Pedra da Gavea

The Montagne of Pedra da Gavea culminates with nearly 842 meters of altitude. It overhangs the long sand beaches end. One reaches it after the Botanical garden of Rio de Janeiro while penetrating in the national park of Tijuca. One practices there air sports such as the parapente since the stripped top. The simple tourist visit of Rio de Janeiro offers many points of view on this enigmatic face which seems to supervise the whole of bay of Guanabara.

Pedra da Gavea is famous for the particular shape of its cliff of which the summit part would represent an immense head carved with very the rock. This face which would refer characteristic of a bearded European carrying a cap, is visible with tens of kilometers to the round. Cariocas tell Amerindian legends on this ancestor symbolizing a god or a king. It is necessary to await the beginning of the XIXe century so that the Brazilian authorities start to be interested closely in what would be a monumental rupestral sculpture similar to that of a sphynx. Scientific teams and archaeological will follow one another during XIXe and XXe century. The discovery claimed in the Thirties of an ear carved on one on the sides of cliff would accredit the assumption of a human origin and not simply geological of this representation. Inscriptions in characters phenicians engraved with the cliff of cliff, vis-a-vis the sea, would indicate the following sentence: " Badezir phenician of Tyr, oldest son of JethBaal" … (a king phenician of bearing Tyr this name Badezir or badezor or Baal-Ezer II as a phenician, reigned towards 850 before J. - C.; His/her father was also king of Tyr under the name of JethBaal or EthBaal or Ithobaal Ier. However, the term “phenician” is Greek and is not used by Phéniciens themselves (they used Kana `nim , i.e. Canaanites ), which indicates a coarse counterfeit.

Sources

  • http://www.vidhya-virtual.com/Vidhya2/gavea.htm
  • http://www.almacarioca.com.br/hist02.htm
  • http://br.geocities.com/enigmasdahumanidade/apedrada.htm
  • http://www.terrabrasil.org.br/p_gavea/pgavea.htm
  • http://www.terrabrasil.org.br/trilhas_mapas/tri_t_pgavea.htm
  • http://www.travel-earth.com/brazil/pedra-da-gavea/
  • http://www.viewzone.com/gavea.html the mountain-Sphinx and inscription in ancient writing.

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