Andean Aymara

Apparently, according to the correspondence regarding the “documentary” mentioned below, the film was going to make some suggestions about the origins of Tiwanaku. For an intelligent and educated counter to such bogus claims, check out “Ancient Tiwanaku” (Cambridge University Press) by Janusek, from the “Case Studies in Early Socities” series. 

In fact, Janusek tackles this issue directly:

“A common thread linking the thought and writing of many nineteenth-century adventurers, a thread remarkably vital today, is the idea that native Aymara-speaking “Indians” could not have built Tiwanaku’s magnificent monuments. Several writers proposed far-fetched speculations in support of overtly racist  assumptions.  …  Such ideas live on in remarkably popular, supremely ill-researched New Age notions that Tiwanaku was founded by enlightened Egyptians or Atlanteans (Bellamy 1948; Hancock 1996). On the ludicrous, if entertaining end of the spectrum is the notion that Tiwanaku was inspired by aliens from outer space (von Däniken 1971)!

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