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Nazca Geoglyphs

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Nazca Geoglyphs
World Heritage
Nazcz,Peru

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The Nazca Lines are located in the arid Peruvian coastal plain, some 400 km south of Lima, the geoglyphs of Nazca and the pampas of Jumana cover about 450 sq. km. The Lines, which were scratched on the surface of the ground between 500 B.C. and A.D. 500, are among archaeology's greatest enigmas because of their quantity, nature, size and continuity. The geoglyphs depict living creatures, stylized plants and imaginary beings, as well as geometric figures several kilometers long. Unique place in the world, full with mystery and mysticism, wonderful traces of immense figures and lines of spectacular perfection. Diverse scientific theories have been placed on these lines. Some theories only explain its possible construction associated to extraterrestrial beings. The great constructions of observatories of astronomical cycles, well-known as the Nazca Lines, were used by the farmers to know and control the meteorological agrarian cycles, aside from their possible religious significance (Maria Reiche's theory).
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The Nazca Lines are traced on San José and Socos desert plains, between the 419 and 465 km. of the South Pan-American Highway, with an extension of 450 square km., near the Nazca city. These lines form drawings of several kilometers in length and approximately 0.4 and 1.1 km in width, with animal, geometric and trapezoidal forms; some of which can only be seen in all their magnitude from an airplane. The figures of the spider, the monkey, the dog, the small lizard, the hummingbird, the condor, and the astronaut, among others, stand out.

Nazca Geoglyphs_d0079151_2147218.jpgThe Nazca Lines were investigated scientifically for the first time by the Prof. German Paul Kosok, along with the Peruvian archeologists Julio C. Tello and T. Mejía Xesspe, denominated these lines as 'the biggest astronomy book of the world '. María Scholten carried out investigations to determine the mathematical unit of measure that was used in the construction. Their main investigator was Dr. Maria Reiche.The Nazca Lines were discovered accidentally from an airplane in flight in 1927. By the end of the 1980's new lines were discovered.

On the Pan-American Highway some observation towers can be found, which allow a limited vision of the lines. The only possible way to appreciate them in all their magnitude, given their gigantic size, is flying over the area on a light plane.


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古代ナスカ人がナスカ平原に描いた無数の地上絵。考古学上、その経緯はいまだ謎とされている。地上絵のスケールはかなり大きい。1辺の距離が50㎞にもなる絵もあるほど。それらは上空300m以上に達しないと認識することができない。世界遺産にも指定されている地上絵だが、大胆にもその一部の上をハイウェイが横切っている。これはハイウェイ建設当時、地上絵が発見されていなかったから。グランドラインで人間が目にする地上絵はただのラインにしか見えないので誰も気づかなかったのだ。人間には認識しづらいスケールで描かれている、つまり人類にアピールするために描いたものではないということが言える。
では何の為に…?宇宙からの目線を意識して、と考えるのが自然ではないだろうか。

by another29 | 2006-09-20 04:02 | □Grafic

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