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Nasca Lines Decoded
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC - Sunday 14 March, 8.30pm
They are striking works of art by any standard: but what purpose did they serve? Some of the theories put forward suggest that the lines were ancient running tracks, runways for aliens and even a giant astronomical calculator. But after decades of misunderstanding, modern archaeology may finally have an answer to the puzzle of the Nasca lines. An international team, including National Geographic-funded scientists, has taken an array of high-tech tools to the desert in an unprecedented effort to build a comprehensive digital model of the lines. At the same time, excavations are uncovering new clues about the Nasca, their rituals and beliefs, and the extremes they went to in order to survive. The mystery of the Nasca Lines is bound up in an unforgiving climate, droughts, clan warfare and mysterious caches of severed human heads.
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If it is okay to belive the small geoglyphs were drawn by humans, then why would they criss-cross the whole desert for 50 plus kilometers to draw wide motorway size "straight" lines?
Then if the geoglyphs were used for ritual purposes, then why were they drawn on existing ones that are just straight lines and cross the whole plateau? Were they crossing the "images" of their "gods" to thank them?
Then why would these "straight" lines cross rives and streams if the water was in deficiency? These are not exactly ritual lines are they? If some of them were used to prevent water from leaving the hill-side then others do just the opposite.
I think the people who made smaller images of animals and so on were only inspired by something they saw in this area when they settled in and then only developped their own rutual practice barely understanding what was going on at the time.
Like in the case of Great Pyramids and huge megalyths that show signs of machine grooming on them, "casting while in plastic state" and image print-in technology.
Then big lines also make-up a "penthogramm" if you look them up on Google Earth: 14°43'11.29" South and 75°11'15.42" West