Sacred Altiplano

Bolivia’s altiplano is home to some of the planets most sacred energies. Containing numerous power points and pilgrimage sites, Bolivia is dotted with towering volcanoes, spectacular jagged mountains, mystical high planes, a massive snow-white salt desert (with a hotel & chapel made of salt blocks), pre Colombian and Incan ruins, jungles, and the highest lake in the world. …And what a lake!

Lake Titicaca is globally recognized as a potent sacred energy and has long been a pilgrimage site. It hosts an incredible mega vortex, with an effective diameter of between 120 and 175 kilometers. This vortex is balanced by several powerful and pristine portals contained within its fluctuating perimeters. One of the most powerful and unique is the ruins of the ancient city of Tiahuanaco…Bolivia’s Machu Picchu!

Tiahuanaco, like many of the planets ‘sacred ruins’ is located on a major grid point. Its energy field is tangible …and the fabric of life around it is indelibly affected. Located a few miles south of Lake Titicaca, the ruins of ancient Tiahuanaco contain a massive pyramid, beautiful stone temples, monoliths and a wealth of indigenous legends of a mystical underground city beneath its temples.
Incan and pre Colombian legends claim that Tiahuanaco is an entrance to a vast underground labyrinth, connecting the city to other sacred sites. Incan prophecy tells of an upper world, and two ‘stages of underworlds, dimensional realities existing in both physical and etheric form. Several places in the Andes Mountains are considered gateways to these realms and doorways where emergence and entrance are possible. The Temple complex of Tiahuanaco is said to be a primary gateway to all three.
Tyb’s Journal: Arrival

Tyb's Journal: March 2, 2003

The morning I arrived in LaPaz it was cold and rainy. Thick clouds hid the magnificent snow-capped volcano called Illuminati that towers 20,000 feet over the city. I was a still bit stiff from a fitful sleep on the plane, as I exited the terminal building and surveyed the horizons. I waved down a radio taxi at the airport, and crawled inside. Then the elevation took effect. The International airport in LaPaz is located at an elevation of more than 13,400 feet! The resulting lightheadedness was something I would experience for several days.

We drove to the inner city and after checking into my room, I lay down for a 2-hour nap. I woke in early afternoon, to find the sun beaming. The view of the volcano from my hotel room was splendid. Illuminati was magnificent. The indigenous people held it sacred and folklore deemed ‘her’ the protective Goddess of LaPaz. Located in the base of a caldron at an elevation of some 13,000 feet, LaPaz is the capital city of Bolivia. At this elevation there is significantly less oxygen available, and the altitude ‘adjustment’ created a slight dizziness. I had to gasp for air about every thirty feet, as I walked down the steps from my hotel room to reception. I spoke to the clerk and made arrangements for a trip by car to Tiahuanaco & Lake Titicaca. We would depart at 7 am.

The Tibet of South America

The following morning I felt refreshed. After a breakfast of fresh papaya, I made my way to the hotel exit and the waiting car I had arranged. I greeted the driver, & stuffed my frame into the small taxi, then watched the waking city roll past. The next few days would pass inside the Titicaca vortex.

After twenty minutes we exited bustling LaPaz to enter soft rolling hill tundra, with tall blue peaks in the distant horizons. Twin spines of the mighty Bolivian Andes towered up to 25,000 feet on either side. The ‘cordilleras’ stood like jagged blue teeth of a massive saw blade. Our road paralleled both columns, a symmetrical seam that lay like a gray ribbon between the splendid ridges.

Bolivia is often called the Tibet of South America, and indeed this countryside could easily have fit into the wind swept steppes of the Himalayas. While the countryside was beautiful, there was a great tugging intensity to the energy. Everything inside, every feeling & emotion felt amplified, something I call the ‘crucible effect’. Whatever issues one has, will surface here. A few days in the altiplano, is like an emotional sauna! Perfect for pilgrimages.

Tiahuanaco & the 3-3-3

My taxi driver was a very humble and endearing gentleman named Edalio. He was an indigenous, Incan descendent, and a tribesman of the Armaya Indians. He had the swarthy leather complexion, and high olive cheekbones typical of Bolivians of indigenous ancestory. I liked him immediately. He was in his mid fifties, but had an athletic gait and huge energy field about him. He projected sincerity and honesty.

We began speaking about the sacred sites in Bolivia and eventually about the sacred the portal of the 03-03-03. I was delighted to discover he was quite aware of living Earth Energies. I was even more surprised to learn he was aware that the 3-3-3- was locally being recognized as a day of prayer.

Edalio told me of a sacred spring, reputed to give health and protection to all that drank from it. It was outside a small mountain village not too far off our path. I needed a rest stop, so we decided to head there. The road veered closer to the mountains and jagged granite outcroppings were popping up on both sides. The spring was lovely. It was a small cenote, a sunken artesian well, similar to those found in the Yucatan. The water was crystal clear. The energy around the fountain was amassed, as is typical of springs, with the concentrated energy of released anionic particles. The ‘energy pool’ was refreshing. As we rested, I looked at the powder blue sky. Gliding silently overhead, three condors sailed down a few thousand feet from the thermals they had been riding, wanting a closer look. Their massive 7-foot wingspans looked like black fingers. They weaved through one another in an amazing spiral pattern. I was mesmerized by their grace and presence. Condors and red eagles are not uncommon in this area of the Andes. However, each sighting would be a grand joy for me.

I relaxed and watched the magnificent birds for several minutes until they drifted away from sight. We both smiled as we climbed back into the taxi, and began rumbling and bouncing downhill on the rocky earthen road to the smoother paved tarmac. Onward to Tiahuanaco!

Energy of Place

I began to sense the energy of Tiahuanaco, as soon as we entered the ‘bowl’ that encapsulated its energy. It felt very unique, very ancient, and very separate from the energies I had felt at Machu Picchu. Local tourist companies bill Tiahuanaco as the Machu Pichu of Bolivia, but that is a monumental misnomer, excuse the pun. While both hold very sacred energies, their fields and roles are very different.

Machu Picchu is built on the summit of an awesome telluric energy generator, virtually the top of a pyramidal mountain, and that is much of why it was chosen and remains such a vital power point. Tiahuanaco is much older, and feels very different. It is one of two balanced male energy centers of the Titicaca vortex, which is balanced male and female energies. It was and is an entrance to a vast tunneled underground world that operates on a multidimensional level. It is connected to many sacred sites, among them Egypt’s Karnac Temple, Easter Island and the San Francisco Peaks of Arizona. Both of which have legends of underworld entrances.

The original site of Tiahuanaco is believed by some to have been on the shores of Lake Titicaca, but now the waters of the sacred lake lie some 12 miles away. Others contend that the city was built before there was a lake at all. The discovery of ‘lost cities’ under the waters of Lake Titicaca a decade ago confirmed many mythical legends of an ancient civilization built before the lake was formed to its current massive volume. It also confirms some sort of cataclysmic earth movement, and perhaps even the infamous flood that resulted from the final sinking of Atlantis.

Entering the Sacred Grounds

Ninety minutes out of LaPaz, we arrived at the Tiahuanaco ruins. As we neared, Edalio slowed and turned smoothly onto the pebbled road that was the entrance way. In front was an impressive, modern visitor center ala museum. We pulled into the parking area, and went inside to purchase our tickets. A photo gallery with exhibits of statues and monuments are housed inside, along with a walking tour explaining the various phases of the ancient city.

According to information in the museum, ancient Tiahuanaco ‘province’ was populated by some 300, 000 residents in its heyday. One third of who lived in the capital and ‘suburbs’, with the remaining two thirds
engaged in farming, herding, and fishing within a 50 kilometer radius of the core of Tiahuanaco.

The Temple core of the city was said to be a sacred center, surrounded by waters flowing in a stone canal. The inner core of pyramids and temples were home to the elite. Priests had exclusive access to certain sections of the Temple complex, similar to the Egyptian’s Holy of Holies. The artists’ depictions revealed a city plan similar in many respects to the Temple of Karnac in Egypt, with pyramids, monoliths and sacred lakes. I would sense connections through out the day to Karnac, Easter Island and San Francisco Peaks

Kachina Man & The ‘Huacas’

There was one display that depicted pictographs of small hump-backed men that looked strikingly like the underground ‘Kachina’ man of Hopi Indian lore, (said to live inside San Francisco Peaks Volcano near Flagstaff, Arizona). The local indigenous people call the underground men in Tiahuanaco legend ‘huacas’.
They are elusive, mythical residents of the vast underground city below Tiahuanaco. Local legends speak of sightings of small men, usually crouched or hunchbacked in postures that appear throughout the Temple complex of Tiahuanaco. Small relic carvings of the huacas are sold on the grounds by the indigenous artisans.

When asked, the artisans explain that these men are caretakers of the tunnels. Miners, and excavators, and are included in folklore for millennia. The lore of subterranean cities, tunnels and wispy gnomish caretakers is backed by adamant eye witness accounts among the residents of Tiahuanaco. Edalio claimed that he heard stories of elders allowed to enter the subterranean passageways years ago, although he had not met anyone who had, nor had he heard these stories first hand. They may be just ‘stories’, he admitted humbly. But the stories claim that massive hidden doors to the tunnels open from the sunken temple floor when those pure in heart ‘sing the sacred songs of the Gods’.

Major Energy Points

As I left the museum and entered the fenced grounds of the ancient city, I felt a unique, layered concentration of energies. Similar to the ‘zipped space’ phenomena I have felt in other power points of multi dimensional grid overlays.

There are four major energy points within Tiahuanaco itself. These are the Akapana Pyramid, the Sungate, the Sunken temple and the entrance to the Kalasasaya temple.

I became very aware of energy emanations from the Akapana Pyramid almost immediately as I entered the gated grounds. I stopped to realign my energy. I looked around to fully survey the ruins.

The actual site is on level ground, with a visible ridge line in three directions. The terrain is grassy tundra, with a few trees scattered about, growing at wind swept angles. Parts of monoliths, block-carved stones, and statues dotted the grounds, where cataloguing and archeological digs are ongoing.

It is important to understand that Tiahuanaco was really only discovered in the early 1900’s and was largely undeveloped and still covered in mud and silt until the 1960’s. Much of its complex, including the Puma Pyramid, is still buried in earth. In its prime it was a regal, flowing Atlantean-Egyptionesque energetic complex of earth, water and light.

Directional Orientation

The largest terraced step pyramid of the city, the Akapana, is aligned perfectly with the cardinal directions, facing east for the sunrise. It is energetically paired with another pyramid, called the ‘Puma Panku’, also aligned directionally and facing east. There is a clockwise energy pattern flowing in ovaline vortex motion that forms an effective magnetic membrane around the inner core of Tiahuanaco. The flow contains the major energy points. Tiahuanaco is in essence a solar/ telluric battery. The complex design uses natural energies to generate and amplify a light-and magnetic pattern via the architectural and landscaped template. It utilizes the basic mechanics employed at stone circles such as Stonehenge and Avebury and progresses them a step further by employing solar energies and sacred geometric energies as in the pyramidal structures. By placing such a complex on a natural telluric vortex and grid point, the force is amplified and utilized to anchor a portal of immense proportion.

The core of the template was surrounded by a carefully constructed stone canal, flowing and cascading waters from Lake Titicaca (which at that time contained salinity).

The Akapana Pyramid

The Akapana Pyramid is the largest structure on the ruins. It has seven terraces rising to 70 feet. , and is just under 700 feet in length on its longest wall. The pyramid terraces are quite impressive, and similar in appearance to those at Machu Pichu. The construction was done without mortar and the stones are perfectly fitted. They have an interesting glazed’ appearance in places, a characteristic common to many pre Colombian and Incan ruins. The summit floor, according to author Helmut Zettl ‘Tiahuanaco and the Deluge’, was embedded with copper ore. (Which I believe was to enhance amplification of electric and magnetic energies.) A sunken court, perhaps for meditation or preserved as a sacred pool, crowned the center summit. I found the energy around the sunken court the most potent. The energy seems to circulate upward in a spiral around the perimeter of Akapana creating a sort of cone peak apex. It seemed to reenter the center of the pyramid at the sunken court on the summit. The pattern repeated itself in a cycle. Each of the major points had there own concentric circulating pattern within the ovaline vortex of the complex.

The energy pattern was fascinating. It seemed similar to Avebury Stone Circle in England, in the sense that there is a weaving of energetic strands. The structures seemed to be able to generate pristine telluric and solar energies, and then isolate, circulate, amplify, and weave them into amazing blends and patterns.

A second massive pyramid duplicating Akapana, Puma Punku, was built in the energy flow sequence. It represents the feminine energies to balance the male of Akapana.

The Kalasasaya Temple complex is to the northeast of Akapana. It is raised, and appears like a massive, walled football field. It is 130 meters by 120 meters, and is raised about 3 meters from ground level.

The Subterranean Temple is located next to the Akapana, just south of Kalasasaya. The axis of this entire complex is aligned to the east/west the sunrise and sunset.

Puma Pyramid

The female Pyramid, Puma Punka) is still in a state of excavation. Yet the energy flows between the two are still very potent. The purpose of this structure is a counter balance amplifier, a twin platform mound coupled with Akapana.

The placement the mounds do suggest they were used for ceremonial purposes at different timings of the solar calendar, and of the day. Sun, moon and elemental worship is very prominent in Andean spirituality. The Puma Pyramid would also have had a lunar utilization ceremonially, the Akapana a solar….female-male, yin-yang.

Per researcher and author, Helmut Zettl, the granite monoliths atop Akapana direct compass needles away from magnetic north toward the west directly to Puma Punku. Another point of interest is that the stone structures and temples of Puma Punku were connected with metallic clamps.

Gateway of the Sun

Built in a rectangular fashion, the massive 10-ton ‘Gateway of the Sun’ is carved from a single block of granite. Its upper portion is deeply carved with beautiful and intricate designs, including a human figure, condors, elephants and some geometric symbols. Directly in the center of the gate is the so-called "Sun-god," Viroacocha. The placement of the carvings seems to align with astronomical precision the course of the Annual Solar Cycle. European researcher and author, Dr Posnansky, author of ‘Tiahuanaco, the Cradle of American Man’ used this alignment and that of the Subterranean Temple to help defend the 15,000 BC time line.

The Sun Gate stands in the northwest corner of the Kalasasaya complex. It emits a very special vibration, especially powerful when the sun is angled in mid morning and mid afternoon. The alignment of the ‘Sungate’ with the rising and setting sun plays a key vibrational frequency role in the opening of the dimensional ‘underworld’, which is pivoted below Tiahuanaco.

Scaling the Top

The Akapana Pyramid is the first structure one passes after entering the fenced perimeter. I felt two tangible walls of energy as I entered. The first was the line of the circulating inner vortex, which has a diameter of about 1000 meters, the second was the inner spinning vortex surrounding the Akapana.

An interesting silence pervaded the area, despite the fact that some four or five dozen visitors were combing the large grounds. I noticed suddenly that all noise seemed very muffled. I seemed to be in an area of almost total silence. Voices that a hundred meters back at the entrance that were being carried with amplified echoes from the area of the pyramids and sun gate, were totally inaudible here as I reached the base of the pyramid.

The silence had a low-pitched ‘white’ hum. The hum was felt more than heard, and had a tranquilizing quality. A telltale effect I often experience within the core of multi dimensional portals.

I struggled for breath as I climbed the steep sides of the large central pyramid. The pyramid had seven distinct levels and a flat terraced summit. Each seemed to have a unique frequency that flowed in circulating energy belts. These increased in frequency as I approached the flat summit. The summit was a cornucopia of light , electrical energy. The pattern around it is clockwise and it spirals to the summit, re-enters in a sunken temple and exits along a subterranean canal to the Puma Pyramid to the west.

I found an inviting space strewn with double piled pieces of cut limestone that had once been part of the retaining wall overlooking the sunken temple and sacred pool atop the pyramid. I sat on an interesting trapezoidal shaped block, with another block tidily stacked sideways to allow me a perfect back rest.
As I sat, my head begin to swim. The elevation was certainly taxing, and effecting my perceptions. Light sparkles were everywhere as I breathed deeply after the steep climb. Energy swirled through me. I felt tired, detached but also fully focused.

The sun warmed my face. I closed my eyes to face the warm sunlight. Looking into the sun, with eyes closed, a kaleidoscope of geometric shapes and colors danced visually in front of me. The shapes were rectangular that formed in to eight pointed stars. Effectively forming a 'Star of David' style formation, using two squares instead of two triangles. I found this quite interesting & perhaps significant. I wondered if this amazing array was symbolic of the energy of place. The eight-pointed star seemed to represent the area geometrically for me. The synergy of elevation (lack of oxygen at 13,500 feet), the energy of the pyramid, and the dimensional portal combined in a very potent fashion. This was a Sungate, a pristine masculine energy portal.

I required a few moments to adjust. I regained ‘ballast’ after a few minutes, and my breathing stabilized. Aspects of the effects lingered as I drifted into a deep state. I sincerely feel this was a very real phenomenon , the result of a synergy of the lack of oxygen at this elevation and the pyramidal grid-vortex of this sacred space. There was no veil. I was in a multi dimensional vacuum. Thought clarity was essential. Focus was essential. This was in essence a waking dream state, and retention of cognizance was essential, but not easy. I could have fallen into a sleep very easily. I knew intuitively this was a unique experience and I worked at keeping aware. I had a series of flashing sensory experiences of what I imaged the area to look like in the days of Atlantis, and an awareness of the vast expanses of space that were zipped into this concentrated area.

Redfeather Channel

Clockwise Energy Pattern

I ambled slowly, still feeling quite lofty, to the edge of the Pyramids summit, and sensed the energy points of the Kalasasaya Temple and the Sungate, both of which are on the Kalasasaya Mound (which is the size of two football fields). I walked to the Sungate, which was my first stop in flowing with the clockwise pattern from the pyramids. After arriving at the Sungate I felt compelled to circle it seven times. Interestingly, I recalled the Kryon once saying that the great Titicaca vortex was the counterbalance to Sedona. Vortex patterns north of the equator tend to flow counterclockwise, and south of the equator clockwise.

I found an area to sit and meditate, facing east. I visualized energy connections between Tiahuanaco and several global sacred sites. I then sat for a pre arranged 3-3-3 grid mediation, coordinated with several friends. The experience was powerful for me. I placed several special stones and quartz points around the Sungate, and would do the same at the sunken temple.

The Sunken Temple

My last hour was spent in the incredible Sunken Temple. The energy within this subterranean complex was very unique. It was here that I sensed the greatest dimensional focus and the inward fulcrum of the labyrinth. There seemed to be a dimensional gate that allowed the inner and outer worlds to co-exist and transport.

To enter one goes down a series of steps to a depth of about ten feet. It literally feels like entering another world. The amaxingly intricate granite walls around it are adorned with stone carved guardian ‘heads; and seem to lock in the energy. In its center is a tall well preserved statue aligned perfectly with the Pyramid and Kalasasaya Temples. This was absolutely the epi-center. I sat in a timeless bubble for a long time. I watched ‘energies circulate and swirl’ inward with great detachment.

Redfeather Channel

Closing

As the sun began to drop below the ridgeline of the Andes, the sky became a Van Gogh of stark gold and orange that night slowly absorbed into velvety blues. A deep emotion fell over me, and I felt a tremendous connection to this place. I glanced to the north, and saw a small red eagle flying toward the great lake. Soon I would join him. I stood up slowly, and headed back to the entrance. I said my goodbyes for the evening to Tiahuanaco flowing of emotions. I felt a mixture of joy and sadness that would stay with me through out my time in Bolivia, experiencing both sides of the emotional coin at once.

The time I spent here at Tiahuanaco had taken on an unreal quality, it felt like days, but in truth was only a few hours. I knew I had just touched the tip of an iceberg. There was far more beneath the surface …much more.

And so it is….
Tyberonn © July 21 2003

References and Photos

Helmut Zettl – Tiahuanaco and the Deluge
Kathy Doore - Andean Legends of the Inner Earth
Ellie Crystal – Tiahuanaco, Bolivia
Marvin Luckerman- Ancient History & Civilizations
Hans Schick – Tiahunaco, Mystery of the Andes
Martin Gray – Sacred Bolivia
Dan Heller – Bolivia Travel
Arturo Posnansky – Tiahuanaco, Cradle of American Man

Tiahuanaco Photo Album
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