It turns out that Peruvian religious ceremonial dolls from
1000 years ago that are comprised of a hodgepodge of human skeletal bones and
animal bones do exist, but they are exceedingly rare. Some people have emailed
me about this in the last day.
I may have mischaracterized in a sense: It may not be
necessarily as “ghoulish” and “gruesome” a thing as I originally surmised. It
may be more a historical/cultural thing. Peruvians in the 800 AD-1100 AD time
frame were creating ceremonial or religious effigies that they
crafted from mummified/fossilized bones, human and animal. So, no one in modern
day took old human and llama bone to make an alien. They were created by the
indigenous culture with no purpose of fakery…
But the question now becomes: why were
these ancient Peruvians creating these anatomical images/sculptures to look so
much like small aliens with big heads, Asiatic eyes, no ears, vestigial noses –
for all of the world looking like modern-day ETs?
That is the real mystery: what creatures were they
replicating in their religious/ceremonial art pieces?
Anthony Bragalia
