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Robin is a 50 year old guy from Montreal, Quebec, Canada
An Eclectic Eclipsologist, The "Eye-in-the-Sky" Guy, Shamelessly Syncretistic Urban Shaman by way of Synchroni-City and other Revelatory Experiences. The originator of World Day of Conscience. You, and every other human being on this planet, are invited.
Rated Sep 04 • 1 review • animation, crop circles, flash, nazca lines, flash animation • robdesignz.com
Looks like someone quoted my Nazca Lines total solar eclipse theory in this simple Flash animation about crop circles.
Rated Aug 22 • 1 review • archaeology, anthony aveni, video, archaeoastronomy, nazca lines • youtube.com
A video of an Anthony Aveni lecture about the Nazca Lines.
From the page: Anthony Aveni, a pioneer in the field of archaeoastronomy, spoke at Vanderbilt University June 15 (2009) on "Patterns on the Pampa: Secrets of the Nazca Lines."
A pioneer in the field of archaeoastronomy, Avenis research focuses on the astronomical history of Latin America, particularly the Aztec and Maya of ancient Mexico. In this lecture, he spoke on the enigmatic ground drawings in Nazca, Peru, that depict monkeys, birds, fish and spiders.
Rated Jul 29 • 1 review • archaeology, google maps, nazca lines, hummingbird, geoglyphs • homestead.com
An interesting animation of the Nazca Lines hummingbird geoglyph using a satellite image from Google maps?.
Rated Feb 25 2009 • 1 review • arts, nazca lines, geoglyphs • theage.com.au
Modern geoglyph artist
Rated Jan 21 2009 • 3 reviews • archaeology, science, nazca lines, geoglyphs, eclipsology • newscientist.com
The New Scientist magazine just published this interesting article about how the people of the ancient Nazca culture of Peru may have used the Nazca Lines and geoglyphs for ritual purposes. This theory is not new but the New Scientist article presents new scientific "hard evidence" (in every sense of the phrase) which lends support to this highly plausible Nazca Lines theory. This theory is entirely compatible with, and complementary to my own Nazca Lines as religious response to total solar eclipse phenomena theory. Here is the comment that I just successfully submitted to this web page, not inappropriately on Woden's Day. . .
The Nazca Lines As Religious Response To The Total Solar Eclipse "Eye Of God" Theory
Wed Jan 21 19:31:40 GMT 2009 by Robin Edgar
This theory is highly plausible but it does not explain why the Nazca culture aka Nasca culture "Indians" created gigantic biomorph geoglyphs that are best viewed from high in the air by an "Eye in the Sky" as it were. My research into the Nazca Lines shows that an unusually high number of total solar eclipses took place in the skies above Peru during the time frame that the Nazca Lines and biomorph geoglyphs were constructed. It is a readily verifiable fact that the totally eclipsed sun distinctly resembles the pupil and iris of a gigantic "Eye in the Sky" staring down from the heavens. Noted American astronomer perceived a 1980's total solar eclipse's striking similarity to an eye and was inspired to utter these words -
"I look up. Incredible! It is the eye of God. A perfectly black disk, ringed with bright spiky streamers that stretch out in all directions."
Jack B. Zirker Astronomer Emeritus
Sacramento Peak - National Solar Observatory
It is highly probable, indeed all but certain, that the Nazca Indians noticed the totally eclipsed sun's remarkable similarity to an "Eye of God" and responded to this profound cosmic symbolism by creating gigantic artworks for the viewing pleasure of this "Eye in the Sky" which they may have considered to be a god in its own right, separate from the sun and the moon which they almost certainly considered to be sky gods as did most preColumbian civilizations.
Some total solar eclipses display a bird-like form in the sun's corona and it is notable that a high percentage of the biomorph geoglyphs depict birds and some of these bird geoglyphs are directly aligned with or otherwise associated with solstice sunrise or sunset points. My research indicates that many ancient cultures transposed religious concepts and symbolism inspired by total solar eclipse phenomena onto the winter solstice which is a less spectacular but much more regularly occurring and predictable "death" and "rebirth" of the sun.
An older reasonably well illustrated version of my Nazca Lines total solar eclipse theory may be found on the following unauthorized website which none-the-less preserves much of what was lost when my eclipse lore websites went down a couple of years ago.
bibliotecapleyades.net/nazca/esp_lineas_nazca_16.htm [bibliotecapleyades.net/nazca/esp_lineas_nazca_16.htm]
Rated Jan 19 2009 • 1 review • anthropology, geoglyphs, ancient history, nasca lines, nazca lines • nwsource.com
Uh oh. . .
Rated Jan 07 2009 • 3 reviews • ancient history, nasca lines, nazca lines, eclipses, total solar eclipses • bibliotecapleyades.net
Looks like someone reproduced my eclipse lore web site about the Nazca Lines.
Rated Nov 26 2008 • 1 review • astronomy, intelligent design, nazca lines • wired.com
Here is the comment that I just submitted to this WIRED blog article -
Interestingly enough the Nazca Lines and other large geoglyphs designed to be seen by an "eye in the sky", such as the Atacama Giant in Northern Chile and The Great Serpent Mound in Ohio etc., were created in response to one of the most spectacular examples of Intelligent Design aka ID that human eyes can see. There is plenty of evidence that these ancient geoglyphs were inspired by the total solar eclipse "Eye of God". Yes, the totally eclipsed sun distinctly resembles the pupil and iris of a gigantic eye staring down from the sky, so much so that noted American astronomer Jack Zirker was once inspired to at least metaphorically describe the total solar eclipse with these words - "It is the eye of God". The dark circle of the moon occulting the sun forms the pupil of this "eye of God" while the rays and streamers of the sun's corona radiating outwards around the black moon mimic the muscle structure of the iris of an eye.
If a 20th century professional astronomer can perceive the totally eclipsed sun as "the eye of God" you can be sure that ancient human beings had similar perceptions, and took them rather more literally. There is abundant evidence that total solar eclipse "eye of God" had a significant influence on ancient religious beliefs and practices in most if not all parts of the world. Besides inspiring gigantic geoglyphs such as the Nazca Lines and Great Serpent Mound it inspired religious symbols such as the Eye of Horus of ancient Egyptian religion. So what are the odds against the Earth's sun and moon not only having virtually identical apparent sizes when viewed from the surface of the Earth, this "astonishing coincidence of astronomy" allowing our moon to totally eclipse our vastly larger sun, but also distinctly resembling the pupil and iris of an eye when the moon does totally eclipse the sun? Dare I suggest that they are astronomically high? Dare I suggest that there is "information content" in the "structure patterns" of the total solar eclipse?
Rated Sep 30 2008 • 2 reviews • archaeology, ancient mysteries, ancient history, stonehenge, nazca lines • ctv.ca
Wow! Someone found this ten minutes before I did. Good on Yeoldruid. I guess I shouldn't have slept in this morning. ;-)
Rated Sep 12 2008 • 1 review • anthropology, eclipsology, archaeology, ancient history, nazca lines • blogspot.com
This Spanish language blog post about the Nazca Lines mentions my theory that the Nazca Lines were inspired by the total solar eclipse "Eye of God" and other total solar eclipse phenomena such as the "Sun Bird" that appears in the sun's corona during some total solar eclipses.
From the page: - O canadiano Robin Edgar sugeriu que as figuras de Nazca poderiam ter sido inspiradas por visões resultantes de perturbações de visão durante a observação de eclipses solares. Segundo o autor, as linhas de Nazca coincidiriam com uma séria invulgar de eclipses solares... Algumas das linhas estariam alinhadas com o Solstício de Inverno, e registariam assim a "morte" e o "renascimento" do Astro Rei.
