LANDSCAPE GIANTS 

STARGATE  LAND OF THE JAGUAR, LION

Leo constellation 

Fig. 100. The City of Cuzco in the design of the Constellation of Leo the Lion. This landscape lion 'giant' at Cuzco is one of many giants that forms part of a large landscape zodiac 'landscape calendar' found in the surrounding landscape. 

The city of Cuzco was the capital of the Inca Empire in the 15th and 16th centuries. It lies at the western end and head of a small but fertile valley on the eastern slope of the Peruvian Andes at just over 11,000 feet. The Inca capital, the form of which is partly preserved in the colonial layout, had a modified rectangular grid plan, each block being occupied by an inward-looking compound called a cancha. The Temple of the Sun was the oldest and most sacred of Inca shrines. It stands on a levelled piece of ground between two stream valleys.

The other important area of Inca ruins is on the hill (head of the Puma) to the north of the city. The principal structure on the hill is the fortress of Sacsayhuaman. This occupies a ridge overlooking the town. To the east of Sacsayhuaman is the amphitheatre of Kenko, the site also of the tomb of the great Inca Pachacuti. It is said that, in the Inca city plan, Cuzco itself represented the body of a puma (an animal sacred to the Inca), while Sacsahuamán formed its head and jaws. As illustrated in these diagrams, (see Fig. 100-101.) the ancient Inca capital of Cuzco was designed in the shape of a puma, their holy symbol of strength and power; the outline is still visible at the heart of the modern day city. Ramparts at the puma's head (1) held the fortified temple complex of Sacsayhuaman; royal palaces and administrative and religious buildings surround a huge plaza set in the puma's midsection (2); and noble families made their homes in the Puma Chupan, or puma's tail (3), an area located at the point where two rivers that had been turned into canals flow together. The Golden Enclosure or Temple of the Sun (now the monastery Santo Domingo) was the oldest and most sacred of Inca shrines (4). The Plaza de Armas is the centre of colonial Cuzco (5), and stands on part of the main plaza of the Inca city. Many of the principal palaces and shrines stood in this area. It is interesting that the Andean Legends of the Incas and other Andean peoples reports that their beginnings began with giants. The chief Inca deity was Viracocha, the primal creator. He created the first world and peopled it with giants that he had made from stone. 

While studying the City of Cuzco in Peru, I rediscovered that people in the past have noted that the city was designed and laid out in this shape of a huge Puma. So while looking at an aerial view of the city of Cuzco, and marking out this Puma which others had also marked out. I straight away noticed that this puma did not look very realistic. It was then that I noticed that the tail of this puma in the city plan was pointed, this then caught my attention, because if you look at the sky constellation of Leo, you will notice that the star Denebola which forms the tip of the Lions tail is connected with two imaginary joining lines that connects to the two stars Zosma and Chort (See Fig. 102.) These two joining lines form the same angle as the two joining lines that form the tail of the Puma of Cuzco. I then thought to myself that this Puma must be the South American counterpart of Leo the Lion. So with excitement, I started up my astronomical simulator (Redshift) on my computer, which is an astronomical tool that is extremely accurate, detailed and highly informative.  

Fig. 101. Aerial view of the city of Cuzco in southern Peru.

I then orientated myself to the position of the city of Cuzco found in Peru, which is at Longitude: 72' 0'W Latitude 13'31'S.

I then orientated the sky to roughly the date of this city’s construction, which is believed to have been built around the 11th and 12th century AD, so as to see how the constellation of Leo looked on this date.

With the heavens now overhead on my computer, I then proceeded to overlay the constellation of Leo seen in the sky above Cuzco, to see how the constellation of Leo would look while being overlaid onto the Cuzco city’s layout, and blow me down; the stars and joining lines matched amazingly with the layout of Cuzco city’s construction. The joining lines found in the sky constellation of Leo are imaginary, but if you look at the Cuzco city map, you will notice that the Canal River that forms the body and tail of this Puma replicates these joining lines that form the constellation of Leo. These lines join up to the stars Denebola, Zosma, Chort Adhafera and eta Leo.

Have a closer look. It was then that I realised that I had the size of this lion. While lining up these lines that form the Canal River of Cuzco, with the lines that form the constellation of Leo, I then noticed that ‘deep sky objects’ like Galaxies and Nebula fell directly over sacred sites that are to be found replicated by monuments like churches for example. I am being brief here, as this is absolutely amazing. 

Fig. 102. Notice that the dashed red lines form the canal route found in the Cuzco city layout.

I have found that all these sacred points (sites) within the Cuzco city plan are marked with deep sky objects. 

As we know, we do not need to live in Greece, Rome etc, to rediscover the secrets of mythology. Each country has its own mythology, but where ever we go in the world we will find that all myths are but one and the same myth ‘story’ being retold over and over again.

It is recorded that the Roads of Rome were remarkably similar to the Inca Highways and that many of the roads of Rome and the Incas are now buried beneath the earth.

The Royal roads of the Incas are said to have been highways to the stars and that these travellers along the ‘highway of the stars’ are mentioned in all records of past civilisations as the ‘gods’ who rode the starways in ‘flaming chariots’.

What could this mean?

Many today have considered this to mean flying saucers. But was it really something to do with these star points replicated on the earth, which replicate the heavens above? The remarks would certainly make sense this way. If the stars and all sorts of deep sky objects were being replicated onto the earth by ancient peoples, then surely chariots to these highways to the stars would start to make sense. We are going to look at some of these ancient legends and traditions and conclude that ancient peoples were speaking about roads leading to these star points found replicated onto the earth.

As we know in Classical Greek Mythology for example, the Greeks speak of the period of the ‘gods’ whom they call the ‘giants’. These giants are recorded to have been gigantic monsters that were said to dwell in the earth.

The Titans ‘giants’ especially were associated with the starways and that they were recorded to have been the first builders on Earth and are the immortals of our legends, the God race or Elder Race that proceeded hu-man beings.

Even the legends of the Incas belong to such similar mythology, if we take into consideration that the giant lion that forms the Inca city of Cuzco is one of these sky giants then surely these legends would start to make sense, it is interesting that in one legend of the Incas it says ‘In the high places of our land, dwelt the Giant Gods in the days of our ancient fathers.’ (Huanca Indian legend of Peru, South America.)

What could that possibly mean?

It would seem to have meaning if we knew about the landscape giants, like the landscape Lion giant which we have rediscovered that has the Inca city of Cuzco built upon the top of it (See Fig. 100.)

We begin to get clues that ‘overwhelm’ us. The early Huancas and their conquerors, the Incas, spoke of many places in the land that had been former homes of the ‘Giant Gods’. ‘We must make our creations great upon the land that the sky gods may view them.’ (An ancient legend of South America.)

I believe that this statement from the legend is much more ancient than the Incas themselves. It must have originally meant, literally, exactly what it says. In other words, there were actually ‘sky gods’ and somehow they were connected with the necessary construction of the original city of Cuzco and with also other places in the landscape. The gods could then be seen to be the giants ‘constellations’ who reflect the constellations ‘gods’ found above in the sky.

It is known that the Incas were only invaders and conquerors of earlier civilisations, and that they received their information from earlier generations of priests who retained knowledge of astrology and astronomy from generations of earlier priests who had received arcane secrets from their forefathers. This ancient knowledge came originally from one of the greatest civilisations the world has ever known. In the interior of South America there existed thousands upon thousands of years ago an empire called ‘Land of the Jaguar (Lion) King’, known in the old chronicles as ‘Paititi’. After the destruction of this Empire by catastrophe, the remnant of her people travelled over the great Andes Mountains of the west and entered into the desert areas of the Peruvian coast. The Nazca people were the descendants of a part of this remnant that had been saved in the very early days. Therefore the predecessors of the Incas were the original guardians of this ancient knowledge.

Many legends throughout the world speak of giants coming from great mountains and also dwelling on top of such high places. It seems that ‘Giants’ and ‘mountains’ or ‘gods’ and ‘high places’ always go together.

Besides the Huanca legends of giants in Peru, there are many others. The Quechua Indians say that their ancient fortresses overlooking Lago de Titicaca were erected by giants. This would again explain the city of Cuzco being built upon the landscape lion giant that forms the sky constellation of Leo.

The giants aided in the construction of these city’s and fortresses because these cities and fortresses are built upon these giants ‘landscape giants’.

Some people believe the earth has a natural source of energy that manifests itself as a magnetic field or electrical current. This unseen power is thought to have the ability to affect human bodily conditions and create biochemical reactions when people are near a prime spot of Earth Energy. Particularly potent areas are known as vortices, and many enthusiasts are of the opinion that these points help provide Man with rejuvenating or beneficial energy. As a sign of proof, they point to the idea that ancient races were more in tune with natural powers, and built important structures on sites emanating large amounts of energy. They claim Stonehenge, the Great Pyramid at Giza and Nazca are all points of strong natural forces.

The remnants of cultures throughout the world give evidence of their concern with the complex regularity of the motions of the Sun, Moon, and stars and with unusual occurrences such as the appearance of a nova or comet in the sky. Besides the simple fact that the sky was a dominating feature of the human world in ancient times; it enabled them to measure the passage of time, to predict the recurrence of seasonal events (essential for agriculture), to undertake navigation on long journeys, and to develop the calendars needed for their complex societies.

But was there something more to this knowledge, something that is only just being realised and rediscovered today?

We know that in ancient Egypt the pyramids of Giza were attended by the astronomer priests of Heliopolis, the ‘mystery teachers of heaven’, the chief of the astronomers was believed to be in direct communication with the celestial powers. The Incas called the high-priest at the Coricancha uilac-umu, a name that means ‘he who speaks of divine matters’. He was supported by a caste of learned priests called Amuatas amongst whose numbers was a college of Tarpuntaes - skilled astronomers. Their task was to study the astral bodies, note the advance and retreat of the sun, fix solstice and equinox, and predict eclipses. To this end they made use of a sequence of monoliths known as sucanas, now unfortunately all destroyed, which according to the early chroniclers once stood ‘on the mountainous horizons of the Cuzco valley at strategic points visible from Coricancha, marking the azimuths of the winter and summer solstices.

The Incas believed just as the Egyptian astronomer priests believed that somehow the initiated could travel to the sky through some ancient form of earth science. It has been believed and interpreted today that this was only possible in the afterlife where the soul of the dead would travel amongst the stars and find a gateway into the heavens.

As we have rediscovered in the Cuzco Lion, it seems that these ancient peoples were being more than just accurate about certain bodies found in the heavens, but they were actually deliberately building accurate temples upon certain points upon these giants to replicate certain points in the sky.

I am being really brief again…

Graham Russell