The new image reveals that “Main Pyramid” has a complex series of radiating “spines” and a set of geometrically shaped features within its surrounding apron. After a considerable amount of time was invested in evaluating these formations, we noted that they were parts of a complex set of half-images along the segmented base line (FIGURE 1). Although we uncovered three pictographic portraits that appear as either the right or left side of a whole image we will only focus on the pictograph marked number 1 in this study.2

The pictograph from the “Main Pyramid” marked number 1 in Figure 1 consists of a half faced portrait (FIGURE 2). When the pictograph is cropped and rotated to a vertical presentation, the heads demarcation line can be detected running along the adjoining terrain. When mirrored the head appears to be composed of a full-bearded face with twisting braids, deep set eyes, a nose, and mouth. The head is completed with a Viking-like helmet. The “Viking” head is roughly 700–800 meters (half a mile) in length from the top of the helmet to the neck.

Figure 2

The Viking Pictograph

Detail: Main Pyramid (marked number1 in figure 1)

LEFT, Half Faced Pictograph

CENTER, Demarcation Line

RIGHT, Mirrored Pictograph (Viking)

When the “Viking” head is compared to a typical Viking age helmet the common features become quite apparent (Figure 3). Notice the central helmet crest, the brow and nose guard, the false mustache and lower-helmet extensions.

Figure 3

Saxon and Martian Helmet Comparison

Detail of Main Pyramid (marked number1 in figure 1)

with inset of a Saxon Helmet on left side.

(Image source, History Unearthed, Leonard Woolley,

(Ernest Benn Limited: London), 1963, fig. 173, p.167.)

Although our initial judgment of this structure led us to believe that it represented a Viking-like portrait, we acknowledge that this image also bears many similar features to the Aztec depiction of Quetzalcoatl (the “Feathered Serpent”) as seen in Figure 4.

Figure 4

Winged Quetzalcoatl (Aztec Codex)

Drawing by George J. Haas

(Image source: Mysteries of the Mexican Pyramids, by Tompkins, page 385.)

This image of Quetzalcoatl is bearded and wears a helmet strikingly similar to the Mars figure. The portrait includes a lower-helmet extension and long braids made of serpents. If one looks closely at the braids of the Martian image in Figure 5 it also appears as though they are formed by a coiled serpent.

Figure 5

Comparison of the Viking and Quetzalcoatl

LEFT, detail of Martian Viking

RIGHT, Detail of Aztec Quetzalcoatal

Note the lower extention of Quetzalcoatl’s helmet

and the serpent braids match the mars image.

Because the Viking pictograph shares such strong iconographic similarities with Mesoamerican motifs, we assert that the pictograph identified as number 1 in Figure 1 is a Martian representation of the Maya god Quetzalcoatl in his personification of the morning star, Venus.

Similar half-faced geoglyphs have been recorded in Peru. Far to the north, beyond the city of Lima, are the ruins of Caral, located in the Supe Valley. From recent excavations of this site, some archaeologists are hailing this almost forgotten complex as the home of the earliest known settlement in the New World. Results of new radiocarbon tests have dated a range of site mounds and structures to well before 2600 B.C.3

Just beyond this ancient complex of mounds and half-buried pyramids is an immense half-faced stone geoglyph set into the surface of this once sacred ground (Figure 6).

Figure 6

Caral Half Faced Geoglyph (Caral, Peru, 2500 B.C.)

LEFT, Aerial View of Half-Faced Geoglyph

RIGHT, Drawing with demarcation line

(Image source: Smithsonian, August 2002, Vol. 33, no.5, page 64.)

Drawing by George J. Haas

Notice the “D”-shaped head with its large gaping mouth and raked hair. It should be noted that this partial face is not carved in profile - it is designed in a “cut in half” manner. In the illustration on the right side of Figure 6, notice the demarcation line runs right down through the forehead - cutting the nose and chin in half. Like the half-faced Viking pictograph found at Cydonia, the Caral face was also constructed to be seen from high above the ground.

Footnotes