THE NAZCA LINES [9b]
Southern Peru. 1927. While hiking in the foothills of the arid Nazca Desert, archaeologist Toribio Mejia Xesspe discovers what appears to be a large network of ancient roads carved into the earth. Years later, as airplane travel to the region becomes more frequent, aerial flyovers reveal nearly 100 other designs in the nearby landscape. Known as geoglyphs, they depict animals, flowers, and even a mysterious, human-like being. Scattered over a nearly A 200-square-mile area, these lines and figures have become collectively known as the Nazca Lines.
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“The Nazca Lines consist of these massive drawings, or carvings, if you like, on the ground. Everything from geometric symbols, lines, to animals, fish, birds. But the intriguing thing about them is, you know, number one, they’re massive, and they can really only be seen properly from the sky.” – Nick Redfern (Author, Memoirs of a Monster Hunter), |
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“There are over 800 straight lines. There are over 70 animal figures. There are over 150 geometrical shapes.” – Giorgio A. Tsoukalos |
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“We have glyphs of different figurines on the ground. We have these intricate lines and what appear to be runways spread all around the desert. Some of these actually show mathematical diagrams built thousands of years ago, which really raises the question: Why?” – Jason Martell |
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“There’s an enormous amount of unanswered and perhaps unanswerable questions that arise from the phenomena.” – M.J. Evans, Ph.D. (Landscape Geographer), |
The largest of the figures is nearly 1,000 feet, or the size of three football fields…while the longest line extends almost nine miles. According to mainstream archaeologists, these mysterious earth drawings were created by the Nazca, an ancient people that flourished in the region between the 1st- and 8th-century AD. The lines were formed by the careful removal of the reddish iron oxide pebbles that make up the desert surface. Once exposed, the underlying dirt, which contains high amounts of lime, hardened and was resistant to erosion.
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“The Nazca plain is made up of layers of light-colored kind of rock and dirt with dark-colored rock and dirt, just on top. It’s very simple. And then you just remove the dark-colored stuff to reveal these kind of white looking lines over the landscape. It’s like a canvas that isn’t being disturbed, that’s maintained its integrity for hundreds or even thousands of years.” – Hugh Newman (Author, Earth Grids) |
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“The reason why they have survived is because of the desert conditions. Truly, if you make a geoglyph at the Nazca Desert environment today, it will be found hundreds of years from now. There is hardly any rain, hardly any wind. Anything you make here will last for eternity.” – Philip Coppens |
But why did the Nazca people feel it necessary to make these elaborate and massive drawings in the earth? What purpose were they intended to serve? And why were they designed in such a way that they could have only been seen and appreciated from the sky at a time when aircraft didn’t even exist?
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“The only place you can see them above is that somehow you’re floating in midair.” – Philip Coppens |
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“It has been suggested that whoever inhabited the Nazca plateau, that they had access to some type of balloon flight, so that they could appreciate what they had created on the ground. If the Nazca population had access to balloon flight, the Spanish chroniclers would have most certainly recorded that in their reports. But there is not a single word that describes that the Nazcans had access to hot air balloons. They would have written that down, but they didn’t, so it didn’t exist.” – Giorgio A. Tsoukalos |
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“By default, we’re in the bailiwick of highly advanced terrestrial technology, and that is really the anomaly of the Nazca Lines. They really are easy to make, when you look at it, because it is only really removing the top layer of a surface. But the magnitude of the figures is what makes this such a complex undertaking.” – Philip Coppens |
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“Many of the lines at Nazca go for miles, perfectly straight through the desert. There are various trapezoids and spirals and other glyphs that are so large that the surveyors would need some direction from the sky. And this is where aliens or some kind of people with flight had to be involved with the creation of the Nazca Lines.” – David Childress (Author, Technology of the Gods), |
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“I was in Peru for a month in 1987. I went with a pilot over the plains of Nazca. The first pattern that the pilot said, “Well, let’s aim for that long six-mile triangle.” And there have been laser surveys done, and it is remarkably accurate, this triangle. And it looked like something had pressed the whole ground down at least 24 inches. How would you press down a six-mile-long perfect triangle into the desert of Nazca? What kind of technology can do that? Not the feet of ancient people.” – Linda Moulton Howe |
How could the ancient people of Nazca have created such massive geoglyphs without the capability of flight or the use of advanced tools? Might these mysterious lines have actually been created with the help of otherworldly beings, as Ancient Astronaut Theorists believe?
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“The fact that these designs can only be seen from above, from the sky, is an indication that they were to be used as navigational markers for the gods when they were actually here. So, the question then becomes, you know, were they drawn in this way as navigational markers for the gods to actually fly their vehicles in?” – Michael Bara (Author, The Choice), |
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“Let’s assume for a moment that extraterrestrials sent down some type of an unmanned craft, like a rover that we have on Mars right now, that is collecting samples, and is driving around a desert plateau. It, of course, leaves behind some type of tracks. And then the natives who just witnessed this would look at each other and say, “Wow! We were just visited by God.” When in reality, no such thing happened.” – Giorgio A. Tsoukalos |
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“Now, could it be the case that the gods directed building of them to the people below? Could it be that there was some sort of teaching process involved? The fact that we’re talking about geometric lines and things like this, was it a teaching process by somebody up there for the so-called “lesser perceived” people down below? We’re still asking questions 1,500 years later, but, you know, to this day they fascinate people and just provoke endless controversy.” – Nick Redfern (Author, Memoirs of a Monster Hunter), |
Were the Nazca Lines really navigational markers for otherworldly beings visiting Earth? Or were they meant to commemorate an extraterrestrial encounter, one that happened tens of thousands of years ago? Modern-day historians and anthropologists believe the Nazca people were one of several ancestors of the Inca civilization, the largest empire in pre-Columbian America. In the 13th-century, the Inca Empire thrived in the Andes Mountain region of South America. According to legend, the mysterious Incan creator god Viracocha, commissioned the Nazca Lines and glyphs in the remote past.
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“And these were said to be created by the Viracocha himself, who was the great teacher god of the Andes. And so where he came from is still a mystery. He could’ve been from Sumeria. He could’ve been connected somehow with the Anunnaki. No one really knows. But the same legends and the same stories of these great gods appear throughout the world, especially all the way through the Americas.” – Hugh Newman (Author, Earth Grids) |
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“We know that they are part of a creation mythology in which some of the figurines which are depicted here are said to be deities, are said to be part of the creation mythology as to how the people who lived in that area and who made these geoglyphs came about. They are messages to be seen from above to basically say that the people on the ground still live in accordance with the rules established by the deities who came from above to teach the people on the ground about civilization and various other aspects of culture.” – Philip Coppens |
Could the lines and glyphs of Nazca really have been the work of the Inca god Viracocha, as their legends suggest? If so, what was the purpose of carving these strange geoglyphs into the Earth? Perhaps the answers can be found by taking a closer look at one of Nazca’s most mysterious figures, one that has become known as El Astronauto.
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