Pyramids on the Canary Island of Tenerife

These four photographs are shots of the Pyramid Complex in Guimar, Tenerife, Canary Islands

Yes, there are many pyramid like structures – actually step pyramids on the island of Tenerife. There is a large complex which is very well advertised and was excavated by a well known Norwegian, Thor Heyerdhal, who was funded by Fred Olsen of the Olsen Shipping Line. Thor Heyerdhal was convinced that the remains he had found on the island were a complex of six step pyramids and that they were built by the same people who had built the step-pyramids of Peru, Mexico and Mesopatamia. 

Others disagreed with him, some still do and are convinced they were no more than terraces of random stones cleared by the local farmers and free masons. In 2005 a book called 'The Pyramids of Guimar: Myth and Reality' was written by Aparicio and Esteban, it suggests that the pyramids solsticial positioning were motivated by freemasonary symbolism and that the owner of the land in Guimar was a freemason!!!! There are still a great many people who believe that these old stones are in fact the remains of an old culture of Sun Worship and are in fact step-pyramids, built to mark the solstices and to honour both the Sun and the Earth's natural magnetic energy.

If these are truly step-pyramids built to worship the 'Sun God' and were built in the distant past by the Guanche's who were the indigenous people of the island, then I ask you, were they visited by people from a far away land with a different culture? For the Guanche's were a primitive people, goat herders and fishermen who lived in caves. So they would have been very close to nature and would have revered it. Thor Heyderdhal belived this to be the case and went on to prove that it was possible that the Guanche's, believed to be decendants of the Moroccan Berbers, were influenced in

the building of these pyramids, by people from across the ocean - from what we now know as South America.

In 1947 Thor Heyerdhal  built a replica of an aboriginal balsa raft which he called 'Kon-Tiki' (www.greatdreams.com/thor.htm) and along with 5 colleagues sailed from Peru to the Polynesian islands. Later in 1969 he built Ra I, a apyrus reed boat and with seven men from seven different countries they set sail from the old Phoenician port of Safi in Morocco – they sailed 2700 nautical miles in 56 days and one week short of Barbados they had to abandoned their efforts. Ten months later they once again set out, this time in a smaller vessel named Ra II, they sailed 3270 nautical miles in 57 days, from Safi to Barbados.   I had the good fortune to visit the Kon-Tiki Museum in Oslo, Norway where they have the Ra II, it is very interesting and is well worth a visit if you are ever in Oslo.

Thus, Thor Heyerdhal has proven that ancient man had the knowledge to build and the ability to sail, across these vast oceans and so it is possible that as he proposed – the same people who built the step-pyramids in Peru, Mexico and Mesopotamia could easily have visited Tenerife and introduced the step-pyramid culture to the people there......

Research carried out by the Canary Institute of Astrophysics show that the long sides of some of the structures do in fact mark the direction of both soltices and whilst standing on the platform of the largest pyramid on Summer Solstice one experiences a double sunset. This is due to the sun setting behind a mountain peak and the re-emerging from behind the mountain to set a second time behind a different peak. I was most fortunate to attend one such double sunset not long after the Park was opened. There were many people present, a number of them well known writers of New Age books. The pyramids also have stairs on the western side facing the rising sun of both solstices.

The excavation of the site was completed in 1998 and then opened as the Ethnographic Park – Piramides de Guimar (Pyramids of Guimar).

(www.spain-tenerife.com/UK/pyramids.html). The park also houses a life size replica of the papyrus reed boat used to support Thor Heyerdhal's theory that the ancients could have used the reed boats to travel from Africa and Asia to South America and the Polynesian islands using boats built from reeds, such as those built by the Egyptians.

I have been so fascinated by these pyramids in Guimar since my first visit to the site way back in January 1999 when the energy emanating from one area ( I think it was a ley-line) made me feel so nauseous and energised at the same time. My whole body was buzzing and I suddenly started to retch – it was a scarey yet most fascinating experience and has has kept me interested in the site and of course has led me to go in search of other step-pyramids on the island.

A good friend, Steve Andrews, (aka – The Bard of Ely) (bardofely.hubpages.com/hub/The-mysterious-pyramids-of-Tenerife-island) and I have visited a number of these pyramid sites up in the north of the island around Santa Barbara and Icod de Los Vinos. A particular favourite of mine is known locally as 'La Suerte' – meaning 'Good Luck'. These are all quite fascinating and also have unique energy fields. The site in Santa Barbara is quite a large one and resembles a complex of step-pyramids with ceremonial walkways (similar to the layout in the Guimar Complex), there is one pyramid there, (the main one) that I have nick-named 'the shape shifter' as it looked as though it changed its shape as Steve and I moved around the site taking photographs of it. More about these step-pyramids in a later article.

Diane Morgan ©

www.facebook.com/pages/The-Tenerife-Pyramid-debate/316588155082617?ref=ts 

this is the link for a new page set up by my friend Steve Andrews aka Bard of Ely....   could prove to be interesting as lots of blog gone on before the page was set up.