OF THE GIANTS EQUATORIAL
By Jorge Carrera Andrade (1973-1978)
"The early history of Ecuador is confused with the story. The first fact who speak the ancient chronicles is the "invasion of the giants of the sea and its place in the Santa Elena Peninsula. The tradition of the giants was common along the coast of South America, even in the days of the English conquest. The chroniclers collected many interesting facts about the incredible event. Historian Fernando Montesinos points to the reign of Taco Ayar Capac as the time when the Giants arrived in Puerto Viejo, a large fleet, and that its chief named Chimo headed south and began building the temple of Pachacamac. Guaman Poma de Ayala, in his quaint and original manuscript, appointing some captains of that race of great corpulence that preceded it, according to him, that of Huarirunas or native of Peru and arrived at the "time desert "or the great drought.
Other early writers have written in more detail about the life of the giants in the equatorial lands. The monk Anello Oliva says that these strange invaders came from the sea" built large artesian wells to provide water supply, and claims that he saw with his own eyes in the Santa Elena Peninsula, some bones of those unconscionable human specimens, similar to those found in Tlaxcala.
Antonio de Alcedo, referring to the same Peninsula says
"It is a tradition that this place was inhabited by giants and are some graves that have been deformed bones removed very large, which characterizes all human figures ...".
Father Lizárraga, the neat Cieza de Leon and other historians and travelers say that Juan de Olmos, first English governor of the province of Atacama, around 1540, ordered to do some digging and obtained striking evidence of the presence of excessive class men in the equatorial coast centuries ago. The same chroniclers assert that the giant exterminated the ancient inhabitants and settled in their land to were killed, in turn, by a volcanic cataclysm, by a tsunami or a geological transformation.
Men science disagree about the origin of the large bones. Humboldt states that those found in the equatorial coast are "huge whale remains unknown." The French anthropologist Paul Rivet did not believe in the existence of giants in America, "as stated orally, shortly before his death, the author of this book, while accepting the presence of large men in other parts of the world ages very remote. Hoerbiger and others return to the primitive belief of American Indians. Denis Saurat, inspired by Hoerbiger, supports the theory that the giant lived thousands of years ago in the Andes, and built the megalithic monuments of the coast Pacific and stone buildings of Tiahuanaco, "which was a sea port in this age of the Earth."
Some archaeologists assume that these titans existed at the time the mastodon became extinct in the Cordillera de los Andes, or "elephant carnivore, whose remains were discovered by Humboldt near Ibarra, in the equatorial province Imbabura, because with them we found some obsidian axes. The arrival of men of great height, bulk or just advantageous, to the coasts of equinoctial America, is a fact that admits of no doubt "... Taken
The path of the Sun, 1961 CCE, Jorge Carrera Andrade
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