Sillustani

Sillustani is an amazing place, yet there is a sparse information about it available on the internet. klik2travel production of Sillustani video has been inspired by a short film by Brien Foerster available on his YouTube channel.

Brien is proposing new unorthodox view of the origin of Sillustani towers. According to him the primitive chullpas were just mere imitations of the advanced towers build by some unknown civilisation thousands years earlier.

He also disputes the view that the advanced towers were originally built as burial chambers. Inside chullpas are tuned to the key A on a musical scale, which hints that the towers could have had some different purpose than just for burials.

Reading thru many blogs of people who visited Sillustani site Dragonheart - Living the Dream stands out.

On a personal note, I cannot help to make a small observation that ornaments like lizard and snake on chullpas at Sillustani are engraved using same labour intensive technique as various animals depicted on recently excavated T-stones at Göbekli Tepe in Turkey, which are proven to be 12,000 years old. So it begs a question if there is a connection. And I think to myself 'why not?'

Sillustani
TiggerT | flickr

Gobelki Tepe
yepyep | flickr

Sillustani
Michel | flickr