It is difficult to see how all the calculations, planning, and designwork
involved in producing the great city of Tiahuanaco could have been done without
some form of writing, and without a system of notation different from the "unit"
system of the calendar sculpture.
If they had such a system they must have used it only on perishable
(One is Lempted to think all these Nasca markings had been constructed by
Atlanteans who fled to the altiplano before or after the destruction of their
island continent 12,000 years ago.)
I have so far dealt with some of the aspects of the Tiahuanacan world, namely
those connected with the calendar as a monument of what Schindler-Bellamy
describes as "fossilized science."
But the calendar science-sculpture, and similar slightly older ones also
found at the site, must also be regarded and appreciated from an aesthetic point
of view, a great artistic achievement in design and execution-and an absolute
masterpiece of arrangement and layout.
The most tantalizing fact of all is that the Tiahuanaco culture has no roots
in that area. It did not grow there from humbler beginnings, nor is any other
place of origin known. It seems to have appeared practically full blown
Only a few "older" monuments, as can be inferred from the "calendrical
inscriptions" they bear, have been found, but the difference in time cannot have
been very great.
The different-much lower cultures discovered at considerable distances from
Tiahuanaco proper, addressed as "Decadent Tiahuacan" or as "Coastal Tiahuanaco,"
are only very indirectly related to the culture revealed by the Calendar Cate.
Some of their painted symbols are somehow somewhat related to the calendar
symbols, but they make no sense whatever; they are, if anything, purely
Tiahuanaco apparently remained for only a very short period at its acme of
perfection (evidenced by the Calendar Gate) and perished suddenly, perhaps
through the cataclysmic happenings connected with the breakdown of the former
We have at present no means of determining when Tiahuanaco rose to supreme
height. or when its culture was obliterated, asn naturally, the calendar itself
can tell us nothing about that.
It will certainly not have been in the historical past but well back in the
It must indeed have occurred before the planet Luna was captured as the
earth's present moon, about 12,000 years ago.
The capture of the satellite and its later fall to the surface on our planet
imposed great stresses on the earth. The gravitational pull caused floods and
earthquakes until the moon settled into a stable orbit one-fift}l of today's
Hence the "moon" draws the oceans into a belt or bulge around the equator,
drowning the equatorial region but leaving the polar lands high and dry.
When the satellite approached within a few thousand miles gravitational
forces broke it up; according to the Roche formula each planetoid or asteroid
disintegrates when approaching the critical distance of 50 to 60,000 kms.
The fragments shattered down on earth; the oceans, released from the
satellite's gravity, flowed back toward the continents, exposing tropical lands
and submerging polar territories. This is the simple explanation of the Horbiger
theory, and it seems to me the most logical one.
Thus the approach of the "moon" caused a world-wide deluge, effecting changes
of climate and provoking earthquakes accompanied by volcanic eruptions.
The "ring" left by the satellite after breaking into fragments caused a
sudden drop in temperature of at least 20 degrees, which geologists recognize as
iia decline" in temperature. It is evident, for example, in the discovery of
frozen mammoths in the Siberian tundra.
Possibly gravity-and therefore physical weight - was also changed on earth,
and with it biological growth: this would explain the widespread construction of
huge megalithic monuments as well as the presence of giants-man and animal-in
fossil strata, tombs, and myths.
According to Horbiger four moons fell on earth, producing four Ice Ages; our
present moon, the fifth one, will similarly be drawn into the critical
configuration of one-fifth of its present distance (380,000 kms.) and will cause
the fifth cataclysm. (Remember the Aztec calendar's prediction of doomsday by
The theory of a falling moon has recently been substantiated by Dr. John
O'Keefe, a scientist at the Coddard Laboratory for Astronomy in Maryland. Dr.
O'Keefe claims that the fragments of a moon's collision formed a ring around our
planet that could have kept the sun's rays from penetrating to earth, thus
causing world-wide decline of temperatures.
After a while the fragments showered down on earth, breaking into smithereens
known as tectites.
These tectites O'Keefe believes were fragments of the fallen moon, thus
proving Horbiger 's
The Calendar Gate shows that a far-advanced culture made a substantial
attempt to plant its society at Tiahuanaco, wanting to revitalize this region
which had already been devastated by floods caused by a close satellite.