Tiwanaku Calendar and Sun Gate

This video Explains how the ancient calendar of Tiwanaku divided the solar year into 20 parts and also combined a lunar calendar. Also explains the icons on the Gate of the Sun. .The large stone block known as “The Gate of the Sun” was originally the central part of a wall. Today we can see 48 “Chasquis”, winged messengers, 24 on each side of the central figure, but in fact, only 30 of these figures, 15 each side relate to the calendar. The others were originally a repetition of the design which continued on the adjacent walls which today have disappeared. Plus, the gate today is not in its original location. We know this because underneath these chasquis there is a frieze with 11 small icons in a distinctive panel with at each end a trumpeter marking the end of the frieze and the end of each half year that is to say, solstice to solstice as can be seen by the sun setting each night throughout the year over the large pillars on the calendar wall next to the Sun Gate. The original booklet given to me by Oscar Corvison was 1 “Calendario Solar Vigesimal de Tiwanaku” Oscar E. Corvison, La Paz, 1996. The lunar interpretation and interpretation of the chasquis is my own work. See also 2 Posnansky, Arthur, “Tihuanacu, la Cuna del Hombre Americano“, (Tihuanacu, the Cradle of American Man.) – a bilingual English-Spanish edition in four volumes. The first two in 1945 – a year before his death - in publishers J. J. Augustin of New York; volumes III and IV, in 1957, in Editorial DonBosco of La Paz. 3 the report by Duquesne was originally online