Colombia - San Agustin Archaeological Site
San Agustín Archaeological Park is an archaeological site in San Agustín, Huila, Colombia. It was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1995. The site contains the largest collection of religious monuments and megalithic sculptures in Latin America and is considered the world's largest necropolis. The origin of the carvers remains a mystery, as most of the site is unexcavated, and no writings have been discovered yet. Some archeologists estimate a carving date of the 6th century B.C., while others believe that they were erected just prior to the Spanish Conquest. Several of the statues are of animals such as gorillas or African elephants and others wear turbans. The statues vary in height, the tallest being 7.0 meters. They are suspected to be funeral statuary. In other regions of the archaeological site where large burial mounds are located, you will see more intimidating figures such as snakes, frogs, and birds strategically place to stand guard for increased protecting during the afterlife. Statues of deities or carving on the ground, of both solar gods, males, and lunar gods, females. Theses figures and statues provide researchers with a little insight to what this civilization thoughts and perception of life and death are. [Wikipedia]
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Ancient Hindu Temple Found in Colombia? San Agustin Archaeological Site
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Hey guys, today I am going to show you a mysterious ancient site in a city called San Agustin in the country of Colombia, which is in South America. I am going to show you some solid evidence that this was built by Hindus who originally came from India. Yes, I do understand that India and Colombia are about 11,000 miles apart. But I hope you will watch till the end of the video and then decide if this site was built by Hindus or not.
Look at this statue in this site, here you can see an eagle like bird holding a snake in its beak and if you look carefully you can see that the snake is also held in the birds talons. While archeologists in Colombia are not able to explain why such a statue is carved here, this is clearly explained both in Hindu scriptures and Hindu sculptures. This bird is called Garuda which has an eternal enmity with the serpent Naga. I want to show you several such carvings from Hindu temples. In temples of India, you can see that, both Garuda and Naga are shown as partial humanoids. However, as Hinduism spread from India to south east Asia, the style slowly began to change. Watch what happened when it reached Vietnam. This scene is almost fully portrayed as a fight between 2 animals. They don't look much like Hindu Gods anymore. It just looks like a bird holding the snake in its beak and talons. Look at the similarity between these 2 statues. Is this a mere coincidence? Or did Hindus travel to Colombia and set up a site here?
Archeologists do not have any good explanations for this statue. They believe that the sculptor merely carved it because he would have seen an eagle catch a snake. Is it possible that this is the case? No, because if that is the case you would have found only one such statue, but there are several statues unearthed in this area with the same motif. This means this statue was important to the creators, it had some deep meaning. Here is a similar statue which has the same iconography, found at a different site, called El Purutal in Colombia. This shows the exact same features, a bird holding a snake in its beak and talons. Multiple statues with the same motif has been found in this area, in fact the city of San Agustin uses this statue as its unofficial logo and sells a ton of mementos with this motif, but without understanding the real meaning of it. But how is it possible that Hindus came all the way from India to Colombia?
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산 아구스틴 역시 도시를 벗어나면 산이다. 다른 지역에 비해 오히려 가파르다. 문명이 있었을 것 같지 않다. 계곡이 깊으니 폭포도 크다. 400m가 넘는 것도 있다. 이곳에서 콜롬비아에서 가장 긴 막달레나 강이 이곳에서 시작된다. 유적은 강가 언덕에 있었다. 3미터 정도 바위에 사람의 모습이 새겨져있다. 다른 면에도 있다. 천 년 전 사람들이 새겼단다. 산 아구스틴 주변에는 이러한 유적지가 10여 곳에 이른다. 이곳이 가장 크다. 복장이나 손에 든 지휘봉 등으로 보아 최고 권력자들이다. 한때 이곳을 지배했던 사람들이란다. 가면을 쓴 모습이 많다는 것이 특이하다. 그 옛날 이곳에는 권력자가 죽으면 생전의 모습을 만들어 무덤에 세우는 것이 풍습이었다고 한다. 무덤도 돌로 만들었다. “가장 오래된 것은 기원전 3,300년 때 만들어졌고 주로 기원후 1세기에서 10세기에 만들어졌어요.” 동물 모양도 있다. 개구리 뱀 등 이들이 숭배하던 동물들이다. 이 독수리는 뱀을 물고 있다. 아이들이 있는 것도 특이하다. 후계자일 것이다. 가장 행복했었던 때를 회상하고 있다. 계곡으로 내려가 보았다. 평범해 보이는 바위에 동물들이 새겨져있다. 새다. 거북이와 뱀, 코끼리 등도 있지만 물살에 많이 닳았다. 사람도 새겨져 있다. 제사장일 것이다. 지붕이 있는 구조물로 덮여져 있었고 종교의식을 치렀던 걸로 추정된다. 이 유적지가 처음 발견된 것은 1943년. 워낙 넓은 지역에 흩어져 있어 돌무덤 몇 곳, 그리고 조각상 77개만 찾아냈을 뿐이다. 가장 높은 곳에 있는 이 조각들은 또 다른 모습이다. 이러한 얼굴을 상상할 수 있었다는 것이 놀랍다. 이 조각상들은 송곳니가 유난히 크다. 송곳니와 눈을 강조한 가면을 쓰고 있는 것이다. 진짜 얼굴은 그 뒤에 감추고 있다. “송곳니는 힘, 권력 등을 상징합니다. 그들은 재규어를 가장 용맹스러운 동물로 여겼는데 그 힘이 송곳니에서 나온다고 믿은 거죠.”
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San Agustin is also a mountain outside the city. Rather steep compared to other regions. This civilization would have been unlikely. This deep valley you even greater falls. It is more than 400m. Here in Colombia the longest Magdalena River begins here. The ruins on the hill was a river. The appearance of the person is inscribed in three meters of rock. It has any other surface. Thousand years ago people carved danda. San Agustin has reached around these sites where over 10. It is the largest. Dress powers and are best viewed with any such baton in hand. Yiranda people who once ruled here. This masked figure that is specific lot. In the old days it was the custom here to erect a tomb to create the appearance of a powerful lifetime dies. Tomb made of stone. It was created when the oldest that was created in the 10th century, 3300 years BC, mostly in the first century AD: There are animal shapes. Frogs are animals such as snakes who they worship. The eagle is biting the snake. It is also unusual in children. It will be the successor. And he had recalled the happiest time. I looked down into the valley. Animals on the plain-looking rocks engraved. Birds. Turtles and snakes, elephants, but also a lot of atda worn banister. It also engraved. It will be a priest. Covered with a roof structure is estimated that had paid for a religious ceremony. It was first discovered in 1943 the ruins. There where a few scattered wonak large area sepulcher, and only 77 sculptures have found only.
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Would YOU Stay Here?? New eco-hostel in San Agustín, Colombia - Travel Vlog Ep 9
This hostel is BEAUTIFUL! After leaving Cali, I arrived in San Agustin, Colombia. I stayed at Masaya hostel for a few days and it was really nice to be out in the mountains and surrounded by nature again after being in the cities for a while. This is a brand new eco-hostel in San Agustín and if you plan on traveling to Colombia, I highly recommend making a trip here.
There are plenty of activities to do. I went on a horseback riding tour and visited San Agustín Archaeological Park - UNESCO World Heritage Centre. My favorite thing I did while I was at this hostel was an epic nature hike - that will be featured in the next vlog. Hope you enjoy!
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SAN AGUSTIN Colombia - Parque Arqueologico patrimonio de la Humanidad UNESCO
SAN AGUSTIN, es conocido por su Parque arqueologico patrimonio de la UNESCO. Tiene muchas estatuas precolombinas ubicadas en varios sectores del Parque. Por este lugar pasa tambien el rio Magdalena y su estrecho en medio de la cordillera de los Andes en el sur de Colombia. Es una zona cafetera muy rica donde hay muchos cultivos de cana para la fabricación de la panela.
El parque arqueológico de San Agustín es uno de los sitios arqueológicos más importantes de Colombia, ubicado en el sur del departamento del Huila. Fue declarado en 1995 por la UNESCO como Patrimonio de la Humanidad. Es la necrópolis más grande del mundo.
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Is San Agustin Megalithic Site, a Hindu Temple? Ancient Aliens in Colombia
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Hey guys, in the previous video I showed you how several ancient statues found in San Agustin archeological park, in Colombia, belonging to Hinduism. In this video, I am going to show you other statues.. like this one, and explain what they really are.
Let us take a good look at this statue. It is gigantic more than 10 feet tall, made of one solid block of stone and is rectangular in shape. The face is portrayed with fangs in its mouth and you can see it holding a small baby. What is the standard explanation for this statue? Mainstream experts tell us they have no idea what this is, and some have even guessed that this represents a child-eating monster like deity. There are several statues found in this area, which look about the same. According to several experts , Pre-Colombian people who lived here thousands of years ago,
were primitive people who sacrificed children in order to please these monsters. These kind of demeaning explanations were given right from the start when the Spanish Conquistadors arrived in Colombia and the native culture seemed quite unexplainable them. Think about it, would human beings worship Child-eating monsters?
Let me tell you what is going on here. There is not only a face on the top of this statue, there is one on the bottom as well. Let us invert the statue and look at the face at the bottom. The face clearly depicts extreme pain. This woman is giving birth to a baby, this is why she is gritting her teeth and clenching her fist as tightly as possible, because of labor pain. This figure on top, the Monster is actually a doctor, who is helping the woman to deliver the baby. And sure enough, just like a modern day obstetrician, he is holding the baby upside down, this is standard medical practice, even today. How was I able to figure all this out?
Because this story is clearly recorded in ancient Indian texts. This God is known as Thayumanavar in Hinduism who helped women deliver healthy babies. There are temples dedicated to him in India. For example there is a 6th century temple in a city called Tiruchy, where pregnant women still come from all over India to get this God's blessings for smooth and easy delivery. In India, this God is typically shown holding a baby in his hands. This is an avatar of Lord Shiva, and in South India, ancient Shiva statues are portrayed with fangs, to show his ferocity. If you look at Kailasanathar temple which is 1300 years old, all Shiva statues are portrayed with fangs.
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San Agustín Archaeological Park, Colombia 2017
San Agustin Archaeological Park Fuente de Lavapatas
The Fuente de Lavapatas is a ceremonial site. This is a set of carved rocks on the bed of the creek that bears the same name. The channels that carry water up to three ponds are silhouettes of snakes and lizards. It is estimated that this fountain may have been related to cults that worshiped water.
From UNESCO: The largest group of religious monuments and megalithic sculptures in South America stands in a wild, spectacular landscape. Gods and mythical animals are skillfully represented in styles ranging from abstract to realist. These works of art display the creativity and imagination of a northern Andean culture that flourished from the 1st to the 8th century.
Tour Anillo Turístico - San Agustin Colombia
El tour comienza en el pueblo de San Agustin Huila a las 9am (los recogemos en el hotel donde se estén hospedando), la hora de regreso es a las 5pm aproximadamente, dentro del recorrido se visita todo el anillo turistico:
*Mirador del estrecho
*Estrecho del río magdalena
*Parque arqueológico alto de los ídolos
*Parque arqueológico alto de las piedras
*Museo y parque arqueológico de Obando
*Salto de bordones - segunda cascada mas alta de Colombia
*Salto de mortiño
Mas informacion y reservas del tour en jeep WPP (57) 3116022459 - (57) 3017059886
The tour begins in the town of San Agustin Huila at 9am (we pick them up at the hotel where they are staying), the return time is at approximately 5pm, within the tour you visit:
* Narrow viewpoint
* Magdalena narrow
* High archaeological park of the idols
* High archaeological park of the stones
* Museum and archaeological park of Obando
* Bordones waterfall - second highest waterfall in Colombia
* Mortiño waterfall
More information and reservations of the tour in jeep WPP (57) 3116022459 - (57) 3017059886
The San Agustín Archaeological Park
The San Agustín Archaeological Park, located on the Department of Huila, is the only place in the world highlighted by 500 imposing stone statues carved i
San Agustín: Pre-Columbian UNESCO World Heritage site
Colombia is a country i instantly fell in love with, and my second visit to this South American paradise courtesy Brand Colombia took me on an exploratory tour of San Agustin, the pre-Columbian architecture UNESCO World Heritage site.
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Parque Arqueológico de San Agustin, Colombia
The San Agustín Archaeological Park (Spanish: Parque Arqueológico de San Agustín) is a large archaeological area located near the town of San Agustín in Huila Department in Colombia. The park contains the largest collection of religious monuments and megalithic sculptures in Latin America and is considered the world's largest necropolis. Belonging to San Agustin culture, it was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1995.
The remains of the ancient cultural groups are scattered over an area of over 50 square kilometers, on plateaus located on either side of the canyon formed by the top of the Magdalena River. The park itself corresponds to a small area with a high concentration of graves and contains more than 500 statues of unknown origin.
The statues present both anthropomorphic and zoomorphic features (from crocodiles, bats and jaguars), having short legs. There were found approximately 300 statues. The dates of the statues are uncertain, but they are believed to have been carved between 50–400 AD. The origin of the carvers remains a mystery, as most of the site is unexcavated, and no writings have been discovered yet. They were painted in bright colors, mainly yellow, red, black and white, but today only a few of them are still colored.
In the presentation you will see statues, graves, source Lavapatas and the museum Luis Duque Gómez.
Colombia's Megalith Mystery in San Agustín (Video de NTN24 News)
San Agustín Capital Arqueológica de Colombia, una de las 25 experiencias turísticas únicas de nuestro país.
PARQUE ARQUEOLÓGICO-ARCHAEOLOGICAL PARK OF SAN AGUSTÍN, Huila-Colombia
PARQUE ARQUEOLÓGICO- ARCHAEOLOGICAL PARK OF SAN AGUSTÍN, HUILA (COLOMBIA) PARTE 1. -.By: dihetor. dihetor5@hotmail.com
Tourist Destination in colombia San Agustin
San Agustin is a laidback little town surrounded by awesome landscapes and the remains of a forgotten civilization. One of the most intriguing ancient sites in Colombia, the archeological park of San Agustin is home to more than 500 monoliths, statues, petroglyphs and sarcophagi. Most of the stone carvings at San Agustin were created between 100 A.D
Archaeological Park of San Agustin - Huila
San Agustin Huila, visto desde un punto diferente
San Agustin Huila, seen from a different point
COLOMBIA.
IN SAN AGUSTÍN’S TERRITORY IS LOCATED THE SAN AGUSTÍN ARCHEOLOGICAL PARK, THAT IS ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANTS ARCHEOLOGICAL PLAINS OF COLOMBIA AND WAS DECLARED AS WORLD HERITAGE SITE BY UNESCO IN 1995.
YaiRuná Healing House in San Agustín
SAN AGUSTIN, COLOMBIA. Official opening of the RaiYuna Healing House besides the San Agustin Archaeological Park. An initiative to rescue and protect the ancestral wisdom of the South American indigenous communities, especially those of Colombia. Located in the Colombian Massif, the San Agustin Archaeological Park is a place of highly interest of history, anthropology and the ancient path of humanity in the Western Hemisphere.
Inauguración de la Casa de Salud RaiYuná en las inmediaciones del Parque Arqueológico San Agustín. Una iniciativa para rescatar y proteger la sabiduría ancestral de los pueblos indígenas sudamericanos, especialmente de los de Colombia. Localizado en el Macizo Colombiano, el Parque Arqueológico de San Agustín es un lugar de gran interés histórico y antropológico sobre el paso de la humanidad por el Hemisferio Occidental.
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Centenario de Excavaciones Arqueológicas en San Agustín
San Agustín, Isnos, Magdalena River headwaters, Huila, Colombia
San Agustín, Isnos, Magdalena River headwaters, Huila, Colombia
San Agustín is a town in the Andes Mountains of western Colombia. It’s known for its proximity to the San Agustín Archaeological Park, home to numerous pre-Columbian remains spread over several sites. The San Agustín Archaeological Park carved volcanic stone figures and tombs litter the Forest of Statues, amid native trees and flowers and is considered the world's largest necropolis. It was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
In addition to the main archaeological park in San Agustín, there are two further independent sites, the Heights of the Idols (Alto de los Ídolos) and the Heights of the Stones (Alto de las Piedras), which are located in the municipality of Isnos, a few kilometers from San Agustín.
Nearby, the Lavapatas Spring’s rock bed is scored with ceremonial water channels and reptilian shapes.
The source of the Magdalena River is located not far south of San Agustin, and the Magdalena Strait – Estrecho del Magdalena – is known as the narrowest point of Colombia’s mightiest river.