The Bird Men

A small non-descript pacific island is the wonder of the world.  It has its own strange alphabet which has not been deciphered to this day.  

Ten thousand Tons of steel hard volcanic rock had been cut out of inland mountains on the island and spread around the whole island. Hundreds of statues were carved out of this volcanic rock which today would take an air chisel with diamond hard carbide blades. 

They are between thirty three and sixty six feet tall and weigh as much as fifty tons...They are still there to this day circling the island like Omni present sentries.

These sentries” statues” originally wore hats, interesting as it is strange the hats were of a different stone.  These hats weighed ten tons apiece. And was from a different part of the island than the stone from which the bodies were made.  It is interesting to note that these ten ton stone hats had to be lifted seventy feet in the air to put the hat on the head of the volcanic stone statues.

There were wooden tablets, with strange inscriptions on them today there are only a few found in a few museums throughout the world.  There are those who say that early missionaries removed these wooden scripted tablets to the Vatican Archives and have remained in the possession of the church.

Thor Heyerdahl’s investigation of these unusual finds produced three separate periods in our history.   Interesting the oldest period seems to be the one which is best preserved.  Dr. Heyerdahl found charcoal which was dated to A.D.400. 

Dr. Heyerdahl found many unfinished statues near rock faces and near edges of craters.  He also found thousands of stone implements, stone axes.  It appeared as though the work was suddenly abandoned by a huge work force.

Of course this island is known today as Easter Island.  The islanders are more familiar with astronomy than with the rest of our own world.  No trees grow on the island.  A few hundred islanders live on this island to this day.

  There are not resources to support more than this small village and definitely not enough resources to support the thousands of workers needed to build these stone formations.

One wonders why these statues line the perimeter of the island and its craters. Why aren't there statues in the interior of the island? 

The church prefers the world to keep wondering by burning the wooden tablets with inscriptions and preventing the local religion of the gods to prevail!  They tried to prevent the islanders from practicing their own religion and enjoy their traditions and culture, but the islanders even to this day refer to their island as the island of ‘THE BIRD MEN’.

An orally transmitted tradition tells of how flying men landed and started fires.  These legends are confirmed by statues of flying creatures with huge starring eyes.  There is similarity of the statues of Easter Island to the pyramid fields of Guatemala, Mexico, and Egypt. 

Once again we look at the mythology of the gods.  According to tradition Viracoacha created the world when it was still dark and had no sun; he sculpted a race of giants from stone; and when they displeased him, he sank them in a deep flood.  

Then he caused the sun and moon to rise above Lake Titicaca, so that there was light on earth.  He then shaped clay figures of men, women and animals at Tiahuanaco, and then he breathed life into them.

He instructed these creatures of his own creation, in the arts, language and customs of the region and then flew them to different continents so they could settle them.

  The god Viracoacha with two assistants later traveled the world to check on how his instructions were being followed.  Dressed as an old man with a white beard, Viracocha traveled throughout the Andes and along the coast, he was often treated poorly.

At one point he was so angered that he set fire to a cliff that continued to burn setting the whole country on fire.  The people begged for his forgiveness and he stopped the burning with a gesture of his hand!

He continued his travels giving wisdom and advice many temples were built for him.  He departed from the province of Mantra riding over the waves with a promise to return.  

Spanish Conquistadors encountered the legends of Viracocha everywhere they went.  They had never heard of giant white men who came from the sky.  They then learned of a race of the " sons of the sun” who instructed man in the arts and gave them sacred knowledge and then left promising to return again one day.