[The Wizard]

I’m afraid these geoglyphs are not like the Nazca lines.....and I think we are straining a bit to see these patterns, we could do the same with clouds if we could hold them still......The geoglyphs in Nazca were for people in flying aircraft......and that is still a mystery

[Nepeta]

I’m afraid these geoglyphs are not like the Nazca lines.....and I think we are straining a bit to see these patterns, we could do the same with clouds if we could hold them still......The geoglyphs in Nazca were for people in flying aircraft......and that is still a mystery

Only to professional hucksters like Von Daniken, stirring a little truth with a desire for a fast buck. The Nazca lines have been studied for a long time.

[wbarmy]

The Nazca geoglyphs were not for “airplanes”. They were for the “Gods” to see and know the depth of belief of the people making them. The actual ability to make them wasn't too difficult; just time, manpower and a plan.

[ApplegateRanch]

we could do the same with clouds if we could hold them still

You seem to have nailed it.

Figure 6: This artificial landform could represent a hedgehog.
Coordinates of hedgehog are -15.65154,-70.1334 (upside-down).

HEDGEHOG!?! How old are these geoglyphs geophantasamicons* supposed to be?

There are 17 species of hedgehog in five genera, found through parts of Europe, Asia, Africa, and New Zealand. There are no hedgehogs native to Australia, and no living species native to North America; those in New Zealand are introduced.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedgehog

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In total, there are currently 14 known species of hedgehog found throughout large areas of Europe, (including the British Isles) Africa and Asia, and they have been introduced to some of the islands off the African coast, and New Zealand. There are no native species of hedgehog in Southeast Asia, Australia or North and South America.

http://hedgehogcentral.com/world.shtml

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The other link (.pdf) with the "animal attacking a snake" really shows a lot of imagination, but not much else, IM(not so)HO.

I have wasted hours of my life looking at 'pictures' and 'figures' in clouds, linoleum, plywood paneling, "picture" sandstone, toast, burnt bottoms of frying pans, and abstract "art"...but all that was really there were natural, random, abstract patterns that the brain could arrange into familiar seeming figures.

*geophantasamicons: imagined pictures seen in land forms. (Akin to linoleophantasmaicons, the imagined figures seen in abstract linoleum patterns) i,e. SEEING 'CLOUD PICTURES' IN LAND FORMS!