Who built the pyramids of the Canaries?

The existance of pyramid like structures seems a lot more prevalent than most people believe. For instance, those great pyramids found China, at least one in France, all of those found thruout America, one in Rumania (I think) or Bulgaria, etc., those in Meroe, etc. Pyramids are still being discovered! It might take you some research time on your computer but you should be able to discover most of them!

Oh, what the heck, here is one site that mentions most of them;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramid

Edited by opuslola - 30-Sep-2009 at 12:27

Originally posted by Ikki Oh my gullible fellows , the Pyramids of G��mar is another fraud don't doubt it, the serious academical research has concluded that the "pyramids" was made between 1854 and 1880 is not sure, when the expansion of the nopal in the islands; the canarians built these mountains of rocks when they took the stones of the non cultivated fields and grouped it on mountains in places not specially fertiles, these mountains ara called Majanos and spread along all the islands, here in Gran Canaria where i live there are many of they someone built by my family. In Tenerife the documents of the time don't register the Pyramid before that date, appear first when the terrain was divided by the owners in 1881. About the astronomical orientation, some say that the owner was a mason, other directly say that havn't astronomical orientation. Well, it's only a way to take money of the tourist.     The world of the ancient natives is rich and fascinating i recommend to search about they.     Pd. And yes the romans was here, there is no clear evidence of they in land, but more than 30 vessels near the coast in Lanzarote, Gran Canaria and Tenerife, that spread from 150 BC to around 350 AC.

I know he wrote it long ago, but I can't help to think that Thor Heyerdahl must have been the laughing stock on the islands when he made his initial theories.

If you want to know more about the site posted by Cyrus, please see these sites;

http://www.twip.org/diaporama-en-14810-4-atashgah-of-isfahan.html

http://fz-az.fotopages.com/?entry=939500

http://wikitravel.org/en/Isfahan

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/archive/index.php/t-228090.html

http://www.statemaster.com/encyclopedia/Esfahan

http://www.salamiran.org/content/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=131&Itemid=213

http://www.globusz.com/ebooks/YearToRemember/00000019.htm

http://www.360cities.net/image/iran-isfahan-atashgah-fire-temple-zoroastrian-persia-esfahan-sepahan-inside

Of course, all of the above are sites you could easily do yourself if you tried! Not fussing, but sometimes you should not have to wait for someone else to do your finger work?

I know, being a "Bell Boy" is very taxing and time consuming for me! Chuckle! But, that is really what I do for work! no laugh!

Jams! I loved the movie "Dr. Strangelove!" And, yes it seems to be a natural rock formation, but with a lot of manmade structures on the top! I think that was all Cyrus was stating! In a way it reminds me of one of the most unusual places in Europe,that is the twin monoliths that stand in the community of Sion! It is possible that one might well spell it also Zion?, in Switzerland.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bd/Stumpf_Froschauer_Landtaflen_Wallis.jpg

On the above map, it will be called "Sitten", which merely describes it as the "seat" / "chair" of a bishop!

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/546392/Sion

http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/jnm11/publications/mcelwaine2007:plume.pdf The Valley of the Sion!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sion,_Switzerland   Click on photos for a good shot!

Here is a great photo!

http://www.welt-atlas.de/worldatlas/database/photos.php?kartenid=1-179&fotoid=1-179-5

And, last but not least, a representation of Sitten / Sion, etc., circa 1550-1570 CE.

http://historic-cities.huji.ac.il/switzerland/sion/maps/braun_hogenberg_I_37.html

PS, the representations found at the above site are all worth a look if you are interested in the Middle Ages!

Oh! Here is another good one!

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/non-fiction/article5351991.ece

And a 19th century post card;

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:07840v.jpeg

The next site, translated from German, is possibly the best one:

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&u=http://www.swisscastles.ch/Valais/tourbillon/default.htm&ei=NKjMSpybAYaUtgeJy-DxAQ&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=7&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dde%2BTourbillon%26hl%3Den%26rlz%3D1T4ADBR_enUS315US315%26sa%3DN%26start%3D20

And another great representation of Sion, by Munster;

http://historic-cities.huji.ac.il/switzerland/sion/maps/munster_lat_1550_338.html


Edited by opuslola - 07-Oct-2009 at 09:56

Hi, where on Gran Canaria are these majanos built by your familie?

It's more likely these pyramids were the foundations of a Roman building like a lighthouse or dry-dock. The collapsed rubble may have outwardly resembled a pyramid, prompting its "reconstruction" by those with a nationalist agenda

As much as I am in favor of pre-Columbian exploration and navigation both ways....vis the southern Medd Egypt et.al to Meso-Central America etc....the data I have just quickly perused supports neither of the above. Assuming I understood it correctly and we are in reference to the same structures.

Ok I bite on some of that but what about the dating sequences in contention....ya saying the survey archaeo crew misapplied the data? Fabricated it? why? I can virtually make the same pile of rocks up on the Mesa and leave it alone for a fews years and it will have the appearance of weathered  antiquity.

They are.  However they are far closer to North Africa then Spain perse (60 some odd miles off the coast of Morocco). Tho they remain, iirc, a Spanish possession. But my limited understanding of these constructs would agree they are neither Roman nor necessarily can they be identified as even early Egyptian 'step' altho they do bear a resemblance.

Edited by Centrix Vigilis - 07-Sep-2011 at 09:17