Nazca Lines

David Stockhoff · 24 Jul 2010, 12:02 · from 2010-July.txt.gz

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From: dstockhoff at verizon.net (David Stockhoff)
Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2010 08:02:30 -0400
Subject: (urth) Nazca Lines
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Of course, head chopping is just about everywhere---Celtic Europe, for 
example. But yes, it fits neatly.

One minor problem with a South American location is that those signs are 
almost eternal, and they would always be famous around the region. But 
if they lie under water (or ice), or if 20,000 years pass, that might 
solve the problem.


Lee Berman wrote:
> I was just watching a National Geographic special on the mystery
> of the gigantic, many kilometers-long Nazca desert drawings in 
> southern Peru. I thought about the Sun series, mostly because they did a 
> lot of re-enactment with local, native actors and it made me think of 
> Apu-Punchau, as this is pretty much his territory.
>  
> The general anthropological conclusion is that these people resorted 
> to massive head-chopping sacrifices and probably ever increased-sized line
> drawings to influence the weather. The area spent several hundred
> years as a rather verdant, well-watered place allowing a thriving 
> culture to establish itself.  Then the desert started relentlessly asserting
> itself. They tried in vain to placate the gods with more intense religious 
> expressions each year as they realized the previous year's head chop 
> sacrifices and line drawing were not sufficient to please the deities.
>  
> The research conclusions are too recent to have influenced Wolfe to create
> Urth with its dying sun or The Whorl and its progressive drought. But
> perhaps the South American native propensity for head chopping had an impact
> on him. 		 	   		  
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