Earth Chronicles 7/25/2021
The Olmecs were a very advanced civilization, which preceded the ancient Mayan and Aztec empires. Their knowledge of geology allowed this mysterious ancient civilization to literally terraform certain regions. The San Lorenzo Plateau is one such example. It is considered one of the most important architectural projects of ancient times.
The entire region was “modified” to the taste of the ancient Olmecs. This project involved the removal of tons of earth and stones, which allowed the construction of giant terraces, walls and monuments, literally turning their surroundings into a sacred place for their inhabitants.
The question remains, how did ancient man achieve this…thousands of years ago?
The Olmecs were a people who inhabited Central America in the 16th and 2nd centuries BC. Most likely, the Olmec civilization originated in the eastern part of modern Mexico (the states of Veracruz and Tabasco). It is also possible that the people could have lived in El Salvador and Guatemala.
The name “Olmecs” translates as “rubber people”. This designation was given by the Aztecs after the Olmecs’ native area, where many rubber-bearing plants grew. The first Olmec settlement was called Tamoanchan, which literally means “we seek our home. The main occupations of the Olmecs were farming, particularly the cultivation of corn and maize, and fishing.
The Olmecs are believed to have founded the first civilization in pre-Columbian America, which gave rise to all other cultures. For this reason in Latin America the Olmec culture is called the “mother culture. The Olmecs invented the first written hieroglyphic system, similar to that of the Maya, learned to calculate time and annual cycles. The Olmec people began building the oldest cities in Mexico. The capital of the Olmec State was the city of San Lorenzo, built 3,400 years ago. Now its ruins are in the Mexican state of Veracruz. The religious center of the Olmecs was the city of La Venta. Judging by the large number of masks, sculptures and images, totemism was widespread among these people, and the main sacred animal was considered a jaguar.
A specific feature of the Olmec culture is the construction of giant realistic basalt heads, an average height of 2.5 m, 7 m in circumference and weighing up to 30 tons. Not a single head is repeated, each one endowed with individual Negro-type facial features. For this reason, many scholars believe that the Olmecs may have come from the African continent. The stone heads wear helmets with a strap on the chin.
Also of interest to archaeologists and ethnologists is found on the site of settlements Olmec toy in the form of a dog on wheels, as in the scientific world has adopted the view that the peoples of Central America did not know the technique of manufacturing the wheel.
It turned out – they knew the wheel and moreover, they were the first to invent a compass, and not the Chinese, as scientists like to tell.
“Fat Men” are sculptures created by the Olmecs. They are very different from the elaborate sculptures we usually associate with the ancient cities of that area. They are chunky stone figures of very fat people with a large ball at the bottom and a smaller, flattened ball at the top. Their arms barely extend across their wide bellies.
Official assumptions about their ages have ranged from 1500 B.C. to 500 B.C.
Interestingly, many of these sculptures were moved from their original location and buried. Many of these “fat man” sculptures were found exactly buried in the ground (during excavations).
Further research has shown that these “fat” statues were originally placed in specific and important locations because they were found to be magnets.
The stone from which they were created is a natural magnet, and like any magnet, it is capable of attracting or repelling other ferrous metals, as well as temporarily magnetizing other objects containing iron.
Magnetic “fats”,, are cut from magnetite, a type of iron ore. But only a small percentage of magnetite rocks are magnetites. Geologists don’t fully understand how some rocks become magnetized, but the most common theory is that they are struck by lightning. Perhaps lightning is enough to equalize all the charges of the ions in the stone.
More:
https://earth-chronicles.com/histori/hematite-compass-of-the-mysterious-olmec-civilization-an-invisible-pointer-leading-to-atlantis.html
