So what of the particular above?  If they are genuine, ancient Ica Stones created by the indigenous people of Peru hundreds, possibly thousands of years ago, then do they point to the existence of the ‘True Sun of the Incas’?  This Ica Stone has several fascinating features. Firstly, the Andeans pictured appear to be looking up at the heavens using telescopes.  One would imagine this to be utterly impossible for the ancient Incas; a certain mark of fakery surely?

Well, things are never quite as straightforward as they first appear.  Robert Temple, the author of 'The Sirius Mystery', wrote a book about the unrecognised collections of ancient lenses in various museum collections around the world, entitled 'The Crystal Sun' (6).  The lenses had been discovered by archeologists for generations and dutifully handed over to disinterested antiquarians for display in various museums.  His book makes a strong case for the widespread use of lens in the ancient world, and even proposes the use of telescopes, as can be seen from the shard of Greek pottery that adorns the front cover of his book.

Temple does not describe examples from South America, but there are famous examples of worked rock crystal from Meso-America. I have in mind, of course, the Mitchell-Hedges Crystal Skulls. 

It is not a big leap from these incredible artifacts to working rock crystal into lenses to be used by the Incas, and thus featuring on an Ica Stone. 

Furthermore, tantalising evidence for the existence of ancient lenses in South America is recorded by Harold T. Wilkins in 1945.  Wilkins was born in 1891 in my own home city of Gloucester, and may even have attended the same grammar school there.  During his extensive researches in South America before World War II he met Seňor Muňoz, a haciendero who owned an estate on the seashore not far from Guayaquil, Equador. Harold Wilkins relates this remarkable tale, alluding to the possibility of the finds being linked to a lost continent in the Pacific Ocean:

“He [Seňor Muňoz] set a diver to fish up statuettes from a drowned and very ancient city lying under water just off shore.  The diver came up with artistic statuettes of men and women whose hair was dressed in very Egyptian fashion!  They had the same curiously long slanted eyes as you find in frescoes in the tombs of the Pharoahs.  On their breasts were jewels carved in stone.  The dead and ancient civilisation must have been very, very old; for some of the statuettes are pornographic – a sign that the makers are of a race that has lapsed from a higher state of culture.

“As said Muňoz to me: “Seňor Wilkins, it may amaze you to hear that every race in the world is represented in these statuettes, so incredibly ancient, found under water by my diver.  There are Aryans, Semites, Caucasians, and even a race remarkably like the modern Japanese!  The race had seals like prisms, covered with hieroglyphs.  Also, I have found ancient convex lenses, under water, there, and also reflectors.  They were made of obsidian…they must have been scientific opticians, even astronomers.”” (7)

So perhaps we would do well to keep an open mind on the potential for ancient optical technology in the Andes.  Of course, this is not the only remarkable feature of Kathy's Ica Stone.  The centre-point of the heavens pictured on the stone is an odd-shaped feature, not unlike an upturned boat! Perhaps a celestial barge, like the ones often featured by the ancient Egyptians? This celestial barge is accompanied by clouds, meteors and stars.  Additionally, below the celestial canopy is a huge comet. 

But note that the Andeans are not pointing their telescopes at the great comet, as one might expect.  Instead, they are looking at that celestial barge.  So I wonder whether the 'celestial barge' is the return of the Dark Star Nibiru, surrounded by its halos and companion 'stars' (really moons).  If so, then telescopes are evidently required to see the heavenly apparition, which is itself interesting.  A point I shall pursue in my new book 'Binary Companion', (which I hope to finish one of these days...)  The lower and rather prominent 'comet', or sizeable meteor, is perhaps a sign of danger; the potential for a catastrophe associated with the return of Nibiru. 

Perhaps this is portending the end of an Age when the 'True Sun' returns?

Of course, this all rather depends upon the authenticity of the Ica Stones in the first place, and this is not a question that will be answered soon, if ever.  Archeologists have no interest in these stones whatsoever, having assumed from the start that they must be fake.  But the context of this particular Ica Stone is certainly consistent with a body of evidence about the Dark Star, the 'True Sun', that is continuing to build from various sources, both mythological and scientific. 

"In connection with the group of chulpas at Sillustani, or rather on the same promontory on which these occur, are found a number of such Sun-circles, which seem strangely to have escaped the notice of travellers. The tradition of their original purpose is preserved in the Quichun name they still bear of Intihuatana, 'where the sun is tied up'.

"Some of these circles are more elaborate than others, as shown in the engraving, from which it will be seen that while the one nearest the spectator is constructed of simple upright stones, set in the ground; the second one is surrounded by a platform of stones more or less hewn and fitted together. The first circle is about 90' in diameter; the second about 150', and has a single erect stone standing in the relative position I have already indicated. A remarkable feature in the larger circle is a groove cut in the platform around it, deep enough to receive a ship's cable." (9)

It seems peculiar that there should be 2 suns denoted by these circles.  If this is an example of an early observatory, like Stonehenge in England or the Medicine Wheels of North America, then one would expect a single circle, with the interior standing stone acting as a viewing marker. 

Two circles logically imply two suns; a binary star system that was understood by the ancient Peruvians. Remarkably, a similar binary solar circle can be found at Avebury in England (see above).  I have scant information about these standing stones, but it seems logical that the single stone within the larger circle is an archeo-astronomical marker of some kind. However, a further possibility exists. 

In a binary system the centre of gravity of the solar system would be shifted away from the exact centre of the Sun.  Does this stone provide an approximate location for the centre of the solar system, thus enabling us to ascertain the approximate whereabouts of a sub-brown dwarf companion?  Whether or not this is the case, the fact that such a binary solar circle exists in Peru is further supportive evidence that the ancient people of this area maintained a tradition of knowledge that is now, perhaps, lost: a secret knowledge of Nibiru.

The generally accepted position regarding the early colonisation of the Americas is that settlers crossed the Bering Strait Land-bridge some 12,500 years ago.  This was towards the end of the last Ice Age when oceanic waters were lower than now, due to the amount of global water tied up in the ice caps and continental glaciers.  A land-bridge across the Bering Strait dividing Asia and North America is known to have been exposed continuously from about 35,000 years ago until 11,000 years ago, and intermittently during the period before that (10).  The evidence for the migration of settlers from Asia across this land-bridge is extensive for the period around 12,500 years ago. 

It stems from tools which have been discovered that were used to hunt the massive prehistoric animals indigenous to the Americas during that period, such as mammoth and mastodons.  The theory built up from this evidence is known as "Clovis First".

More controversial is the idea that humans may have discovered the Americas long before this time.  There is some scientific evidence suggestive of this scenario (11), but each find has been heavily criticised by prominent scientists in the field.  Alternative theorists point to a pattern of evidence which suggests that the mainstream scientists may be wrong to debunk such findings (3).  An argument has raged for decades over this issue, with people like Graham Hancock heading the vanguard of new thinking.  The problem has been that there has been no 'smoking gun' to persuade the scientific establishment to accept an earlier presence of humans in the Americas.  That is, perhaps, until now.

British scientists dating a series of fossilised human footprints discovered in a Mexican quarry have presented conclusions based on two years of careful work.  They consider that their findings unambiguously point to a period some 40,000 years ago for these footprints.  This pre-dates current theory for a human presence in the Americas by almost 30,000 years!  The findings are bound to provoke controversy, and the team expect to have their work carefully scrutinised by the scientific community.  In fact, they expect a very rough ride.

"Scientist Silvia Gonzalez of Liverpool's John Moores University and her colleagues found the footprints in the quarry, some 130km (80 miles) south-east of Mexico, in 2003. But they have only finished dating them this year. The footprints were preserved as trace fossils in volcanic ash along what was the shoreline of an ancient volcanic lake," Dr Gonzalez said...The existence of 40,000-year-old human footprints in Mexico means that the Clovis First model of human occupation can no longer be accepted as the first evidence of human presence in the Americas," said co-investigator David Huddart, of Liverpool John Moores." (12)

The problem is that an earlier migration of humans around this time cannot rely on the existence of the Bering Strait Land-bridge. 

The implication, then, is that humans were capable of travelling across the ocean 40,000 years ago.  This is simply too much for most scientists to accept.  Yet, we cannot allow theory to get in the ways of facts...  If the Mexican footprints are indeed as old as is being suggested, then the ability of humans to travel across the Pacific Ocean 40,000 years ago needs to be considered. 

Silvia Gonzalez has suggested that such a migration may have been assisted by the fact that lower sea levels would have exposed larger tracts of the many oceanic ridges, creating a more numerous network of larger Pacific islands. 

In a way, this concept reflects the esoteric understanding of the Lost Continent of Mu in the Pacific Ocean (13), which presumably 'sank' due to the rising sea levels at the end of the last Ice Age.  Such a network of islands would assist the migration of peoples across the Pacific, although it would by no means act as a complete land-bridge.  Large tracts of ocean would still require passage by boat, implying a technology available to prehistoric man that simply does not fit with the current scientific model.  One can begin to see why there has always been a dogmatic knee-jerk reaction to debunk any evidence suggestive of very early human presence in the Americas.

I would like to point out two things here.  Firstly, human being have been biologically quite static for about 100,000 years.  In other words, people living 100,000 years ago were just like us!  Given the ability of our species to harness our environment, it seems probable to me that the ancient 'moderns' would have been capable of more than we give them credit for.  The fact that the remains of ocean-going boats from 40,000 years ago have not been discovered means nothing. 

Of course they have not been discovered! How could the wood have survived that long without the aid of fossilisation, which would be extremely unlikely given that the boats were kept, dare I say it, at sea!  Simply put, any evidence of ancient technologies that wasn't built of stone would not have survived. The lack of evidence for non-stone artefacts does not negate their actual previous existence.

So, I would recommend an open mind hen considering the age of human settlement of the Americas.  Common sense suggests that it is quite possible, as long as one isn't Bering Strait-jacketed by current theory!