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Denver International Airport: Sinister Symbolism

Animal lovers understand symbolism; the tented roofline, God Of Death statue, satanic blue horse, threatening religious artwork, New World Order, Masonic messages, and….

A "bug out" location for world leaders, Denver International Airport (DIA) is no ordinary airport.  World leaders can fly directly to the Airport's underground communication-survival city which is larger than the city of Manhattan.

Most people know nothing about the underground complex which rivals the Cheyenne Mountain blast-proof military installation^[1].  DIA's "tented" roof-line is however, not without controversy and those arriving by ground transport pass a 7-ton 26 foot tall statue of Anabas God Of Death, erected in 2010.

How could a major airport like Denver International turn into a religious and racially-charged political conspiracy-theorist's dream come true?  And more to the point, why have the most revealing videos of the terminal interior been scrubbed since this was published in 2013?

First the background: In the early 90s, then-Denver mayor Federico Peña suggested they “move” the old Stapleton International Airport.  It was long overdue.  Air traffic had tremendously increased along with the size, roar, and down-thrust of the big jet-liners.  First-time travelers on I-70 East will never forget the sensation of a massive jet roaring straight at them, then passing just 30’ overhead as they mercifully escaped into the tunnel under runway 17R/35L.

The Fentress Bradburn architectural firm was given the contract and it was Bradburn himself who decided that the roof span needed to be cabled. That led to hiring Horst Berger, who had designed the Hajj Terminal at the King Abdulaziz International Airport in Saudi Arabia.  Somehow Bradburn’s original concept of “an encampment of Native Americans on a bluff” or as he further described it, “white teepees rising out of the grasslands” changed.  Radically. Instead of “the original inhabitants’ architecture” as was the intent of the architectural firm, it glaringly resembled desert tents in Algeria, Iraq, Libya, Syria and Tunisia.

Visible, i.e. above-ground construction was completed in 1995, over a year behind schedule and at a cost of $4.8 billion. The DIA roofline itself seemed strange but not frightening...at that time, we didn't know about ISIS, Muslim terrorists, and 911 had not yet occurred. Nonetheless, the public was deeply offended by the interior design and death-theme content (see video below). Travelers were unaccustomed to being greeted by religious artwork such as New World, Middle East, and Masonic messages, inexplicable gargoyles, and symbols of end-of-world, foreign culture and/or beliefs. Did the designers know about ISIS and that by 2014, these regions were referred to as MENA (Middle East and North Africa) would be a threat to America?

The public, both local and the tens of thousands of daily travelers passing through the Denver terminal (terminal: curious use of that word!) were disturbed by the images. They filed a flood of complaints, all of which fell on deaf ears.  Finally, some of the most highly controversial murals were removed by late 2009 but the strange "theme" of DIA had already drawn national attention.

Even the Arts community was offended by the Blue Horse when the statue was erected during final construction in 1994. The Denver Post had this to say about the blue horse "If you are superstitious you could take this as a sign that you should possibly reconsider boarding that fuel-laden, 500 mph, plastic and aluminum airship."