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Just Chat! / The Nazca Lines
« on: 15/05/2017 19:54:15 »
Howdy.
I don't know if it was in the NSF or not but a while back a discussion of the Nazca lines came up. Of course the silly notion that their purpose had to do with alien runways was brought up claiming that only aliens could have made them and be seen by them from their spacecraft. Total nonsense I say. I suggested that their purpose was religious in nature, drawing pictures which can be seen by their god above. Someone claimed that they had no concept of god which I suspected was quite false but didn't want to bother with that conversation any longer. However today I ran into the following webpage
http://archaeologyonline.net/artifacts/nazca-lines
I see that I was right all along. Its quite possible that humans made them and it was even very likely that it was for God to see. First, some researches created such a line
Second, it appears that the Nazca people were quite religious after all
What's important to keep in mind, as that web page points out, is that its unwise to project our modern sensibilities and motives upon an ancient people.
I don't know if it was in the NSF or not but a while back a discussion of the Nazca lines came up. Of course the silly notion that their purpose had to do with alien runways was brought up claiming that only aliens could have made them and be seen by them from their spacecraft. Total nonsense I say. I suggested that their purpose was religious in nature, drawing pictures which can be seen by their god above. Someone claimed that they had no concept of god which I suspected was quite false but didn't want to bother with that conversation any longer. However today I ran into the following webpage
http://archaeologyonline.net/artifacts/nazca-lines
I see that I was right all along. Its quite possible that humans made them and it was even very likely that it was for God to see. First, some researches created such a line
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...according to Dr. Persis B. Clarkson, an archaeologist and geoglyph expert at the University of Winnipeg “ It was not a difficult technology.all you need is the will.” It would have just taken careful and diligent attention to sight the lines. To prove this, a group of 10 Earthwatch volunteers helped an astronomer and anthropologist, Anthony Aveni, in a study of the Nazca lines. In just and hour and a half, without a printed plan, they created a straight line winding into a spiral 35 meters long and one meter wide.
Second, it appears that the Nazca people were quite religious after all
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Why Were the Lines Made?
This question is not quite so easy to answer, for there are dozens of theories and no conclusive hard evidence to point to one absolutely.
Why would these ancient people make drawings so huge that they could not be appreciated from the ground, but only fully from above? Perhaps that was the point; they were intended for the eyes of the gods, as a sort of offering to them. The Nazcan’s were very religious, and much of their life revolved around the growing of crops. Their very lives depended on it, and no doubt they wanted to insure the good will of the gods. Or perhaps there was a more practical purport to the seemingly pointless lines in the desert?
What's important to keep in mind, as that web page points out, is that its unwise to project our modern sensibilities and motives upon an ancient people.