A giant stone head statue with many European features has been found in the Central American country of Guatemala. Until now, many questions related to this strange stone head remain shrouded in mystery.
Giant head statue found in Guatemala. (Image: WordPress.com)
It all started when Dr. Oscar Rafael Padilla Lara received controversial photo from indigenous people in Guatemala. It was a huge megalith that was sculpted into a human head. However, the face of this human head did not carry many features of the inhabitants here.
From then until his death, Dr. Padilla never saw the person who sent the photo again. And the megalith remains a mystery buried in the jungles of Guatemala.
Dr. Padilal is a lawyer and ufologist who is the author of Enciclopedia ufológica de Guatemala (first published 1999).
The story of this megalith was first published in the Ancient Astronaut Society in an article by Philip Coppens in 1987. The photo was published with the article and caused much controversy. The biggest reason is that this giant head does not have the characteristics of the indigenous people, with thin lips and a high nose that makes people think a lot of a certain race from Europe.
The pair of faces of the giant rock head opened wide and directed the view towards the sky. The size of this megalith can be estimated by the man sitting on top of the head and the car next to it in the photo.
Padilla wanted to find this statue at all costs and he set out on a journey to find it. After showing the photo to a local, this particular rock is said to lie on the land of the Biener family, located about 10km from a small village in La Democracia, southern Guatemala.
Finally, Padilla found the statue, but he was surprised because it had completely disfigured after the endless wars in Guatemala. As noted by journalist Philip Coppens: “Ten years ago, it was destroyed by the revolutionary army. We found the statue too late. It has been used as a shield in anti-government rebel skirmishes. And the statue has been disfigured, just like the Sphinx in Egypt was shot in the nose by the Turks, and even worse. The eyes, nose and mouth were completely gone. Dr. Padilla has measured the height of the rock head about 4-6m.
The story ends quickly. However, some documentary producers brought up the issue again in the movie “Revelations of the Mayans 2012 and Beyond”. They used a photo of a rock head to prove that aliens had contact with an ancient civilization.
The producer of the film posted a statement from Hector E Majia, a Guatemalan archaeologist: ” I can confirm that this statue does not bear the characteristics of the Maya, Nahuatl, Olmec or any other civilization. before the Spaniards arrived. It was created by an advanced and advanced civilization possessing a great source of knowledge, but there is no record of their existence on this planet.”
The existence of this stone head statue is still a deep mystery. If the stories of Dr. Padilla is real then the question is: Who created it? Who is the character carved on the rock? Aim to do? Why is that face a European and not a native?
The exact location of the statue is still unknown, and no archaeological team has actually searched for this artifact and its massive body in potential areas.
Moreover, if this giant stone head statue is real, with its strange features, it could make people think of an ancient civilization that has been destroyed that existed before civilization. Maya Ming.
Some people think that this story is actually a work of fiction, but the image that Dr. The resulting Padilla looks very real. In addition, it would be very difficult if someone wanted to create a strange rock in the middle of the Guatemalan forest. It is also theorized that this statue was created in the 1900s rather than being a vestige of a lost civilization.
In fact, the area where the head was discovered, La Democracia, is already well known for its similar rock heads, and like the one discovered above, they also face the sky. These stone heads are believed to be the product of the Olmec civilization, which flourished in the period 1400-400 BC. The center of the Olmec civilization was in the lowlands of the Gulf of Mexico, yet many Olmec-style artifacts, ornaments, structures and symbols have been discovered at sites hundreds of trees away. numbers, including the La Democracia area.
Stone head statue of the Olmec civilization. (Photo: Pinterest)
However, the stone head in the 1950 photo does not have the same features or style as the Olmec stone head. Phillip Coppens is a late Belgian author, radio host and television commentator centered around alternative history. He questioned whether the headstone “is a peculiar Olmec artifact, or does it belong to another, unknown civilization, which appeared before or after the Olmec civilization, with the only artifact The most discovered so far is this Padilla stone head.
