Hans Schindler Bellamy (1901–1982)
Autor de Built before the flood;: The problem of the Tiahuanaco ruins
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- Nombre canónico
- Bellamy, Hans Schindler
- Nombre legal
- Bellamy, Hans Schindler
- Otros nombres
- Bellamy, H. S.
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1901
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 1982-12-12
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- Austria
- Ocupaciones
- author
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 8
- También por
- 1
- Miembros
- 47
- Popularidad
- #330,643
- Valoración
- 3.4
- Reseñas
- 3
- ISBNs
- 1
Possible? Certainly, but it doesn't tell us anything about the Tiwanaku people or their background. The author is content to leave these mysteries essentially unaddressed because he's more interested in Hörbiger's theory than in Tiwanaku. It's a sincere, serious-minded effort nonetheless, and worthy of a three-star rating. (That being said, Bellamy's explanation of the calendar is lengthy, tedious, and--at least to the average reader not smitten by Hörbiger--seemingly arbitrary. A circular symbol on the Gate of the Sun absolutely means thus and such, except in cases where it absolutely doesn't. And if so many of these interpretations are irrefutably correct, how can the meaning of some symbols remain--as he concedes--unknown? If the theory actually hangs together as well as Bellamy claims, shouldn't the significance of these obscure symbols, in relation to the others, soon become apparent? Despite his repeated assurances, it feels more like detailed guesswork than an airtight hypothesis. He assumes a lot, and you just have to accept it if you intend to get through the book.) Bellamy does draw the reader's attention to the many depictions of toxodons at Tiwanaku: surely an indication of the city's great age, since toxodons became extinct 11,000 years ago.… (más)