Mayan Kukulkan Pyramid Emits Light Beam in iPhone Photo

© 2012 by Linda Moulton Howe

“As the Maya exploited the patterns of power in time and space,
they used ritual to control the dangerous and powerful energies
their [pyramids and structures] released.”

- Linda Schele and David Friedel, A Forest of Kings

“I took three pictures of the pyramid trying to get lightning.
In number one, nothing happened. In number two, nothing happened.
In the third  picture is the beam and lightning.”

- Hector Siliezar, on vacation tour near
Kukulkan Pyramid, Chichen Itza, Yucatan

Thunderstorm on July 24, 2009, at 2 PM local, Mayan
Kukulkan pyramid at Chichen Itza, Yucatan, Mexico.
Apple iPhone image © 2009 by Hector Saliezar.

February 21, 2012  Los Angeles, California - In the first week of February 2012, an Earthfiles viewer sent me the photograph above of the Mayan Kukulkan pyramid with a pale pink beam coming out of the top and asked me if I knew the background of the photograph that is displayed in some Mayan-related websites. I contacted my friend and colleague Jaime Maussan in Mexico City, who said it was a real photograph taken on July 24, 2009, by Hector Siliezar on vacation with his wife Glenda Hernadez and their two girls, Stephanie and Destiny. Hector and Glenda were both born in El Salvador, but Hector moved to Los Angeles, California, in 1986 to sell cars and later to work in receiving and shipping for warehouses. By 1990, Glenda joined Hector as a resident, became a bank teller, gave birth to their daughters and the couple married in 2006.

Hector is now 39-years-old, Glenda is 31, Stephanie is 12 and Destiny is 8. Three years ago the family was on vacation in the Yucatan and were on a one-day tour of Chichen Itza with a hotel guide. Their tour included the famous Mayan Kukulkan pyramid. Thunder boomed, lightning flashed and rain drops started to fall. The storm excited Hector about getting a photo on his Apple iPhone of lightning next to the pyramid. Recently I interviewed both Hector and his wife, Glenda, about his July 24, 2009, iPhone digital photographs.

Interviews:

Hector Siliezar, 39, born in El Salvador; now works shipping and receiving, Los Angeles, California:  HECTOR, DID YOU SEE THE BEAM SHINE STRAIGHT UP FROM THE PYRAMID WITH YOUR EYE?

No, I did not see that.

WHEN DID YOU KNOW YOU HAD THE PYRAMID BEAM IN YOUR PHOTO?

When I looked at the iPhone. It was on only one picture, the third one I took.

DID YOU ASK YOUR TOUR LEADER ABOUT THE PHOTO?

He was farther away, but the first thing I did was show the other tourists around us the picture. Everyone was surprised. Other tourists started taking pictures of the pyramid to see if they could get the same beam, but no one else could.

WHY DID YOU TAKE THE FIRST PHOTO WITHOUT YOUR DAUGHTERS?

I just took a photo to see if I could get the lightning, but I didn’t get lightning in the first photo.

1st Photo:  Apple iPhone photo that Hector Saliezar took on July 24, 2009, in front
of the Mayan Kukulkan pyramid at Chichen Itza as a thunderstorm began.

Metadata for Photo 1 Apple iPhone shows date:
July 24, 2009 at 1:59:48 PM, focal length of 3.85 mm,
F-stop 2.8 with an exposure time of 1/434th of a second.
Metadata provided by Greg Crane and Mike Reed.

NOW THE SECOND PHOTO, YOU ASKED YOUR DAUGHTERS TO STAND IN FRONT OF YOUR iPHONE. HOW MANY SECONDS OR MINUTES BETWEEN THE TWO PHOTOS?

Only a few seconds.

BUT YOU HAD TO TAKE THE TIME TO GET YOUR TWO DAUGHTERS INTO THE SHOT?

They were right next to me. I wanted to get a picture of them with the lightning.

THEY JUST RAN IN FRONT OF THE CAMERA?

Yes.

HOW MUCH TIME BETWEEN THE SECOND AND THIRD IMAGE?

I don’t know.

DID YOU CLICK FAST?

I waited for awhile for the lightning.

2nd Photo:  Apple iPhone photo that Hector Saliezar took on July 24, 2009, in front
of the Mayan Kukulkan pyramid at Chichen Itza as a thunderstorm began.
Foreground left to right:  Stephanie Siliezar then 9 and Destiny Siliezar then 5.

Metadata for 2nd, beam photo from Apple iPhone shows date:
July 24, 2009 at 2:00:12 PM, focal length of 3.85 mm,
F-stop 2.8 with an exposure time of 1/419th of a second.
Metadata provided by Greg Crane and Mike Reed.

DID YOU LOOK AT THE SECOND PHOTO RIGHT AFTER YOU TOOK IT?

Yes, I did. I took three pictures of the pyramid trying to get lightning. In Number One, nothing happened. In Number Two, nothing happened. In the third  picture is the beam and lightning.

3rd Photo:  Apple iPhone photo that Hector Saliezar took on July 24, 2009, in front
of the Mayan Kukulkan pyramid at Chichen Itza as a thunderstorm began.
Foreground left to right:  Stephanie Siliezar then 9 and Destiny Siliezar then 5.

Metadata for 3rd, beam photo from Apple iPhone shows date:
July 24, 2009 at 2:00:31 PM, focal length of 3.85 mm,
F-stop 2.8 with an exposure time of 1/436th of a second.
Metadata provided by Greg Crane and Mike Reed.

SO THE BEAM SHOWED UP ON YOUR THIRD PHOTO, BUT YOU DIDN’T SEE IT WITH YOUR EYES?

No.

AND GLENDA DID NOT SEE THE BEAM?

No.

DID YOU TAKE MORE PHOTOS?

Yes, like maybe seven more.

DID YOU GET LIGHTNING IN ANY OF THE OTHER PHOTOS?

No. And no more beams.

WHEN YOU SAW THE BEAM IN YOUR 3RD PHOTO, WHAT WENT THROUGH YOUR MIND RIGHT THEN/

It was amazing!

DID YOU THINK ABOUT GOD OR ANGELS OR OTHER BEING?

No, not really.

THEN YOU SHOWED THE PHOTO TO PEOPLE AROUND YOU/

Yes. There were six or seven tourists and they were surprised. Then on the bus, I passed the iPhone around for everyone to see. No one, not even the tour guide, had ever seen anything like it before.”

Glenda Hernadez:  “It was raining really hard so there was a lot of lightning. My husband said, ‘Oh, I would like to see how that lightning would look in a picture of the (Kukulkan) pyramid. That’s when he started taking those pictures.

And he said to our daughters, ‘Get over there in front of the pyramid.’ And then he said, ‘Oh, I got it!’ – meaning lightning. And he wanted to see how it looked in the picture. And then he said, ‘Wow, look at this! What is this?’

I said, ‘I don’t know. You took the picture.’ We never saw the light beam. You see how you can see lightning on the side of the pyramid? That’s what he was trying to get. And then when we looked at the picture and we looked at the light coming out of the pyramid, we never saw that before. We saw it in the picture, but we did not see it with our eyes.

WHAT WAS YOUR REACTION WHEN YOU FIRST SAW THAT IMAGE?

I was surprised! I was like, ‘Well, what could that be?’ And then my husband ran to show it to everybody around us.

WHAT DID PEOPLE SAY?

People were very surprised.

DO YOU REMEMBER WHAT YOUR TOUR GUIDE SAID ABOUT THE PHOTO?

He was surprised and said he had never seen anything like that before and he passed our cell phone around to everybody on the bus to see.

DID THE TOUR GUIDE IN THE MAYAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE, DID HE KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THE KUKULKAN PYRAMID HAVING A BEAM COMING OUT OF THE TOP?

No. He was a hotel bus tour guy. I don’t think they know much about it. I didn’t know what the name of the pyramid was either.

ARE YOU OR HECTOR RELATED BY BLOOD TO THE MAYANS?

No, our families are from El Salvador.

HAS ANY SCIENTIST COME UP WITH ANY INFORMATION ABOUT BEAMS COMING OUT OF MAYAN PYRAMIDS?

No, we don’t know. We would like to know if anyone else has a picture like ours.

NEITHER YOU NOR HECTOR KNEW ANYTHING ABOUT MAYANS AND THE KUKULKAN PYRAMID WHEN YOU WERE THERE?

No. We were just on a tour from the hotel on our vacation. But we would like to know what it is? How did the beam happen?”

Kukulkan Means “Feathered Serpent”

According to Maya scholars Linda Schele and David Friedel, massive Mayan pyramids such as Kukulkan at Chichen Itza were symbolic sacred mountains. Writing in A Forest of Kings: The Untold Story of the Ancient Maya © 1990 by Schele and Freidel, the Mayan scholars describe the Maya world as “alive and imbued with a sacredness that was especially concentrated at special points, like caves and mountains. The principal pattern of power points had been established by the gods when the cosmos was created. Within this matrix of sacred landscape, human beings built communities that both merged with the god-generated patterns and created a second human-made matrix of power points.

“When new buildings were to be constructed, the Maya performed elaborate rituals both to terminate the old structure and contain its accumulated energy. The new structure was then built atop the old and, when it was ready for use, they conducted elaborate dedication rituals to bring it alive. ...So powerful were the effects of these rituals that the objects, people, buildings, and places in the landscape in which the supernatural materialized accumulated energy and became more sacred with repeated use. Thus, as kings built and rebuilt temples on the same spot over centuries, the sanctums within them became ever more sacred. The devotion and ecstasy of successive divine kings sacrificing within those sanctums rendered the membrane between this world and the Otherworld ever more thin and pliable. The ancestors and the gods passed through such portals into the living monarch with increasing facility. ...As the Maya exploited the patterns of power in time and space, they used ritual to control the dangerous and powerful energies their [pyramids and structures] released. There were rituals which contained the accumulated power of objects, people, and places when they were no longer in active use.”

20º 40´ 01 N (20.6667)       88º 34´09 W (-88.6)
Background:  Kukulkan Pyramid in Chichen Itza, Yucatan, Mexico, also known as El Castillo
(The Castle), has four staircases on each side, the most important north stairs shown at right
above that has the two snake heads of Kukulkan at the base. The pyramid is also directionally
oriented to mark the solstices and equinoxes. The axes that run through the northwest
and southwest corners of the pyramid are oriented toward the rising point of the sun
at the summer solstice and its setting point at the winter solstice.
Foreground:  Temple of the Warriors, Chichen Itza complex.

Approximately 75 miles (120 kilometers) southeast of the city of Merida stand the ruins
of Chichen Itza, the most famous of the Maya archaeological sites in the state of Yucatan.
Inhabited since at least the 6th century A. D. - and then abandoned for reasons unknown
around 850 A. D. - its crowning structure is the pyramid of Kukulcan. Center red circle is
Chichen Itza, Yucatan, Mexico, location of Kukulkan “Feathered Serpent” Pyramid.
The Yucatan Peninsula where Chichen Itza is located is a limestone plain, with no
rivers or streams. The region is pockmarked with natural sinkholes,
called cenotes, which expose the water table to the surface.

The Kukulkan Pyramid's construction date is unknown, but some estimates are between 600 - 900 A. D. Kukulkan is oriented to East from true North is 19 degrees. The height from ground to top of the Kukulkan Pyramid is 98.5 feet (30 meters).

Each of the four faces has a steep staircase consisting of 91 steps that ascend at 45 degrees to the top platform. Counting the top platform as an additional step gives a total of 365 steps, one step for each day of the year.

On the days of spring and fall equinox, the edge of the shadow from the sun falls exactly on the corner of the pyramid, leaving one side in total sunlight and the other in total shadow. The Equinox triangles of light and shadow resembles a snake that reaches the carved snake heads of Kukulkan at the bottom of the north stairway. To produce this effect demanded precise architectural and astronomical measurements by the Kukulkan architects.

On March Spring and September Fall Equinoxes, the edge of the sun's shadow falls
exactly on the corner of the Kukulkan Pyramid north steps producing light and shadow
(above) that resembles a snake joining with the Kukulkan snake head carved
at the base of the north stairway. The precise astronomical and architectural measurements
necessary to produce this effect equinox after equinox is remarkable. Image by MexicoTravel.

Another Alleged Pyramid Beam -
Visoko, Bosnia-Herzegovina

Illustration of  alleged “energy beam” above a “Pyramid of the Sun,”
near Visoko, 20 miles northwest of Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Visoko, Bosnia-Herzegovina - 20 miles northwest of Sarajevo,
the capital - is the location of October 2005 controversial announcement
by amateur archaeologist Sam Osmanagich that he had discovered at least three
large pyramids he estimated to be 12,000 years old. Map © 2009 by Smithsonian.

Allegedly at an unspecified date in 2010 to 2011, a beam was detected by unnamed scientists coming through the top of the Bosnian Pyramid of the Sun. The radius? diameter? of the beam has been described as 4.5 meters with a frequency of 28 kHz.

If Earthfiles viewers and radio listeners have high strangeness photos and experiences to report, please email: earthfiles@earthfiles.com. All requests for confidentiality are honored.

More Information:

For further reports about pyramids, ziggurats, and stone circles around the world, please see my book Mysterious Lights and Crop Circles in the Earthfiles Shop. There are also dozens of other reports (examples below) in the Earthfiles Archive.

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Websites:

Kukulkan Pyramid, Chichen Itza:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kukulkan

3-D Mathematical Structure of Kulkukan Pyramid: 
http://www.world-mysteries.com/chichenitza_sn.htm

Quetzalcoatl:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quetzalcoatl

Ancient Astronauts:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_astronauts

http://www.crystalinks.com/ancientastronauts.html

Chichen Itza, Yucatan:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chichen_Itza

http://www.sacredsites.com/americas/mexico/chichen_itza.html

http://sacredsites.com/americas/mexico/chichen-itza-facts.html

Maya Civilization:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_civilization

Alleged Bosnian Pyramid of the Sun Beam:  http://www.thetruthbehindthescenes.org/2012/01/26/mysterious-energy-beam-above-the-bosnian-pyramid-of-the-sun/

http://piramidasunca.ba/eng/latest-news/item/7778-world-history-and-bosnian-pyramids-2011.html

Bosnia Pyramids:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosnian_pyramids

Smithsonian:  2009 "Mystery of Bosnia's Ancient Pyramids":
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2393643/posts