Have been to nazca, and find these lines very intriguing.
Religious constructions are virtually always made so that people on the ground can appreciate them.
To motivate a society to draw lines they will *never* even be able to see tells me they were have been damn well sure someone WAS going to see them, e.g. they had seen something in the air enough times to make a profound impression on their society, such that they were willing to dedicate however many years to the nazca lines.
Others dispute this, and some ridicule ideas like mine, but I look at it from a point of view of ‘what motivates people to do something like this?,’
Exactly. The key is the point of view. I have not been to Nazca, but from what I have heard and read, the lines are not that noticeable when you are on the ground. You are correct when you way that there had to be something definite motivating these people to create something that could only be appreciated, or even really detected from a point of view that we don’t know how they could possibly have gotten to.
Or they could have believed a god would see them from above. We often make the mistake of thinking primitave people were incapable of the visualizing and calculating required to do such things.
EXCEEDINGLY PLAUSIBLE, TO ME.
THX.
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.