Nazca Lines

brunians at brunians.org · 24 Jul 2010, 12:10 · from 2010-July.txt.gz

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From: brunians at brunians.org (brunians at brunians.org)
Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2010 08:10:28 -0400
Subject: (urth) Nazca Lines
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> Of course, head chopping is just about everywhere---Celtic Europe,

And if the story were set in Europe, that would be something to say.

>                                                                    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.

As all here should be aware, there is a longstanding controversy over the
dates of Tiahuanaco or whatever they are calling it these days.

The construction of this city is remarkably advanced.

It is modular: like modern concrete block construction, although of course
the units used are different.

The city is a port.

The last time the lake was anywhere near it - as in, within a hundred
miles - was twelve thousand years ago or so.

.

>
>
> 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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