Posted on 10/14/2010 1:40:57 AM PDT by Palter
According to an Italian scientist, a huge network of earthworks, or geoglyphs, is visible in satellite imagery of a large area, over 463 square miles, in the surroundings of the Titicaca Lake, Peru.
Amelia Carolina Sparavigna, professor at Italys Politecnico di Torino, claims the patterns she discovered while studying satellite pictures near the Titicaca Lake. She says the shapes are the result of an almost unimaginable agricultural effort of Andean communities centuries ago.
People created a system of terraced hills and raised fields, which were large elevated planting platforms, with the corresponding drainage canals, to improve soil, temperature and moisture conditions for crops. These remains of the prehistoric agricultural system are providing evidence of the impressive engineering abilities of the peoples who lived there in pre-Columbian times, she says in her Politecnico di Torino webpage. Among the geoglyphs there are structures which represent animals, where ponds are their eyes. Other geoglyphs are geometric drawings, she adds.
in general religious structures are both for the living and the gods, e.g. temples, churches, altars, pyramids (tombs, but the people they were for were considered gods...),
The Nazca lines are the only example I know of where considerable effort was put into something which, in the case of MANY of the figures, could not be seen or appreciated by those who built it. This doesn’t even drag into the topic oddities like the figure with a globe around his head.
Human behavior being a constant, I feel it is likely the indians who made them had a fairly specific reason for believing their designs would be seen beyond the general abstract ‘god(s) is(are) in the sky.’
Nice catch.
The hedgehog I once met was a prick.
[do I really deserve a /rimshot after that?]
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