Who is the Ecuadorean figure that is being compared to Hathor on Facebook?

by WikiWantsYourPics

I found this pic on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tehnewrenaissance/posts/492394990800844

Who's the figure on the right?

CommodoreCoCo

This "artifact" on the right is taken from the collection of a certain Father Carlos Crespi Cocci, a Milanese clergyman who moved to Ecuador for mission work and was thanked by the natives with luxurious ancient artifacts of gold. Or so the story goes. The Crespi collection was popularized in Erick von Danicken's book The Gold of the Gods. Von Danicken is most know for his several other books detailing how early humans were too incompetent to build the pyramids and aliens taught them how (hence the beings we call "gods"). Unsurprisingly, these rely on misinterpretation, new angles on artifacts that weren't the old angles for very good reasons, and stating things are a certain way cause, you know, they just look like it, can't you see it, they've gotta be pictures of aliens? Well, Von Danicken was lucky enough to get to visit one of the caves, Cueva de los Tayos, where Crespi's stuff came from, and here he encountered libraries of metal tablets with strange hieroglyphs, some of which were too hard to scratch with a knife. The team that went back to the cave, of course, were told they went to the wrong cave when they found nothing in it. Where are these artifacts now? Good question. Our only sources are von Danicken's interviews and some pictures from the 70s.

Thankfully, the Facebook post links to a nice summation of all this that contains a good number of photos. You can see a few common trends among the "artifacts" presented:

  • Simple line drawings of mountains, dinosaurs, and animals that are suspiciously close to standard western interpretations
  • "Heiroglyphs" that are 16 characters of bad Greek
  • "Psuedo-Hebrew" that also just looks like bad Greek
  • A complete lack of sources that aren't Atlantis Rising or Von Danicken himself. If you want to prove something is legitimate, take that artifact, and give it to someone who's not in your circle of Ancient Alien theorists. If you're too scared to do that because they might think you're silly, maybe you should rethink your approach.

The Hathor artifcat presented is of particular interest. It's suspicious because it looks too similar to the comparison image. An artifact created in Ecuador would be different than one from Egypt, but here we have on with slightly different patterns on the dress, but with the exact same shapes and proportions elsewhere- exactly the same. That doesn't happen. So the real answer to your question is: "It's a modern person trying to copy an image of Hathor."