[Aztlan] Lake Nicaragua Ancient Canal?..Tulum Lighthouse?

[kevin farley]

Thank you Dunkers, 
      For your thoughts about the level off creative productivity in the Lake Nicaragua/north Costa Rica regions ; and for your Theory that an ancient Canal between the lake and the Pacific...was filled in by volcanic activity.  
      If not a canal ,..a portage route might have exhisted , making Pacific/Atlantic trade over the lake & river route possible. (?)
   The  original discoverer of the Nicaragua Statues observed , in 
1860 , a large statue made of "sandstone of a redish color"  on 
Ometepe Island amidst "black volcanic soil and rock ". So the makers 
had the ability to transport a very heavy momolith over water. 
  Also central Mexican peoples migrated to this area , without colonizing 
a land corridor between these places. 
  Why? 
  The canal theory could account for the clustering of peoples ( and 
creativity ) in this area! 
  I had thought there might have been a source of the treasured "green 
stone" there , which would have drawn people and trade to the region.(?) 
  I also feel that the extent of water transport and trade in the whole of 
Meseo- America has yet to be understood. 
  My own theory is that the cliff-side temple at Tulum is a navagation 
beacon , to assit costal traders in coming through the reef to make 
landfall at night. (!) 
  What do you think? 
                                    Thank you , Kevin Farley 

  The original posting was:
                 

  2007/9/21, kevin farley <kevfarley at yahoo.com >:   > When I was last in Granada,Nicaragua I saw many very large
statues in the Museum there. Very weathered looking. They were lacking in detail mostly, but  one looked almost Aztec (!!?). Are they soft stone?..."tufa" ?...or have they been smoothed by being weathered for a VERY long time? 
> Where do they fit into Meseo-American archeology?
> Does anyone know where more can be found?..in the Lake Nicaragua
> region? ...  Elsewhere?
Who made them? When? ,,,etc. I'd love to know more. 
   There don"t appear to be any Temples,etc.in that area  to acomodate these large statues.(?!?). Were these people in in thestatue&column export business?
    In addition to those large mysterious stone (or tufa?)statues found 
in the Lake Nicaragua region,
  I've also been wondering why Costa Rica has the most magnificicnt
Jade Collection ( and pottery and ceramic art collections of great sophistication and
variaties of styles ) but seemingly  no major acrhitecture to speak 
of ??? Any thoughts?
  Was Mayan Civilization much more diversified and trade-friendly than
previovsly thought? Or was there an earlier Meta-Mayan empire that
allowed for manufacture of artifacts in Costa Rica for "market " in 
the Yacatan.(ie.A united system, or Empire,without the boundries to
trade implyed by the image of waring City States?)
  Can the mineral composition of the statues and columns made in
Nicaragua be traced to sites in other places? 
  Are the columns at Chichen Iza of local stone? Or from elsewhere?
  Analysis of mineral signatures should trace these patterns.Has such work
been done?
  I look forward to hearing more from anyone with information and/or 
ideas on this subject.
                                  Siccerely,   Kevin Farley

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