Canary Island Pyramids but did the Guanches build them?

Certainly the Guanches used the spiral as a symbol. It was incorporated into a pintadera (ceramic seal). I am actually wearing this design in a small silver pendant. Thank you for commenting!

Try to copy the petroglyphs. This way you will save them, even if the pyramids are destroyed.

I do not think that the pyramids were signs of good agricultural land, as the people would have known such land anyway. I think that they ritualized or gave sacred significance to this kind of land and water. They turned a physical landscape into a ritual one.

Spirals! They have long been associated with the Great Goddess, the being worshipped by the first humans. Goddess spirals are well known in Britain and Ireland, and are found in megalithic tombs like Newgrange, Ireland's pyramid made of earth. Earth has always been sacred to the goddess.

I said earlier that the Guanches might have worshipped the sun, which is male according to depth psychology. This sun worship allies with worship of a feminine earth deity, represented by spirals. God and goddess, earth and sun, worshipped together, this seems very appropriate. Pagans always worshipped paired gods and goddesses, male and female apsects of divinity. Spirals represent the great mother.

Thanks for your great feedback! Yes, sadly only the Guimar ones have any sort of protection here because Olsen bought the land.

Very interesting article. Thank you. Since visiting the Spiral Petroglyphs at Zarza in La Palma two years ago I have become absolutely fascinated by everything associated with them. I asked the girl in the office at the entrance what she thought they were and who made them. She explained that they thought they were signs to indicate good grazing and agriculture land, and also that there maybe water nearby. I must admit to being rather sceptical of this explanation. So upon my return to Tenerife (where I live) I visited the Museum of Mankind in Santa Cruz and discovered that similar spirals have been found in the Peninsular, Northern France, Ireland, England, Scandinavia, and the rest of the world. .

I am returning to La Palma this month to seek out the other Petroglyphs on the island and also the pyramids. I have therefore spent the last week researching the internet for more information. I must admit to being mortified to discover that similar pyramids have already been destroyed in the Orotava valley in Tenerife by developers! How long will it be before the pyramids in the Icod area are destroyed if they are not protected? Some of the petroglyphs at Zarza have already been destroyed by vandals and are now fenced off from the road to try and protect them!

There is no doubt the pyramids on La Palma and Tenerife are not as aesthetically beautiful as similar structures in the Americas and Egypt, but they are still very similar!

I understand that Graham Hancock and Robert Bauval attended the summer solstice celebrations at the pyramids in Guimar in 2000. I wonder they were made aware of the other pyramids on Tenerife and La Palma, not to mention the Petroglyphs!

I agree with you so thanks for your comments!

Great article on an original subject. Thor Heyerdahl is something of a hero of mine, so it was great to find out something more about him.

The pyramid is the simplest large structure to erect, so it is likely that many ancient peoples erected them, and this includes Guanches. So there is no problem in thinking that Guanches constructed them. Furthermore, there is a strong link between pyramids and solar worship, so this fits in with the stories that the Guanches worshipped the sun from the pyramids. Why should we think that megalithic cultures could not erect large structures. We have Stonehenge, so why not Guanche pyramids?

There is a deep prejudice against accepting that conquered peoples were ever competent, as to think them so undermines the excuse for conquest, that the people needed their conquerors to civilise them. I think that this operates in the case of the Guanches.

One way to ascertain the date of origin would be to access the land surface below the pyramid through excavation and do some radio-carbon dating on the the soil surface.

Thank you for reading my article and finding it of interest!

I wasn't aware of the Guanches history and culture. Your articles manage to offer a broad perspective on a subject that it seems that require more attention.

Thanks again for your feedback. I have seen examples of the sort of problems here which you describe with people who deny that the Guanches had boats, built pyramids etc, and many know very little about them anyway! I assume that the destruction of an important discovery was the petroglyphs that were vandalised in a single night. That story went out in the media here a couple of years back and the blame was put on developers that wanted the land.

Great stuff mate really. These kind of articles are the only way we can help to properly identify and preserve Canarian / Pre-Colombian history and prevent it from being completely destroyed by the hands of corrupt politicians, developers, deeply rooted colonial fascists and also, unfortunately, from the hands of some of the ignorant Canarians that have been subject to a corrupt 'Madrid style' education that hasn't included aboriginal Canarian history until late. This has resulted in generations of disinterest and disregard for preserving Guanche history and has stopped many Canarians from pursuing careers related to accurately defining Guanche history such as archaeology ect.

More recently I was saddened to hear that a significant archaeological find was discovered in Santa Cruz city (Tenerife) which was then completely vandalised and destroyed by criminals in the night.... Well it just so happens that this significant find also sits on land that developers are planning to build multi million pound apartments overlooking the city and port.