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  • Peruvians walked their prayers into the earth - life - 26 January 2009 - New Scientist

    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... more

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  • Rated by aliasinkhorn on Jan 30 2009, 10:21pm

    Peruvians walked their prayers into the earth From the page: THE ancient, intricate geometric patterns stamped on the surface of a desert in Peru have long been thought of as messages to the gods, or as markers that tracked celestial objects. Now new details about these geoglyphs suggest they may have been made for prayer walking. The Nasca lines are a collection of lines, giant trapezoids, and figures of humans, plants and animals in a desert 400 kilometres south of Lima, Peru. They were created between 400 BC and AD 650 by the removal of reddish oxidised stones from the desert pavement to reveal the lighter sand beneath. Tomasz Gorka of Munich University in Germany analysed five geoglyph complexes near the city of Palpa, focusing on the large trapezoidal structures which are etched on the plains there. He measured anomalies in the Earth's magnetic field caused by changes in soil density at various depths. The team walked the entire site, an area of about 60 hectares, using hand-held sensors. We found other lines, in the interior of the trapezoid structures, which were not visible from the air, says Gorka, who presented his findings at an archaeological geophysics meeting in London last month. The geoglyphs visible today are the most recent stage of a prolonged construction process during which the whole complex of drawings was constantly added to, remodelled, obliterated or changed by use, adds Gorka. Some of the lines produced stronger magnetic anomalies than others, prompting Gorka and Karsten Lambers of the University of Konstanz in Germany to suggest that the soil beneath was compacted by people walking back and forth during prayer rituals. This activity was closely connected to the placing of ceramic vessels along the lines, perhaps as offerings, says Lambers. Orthophoto of a geoglyph site called PP01-36 from the Pampa de Llipata, south of Palpa (Image: Karsten Lambers / Institute of Geodesy and Photogrammetry, ETH Zrich, Switzerland) .

  • Rated by RobinEdgar on Jan 21 2009, 11:45am

    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. http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/nazca/esp_lineas_nazca_16.htm