On the border of Peru and Bolivia on a vast alpine plateau under the name Altiplano (or Colliao) spreads out on Lake Titicaca. it the largest alpine lake in the world is located at an altitude of 3,820 meters above sea level. In the I millennium BC. e. on its shores There was one of the most striking civilizations of Peru – Tiahuanaco. The name Titicaca (in Quechua – Puma Rock) was assigned the lake by the Spaniards, although the Quechua Indians themselves called it Mamakota (Mother Water). Ancient Peruvians believed that Creator at Lake Titicaca created all living things, both humans and animals, so the whole the region around the lake was considered sacred. According to one version of the Inca myth of their origin, the sun god created the first Inca Manco Kapaka and his sister on the island of the Sun, located in central parts of the lake. Therefore, it is not surprising that along the shores of Lake Titicaca there are a large number of archaeological sites belonging to different cultures and eras. But among them there is one unique and mysterious, no analogues were found in Peru. 
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On the western shore of a lake in an area called Ayia Marka there is an amazing rock bearing the name of Amaru Meru. By ideas of the Indians, here in ancient times was City of the gods, although no significant archaeological sites in no vicinity was found. SECRET OF GOLD DISK The local landscape looks fantastic: the narrow ridges of red granite cliffs stretching for hundreds of meters and having the most bizarre shapes. In ancient times, the vertical surface of one of the rocks was aligned in such a way that it resembles a gate. Smooth vertical wall about 7 by 7 meters in size is embedded in a rock mass. For the whole the height on two sides are two gutters deepened by half a meter, and in the central part there is a shallow trapezoidal niche 1.7 meters high. In general, the entire structure creates a complete the impression of a gate with a small door that leads nowhere.
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The gates became known to the general public for several decades. back. Until this time, historians did not know about the existence of the monument. Follow-up field studies allowed to find out that the local Indians preserved the legend of gates leading to the world of the gods. According to this legend, in the deep antiquities great heroes went through the gates to the gods to find there is immortality. Very rarely, some of them briefly returned to inspect the lands they left. Later another, later Inca legend was discovered. According to to her, during the years of the Conquista, the high priest of the temple of the Seven Rays named Amaru Meru (the modern name came from him) fled from the Spanish soldier on the shores of Lake Titicaca. He took a golden disc with him which was the key to the ancient gate. After the ritual Amaru Meru opened the gates with the local priests and went into the “world of the gods”, leaving the golden disc in custody of the priests. By the way, on the right side the back wall of the door niche has a small rounded recess, like as if intended for a key disk. EXPERIMENT No archaeological findings were found near the gates. traces – no petroglyphs, no remnants of any buildings. So from an archaeological point of view, a monument cannot be dated. Nor can it be scientifically determined its purpose. But there was a researcher-enthusiast Jose Mamani, who approached this problem from a different perspective. He used complex complex equipment recording various types electromagnetic waves. The result of the experiment turned out to be stunning. After turning on the equipment, the gates began to attack balls of fire, the air thickened and became viscous.
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Local elders accompanying the scholar knelt and lost their feelings. After the experiment, those who came to their senses the elders told that the open gates let them in abode of ancestors – vast ocean of fire, saturated electricity and filled with crystalline formations of blue colors. So, in their opinion, the inhabitants of that world looked. ON THE OTHER END OF THE WORLD However, back to the historical side a question. The fact is that such mysterious structures, depicting gates are known in another part of the world, namely in Front Asia. In the east of modern Turkey on the shores of Lake Van the remains of the ancient capital of the Urartian kingdom Rusakhinili are located. The city was built by Tsar Rusa I at the end of the 8th century. e. On the The territory of this monument has a separate cliff, in the vertical wall of which also cuts similar gates. From Peruvian, they are somewhat different in design and shape.
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This is a rectangular niche carved into the rock in three steps. Her approximate dimensions are 2 by 5 meters. On the sides of the niche there are extensive inscriptions made by cuneiform. They say how many bulls and Aries must be presented to the gods. But it is not at all excluded that the niche itself was made to the foundation of the Urartian city here. More Moreover, it can be assumed that the choice of location for the new capital of the kingdom was due to the sacred nature of this place.
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In the Armenian tradition, this monument is called the Gate Mgera. Mher, aka Miter in the ancient Iranian tradition, was god of the sun. In the Armenian epos “Sasna Tsrer” there are two characters with named Mher (Mihr) – Senior and Younger (grandson of the previous son David Sasunsky). Mher the Younger meeting with his father David, fights with him, not knowing that this is his father, and wins his. Humiliated David curses Mher, condemning him to childlessness and misfortune. Mger fails to defeat injustice in the world, earth stops holding him and his horse, and he gets stuck in the ground. After consulting with the graves of his ancestors, Mher receives their covenant wait for justice in the rock. He hits a rock with a sword, she parted, letting him in with the horse. Periodically Mher emerges from the cliff and checks to see if a just peace has arrived. If this happens, he will be able to leave the rock forever.
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Thus, in the Armenian epic there is a similar plot, dedicated to the gates. They are connected with the solar deity, in them the hero who can return for another world is removed inspections of the abandoned world. In the west of Turkey in the territory of ancient Phrygia is another gate that today is called the temple of Cybele (Mother of the Gods).
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This is also a freestanding flat rock on one surface. which carved a gate measuring 16 by 17 meters. Unlike two previous gates, the Phrygian surface is carved geometric ornament, and the door itself is framed by pylons and overlap. Perhaps the Phrygians also used the older the gates, covering them with an ornament and devoting to the Mother of the Gods. What can explain the existence of such unique and at the same time similar monuments located on opposite ends of the planet? Similar philosophical stereotypes of different ancient peoples? Or maybe these gates are a legacy of a much more ancient and civilization unknown to us, which left rare traces in different doomsday? .. Andrey ZhUKOV, candidate of historical of sciences
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