2012 Hype or Hope?  End of the world or new era? Get the facts and decide for yourself!

Most of the time when scientists talk about the Pleistocene era and what our earth looked like at that time, all the discussion is about mammoths in Siberia or how fast the last ice age retreated from North America. But, there are some interesting and tormenting questions that come from South America and the Andes. One of the most difficult geographic areas to define is lake Titicaca.

Whether there has been crust displacement, continental drift, pole wandering, or a host of other problem-questions about our planet’s history, Lake Titicaca offers some new complications and questions about how the earth has evolved and what clues it might hold to the future.

The Pleistocene era began around 1.8 million years ago (give or take a century or two) and ended around 12,000 years ago (10,000BCE) when the holocene era began.

In the heart of the Andes at over 12,000 ft. is the largest lacustrine basin in the world which holds the largest lake in South America. Lake Titicaca is more than 100 miles long and 35 miles wide. It’s almost 900 feet deep in some areas. Without going into all the botanical evidence, let me simply say that the lake houses marine life and other fauna that could only come from having at some time been connected to an ocean.

Now, how does that work at 12,000+ feet sea level?

Adding to the mystery is the ancient village of Tiahuanaco which is believed, among other things, to have been the capital of the Pre-Inca civilization. Some believe this is the oldest city in the world. Others believe it was built by an extraterrestrial race who also created the Nazca Lines..

As with many other sacred sites on the planet it remains an enigma allowing researchers to speculate on its origins and purpose - then paralleling their conclusions with other ancient civilizations - on other major grids points of the planet - left behind by unknown beings - surviving in time - with great stone markers which bear clues to humanity’s creational story. Gods, temples, idols, metaphors - all clues in a puzzle humanity is unraveling at this time of conscious awakening.

Some of the massive structures at this site, like the Great Pyramid and the Sphinx in Egypt and Baalbek in Lebanon, date from pre-flood times, as long ago as 10,500 BC. How did Titicaca get there: from where, from an ocean? And who were the early inhabitants of Tiahuanaco? We modern day scientific geniuses are left with our mouths wide open, scratching our head.

While it’s important to spend time up there (in space), maybe we should be spending more time down here (in the lithosphere and within the core of our planet. And how can we know the present or future, unless we know the past? Clues to 2012 just might be found in 20,012BCE.