Posted on 02/15/2009 3:59:53 PM PST by JoeProBono
The Incas lived in the mountains (Andes) to the north around AD 1400, and are thought to be culturally descended from nearby cultures/civilizations.
Your post reminds me of a Calvin and Hobbes comic strip where Calvin strings up Christmas lights on the roof of his house offering to sell to aliens his parents as slaves in exchange for a star cruiser.
"which are associated with the Incan civilization by some scientists
“Your post reminds me of a Calvin and Hobbes comic strip where Calvin strings up Christmas lights on the roof of his house offering to sell to aliens his parents as slaves in exchange for a star cruiser.”
I remember this strip!
“Of all the interpretations of Zeke’s experience, that one seemed the most logical.”
I had never read about this, thanks.
In the Amazon rainforest, there are miles of raised mounds forming lines in the middle of swampy land, thought to have been used both for agriculture and as roads by ancestors of the local Amerindians.
Maybe the Nasca lines makers were just their more artsy-fartsy cousins, and at that time the desert was more fertile. After all, Caral is considered to be the start of civilization in South America, and is now desert. So too with Egypt, even though when Egypt started, the country was wetter.
Just sort of joking. The Nazca lines are intriguing not only because of their extent, but also their shapes.
Here are some links, in any case, but without pretty pictures:
and a Wikipedia one:
Yeah, I caught that later. Mea culpa. I should have writtern "Why do some scientists..." rather than "Why does the author..."
I have read all of the links you posted; I have not read about this previously. It implies a much more active population in that part of the amazon in the pre-colombian era. In some cases they appear to have had some sort of dual-functions, if I read correctly.
That was my take on it, too.
and before the Inca (and just about anyone else since there are no earlier written records?) there were the Sumerians
whose drawings and descriptions depict figures that also look remarkably like “astronauts” or other world vistors, certainly their “gods and goddesses” came from the sky
http://www.crystalinks.com/sumergods.html
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