Post by stonerkid on Sept 2, 2014 16:33:06 GMT -5
Mysterious stone spheres in Costa Rica investigated
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news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8593717.stm
The story of the spheres' discovery began in the early 1930s as the United Fruit Company was searching new grounds for banana plantations. A disease threatened the health of their crop on the Caribbean side of the isthmus. Searching the Pacific side, they found promising land within the Diquis Valley, not far from the coast where exports could be undertaken. They moved their headquarters from Limon to Golfito.
The stone spheres have been found in clusters of up to twenty, and often in geometric patterns such as triangles, rectangles or straight lines. Such alignments often point to the earth's magnetic north. A large number of the spheres have been located in the Diquis River Delta, with other popular sites being the southern cities of Palmar, Sur, Buenos Aires and Golfito as well as in the province of Guanacaste to the north and in the central valley. Archaeologists have been able to date the stones by the artefacts that have been found lying alongside them. Some of them have, thus, been dated as far back as 400 B.C.E.
Many of the spheres are made of granite like rock. Yet the granite rock quarries were often twenty five to thirty miles away from the location of the largest stone spheres. How, then, did the sculptors move such heavy stones? Some of the stones, after all weigh sixteen tons. If the granites rocks were moved before they were sculpted, then the nine foot cube that would be needed to sculpt a sphere eight feet in diameter would weigh a whopping twenty four tons. To even get such a massive stone to it's final location the natives would have to cut large tracks through very dense bush.
Other stones were made of coquina, a limestone like material which is found on the beaches near the mouth of the Diquis river. This stone was probably rafted up river about thirty miles to it's final location. Some of these stone spheres have been found on Cano Island, which is located about twelve miles off the Pacific coast. As to why the stone spheres were made, there are, as yet, no explanations. It is possible that they were used as a symbol of rank or importance for a tribal chief or a village. Then again, they may have been used as religious or ceremonial symbols. Perhaps further study by archaeologists will unravel the secrets of the stone spheres of Costa Rica.
Just how the ancient people of Costa Rica made these perfectly cylindrical stone spheres, remains largely a mystery.
francisco Pizarro ―the Conqueror of the Peru stated: "I heard that the high Lords of this empire Peru meet every four years in the country of balls, where apparently receive advice from wise», probably at the site known as Guayabo in Turrialba and the sacred mountain known as the center of the world.
The Bribri, represent the largest indigenous ethnic group in Costa Rica and are mainly located in the Cordillera de Talamanca with references from 6,000 years ago, but the oral tradition they refer to more than 12,000 years. The major archetypes in the collective imagination of the people of Costa Rica construction includes the Usuré and Surayum as references physical and symbolic that intermingle in the syncretism between ancestral and Christian.
Surayum: the center of the world, for many indigenous and especially the Bribri is the navel of the creation of the world by Sibu and the creation of the humanity of corn, of all the races, are there, in the Talamanca mountains, for centuries came from North, Central and South America, thousands of indigenous visitors to worship at the holy site and to bring offerings. Physically located so high lari, Alta Talamanca, right at the center of the La Amistad International Park, Natural Heritage, shared between Costa Rica and Panama.
Usuré: Cosmic House: is a kind of conical Temple which represents the universe. It is the ancestral world, the celestial Vault. It is the macro-Cosmos as a community and the micro-cosmos within the family, is the place of reflection, peace and security. When DuLu tree of creation was about to break the cosmic House, Sibu asked top and cut it, joined their ends, creating the circle on the periphery of the conical House, forming oceans as protection from the great House, so the sea and land are round.
Chant of an Awá (shaman)
Francisco García, Alto Lari Talamanca
soundcloud.com/cadmus-snd/canto-de-aw-francisco-garc-a
IMAGES BY BBC (LINK BELOW)
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8593717.stm
The story of the spheres' discovery began in the early 1930s as the United Fruit Company was searching new grounds for banana plantations. A disease threatened the health of their crop on the Caribbean side of the isthmus. Searching the Pacific side, they found promising land within the Diquis Valley, not far from the coast where exports could be undertaken. They moved their headquarters from Limon to Golfito.
The stone spheres have been found in clusters of up to twenty, and often in geometric patterns such as triangles, rectangles or straight lines. Such alignments often point to the earth's magnetic north. A large number of the spheres have been located in the Diquis River Delta, with other popular sites being the southern cities of Palmar, Sur, Buenos Aires and Golfito as well as in the province of Guanacaste to the north and in the central valley. Archaeologists have been able to date the stones by the artefacts that have been found lying alongside them. Some of them have, thus, been dated as far back as 400 B.C.E.
Many of the spheres are made of granite like rock. Yet the granite rock quarries were often twenty five to thirty miles away from the location of the largest stone spheres. How, then, did the sculptors move such heavy stones? Some of the stones, after all weigh sixteen tons. If the granites rocks were moved before they were sculpted, then the nine foot cube that would be needed to sculpt a sphere eight feet in diameter would weigh a whopping twenty four tons. To even get such a massive stone to it's final location the natives would have to cut large tracks through very dense bush.
Other stones were made of coquina, a limestone like material which is found on the beaches near the mouth of the Diquis river. This stone was probably rafted up river about thirty miles to it's final location. Some of these stone spheres have been found on Cano Island, which is located about twelve miles off the Pacific coast. As to why the stone spheres were made, there are, as yet, no explanations. It is possible that they were used as a symbol of rank or importance for a tribal chief or a village. Then again, they may have been used as religious or ceremonial symbols. Perhaps further study by archaeologists will unravel the secrets of the stone spheres of Costa Rica.
Just how the ancient people of Costa Rica made these perfectly cylindrical stone spheres, remains largely a mystery.
francisco Pizarro ―the Conqueror of the Peru stated: "I heard that the high Lords of this empire Peru meet every four years in the country of balls, where apparently receive advice from wise», probably at the site known as Guayabo in Turrialba and the sacred mountain known as the center of the world.
The Bribri, represent the largest indigenous ethnic group in Costa Rica and are mainly located in the Cordillera de Talamanca with references from 6,000 years ago, but the oral tradition they refer to more than 12,000 years. The major archetypes in the collective imagination of the people of Costa Rica construction includes the Usuré and Surayum as references physical and symbolic that intermingle in the syncretism between ancestral and Christian.
Surayum: the center of the world, for many indigenous and especially the Bribri is the navel of the creation of the world by Sibu and the creation of the humanity of corn, of all the races, are there, in the Talamanca mountains, for centuries came from North, Central and South America, thousands of indigenous visitors to worship at the holy site and to bring offerings. Physically located so high lari, Alta Talamanca, right at the center of the La Amistad International Park, Natural Heritage, shared between Costa Rica and Panama.
Usuré: Cosmic House: is a kind of conical Temple which represents the universe. It is the ancestral world, the celestial Vault. It is the macro-Cosmos as a community and the micro-cosmos within the family, is the place of reflection, peace and security. When DuLu tree of creation was about to break the cosmic House, Sibu asked top and cut it, joined their ends, creating the circle on the periphery of the conical House, forming oceans as protection from the great House, so the sea and land are round.
Chant of an Awá (shaman)
Francisco García, Alto Lari Talamanca
soundcloud.com/cadmus-snd/canto-de-aw-francisco-garc-a