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Puma Punku — The H-Blocks
Catch your breath. At 12,800 feet, every step costs more. The air is thin. The sun is fierce. Your body is struggling just to oxygenate.
Puma Punku H-Blocks
🪨12 episodes49 min total
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Puma Punku
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Puma Punku — The H-Blocks
Catch your breath. At 12,800 feet, every step costs more. The air is thin. The sun is fierce. Your body is struggling just to oxygenate.
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Puma Punku — Stones Cut Beyond Reason
49 min audio | 12 stops
Puma Punku is not a loose set of mysteries; it is one Tiwanaku system. Walk from the H-blocks, catastrophe field, altitude problem, imported sandstone and andesite, clamp sockets, and hidden drainage to the Gateway of the Sun, sunken faces, monoliths, and raised fields that made the stone city possible.
02FULL APP4 min
Puma Punku — The Catastrophe
It's a mess. Massive stones scattered like toys kicked over by an angry child. Broken columns. Tumbled walls. Precision-cut blocks lying in heaps.
Puma Punku Ruins
03FULL APP4 min
Puma Punku — The Gateway of the Sun
Walk with me to the Kalasasaya temple at Tiwanaku, about 800 meters from Puma Punku. In the northwest corner, you'll find the most famous carved block in the Andes.
Gateway of the Sun, Tiwanaku
04FULL APP4 min
Puma Punku — The Altitude Problem
Stop for a moment. Take a breath. A deep breath.
Puma Punku Site Overview
05FULL APP4 min
Puma Punku — Part 5: The Unfinished Temple — The Building We Have To Reassemble
The scattered andesite fragments are not just rubble. They are the surviving pieces of a building system whose plan can still be partly read.
Puma Punku Platform
06FULL APP4 min
Puma Punku — Part 6: Red Sandstone Slabs — The Weight Of A Mountain
The red sandstone slabs at Puma Punku are not background material. They reveal how Tiwanaku brought mountain identity into the ceremonial center.
Puma Punku Sandstone Slabs
07FULL APP4 min
Puma Punku — Part 7: Andesite Across The Lake — The Long Road Of The Hard Stone
Puma Punku's andesite was a logistics statement: distant volcanic stone moved into a high-altitude ceremonial city.
Puma Punku Andesite Blocks
08FULL APP4 min
Puma Punku — Part 8: Metal Clamp Shadows — The Joints You Cannot See
Empty sockets and clamp cuts point to a fastening system that made stone behave like connected architecture.
Puma Punku Clamp Sockets
09FULL APP4 min
Puma Punku — Part 9: Drains Beneath The Platform — The Monument That Moved Water
Tiwanaku's ceremonial architecture included drainage systems, making water control part of the sacred performance.
Tiwanaku Ceremonial Core
10FULL APP4 min
Puma Punku — Part 10: Semi-Subterranean Faces — The Wall That Watches Back
The sunken temple's embedded heads turn viewing upside down: visitors descend and become the ones being observed.
Semi-Subterranean Temple
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Puma Punku — Part 11: Bennett And Ponce — Stone Bodies In The Center
Tiwanaku monoliths are not just statues. Their placement, carved objects, and later burial show how stone bodies carried religious and political force.
Kalasasaya And Tiwanaku Monolith Zone
12FULL APP4 min
Puma Punku — Part 12: Sukakollos — The Fields That Made The Stones Possible
Tiwanaku's monuments depended on raised-field agriculture. The hidden foundation of Puma Punku was food.
Tiwanaku Raised-Field Landscape