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The Mystery of the Anasazi Civilization Sam Osmanagich, Ph.D. THE MYSTERY OF THE ANASAZI CIVILIZATION SURPRISING EVIDENCE OF THE SPIRITUAL AND ASTRONOMICAL KNOWLEDGE OF THE MYSTERIOUS ANASAZI CIVILIZATION OF THE REMOTE AMERICAN CANYONS Author: Dr. Sam Osmanagich Copyright: All rights reserved by the author Title: The Mystery of the Anasazi Civilization Edition: First edition Publisher: “The Archaeological Park: Bosnian Pyramid of the Sun” Foundation, Himze Polovine 12, 71000 Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, www.piramidasunca.ba For the publisher: Ahmed Bosnic, Chairman of the Board of the Foundation Editor: Sabina Osmanagich, Gino Aliji (2019) Proof-reader: Sabina Osmanagich, Gino Aliji (2019) Printing house: CPU Printing Company, Vitomira Lukica 14, 71000 Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, www.cpu.ba For the printing house: Nedzad Dzafic, director Reviewers: Ahmed Bosnic, Slobodan Stajic Year of publication and printing: 2013 Number of copies: 1,000 ISBN: 978-9958-674-02-0 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION ........................................................................................................... 4 CORONADO .................................................................................................................. 5 FAJADA BUTTE .......................................................................................................... 11 HUNGO PAVI .............................................................................................................. 18 PUEBLO BONITO ....................................................................................................... 25 CHETRO KETL............................................................................................................ 34 PUEBLO DEL ARROYO ............................................................................................. 42 KIN KLETSO ............................................................................................................... 48 ANASAZI ROADS ....................................................................................................... 53 AZTEC ......................................................................................................................... 60 THE GREAT KIVA ...................................................................................................... 69 MESA VERDE ............................................................................................................. 77 MESA VERDE ASTRONOMERS ................................................................................ 85 THE LEAP TO TOTAL FREEDOM OF THE ANASAZI............................................ 95 THE WATCHTOWERS OF HOVENWEEP ............................................................... 103 AN INDIAN SKY ABOVE ARIZONA ...................................................................... 111 THE MESSAGES OF THE HOPI ............................................................................... 119 CANYON DE CHELLY ............................................................................................. 126 WHITE HOUSE.......................................................................................................... 135 THE CIRCLE IS CLOSED ......................................................................................... 144 INDEX OF NAMES AND CONCEPTS...................................................................... 149 3 INTRODUCTION The surface of the Earth over the last two million years provides evidence of the occurrence of eighteen ice ages, each lasting about a hundred thousand years. Between them there were short periods of warming, which lasted no more than twelve thousand years. Those were the times when new life cycles would begin. Life blossomed, the planet turned green, and the sounds of various living beings could be heard almost everywhere. We are now at the end of one such a temporary warm period which began 11,500 years ago. We are rapidly approaching another ice age. Climate changes will intensify, cold regions will become even colder, warm regions even warmer. Another cycle will come to an end. The current dominant civilization will come to an end and it will take many generations before another cycle starts over from the beginning. The thread which connects the civilizations of various warm periods will be lost. Or it may survive here and there through oral tradition or perhaps some written documents. Then, it will become a legend which will, in time, be dissolved in the realm of myth and imagination. Will our distant descendants know about us or will they think that they are the “first intelligent civilization on Earth”, just as we proudly imagine ourselves to be in our own ignorance? Will they be able to appreciate the variety and spirituality which we seem to be incapable of comprehending? Looking toward the future, we shall talk about the past. Not a particularly distant past. Specifically, a people who arose at the same time when we ourselves did. And who shared one small part of our planet. And about whom a lot has been forgotten, almost as if they had never existed. Not much has been left behind by them except for some ruins of buildings, structures used for astronomy, an occasional glyph carved into stone and an occasional legend told by those who came long after this people had departed. Three hundred years is not a long time for a civilization. In fact, by strictly scientific standards it would be difficult to talk about this as a “civilization”. Especially since we do not have any reliable data about where they came from and there are no written documents describing what they knew. Also, it is still a mystery as to why they abandoned their homes, never again to return. Their cities have been named by denominations which we have given them. We do not know what names they themselves gave them. The purpose of certain strange structures is something we can only guess at. This is the challenge of this book: To bring to the surface at least some small part of the knowledge of those who are no longer here from the depths of cosmic history. So that it should not be forgotten. We call them the “Anasazi”. 4 CORONADO Albuquerque, New Mexico I arrive by plane in Albuquerque, a city of half a million inhabitants. A third of the population of this spacious but sparsely populated state of New Mexico is located here. The Rent-a-car agencies of American airports are no longer inside the terminal buildings. This is probably due to the terrorism factor. The shuttle bus drives me a few kilometers outside the airport. The AVIS formalities take only a few minutes. The key is already in the ignition of the Santa Fe Hyundai sports car. The sunny morning and the wide freeway keep me company for the beginning of my visit to the world of the Anasazi and four federal states: New Mexico, Colorado, Utah and Arizona. ******** “A new life is born. A baby is crying in the small room with stone walls. It is sitting on a blanket. Next to the baby is an ear of corn (“Mother Maize”) which is not moved from here for the next twenty days. The baby remains in the dark for that time. Early in the morning of the twentieth day, the mother picks up the child, holding him on her left arm, picks up the ear of corn with her right hand. She nods toward her mother, the baby's grandmother… and they leave the house heading east. They pause, praying quietly, and begin breaking off the grains of corn, throwing them toward the setting Sun. When the Sun has risen to its full width on the horizon, the mother steps forward, lifts her child toward the Sun and says: “Father Sun, this child belongs to You…” ******** The name the Anasazi had for themselves is unknown to us. Several hundred years after their departure, large numbers of Navaho Indians came from the north (from Canada) and seeing the remains of their buildings they gave the builders the name Anasazi (“ancient people” or, in another translation, “enemies of our forefathers”). Modern history makes the phenomenon of the Anasazi fit very nicely into the framework. They mention three phases of evolution: the first from 2,000 years ago and the time of the first nomads, the second from about 600 A.D. and the first settlements built underground and finally, the third, most developed phase of the building of stone cities from the 10th to the 13th century. Without any explanation, their cities, spread out over an enormous extent of territory, were abandoned all at the same time in the 13th century. The dominant theory is that migration occurred in two directions: to the southwest (to Arizona, the location of the present-day Hopi, who claim the Anasazi as their ancestors) and to the southeast (where there are 19 tribes of Pueblo Indians in New Mexico). 5 However, there is a slight problem here because of the great gap between the time of the disappearance of the Anasazi civilization and the appearance of the Pueblo Indians. ******** From among the rare written documents which were found in an untouched city of the Anasazi, we learn much from the pen of the rancher, Al Wetherill, who visited the Mesa Verde canyon in 1882. “The things in the rooms were left as if their owners had gone off to visit someone. Perfect examples of vases and dishes were neatly arranged on the floor; household tools were in the places where the women last used them… evidence of children playing and places where the men met, the ashes in the hearth which had burned so long ago… There was no evidence of violence. It seemed like we could almost see these people around us. To watch them working in the
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