One Symbol Connects Bolivia, Turkey, India and Egypt

Explore the symbols from this episode in The Ancient Code Database: https://thestageoftime.com/acd-i At the Aswan quarry in Egypt, Derek Olson once pounded red granite with a dolerite stone for a full minute and barely left a scratch. That experience sets the tone for this conversation at Puma Punku and Tiwanaku, the sister sites on the southeast side of Lake Titicaca in Bolivia, where Matt LaCroix and Derek examine precision cut gray andesite, H blocks with no visible tool marks and drill holes so small they defy Iron Age tools. Mainstream archaeology credits the Tiwanaku culture with the work around 1,400 years ago. Matt instead follows Arthur Posnansky, who dated the sites to around 17,000 years ago from their celestial alignments, and in Matt's reading this is a Pleistocene site that later cultures inherited and tried to imitate. The second half turns to the symbol Matt sees repeated across the stonework, a three level inverted step pyramid set above a doorway. In his interpretation it represents a metaphysical realm, and paired with the doorway it marks a gateway between realms, a reading he extends to the Gate of the Sun, the figure of Viracocha, the layout of the Akapana pyramid and the Kailasa Temple in India, with parallels in the Lake Van region explored in his book The Missing Key: Ancient Code of a Lost Civilization. Derek adds the Andean cosmology of the three worlds, and Matt closes with his view that if this was a technology, it could one day be reactivated. CHAPTERS 00:00 Trailer 01:45 Welcome Derek Olson 04:27 How Derek discovered megalithic stonework 07:39 Puma Punku and Tiwanaku at Lake Titicaca 13:15 Why so much is still unexcavated 14:36 Andesite cuts and the Lake Van comparison 17:56 Pedro Cieza de León's first account 20:13 Arthur Posnansky and the 17,000 year date 27:47 Two masonry types at Tiwanaku 32:05 Iron Age tools against hard stone 34:45 Missing tool marks and the geopolymer question 43:28 Moving blocks of up to 500 tons 48:18 Micro drill holes and machine cuts 50:08 Pounding granite at Aswan 54:05 Where did the technology go 55:08 The inverted step pyramid at the Moon Gate 57:43 The Chakana and a relief from Lake Van 1:01:55 Heaven, hell and the underworld 1:06:27 The composite step pyramid at Ollantaytambo 1:08:04 Water that stops at a touch 1:11:22 The fallen gate at Tiwanaku 1:13:15 The gateway symbol 1:18:40 The 3 to 4 completion model 1:21:29 Da Vinci's Last Supper and the middle door 1:27:31 What Viracocha is standing on 1:29:34 The Akapana layout 1:31:27 Kailasa Temple in India 1:35:54 Derek's find at the Tiwanaku museum 1:37:57 Haldi and the middle door 1:42:17 The three worlds of Andean cosmology 1:44:52 Why academia has missed this 1:51:36 Reconnecting with natural cycles 1:56:22 Giza and the middle star of Orion's Belt 1:59:53 Closing thoughts GUEST Derek Olson is the founder of Megalithic Marvels, which he launched in 2017 after a trip to Peru convinced him that a lost civilization shaped its megalithic walls. His interest began in 2012 with a single photo of polygonal precision stonework, and he has since visited ancient sites across Peru, Bolivia, Egypt and Easter Island, sharing a vast library of megalithic images with his audience. Check Derek's Channel out here: ‪@MegalithicMarvels‬ Website: https://megalithicmarvels.com/ Tours: https://megalithicmarvels.com/tours/ MATTHEW LACROIX https://thestageoftime.com BOOKS https://thestageoftime.com/books THE ANCIENT CODE DATABASE https://thestageoftime.com/acd-i THE LOST CIVILIZATIONS PODCAST https://thestageoftime.com/podcast