The Astronaut on a hillside
The Monkey
TheSpider
Posted on 02/15/2009 3:59:53 PM PST by JoeProBono
The world we live in is full of mysteries and man has been searching answers for them from time immemorial. However, no matter how advanced science has become, there are still many mysteries that cannot be unravelled by science. They continue to baffle us. The famous Nazca lines of Peru, which are associated with the Incan civilization by some scientists, have become a great puzzle; no one has yet come up with an acceptable theory as to why the Nazca Indians who lived in this area between 300 BC and AD 800, have drawn them.
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The Astronaut on a hillside
The Monkey
TheSpider
Pingeroo
The Hummingbird
Did a vehicle
Fly along the mountain
And find a place to park itself
Park itself
PARK IT!
PARK IT!
Or did someone build a place
To leave a space
For such a thing to land?
(Parking)Arrow
Have been to nazca, and find these lines very intriguing.
Religious constructions are virtually always made so that people on the ground can appreciate them.
To motivate a society to draw lines they will *never* even be able to see tells me they were have been damn well sure someone WAS going to see them, e.g. they had seen something in the air enough times to make a profound impression on their society, such that they were willing to dedicate however many years to the nazca lines.
Others dispute this, and some ridicule ideas like mine, but I look at it from a point of view of ‘what motivates people to do something like this?,’
Exactly. The key is the point of view. I have not been to Nazca, but from what I have heard and read, the lines are not that noticeable when you are on the ground. You are correct when you way that there had to be something definite motivating these people to create something that could only be appreciated, or even really detected from a point of view that we don’t know how they could possibly have gotten to.
I have seen them a couple of times on TV. They have to be one of the strangest things I have ever seen.
The Nasca Lines are located in the Pampa region of Peru, the desolate plain of the Peruvian coast 400 km south of Lima. The Lines were first spotted when commercial airlines began flying across the Peruvian desert in the 1920's. Passengers reported seeing 'primitive landing strips' on the ground below.
Obviously it’s just like crop circles
some Mayans got together in a pub and decided to get some boards and chains and go make some giant drawings that could be seen only from the air
then go have a chuckle about the idiots who would infer a connection to UFO’s
The lines were not notable until about 1930 when someone flew over them and realized they actually represented figures. I believe they were drawn as navigation aids to someone, but who is anyone’s guess.
“I have not been to Nazca, but from what I have heard and read, the lines are not that noticeable when you are on the ground.”
The only thing that I could see from the ground were straight lines/rays. Interestingly, last I checked, some of this was visible on google earth, ~14.41’44S, 75.10’38W
LOL! There ya go!
Or they could have believed a god would see them from above. We often make the mistake of thinking primitave people were incapable of the visualizing and calculating required to do such things.
“Or they could have believed a god would see them from above. We often make the mistake of thinking primitave people were incapable of the visualizing and calculating required to do such things.”
Is there another example of this anywhere? Obviously everything is speculation, but I am not aware any other major religious constructions on the planet which were designed to be utterly invisible to everyone living there iow no payoff to the mortal authorities commanding it to be built. Maybe a mad theocrat took over the tribe for the years/decades over which the lines were built and caused this to happen.
I just try to work out the thought process - hey lets draw lines to god(s). After getting political approval (whatever form that was in) Well first they have to figure out how to draw them (moving the rocks around iirc), THEN figure out how to handle the drawing of complex geometric objects/animals without being able to see them (There are a few examples of mistakes being worked around in the lines), then corral enough people into doing it, year after year after year, with presumably no answer? My mind doesn’t see that scenario happening, even past the drawing of the first line.
but as I said, all we have is speculation. Nazca remains/goods do not shed any light on this, iirc.
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