Ancient ruins in South America, dated back to 12000 BC.

[Surenas]

Oversized objects usually refer to impression, status symbolism, the love of the big things, a showdown with the hopefully smaller stuff of the neighborhood.

 

Puma Punku was used in the early 20th century by the Bolivian Army for extensive firing practice of the artillery.

According to Spanish sources Puma Punku was still fully intact after the Spanish conquest 1533 (Pedro Cieza de León 1549), almost intact in 1609 (Inca Garcilaso de la Vega 1615) and razed by the Spanish on their merciless hunt for gold in 1653 (Padre Bernabé Cobo 1655).

 

Puma Punku terraced low pyramid complex, sloping to the West

http://www.abload.de/img/pumapunku011t7r.jpg

 

Reconstruction of the megalithic low pyramid enclosure. After Alexei Vranich

http://www.abload.de/img/pumapunku2vn9a.jpg

 

The 1972 German adventure film Aguirre - the Wrath of God by Werner Herzog, starring Klaus "Mad" Kinski and musically accentuated by the German Krautrock band Popul Vuh, passes through my mind.

Adelante, hombres! The wealth is with me!

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2q3D0h4xCro