The Top Part of Seal

I am thrilled that my last post of Eagle carrying Eaglet came across so well and that you should be able to enlarge it by clicking on it a couple of times.

I hope to be able to post a photo of top part of seal that you will be able to do the same.
The top part of the seal is gold and engraved in the gold are very many images, more than 50 by my last count, of temples, staircases, trails, river, snakes, serpents, condors, hummingbirds, pumas, a fleur dis lis with two birds, one on each side of top leaf, and each with something in it's mouth, ducks and many other images of faces, hands, and even what may be a depiction of a constellation.

And all of this on a seal that measures one inch in width and one inch in height. Many of the images I have not yet been able to identify because they are so micro.
I am working on, and maybe someone reading this blog can help, finding someone who knows how to photograph gold and micro images.

I believe that what is engraved on the top part of Seal, above the river, is a sacred Site very similar in some respects to the Sacred Inca Site of Machu Picchu showing the Urubama river which runs below Machu Picchu, the Temple of the Sun, the Temple of the Condor, the Guard House, the Original Gate to the City and on the reverse side, the Temple of the Moon.

However, there is one very large additional Temple of Condor located to the left of known Temple of Condor, and this is not the case at Machu Picchu.

There are many images engraved below the river, and running the full length of seal, many so micro they are hard to identify. But if you look closely you should be able to see the ducks, the serpents, many animals, a hand, various faces. Just to the left of right arch, you should be able to see a snake crossing river, whose head is just opposite the head of the Condor in Temple of Condor. Above this is the round Temple Of the Sun, on which you can actually see the east facing window of Temple, and the outline of stone within Temple. To the left and above Temple of Sun is the Guard House, and above and to the left of that is a small rectangle which I believe represents the Original Gate to the City.

There are also many images in both arches, and on the left arch on the extreme outside, about half way up, are a series of dots, which I believe are possibly meant to represent a constellation, possibly the Pleiades Constellation which had great significance for Incas.

eagle at 11 o clock

Hope you will be able to enlarge this.or that it will come over as enlarged to see eagle at 11 o clock carrying eaglet in it's left talon, in eaglet's nest.
Terry

See new upright image of Mystery Man.
In my next post I hope to be able to publish incredible images that are along the edges of photo you are looking at, an area that measures perhaps an eighth or one sixteenth of an inch. One, located at about 11 o clock, is of an eagle carrying an eaglet in it's nest, in the eagles left talon. The detail is so great, you can actually see the straw in the eaglet's nest. There are many more images along this edge, perhaps as many as 30 or more. Incredible stuff.
Terry

New Image of Indian horizontal facing

Attached find new image of Indian straight up rather than side view.
Terry

The purpose of this blog is to publish information and photos of what I believe to be a very historical artifact which was the Personal Seal of as yet unidentified Indian Leader whose image is engraved in amber on bottom part of seal.

I have identified the amber as having come from Santo Domingo in Dominican Republic making it 25-40 million years old. There are at least two full inclusions (insects) embedded in the amber with parts of many others. One of the insects is just opposite the nose of the Indian. It is facing south and you can identify the head, eyes, legs, body and tail, and excrement coming out of tail.
The other insect is in the basket in lower left side.

I believe from my research of last three years that the Indian was a High Priest possibly from a tribe along the Amazon River. His profile sits atop a woven basket in which can be seen the bodies of two snakes weaving in and out of basket, culminating with their heads sticking out of basket.

From a book entitled Singing and Weaving which I researched at Museum Of Natural History in NYC I learned that some tribes along the Amazon believed the Basket was the Shaman's only weapon for with it he could transform it into any kind of monster he desired and kill all his enemies.

Notice that there is a platform under the Indian's head on which a small house sits. Some of the tribes along the Amazon referred to their leaders as Head Of The House, and I believe that this house sitting under the head of the Indian symbolizes that.

There is a second platform below the first one on which sits some kind of an emblem which I do date have not been able to see too clearly, which I believe would indicate Indian's rank and status.

The same is true of emblem on center of headdress.

For what it may be worth, I have been told by two experts, one in US and one in Peru, that the bottom part of seal may be three to four thousand years old!

On a trip last year to Peru, I learned from an Antiquities Expert that the very ornate headdress worn by this Indian was the type worn by High Priests during Special Ceremonies. I also saw this same headdress on a Mass Vestment dating back to the sixteenth century in a museum in Cusco Peru.

I am hoping to be able to post a photo of my Mystery Man with this blog.

In my next blog, I will describe and post a photo of top part of seal which is incredible for what is on it.
Terry