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Peru's Scratchpad The Nazca Plain
sundayobserver ^ | Sunday, 15 February 2009

Posted on 02/15/2009 3:59:53 PM PST by JoeProBono

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To: JoeProBono
Why does the author think the Nazca lines are associated with Incan civilization?

The Incas lived in the mountains (Andes) to the north around AD 1400, and are thought to be culturally descended from nearby cultures/civilizations.

41 posted on 02/15/2009 8:07:49 PM PST by Jedi Master Pikachu ( I've started to use 'I' again.)
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To: WoofDog123

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.


42 posted on 02/15/2009 8:10:10 PM PST by Jedi Master Pikachu ( I've started to use 'I' again.)
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Dunno.

"which are associated with the Incan civilization by some scientists

43 posted on 02/15/2009 8:15:51 PM PST by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: Jedi Master Pikachu

“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!


44 posted on 02/15/2009 8:40:34 PM PST by WoofDog123
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To: Oatka

“Of all the interpretations of Zeke’s experience, that one seemed the most logical.”

I had never read about this, thanks.


45 posted on 02/15/2009 8:45:36 PM PST by WoofDog123
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I've tried to find a Wikipedia link (and photo) to offer a not quite as impressive alternative as the ancient astronauts/aliens.

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:


46 posted on 02/15/2009 9:05:03 PM PST by Jedi Master Pikachu ( I've started to use 'I' again.)
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To: JoeProBono
"which are associated with the Incan civilization by some scientists"

Yeah, I caught that later. Mea culpa. I should have writtern "Why do some scientists..." rather than "Why does the author..."

47 posted on 02/15/2009 9:11:05 PM PST by Jedi Master Pikachu ( I've started to use 'I' again.)
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To: Jedi Master Pikachu

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.


48 posted on 02/15/2009 9:23:20 PM PST by WoofDog123
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That was my take on it, too.


49 posted on 02/15/2009 10:04:07 PM PST by Jedi Master Pikachu ( I've started to use 'I' again.)
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To: Jedi Master Pikachu

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


50 posted on 02/16/2009 6:18:07 AM PST by silverleaf ("Men are not angered by mere misfortune but by misfortune conceived as injury" - Screwtape)
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