyramids in the world, and were some of the most artistic and impressive.
It was around this time that the technology the Sumerians had possessed through their rise to civilization was to be displayed in the building of huge complex structures that exhibited the form of a pyramid, with levels and chambers and stepped areas, for ceremonial activities.
The Sumerians and Akkadians built ziggurats for over 2000 years and the progression of style in the later versions are the only times they stray from the original design. When the Sumerians that moved South and West into the Egyptian region of Africa decided to build pyramids of their own, they took the Ziggurat idea and streamlined it with flair.
The Egyptian pyramids are the most finished looking and the most accurately measured of all of the worlds pyramids. The painstaking effort that was put into their building was astonishing, if not unbelievable. (But thats another topic) The same basic design similarities are all still there, though. The stepped style of the older Egyptian pyramids are an indicator that they were designed by the same Mesopotamian nomads that brought the idea to Egypt in the first place. The astronomical alignments and ceremonial uses of the Egyptian pyramids are also on a close par with the others in the world, showing us that there was some sort of connection to each other.
In Russia, one of the least likely places to find a pyramid(at least from mainstream archaeology'sview) is a pair of crumbling pyramids on the edge of the Partizanskaya river.
These pyramids are an indicator that at some time near Vladivostok, Russia was a society of people who felt a need to build two pyramids by reshaping and adding to a natural pair of hills. The age is difficult to establish with modern dating techniques due to the many phases of construction at this site, but the shape is clear. With more money and time, the locals might fill us in on any lost history of these two pyramids, and we can hopefully ascertain a timeline for the builders from that knowledge.
There are a countless number of lesser known pyramidal structures around the world today that still show this common shape was more than just a coincidence.
There are pyramids in Korea, Iran, Spain, Bulgaria, India and numerous other well known countries.
The Ji'an pyramid in Korea
The Chogha Zanbil pyramid in Iran
Prasat Thom in Cambodia
When we step back and look at the evidence from around the worlds pyramids, we see a pattern. The pyramids are all designed for the same purpose in nearly all cases. They all seem to have similar shapes and forms in their construction and are similar in astronomical alignments. They all are built from local sourced materials and were built most likely by local peoples as well.
The conundrum of the matter is: If all of these pyramids are similar, then the builders must have had some connection. Most likely, the peoples of the time did not travel internationally and were not able to spread the technology of the pyramids in an efficient way. For all of these builders to have had some sort of intercommunication, would have required the intervention of someone who could disseminate the information around the world in a speedy and concise manner. It would have meant that someone was helping these ancient societies along in their progression and gave them assistance in some way technologically.
It could have been a nomadic group of advanced humans that had learned these techniques of building that were travelling the world spreading the knowledge, or it might have come from somewhere else. We will never know the correct answer to this until we begin to examine the pyramids in a more open minded way.
There is a reason that there are so many similarities in the pyramids of the world, and it probably wasnt just artistic plagarism that links their style, but a common link between the builders of all pyramids. The need to reach the heavens is well known as a symbolic inspiration for ancient builders. The desire to rise to the stars with our forefathers has existed before we can remember. The stairs and steps of the pyramid reflect this desire to achieve what only our "GODS" can do-Go to the heavens. Ancient man must have had a burnung need to go up with the gods and join them in the stars,and it drove them to accomplish some of the most amazing feats of construction ever undertaken on our planet.
Perhaps someday, the inspiration for all of these wonderous structures will make itself, our themselves, known, and solve the question of why we built the Pyramids. For now we can only speculate, observe, and compare the similarities between them while wondering whether they are our missing link to the stars, or just a place of worship and ceremony for so many past peoples.
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