Who Built Inka Qamaña? Ancient Giants, Pre-Flood Civilizations & Mysterious Cart Ruts?

Lying near the Bolivian border is Inca Cuamana, probably one of the most mysterious and little-known archaeology sites in all of Peru. Formed in situ out of the volcanic tuff, this enigmatic site shows stairways that lead up and around bizarre stone aisle croppings that look surprisingly like the heads of petrified giants. Off to the side are enormous stepped-up tiers that spread out like the wings of a condor. Even more strange are the incised furrows and channels that oddly look like the so-called cart ruts found in other parts of the world. Just who built this place and why? From Lake Titicaca where my friends and I were visiting the site of Inca Cuamana and it's a really fascinating site right on the banks of Lake Titicaca and it's kind of unclear exactly who built this site. Though there are theories that the Pucara civilization and also the Tiwanaku civilization might have built it and I wonder if it could have been connected to Tiwanaku and Pumapunku which are also located on the south side of Lake Titicaca. But anyways this site is very mysterious and it shows some incredible stone masonry work cut straight out of this volcanic tuff and I wonder was it these recent cultures or if it was the Tiwanaku it could have gone back to something before the flood. So today we're going to take a look at this amazing site and thank you for joining me as we explore this mystery. If you like these kind of videos please like share and subscribe really help my channel and with the algorithm. Also if you can send a donation through Super Thanks that would be really appreciated as all of these adventures take time and energy and money unfortunately. So I'd like to keep continue doing this and with your support I can do it. Thank you so much and here we go. Inca Cuamana which means Inca Resting Place is sometimes called Guianani because it is located near a small village of the same name. It sits near the shores of Lake Titicaca and at one time the lake probably lapped right up to its rocky foundation because scientists know that the lake was once higher in the past. Because of its location it may have been a trading post for merchants who traveled in boats around the massive lake. But it is also believed that it might have been used for astronomical observations and ceremonies by Andean priests. Although the Inca coming in royal entourages were known to stop here to fast pray and rest before entering the sacred sanctuary zone of Yonguru, most historians attribute the creation of this site either to the Pucara, Chiripa, or Antioanakan cultures as monoliths discovered nearby resemble the early deities associated with these cultures. What is interesting to note is that the monuments generally depict men with beards which are really not common to the Aymara people or Peruvian indigenous people in general. Could the builders of these statues and the site have been the Huaricochas or savior deities who came after the flood to help humanity? Or could they have been from the unruly giants who were known to inhabit these areas before the flood that Huaricocha, the supreme god, sent in order to wipe them out? Another odd thing about the site are the strange channels formed above and around the seats and stairs. They look very similar to the so-called cart ruts that are found in other parts of the world especially those found around Malta, Turkey, and Sardinia. Although cart ruts are usually associated with paired incised grooves sometimes they are found as single or multiple grooves usually but not always in parallel formations. Just the other day I found other grooves and furrows in another location near Cuctimbo which is also near the shores of Lake Titicaca and they do seem very similar to the ones found in the I wonder is there any connection here? So look at this. They almost look like the cart ruts that we find in Sardinia and Greece and they're here in the bed of this salt lake and it goes all the way down. According to our guide Beto Duran Cruz, this area was occupied by very early people probably those before the Tiwanakin culture and these were the ones who placed all these strange grooves in this landscape. Although he says it was for channeling water to go down the valley they seem a little too shallow to be used for that purpose. So what purpose would they have been used for if not for water? Here's another one formed. Okay so he's saying there's many works just like this a little bit further back here. I wish we had a little more time to explore this area but we had a schedule and we had to be at another site before sunset so so unfortunately we didn't get to really explore back here. So now we are back at Inca Cuamana and we're going to walk up to the central podium area on this amazing huaca and here we can see how really precise and beautiful this stonework is. You can see that at one time the planes were perfect and how they carved this on the side of the mountain is just really a mystery. As I said earlier in this video this place might have been used by merchants who were trading goods and this is maybe one of the key ports that they stopped at. But I also wonder because of the tables and what look like altars if perhaps this could have also been used for sacrifices. So there are so many mysteries here it's hard to figure this one out. And you can see over the years wear and tear from people going up and down the stairway here to cut this out out of this volcanic stone and make these precise thrones here. Look at this a semi-circle and I think this is why they believe it has something to do with the moon here. Okay I'm going to attempt to read the sign. There's a lot of Quechua and Ibira words and and they're kind of tongue twisters so bear with me. Okay according to the Spanish Aymara dictionary by Dionisio Condoré Cruz 2011 the word Quimani means quote the site of the half moon wall end quote and Gregorio Loza Balsa 1995 in his book Astronomy and Calendar Aymara states that Okay that was a gigantic failure so I'm just going to recommend everybody just read the sign if they are curious and let's move on and walk around the site. But were there officials that sat here? Astronomers who were looking at the stars? Is that what this place was used for? You can see how worn these steps are. You have to be a little careful going down and look at this and here we have rectilinear seats and a altar stone. We can see on the right side of the wing that there are four different levels of tiers whereas on the left side there's only two levels. It's kind of a strange anomaly that you know the sides are not the same. Here we can see strange undulating forms and shapes and tiers and seats and more highly eroded stone stairways that go up to certain levels which are probably areas where officials were carrying out ceremonies or observations. We'll just go up here a little bit. As we walk down these pathways we can see that there's an incised area here which looks really precise and I wonder what it looked like hundreds probably thousands of years ago. The precision here must have been so perfect. All the way up here and just look at this view as we're heading back to the central podium area. So stunning. Quite a magical place and I almost think it looks kind of like a very abstract bird. You can see the wings which are on different levels like you would see with various birds. Does this look like the symbol for Amun-Ra that one sees in Egypt? It kind of has that same look and feel. Here you have a central sun and then two very extended wings. Once again I'd like to thank you for coming along with me on this journey to Inca Kwamana in Lake Titicaca. Also I would love to hear some of your feedback. What do you think this place is? Who do you think created it? Do you think it was the Inca? Do you think it was one of the local tribes here? The Tiwanakans? Pakaras? Or do you think it could perhaps be even older like the Huercochas or the giants who might have built this place? Anyways it'd be interesting to have a little feedback from my community just to see what you think. Once again thank you for coming with me and happy travels all!