More than one folk chosen by God

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