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Paranormal Novice
The Nazca lines in Peru have been a curiosity for centuries. Who drew these mysterious lines in the desert and why? Why did they draw artwork that can only be seen from the air centuries before the era of aviation?
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They were images meant for their gods, which were up in the sky.
Forget the lines. Look over yonder. Somebody shaved off the tops of several damn mountains. Didn't do that with a homemade shovel. I think Giorgio Tsoukalos got it right. If ancient aliens didn't flatten the tops of entire mountains, who did?
The Nazca lines were created as cultural landmarks that reflected the local population's belief systems and society. Pretty much the same reason any religious landmark has been built across the world.
The difference with the Nazca lines is how subsequent people have re-interpreted them through their own cultural influences. For instance, in the early 20th Century, the Nazca lines were assumed to be earthly reflections of Nazcan constellations. Maria Reiche was one of the major researchers of Nazca and held to that concept for most of her life. As Von Daniken's book came out, people shifted their perceptions and imagined they were calling cards to ancient astronauts.
The more widely-held and current understanding is the lines are pictograms writ large across the mountain landscape. They are no longer considered to represent anything from the skies...constellations, aliens etc. Instead they are considered to represent the pantheon of spirits, protectors and gods who the Nazcans believed controlled weather, fertility and food.
This idea is certainly probable as it mirrors the same activities and concepts of other early societies. Far Eastern domestic shrines or Egyptian temples to their numerous gods...
The pictograms have been found on pottery sherds and carved into stones across parts of South America. Similar lines in the tundra have been found in Bolivia too.
Imagine an early society holding to the belief that gods and spirits were controlling everything behind the scenes. Now consider that concepts of gods have actually evolved over the millennia. In the Nazcan's society, success was because the gods favoured them and illness, failed crops etc was due to angry gods and displeased spirits. By representing the figures across the landscape it was hoped to gain favour with the gods. Offerings could be made to these gods in the hope of bestowing good crops, rains etc. The Western harvest festival is an echo of the same pre-Christian notions of giving food to the harvest gods and water to the water gods.
Water was a paramount concern in this desert land with some of the pictograms crossing irrigation ditches. Even today, people make offerings of sea shells or stones from rivers to the gods in the hopes of rain.
In this light, the Nazca lines are physical manifestations of internal and societal concepts. They have different guises, but in general can be seen across the world going back into dim history.
Well, their on earth. I bet earth people made em for earth people purposes.
I used to ask my friend who was a member of a high school marching band the same thing. They would do these elaborate lines and images but unless you were way up in a blimp (not many of those at a high school event) you really couldn't see em that well. But, they knew what they meant and so did the followers of that particular band.
Why make perfect lines for those on earth that cannot see they are perfectly straight from the ground?