{"id":10053,"date":"2011-10-31T15:37:26","date_gmt":"2011-10-31T14:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/en\/orphan-civilization-olmec-puzzling-statues-different-races-giant-black-warriors-olmec-heads.html"},"modified":"2026-03-04T21:58:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T20:58:11","slug":"orphan-civilization-olmec-puzzling-statues-different-races-giant-black-warriors-olmec-heads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/en\/orphan-civilization-olmec-puzzling-statues-different-races-giant-black-warriors-olmec-heads.html","title":{"rendered":"Olmec Heads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-18760 size-full\" title=\"Cabeza Colosal n\u00ba1 del Museo Xalapa -- d\u00e9tour\u00e9e par fr:Utilisateur:Olmec --- https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Cabeza_Colosal_n%C2%BA1_del_Museo_Xalapa_-_blank.png ---  arri\u00e8re-plan :   https:\/\/de.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Codex_Tro-Cortesianus -- photo Hochgeladen von GDK --- modifi\u00e9s par Stef Kervor pour Eden Saga\" src=\"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/codex-maya-tete-olmeque-688po.jpg\" alt=\"codex-maya-tete-olmeque-688po\" width=\"637\" height=\"413\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span class=\"chapo\">Among the unsolved <a class=\"link\" href=\"\/en\/egyptology-gizeh-bauval-hancock-schoch-west-vs-zahi-hawass-1st-round-a-sphinx-war.html\">archaeological mysteries<\/a>, the pre-Columbian huge heads singularly alter our vision of the distant past of America <a class=\"link\" href=\"\/en\/protohistory-precolumbian-america-black-continents-tarana-afro-america.html\">and Africa<\/a>.\u00a0 At the beginning of last century, several giant stone heads depicting warriors Negroid type were discovered in the jungles and chapparal of Mexico. What are they doing there, in the ancient Olmec territory, deep in the heart of the pre-Columbian <a class=\"link\" href=\"\/en\/precolombian-civilizations-mexico-guatemala-belize-honduras-meso-america.html\">Mesoamerica<\/a>?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">One wonders why and how Black Africans came to America at such a distant time? Archaeologists as historians are struck dumb on the subject. That would make them too many pages to rewrite in the old school textbooks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Better to stick to the old version: Blacks have nothing to do with it. These statues are not Negroid, they argue. And yet &#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-21024 size-full\" title=\"La T\u00eate de Cobata, Santiago Tuxla, Mexique - The La Cobata head, in the main plaza of Santiago Tuxtla, Olmec period -  By Gunnar Wolf - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=22675868\" src=\"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/olmeque-tete-Santiago-tuxtla-laCobata-688pk.jpg\" alt=\"olmeque-tete-santiago-tuxtla-lacobata-688pk\" width=\"688\" height=\"688\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In Santiago Tuxtla, old colonial town in Mexico, a small shaded park is the home of a very strange sculpture. This is a huge head of warrior, 10 feet high, known by the name of Head of Cobata. This sculpture, more than 2,000 years old, is clearly a man with negroid features.\u00a0Not far from there, in Tres Zapotes, was discovered another giant head of African man. He also wears a helmet with chinstraps, like the first one. All features express a great nobility.\u00a0One hundred years ago, excavations allowed to unearth seventeen of them, all of the same type. But the head of Cobata is the largest one.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Taradiddles and nonsense according to historians, for which there was at this time no black Africans in the Americas. If they have learned it, so it is true. So do they work&#8230; For the official history, the first blacks arrived 25 centuries later, with the <a class=\"link\" href=\"\/en\/legal-history-slavery-black-racism-legal-code-black.html\">slave trade<\/a>. While Historians loudly claim that slaves were the first blacks in America, the sculpted heads suggest they were not.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Why couldn&#8217;t have black Africans successfully crossed the Atlantic in those remote times? Because Blacks were savages before the colonial invasion of Whites? This primary racism seems quite old fashioned <span class=\"short_text\">and is becoming quite unbearable. Thus <\/span>we must find a better hypothesis. Second guess : because the boats did not exist, say with one voice archaeologists and historians. Yet <a class=\"link\" href=\"\/en\/greek-philosophy-mythology-timeos-critias-plato-s-atlantis.html\">Plato thinks otherwise<\/a>. He said the Atlanteans had long vessels to 10,000 <a href=\"#\">BCE<\/a><span class=\"note\">Before Common Era<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-18897 size-full\" title=\"T\u00eate colossale Olm\u00e8que -- auteur Maribel Ponce Ixba (frida27ponce) -- https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:San_Lorenzo_Monument_3_crop.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Olmeques-San_Lorenzo_Monument_3_688px.jpg\" alt=\"Olmeques-San_Lorenzo_Monument_3_688px\" width=\"688\" height=\"688\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">The absence of evidence cannot be the evidence of absence. For example, we have always believed that the Pre-Columbians did not know the wheel. Yet the Olmec potters made <a class=\"link\" href=\"\/en\/proto-historic-olmec-egypt-sumer-chavin-tuatha-rama-orphan-civilizations.html\">toys with wheels<\/a>. In the meantime, how to explain the presence of blacks in Meso-America?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">This pot evoking a modern teapot is part of the Olmec objects found at La Venta. This is an elephant without discussion. If the Olmecs knew this African animal, doesn&#8217;t it mean they knew Africa? It is true that according to Plato, the island of Atlantis housed elephants.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Are the Olmecs from this wonderful island, they should leave, under duress, when the ocean has swallowed up? It is very likely, if they had boats to make the trip.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Another hypothesis: the Olmecs, courageous sailors, often went to Africa. Same objection: with what boats? The first known boats are much more recent. So what? Be patient, we will find really ancient remains sooner or later.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-18899 size-full\" title=\"A gauche, premier plan : San Lorenzo Colossal Head 6 in the Museo Nacional de Antropolog\u00eda --- t\u00eate colossale n\u00b0 6 San Lorenzo ---   auteur \u00b7Maunus\u00b7\u019b\u00b7  ---  https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Olmec_colossal_heads#\/media\/File:OlmecheadMNAH.jpg  ----- \u00e0 droite, arri\u00e8re-plan : carte relief du Mexique, terre des Olm\u00e8ques --- title: Mexico relief location map ---  Author:Carport --- https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Mexico_relief_location_map.jpg  --- modifi\u00e9s par Stef Kervor pour Eden Saga\" src=\"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/mexique-carte-relief-wikimedia-633po.jpg\" alt=\"mexique-carte-relief-wikimedia-633po\" width=\"688\" height=\"413\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">That could revive the hypothesis of an <a class=\"link\" href=\"\/en\/protohistory-precolumbian-america-black-continents-tarana-afro-america.html\">ancient black civilization<\/a> in Africa. At the end of the <a class=\"link\" href=\"\/en\/4-ages-4-yugas-deluge-merlin-gandalf-tuatha-de-danann-the-bronze-age.html\">Bronze Age<\/a>, Egypt was ruled by a black dynasty, the Nubian pharaohs. It happens that the early Egyptians were great offshore sailors. One can imagine that even earlier, Africans were able to cross the Atlantic, as <a class=\"link\" href=\"\/en\/american-european-mythologies-feathered-snakes-vikings-kurdistan-titans-cuchulainn-kukulkan-quet.html\">Quetzalcoatl<\/a>, <a class=\"link\" href=\"\/en\/inca-mythology-meerschaum-peaceful-white-god-christ-of-the-andes-tiki-viracocha.html\">Viracocha<\/a>, the Vikings, or <a href=\"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/en\/precolombian-civilizations-mexico-guatemala-belize-honduras-meso-america.html\">St Brandan<\/a>, <a class=\"link\" href=\"\/en\/history-medieval-europe-middle-east-america-hugues-de-payns-the-templars-gold.html\">the Templars<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/en\/america-always-known-saint-brandan-saint-malo-viking-erik-the-templars.html\">Christopher Colombus<\/a>, who did not discover America in 1489, because, as Plato told us, it has always been known.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"short_text\">Mainstream historians tell funny stories.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"perfect-quotes\"><p>\u00a0History teaches historians how to falsify it.<\/p><footer class=\"blockquote-footer\">Stanislaw Jerzy Lec<\/footer><\/blockquote>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Olmec civilization has produced astonishing sculptures, giant heads of Negroid type<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16995,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2571],"tags":[882,334,71,228,1322,1267,1269,1320,118,1321,863],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10053"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10053"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21023,"href":"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10053\/revisions\/21023"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}