Maybe because the content of the last lecture was so fascinating, the number of students who have come to my lab with questions has increased. This makes me happy.

 

Even though I spoke in the initial lecture about my family’s aesthetics of not making an announcement at an academic meeting, it’s unforgivable that students still asked, “Why don’t you make an announcement at an academic meeting”.

 

If you don’t understand the aesthetics, you won’t be able to keep up with the lecture.

 

Now, let’s get in to more details about the La-Mulana ruins.

 

First, the entrance to the ruins is the “Gate of Guidance”. Look at this picture.

 

This is the room at the entrance of the Gate of Guidance, If you are somewhat familiar with the ancient civilization, you can see the beauty and, at the same time, feel the incongruity.

 

First, about the swirling pattern growing on the wall, this is similar to something often seen on buildings on Mayan writings in Mexico.
The Mayans created patterns that appeared to come out of walls by placing bricks thatlined their buildings.
The swirling pattern on the Guidance Gate is sticking out of the walls. No one knows how it’s fixed in that way.
In particular, the area close to the ceiling is a large swirl that is highlighted, but it’s unreachable so it hasn’t been examined.
Since that can’t be helped, I tried with all my might to pull the small swirls that are closer to the bottom, but it didn’t move at all.

 

Well, think about an unimaginably long wick buried in the wall from the swirling part. Even with that, I don’t know about the swirling part.
It looks like rock blocks were put together in to a swirl, but it doesn’t move at all. All I can say is that it’s not made or put together in such a way.
The Mayans tried to copy this and were unable to so you might think they copied the pattern on to the walls.

 

The incongruity is what was briefly mentioned in the previous lecture. This means there are several confusing things of the different styles from the Maya civilization even in just the entrance of the room.

 

About the two columns that are on the front of the picture, there is a Jaguar image similar to the ruins, but not Mayan. Instead it’s from the Northern Mexico Tula, of the Teotihuacan civilization. It was the first time seeing a three-dimensional image rather than simply a flat one.

 

And the large face in the middle of the picture, it is similar to several of the large face statues excavated in a place called La Venta in southern Mexico. It’s just that I’ve only seen a type that was implanted in to a wall.
The facial impression is similar to La Venta; it could be that the model was the same race.

 

I’ve seen things similar to the wall image in other rooms within the ruins of the Mithra in Central Mexico (of the Aztecan civilization). The rock structure on the bottom left of the picture is similar to the ruins of the South American Tiwanaku. Hearing that, do all civilizations in close vicinity have some styles mixed? There are some that may ask that.

 

But the Maya and Teotihuacan civilizations are different and although the period is close because the birthplace is around 200 B.C., the large face statue of La Venta is from 1200 B.C. Furthermore, Tiwanaku ruins is pre-Incan civilization of South America.

 

Even then, if there is anyone that doesn’t feel incongruity of this picture because of Mexico and South America, take a look at this next picture.

 

Oops, I’m in this picture! I set the timer of the camera on the laptop and took this.
Oh, yes. There’s also a monster that I mentioned I would show you in the previous lecture. It just looks like a somewhat large mouse, right? but, if enemies get too close to this mouse, its body explodes. Is there such a mouse? From what I checked, the most similar to this is Japan’s monster, the “Koda Nezumi”. It’s Japan’s monster in the ruins mixed with Mexico/South American styles. With that said, I don’t know what’s what.

 

Also, the large rock in the middle of the picture is similar to the Ollantaytambo ruins of the South American Incan civilization. That is called the Folding Screen Rock, it’s a vertically long, large rock without any cracks, but the thing in the picture is over double the size of that.

 

There’s more, this one.

 

This is what we briefly discussed in a previous lecture, the wall image of Persian folklore.
This old man wearing a fish’s head is called Oannes and is a Merman. He’s said to have been granted the civilization of the Persian people during the Hellenism era.

 

Something similar would be the monster known as the Sea Bishop told to the Middle Age Europe and the monster called Umibouzu in Japan. Well, it’s generally a half human fish.

 

This type of style leaves a scattered Gate of Guidance, but other fields are similar with a mix of civilizations that have come. Well, maybe it’s a mistake to say mix. It should be thought of as parts of the style of the ruins that were copied and spread around the world.

 

But only this Gate of Guidance is difference from the other fields–not just in its style, but in other ages. I’m not sure what it exactly is, because I was not able to bring in any equipment that could date the age of the rocks.
From what I can see, compared to the other rocks the wall image of Oannes had less damage and looked new. Placed later are other crucifix shaped reliefs and tombstones scattered.

 

It’s as if it’s a place created further in the past by several hands from several races over various generations. This is not just a guess, but it was confirmed after somewhat examining other fields, but let’s leave that for a later lecture.

 

Next let’s explain about the Mexico and South America civilization that is believed to be connected to the Gate of Guidance. The village above the ruins is also strange and quite funny. And that will be discussed in the next lecture!

 

Lemeza Kosugi