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WITZ IK MONTAIN
Huge Humanoid head Find in Guatemala
As a result of several trips in the Guatemala lowlands I have observed a very interesting resemblance of the so called cerro 3 piedras (3 stones hill) on the kilometer 56 of the road to Escuintla from Guatemala city, during years I just commented the huge zoomorphic face looking to the sky to the tourist, recently a magazzine published that that a small part of the top of this hill may have being man made and transformed for ceremonial use by the mayans and points to some other near archaeological reminds that deserve further investigation, his interesting "construction eye" oriented work remain me the early observations that I have made from what I now call the zoomorphic face of the WITZ IK mountain god.
During years of visiting archaeological sites as tour operator in Guatemala and thanks to the close observation of my small registered collection from my hotel museum Posada Belen (http://www.posadabelen.com/) in Guatemala city I have develop an eye to find hidden intricate pre-Columbian designs in the artifacts and in steles, so here I will like to expose to your eyes what I think is a gigantic discovery of what may be the mountain god Witz (see Schelle Image 0061 at http://www.famsi.org/) the face also has some resemblance with IK the storm god, witch will make sense since this is a heavy stormy area, and also a wind corridor, since it is located near the beginning of the cañon de Palin well known for its wind, this head looks very simian just like the IK face at the statuettes from Copan (see pictures below) and the IK altars at Quirigua showing the typical syncretism show in sculptures, it also call to my attention the close existence of a small river call "cantil" witch means snake, symbol that usually appears being emerging from the open mouth of IK like the examples in Copan and Quirigua.
Please review the images I have prepared at http://guatemalaweb.com/witz.htm to show you the amazing resemblance to what could be the biggest man made zoomorphic head monument in the world, and similar to the one next to Machu Pichu in Peru. It could be only partial human made or not, but this is now open to further investigation, I am just pointing to its interesting existence and that it is worth to investigate further.
The Simian face is typical of IK (storm god) but also the Witz (montain god) face has a double nose and a cave entrance as mouth, door or open jaw indicating the access to the underworld, a cave has being located near by, and also some huge dome rock very symmetrical that is actually in use as natural Mayan chapel , also some near structures and lots of clay fragments in some human made mounts....the face is about 90 meters high from the head base and about 189 mts long. this measures do not take in count the total mountain altitude witch is about 400mts.Xibalba cave was believe to be a myth for long time until the actual "Cueva de Candelaria" appeared some years a go, maybe the WITZ is not a myth either and this could be the origin of the sacred mountain glyph witch could represent this specific geographical place, where ceremonies and maybe important ball games took place (I believe there must be a buried ball court near by waiting to be found) so the Hix Witz (jaguar mountain) mentioned in various glyphs writings maybe was here. Because this face could be also interpreted as a jaguar face just like the one below, note the "double thooths" that in fact are rattles from the rattle snake tail, so we see the 2 snakes element emerging from the witz-ik god mouth here too..the water-rain elements are upside down in the ear rigns, also if you note (hard to see in this picture) on bought the sides of the top there is the same witz-ik face loking up to the sky too...just like in the cerro 3 piedras
sincerely
Rene G. Sanchinelli
http://www.posadabelen.com/
http://www.guatemalaweb.com/
As a result of several trips in the Guatemala lowlands I have observed a very interesting resemblance of the so called cerro 3 piedras (3 stones hill) on the kilometer 56 of the road to Escuintla from Guatemala city, during years I just commented the huge zoomorphic face looking to the sky to the tourist, recently a magazzine published that that a small part of the top of this hill may have being man made and transformed for ceremonial use by the mayans and points to some other near archaeological reminds that deserve further investigation, his interesting "construction eye" oriented work remain me the early observations that I have made from what I now call the zoomorphic face of the WITZ IK mountain god.
During years of visiting archaeological sites as tour operator in Guatemala and thanks to the close observation of my small registered collection from my hotel museum Posada Belen (http://www.posadabelen.com/) in Guatemala city I have develop an eye to find hidden intricate pre-Columbian designs in the artifacts and in steles, so here I will like to expose to your eyes what I think is a gigantic discovery of what may be the mountain god Witz (see Schelle Image 0061 at http://www.famsi.org/) the face also has some resemblance with IK the storm god, witch will make sense since this is a heavy stormy area, and also a wind corridor, since it is located near the beginning of the cañon de Palin well known for its wind, this head looks very simian just like the IK face at the statuettes from Copan (see pictures below) and the IK altars at Quirigua showing the typical syncretism show in sculptures, it also call to my attention the close existence of a small river call "cantil" witch means snake, symbol that usually appears being emerging from the open mouth of IK like the examples in Copan and Quirigua.
Please review the images I have prepared at http://guatemalaweb.com/witz.htm to show you the amazing resemblance to what could be the biggest man made zoomorphic head monument in the world, and similar to the one next to Machu Pichu in Peru. It could be only partial human made or not, but this is now open to further investigation, I am just pointing to its interesting existence and that it is worth to investigate further.
The Simian face is typical of IK (storm god) but also the Witz (montain god) face has a double nose and a cave entrance as mouth, door or open jaw indicating the access to the underworld, a cave has being located near by, and also some huge dome rock very symmetrical that is actually in use as natural Mayan chapel , also some near structures and lots of clay fragments in some human made mounts....the face is about 90 meters high from the head base and about 189 mts long. this measures do not take in count the total mountain altitude witch is about 400mts.Xibalba cave was believe to be a myth for long time until the actual "Cueva de Candelaria" appeared some years a go, maybe the WITZ is not a myth either and this could be the origin of the sacred mountain glyph witch could represent this specific geographical place, where ceremonies and maybe important ball games took place (I believe there must be a buried ball court near by waiting to be found) so the Hix Witz (jaguar mountain) mentioned in various glyphs writings maybe was here. Because this face could be also interpreted as a jaguar face just like the one below, note the "double thooths" that in fact are rattles from the rattle snake tail, so we see the 2 snakes element emerging from the witz-ik god mouth here too..the water-rain elements are upside down in the ear rigns, also if you note (hard to see in this picture) on bought the sides of the top there is the same witz-ik face loking up to the sky too...just like in the cerro 3 piedras
sincerely
Rene G. Sanchinelli
http://www.posadabelen.com/
http://www.guatemalaweb.com/
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