by Jim Allen, author
"Atlantis: Lost Kingdom of the Andes"
Whilst looking for improved illustrations of the god who emerged from the sea called in Sumerian legend,
Oannes, above top left, I came across similar sculptures in the Father Crespi collection in Ecuador, above centre and right. Instead of having a "fish head" aspect, these sculptures portrayed instead an "eagle head" aspect.
Another sculpture in the Father Crespi collection, above left, is almost identical to a winged bull figure from Assyria, above right. There was said to have been a huge number of similar and other unidentificable artefacts in the Father Crespi colection, including gold sheets with an undecipherable language. But the question of these sculptures in particular is whether they are genuine and of a great antiquity, or more recent copies, i.e. "forgeries".
Although easy to dismiss them superficilally as forgeries, when we look at the subject in greater detail, there are other aspects which suggest there was indeed a Sumerian presence in Ancient South America.
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Očigledno je taj pop Crespi imao replike mesopotamskih reljefa i skulptura, urađene kao odlivke sa originala (u bronzi?). U uvodnom postu, desno je dat mesopotamski reljef, a levo Crespijev odlivak drugog mesopotamskog reljefa koji se unekoliko razlikuje od prvog pa se stiče utisak podražavanja istog motiva na različitim, veoma udaljenim lokacijama.
