Wednesday, May 26, 2010

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.

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