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MYSTERIES OF THE NAZCA LINES ...

News of the enigmatic Nazca lines became public knowledge in the late 1930's The awesome aerial view that beckoned beyond this particular horizon captured The imagination of writers, scholars and tourists alike.

Early passengers called then prehistoric landing fields, or compared them to Martian canals. In the 1960, author Eric Von Daniken hypothesized that, in remote times, ancients astronauts visited the earth; and the giants figures on the Nazca plain
were meant as signals for the space travelers, as they touched down on 37-mile long airfield.

The idea that the incredible drawings were the work of beings from outer space – and could not have been made without aerial instructions – appealed to those who couldn't imagine such creations as products of an ancient civilization. Besides, the extra terres- trial must have made the lines: There were the only ones who could view them from their spaceships, on high.

Why, indeed ,would the Peruvians have drawn shapes of such enormous dimensions -when they themselves could never see them from the ground?

Ranging in widths from six inches to over six feet. Some extending as far as six miles. some continuing and ever-straight and unbroken, over valley and hills. trapezoids triangles, rectangles and quadrangles of all dimensions, unfold before us, from a yard or two in width, to several hundred yards wide; and in lengths stretching from 10 or 15 yards, to over half mile.

Figures of fanciful birds – 18 different kinds – create a veritable aviary in the mixed menagerie that prowls the pampa. To gain a sense of the enormity of scale picture a football field: The giant curly-tailed monkey would fill it ! The long creeping lizard
Is twice the monkey's length. And the spider, small by comparison, crawls about, in 150 feet of desert pavement. One of the largest creatures, a curious bird with a zig-zag neck, points a lanky beak across 600 feet of desert scape !! Other figures include a dog, plants, fish… and two piles of rocks in the shape of llamas ! On steep hillsides, depictions of human figures keep their eternal vigil over the master work on the plain below.

How awesome was the task of the ancient landscapist !. One can only wonder the formidable effort of removing the numberless tons of stones that delineate the patters see through the ages…. And the care and skill to shape each line and curve with strict
precision.

So arduous a process would have had to continue through hundreds of years, and would have taken one person, working steadily for an entire lifetime, to create the figures alone. The virtues of patience and fortitude must surely have characterized theNazca people..!!

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