The mystery of the strange gods of Tassili

We go to the Sahara desert .There, where time and the forces of the elements make up a beautiful and ancient setting, it is here that an imposing mountain massif stands, surrounded by similar rock formations to gigantic sandstone sentries, eroded by wind and years.

It's Tassili, a word that comes from t uareg and that means “plateau between two rivers.” A scenario famous for containing in its caves and caverns a whole artistic legacy of the Upper Paleolithic and the Neolithic.1500 cave paintings from the first centuries of our era, in which we they show the customs of the time, the evolution of wildlife and-oddly-strange manifestations of ingraved beings with gigantic round heads.

Gods of other worlds? The polemic of the Beautiful, but disturbing paintings by Tassili are a treasure for our sentiments Gone and a challenge to our curiosity.Surely you are interested in knowing more about them and giving us your opinion.

Tassili n'Ajjer, World Heritage Site

We are in the south-east of Algeria , center of the enigmatic desert of Sahara. This is the land of Tuareg and they have been witnesses, generation after generation, of all the expectations caused since, during the World War I , the foreign legion will notify the world of the incredible discovery they had made in one of the caves of this Tassili plateau.

The desert tribes were more than used to those paintings, to those open books inscribed in the rock that told part of their remote history, however, officers like Lt. Charles Brenans couldn't help getting a whole squad of camel drivers to search the caves and take notes.It was a unique discovery for the history and archeology.Already in 1933, the visits by archaeologists and geographers were constant.

The mystery of the strange gods of Tassili

Tassili n'Ajjer, Sahara Desert, Algeria

It was in 1956, when Henri Lothe , a risky ethnographer and explorer, wanted to go further.I organize an expedition with Tuaregs and advanced by Dangerous gorges, slopes and narrow corridors between the caverns to see what was beyond, to see things that the Westerners had never seen and that only the natives knew.That was when Lothe saw a disturbing massif called "Jabbaren", A word that in the Tuareg language means "Giants." It was amazing, because those paintings were very different from the rest.There were no longer customary scenes of hunting or gathering, there, simply, strange beings with round heads rose up before his astonished gaze.huge creatures that seemed to carry a kind of scuba diving.

The most shocking was that of a being that is a little more than 6 meters long and that our explorer, Henry Lothe, did not hesitate to call "The Great God Martian ” (it is the one that serves as cover of this article).

Tassili, an illustrated book of history...and something else

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