Secret_History

Chapter 7: Ancient Enigmas 219
neither built houses of stone nor learned how to write. They evolved all of their
techniques for one reason and one reason only: to build “temples” to house their
cult activities. How these people created a society that was ready, willing, and able
to spend all their efforts and energy to labor incessantly in the work of tunneling
and building, remains a great mystery.
The distribution of the “temples”, plotted on a map, fall into clusters which
command a major area of territory. The island seems to be divided into six major
areas of this type. The problem arises when we consider the fact that the island, at
its best, could never support more than 11,000 people divided up into these six
areas, at no more than 2000 people per section. So, how could a group of about
2000 people at most, mobilize the labor to excavate all those caverns and build all
those “temples” in each of the sections, particularly when you consider the fact
that the evidence shows that the area could not have supported so many people in
terms of food production. That leads to the problem of where they were getting
their food and how were they getting their food, if all they were doing was
building “temples” and performing cult activities? Colin Renfrew 136 has proposed
the “Big Chief Theory” whereby the building of “temples” was instigated to awe
the howling savages and keep them in line.
Why do I keep putting the word “temples” in quotes? Well, when I looked at the
photographs of these structures, the ground plans drawn to scale, and the plaster
models made of them, the only thing they reminded me of was simply houses -
places where people lived. After all, why would there be so many “temples”? Of
course! Because the natives devoted their energies to building temples while they,
themselves, lived in grass or bearskin huts! That’s it. Megalithic stone structures
MUST be temples because what other reason could there be for such Herculean
efforts to create them? That is, of course, assuming that the ability to manage large
blocks of stone were unusual when they were built. It certainly would be for us
today. So we cannot imagine that the ancient peoples might have done it as easily
as we nail gypsum board on cheap two-by-fours to build our houses.
As noted, archaeologists explain the cart ruts by saying that they are evidence of
the transporting of the blocks used to build the “temples”. But, we see from our
descriptions of the cart ruts above, that the idea that these grooves in the ground
are really cart ruts runs into serious problems. Any effort to explain them in this
way falls apart if an engineer instead of an archaeologist looks at them. In fact, in
my humble opinion, archaeologists ought to be required to have a degree in
engineering before they are allowed to say a word about anything. In the end, no
one seems to have a single rational explanation for these “cart ruts”. One of the
great mysteries on the planet, and nobody seems to care. What a waste.
136 Read his book Before Civilization for the details. The ideas are too puerile for me to waste any time
on recounting them.