The Nazca Lines

Dear Friends,

Among the great mysteries of the world, few appear as fascinating to the observer as the one posed by the Nazca Lines in Peru, my country. An enigma that seems to be connected to the millions of titillating stars that fill the sky over it in the nights, it has frequently aroused hot debate between all kinds of people, from the layman to the scientist, and from the archaeologist to the occultist.

In this regard, a few paragraphs about the lines may help to further stress the importance of astronomy for all ancient civilizations. And not only for the auroral ones, created in the image of the primordial civilization, but also for those that appeared later on as an image of them and both in the Old and the New World - but mainly in the New. Also, to understand the fact that everything in the universe was sacred for them - and "both in heaven and earth", as in the Lord's prayer.

Here is a superb video showing the Nazca Lines in Peru. The music is also most impressive in its solemnity and beauty.

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Here, a few remarks may help realize what the lines were and what they were used for. Also, whether there is any similarity with the recently discovered geoglyphs in the Brazil's Amazon forest - in fact, not far from Peru, and you may remember that it is in Peru that the Amazon river has its source - and with the so-called crop circles that regularly appear in Britain and other countries of Europe.

Aerial photograph and plan of the Fazenda Colorada site, which is made up
of clear geometric shapes. Excavations suggest inhabitants lived in the
three-sided square. (Photo: Science & Tech at
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1240821/Lost-Amazon-civilisation-revealed-forests-cleared-cattle-grazing.html)

One of the things Mejia Xespe, the real discoverer of the Nazca lines in around 1929, observed from the start was that the most recurrent straight lines converged on the setting sun at the horizon. This clearly indicated that their main purpose was astronomical and specifically intended to determine the equinoctial and solstitial points in the year, thus enabling the Nazca priesthood to create an elaborate agricultural calendar to ensure the people's survival.

Of course, this main purpose was not exclusive of the Nazca culture; it was the case with absolutely all ancient high cultures. All other purposes, including the ceremonial and ritualistic ones, were subordinated to the main purpose. In the case of the solstices, processions and ritualistic dances were conducted not so much to propitiate the higher powers into favoring good, successful crops - in other words, to get the stars and everything in the universe to keep working like a perfect mechanism - as to make the image of order and harmony of the celestial movements sink into the faithful's minds by imitating them. Here the other figures also played a crucial role, since they reproduced the main constellations and by following them (in a way, by re-creating them) a successful outcome would be ensured.

The creation of one of the most important auroral civilizations, Stonehenge,
like all other ancient monuments in the world, was mainly intended as an
observatory and an instrument for determining the equinoxes and
solstices and many other celestial movements.
(Photo: Taringa! at
http://www.taringa.net/posts/info/1818903/Stonehenge,-un-poco-de-historia.html)

Yet another purpose was to teach the novices the astronomical science. In this way, the lines and all other buildings and paraphernalia served all three major purposes. It is absurd to say, as archaeologists do, that the monuments in the Brazilian forest "may also have had a ceremonial function", since all ancient cultures would always resort to ceremonies in order to propitiate, or rather imitate, their "gods" - that is, the entire universe.

Of course there were other, more esoteric ceremonies reserved to the priesthood where they adored the Supreme Spirit, the AUM, the owner of everything, that lives everywhere and in every being as well.

Remember, for ancient cultures, everything was sacred, all beings, all activities, all endeavors, everything.

As I always say, we have a lot to learn from them. It was in times of decadence that they performed sacrifices and the like.

Hugs and Blessings,

Luis Miguel Goitizolo

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Nazca Lines - El colibrí ('The Humming Bird')

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Hello Rajaram,

Sorry for my delay in replying. I wanted to thank you for your post but somehow I lost the trail and later on I forgot about your question.

The imposing background in the first and second photos is of course Machu Picchu, the famous sacred city and astronomical observatory, and the place of residence of the last Inca, which after being lost to the world for nearly a half millennium in the midst of the jungle in the Southeast of Peru, my country, was re-discovered by USA scientific explorer Hiram Bingham in the early twentieth century.

I believe the third photo was taken in Ica, a Peruvian 'department' or grouping of provinces which lies about three hundred kilometers south from Lima (the capital of Peru, where I live) in the middle of a huge desert where the Nazca lines are also located - hence the sand dunes in the photo.

My guess is the Indian actors wanted to be photographed near two of the most characteristic tourists' attractions in Peru.

Thanks again,

Luis Miguel Goitizolo