Report: #0142
There were another people
chosen by God.
Stones speak more than writings.
I
discovered – besides the Israelites – another people chosen by the gods: the
Olmecs and their heirs, the Toltecs.
This connection isn't clear yet, but the
Olmecs' treasures were guarded and hidden when Olmec power ended. Like sects in
the West, in South America too, a group of shamans preserved the secrets and
technological power under their care. Just as the holy ark is guarded and cared
for to this day in some secret place, so were some artifacts – delivered to the
Olmec people by the gods themselves in the past – hidden for hundreds of years.
When the time was right, all or some of these artifacts were handed over, and
the new tribe – the society of the Toltecs – could use them and impose
authority over other tribes.
The Olmecs
– a Mexican tribe, a society that lived in the jungle in southern Mexico 3,550
years ago – is the mother of Central American cultures. Even the Inca empire
claims it as its own. The origin of the Olmecs is mysterious and cannot be satisfactorily
clarified. They share this experience with many ancient cultures. More likely
is the loss of documents, if they were ever written, or simply the lack of
documentation in the place and era of those times. As I've recounted many times, fortunately, every
culture – as soon as a society begins – creates cultural works, works of art.
Reliefs, sculptures, statues, and writings engraved in stone.
These are the
unique testimony of eras of glory, of a people's daily life in motion. These
reliefs tell us, often with faithful precision without fantasy, the relevant
facts. Though sometimes recounting something very normal from the era – like
bringing water from a well in an earthen container, possibly formed and fired
in ovens as we do today with table plates, tea glasses, or pots for ornamental
plants – seems not worth the effort to carve such a scene in stone.
But
luckily, they didn't think so back then. Today, we can read between the lines,
between the drawings of ornaments – and even these tell us much about their
sense of aesthetics, of beauty. The
ornament indicates they were cultured. They knew such a form was beautiful and
lovely, so they placed these ornaments around a narrative. We do the same when
we put a photo of our loved ones in a special frame. Sometimes carved wood – or
today, less cultured, cheaper plastic frames imitating something that was once
at least as lovely and difficult to make as the portrait itself, whether in oil
or stone. The frame of a relief –
whatever its material – is the finishing touch, the completion of a work. We've
just talked about the aesthetic sense conveyed by a relief having a frame.
We
haven't yet analyzed the motif of the scene, the material, or least of all the
tool used to fabricate a relief. Analyzing the whole set gives us far more
knowledge about an artist – and thus their people – than reading writings,
which are logically crucial keys to understanding and knowing the names of
rulers, the people's names... But in the case of the Olmecs, we don't even know
what they called themselves. Only from other peoples who survived in time did
they receive names – and in this case, they were called Olmecs.
If a people spends on works, it means they
have surplus to eat. They can feed people who don't produce food. That is, work
is organized. One group hunts, others cultivate, others build homes and make
utensils like weapons, plates, clothing... Writing isn't yet needed. We've
already read a lot. We already know a lot without analyzing a relief's content.
What do we know so far? A tribe in the jungle, normally occupied daily with
survival, initiates new behavior. They settle in one place. There, they build
homes and cultivate plants around for their food.
This leap in behavior has
never been pronounced with sufficient respect and surprise. It's taken as
normal. It's not normal!
Instead of hunting, you put a seed in the ground and
wait five months to harvest the fruit, grain, or entire plant. So many new
tools must be invented that it seems impossible they did it again and again. If
today you changed from being a writer at a desk, for example, to a producer on
an organic farm – that is, without chemicals and far from civilization – you'd
have to prepare all the tools. You carry in your mind the plan for many of
them. You have the patents of many artifacts in your head and transform them in
the jungle into something useful with the materials the forest gives. But if
you didn't know what utensil to use to prepare the soil for sowing, who gives
you all the ideas at once? You also want to know when it's full moon, which season
is coldest or hottest, which seed is sown on which date, and what to do with
the seed after harvest.
How can it be eaten?
Who invented ground grain mixed
with water? Pasta. And who first placed it on a hot stone to bake it?
It's easy
to eat daily bread, but was it easy to invent it? It's easy to bring water in a
glass or large jug, but who indicates that from clay you can form the shape of
a jug, put it in fire, and it hardens to store almost any food – not just
water? If you want to see yourself in a mirror, first you have to know mirrors
exist, and second, what material they're made of. You still couldn't make one.
The Olmecs had mirrors that, in themselves, were a miracle. Almost like a
hologram, the image reflected on both sides of whoever or whatever approached
the mirror. This artifact is an OOPART – an out-of-place artifact. An artifact
unknown – and less so its manufacture in stone, not silica, which is burned
sand, i.e., glass.
Possibly, another gift from a god to a human goddess. There are so many inventions that surely man
made, but almost every culture that suddenly began speaks of divine masters,
gods who taught them everything.
That's how it was. Man always received
instructions from the gods. If they didn't listen, the consequences were harsh.
If a people has knowledge of all sciences at the same time – even feels love
for the beautiful, for aesthetics in works, even in construction of a home,
whether temple or house – then a link is missing in evolution. Also, a society,
a technology, an organization must evolve. Or someone creates it. Some god
gives instructions, and there – like a supernova, a solar explosion – a people
rises.
If built with technology, knowing
direction and pole axis, knowing cosmic frequencies crossing Earth diagonally
hundreds or thousands of times, then it's not wrong to speak of masters,
instructors. The gods always accompanied man. Possibly, they created him at his
appearance, as the Bible says, faithful to its letters. Some peoples were more
beloved or more important to the gods than others.
Not all peoples are equal
before God's eyes. Some peoples He lifted from Earth's surface, like wind lifts
sand and drops it in the desert. To other peoples, He facilitated a safer life
and more power against enemies.
We are not – and never were – equal before God
or the gods.
Moses and his people were chosen, and thanks to the sacred texts
transmitted in writing to our times, we have knowledge of that.
The Olmecs were
also a chosen people of the gods. Just in another place – and unfortunately,
everything this culture had was lost, except the stone works. These statues of soldiers from the Toltec
culture – seen in the city of Tula as the Giant Atlanteans – have a very modern
appearance. They carry non-common artifacts, not invented in that era.
Not only
do they wear shoes, pants, shirts, or long-sleeved sweaters – batteries for
their war equipment, including laser or taser weapons. They defended at a
distance, not in hand-to-hand combat. God delivered weapons, batteries, and
light reflectors to the Olmec people – His chosen people in this part of the
world – but was absent for some reason and left everything in the hands of a
group, His powerful arms for the defense of His chosen people. They were a
faithful people to their god. Only because of the great trust the gods had in
them did they deliver weapons made by the gods. An enormous privilege. The
Olmecs held power for 1,700 years – meaning the great power they had at their
disposal.
The Olmecs used gods' weapons,
just like Moses.
When Olmec society gradually disintegrated – as seen in all
history – the initiates in the most sacred secrets, whether a sect or group of
shamans, began to withdraw and hide everything sacred, awaiting the gods'
return, whenever it may be.
That happened hundreds of years later. There, all
or some of these hidden artifacts were delivered to the new leaders – the new
protected of the gods. The Toltecs were the chosen heirs.
Of that, another
time.
Josef Bauer
The Weapons of the Olmec
