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October 18, 2009 05:53 PM
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I think that it is more likely (much much more likely) that the drawings were for the gods to enjoy; so that it is not coincidental that they are better seen from above. As for unwirkluch's thought that they were incapable of making such designs without looking at them.... I think they would be quite able. The pitures are simple line drawings, stylized but simple. Also, as a kid did you ever draw a huge picture with chalk? You could kind of see what you were doing, it was not like drawing without looking at the paper. Besides there are other large scale drawings in England (look up English hill figures) that were made long ago.
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October 18, 2009 04:26 AM
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I don't think it would be possible to even draw such designs without being capable of seeing them from the sky. Ever tried to draw a picture without looking at the paper? So no I don't think it's coincidence. I follow the whole, map for alien ships line of thought on that one.
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October 19, 2009 03:10 AM
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Q: Have you heard of the Nazca lines in Peru, and do you believe they are just coincidence
A: Well, they're obviously not coincidence, because patterns like that won't form from random weather erosion (they were made by peeling off the top layer of reddish-brown stones from a chalky subsurface), so... No to the question of if they are coincidence...
Q: that they are best seen from the air?
A: They're obviously better seen from the air, which was probably the whole point, given the the people etching them on the earth tended to have strong beliefs is sky-deities, so... Yes to the question of if they were meant to be seen from the air.
Some people think that humans from that time would not have been able to sketch something like that so large, but actually, people from that time and in that part of the world were building lots of large structures like temples and roads and aqueducts... especially aqueducts... the Nazca people who made the images were *famous* for their underground aqueducts - unlike Roman aqueducts that flowed over the surface - so they know all about how to survey long strait-and-curvy lines that couldn't be seen.
All you have to do is make a sketch on paper or parchment or hide, then select a center point, and then use a cord to count out how many units from the center the lines of the image are, and use a ratio, like, one pace out for every millimeter of cord from the center of the image, and pace it out.
Another method would be to use surveyor's pegs, where you lay down a grid, or you pace it out and put down pegs at the end points. It is believed by many that the latter technique was used, because the kind of peg a surveyor would use was found at one of the end points of one of the images... that peg was also used to radio carbon date the images, and it came to between 200 BC to 700 AD,.
So... were the images a coincidence of nature? No, they were man made. Were they meant to be seen from the air? Almost certainly. Nazca believed in sky-gods.
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A: Well, they're obviously not coincidence, because patterns like that won't form from random weather erosion (they were made by peeling off the top layer of reddish-brown stones from a chalky subsurface), so... No to the question of if they are coincidence...
Q: that they are best seen from the air?
A: They're obviously better seen from the air, which was probably the whole point, given the the people etching them on the earth tended to have strong beliefs is sky-deities, so... Yes to the question of if they were meant to be seen from the air.
Some people think that humans from that time would not have been able to sketch something like that so large, but actually, people from that time and in that part of the world were building lots of large structures like temples and roads and aqueducts... especially aqueducts... the Nazca people who made the images were *famous* for their underground aqueducts - unlike Roman aqueducts that flowed over the surface - so they know all about how to survey long strait-and-curvy lines that couldn't be seen.
All you have to do is make a sketch on paper or parchment or hide, then select a center point, and then use a cord to count out how many units from the center the lines of the image are, and use a ratio, like, one pace out for every millimeter of cord from the center of the image, and pace it out.
Another method would be to use surveyor's pegs, where you lay down a grid, or you pace it out and put down pegs at the end points. It is believed by many that the latter technique was used, because the kind of peg a surveyor would use was found at one of the end points of one of the images... that peg was also used to radio carbon date the images, and it came to between 200 BC to 700 AD,.
So... were the images a coincidence of nature? No, they were man made. Were they meant to be seen from the air? Almost certainly. Nazca believed in sky-gods.
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