The mystery of the Nazca lines

Peru stands on many occasions as one of the countries with the greatest treasures and natural legacies. Machu Picchu, Chan Chan and without a doubt, the mysterious Nazca lines .A territory of more than 500 square km that extends over the ancient Nazca River Valley, where the arid soil shows a challenge for scientists, curious, historians and fans of the eternal enigmas.Geometric designs whose origin is unknown, drawings that can only be seen from the sky …

The Nazca lines, World Heritage Site

It is possible that people already knew from ancient times the disturbing presence of these lines embedded in the undulating ground, silent in the dry valley of Nazca.Although history tells us that they were not officially discovered until 1927, when Mejia Xespe , a famous archaeologist, showed up in awe-inspiring tattooed drawings in that area while flying the valley by plane.The truth is that his discovery did not have an excessive impact, it only raised the curiosity of the occasional researcher, as was the case of Paul Kosok .

This man stood at the top of the plateau, admiring impressed all those forms, all those lines that, little by little, delimited nothing more and nothing less, than clear pre-Columbian expressions.The one that most impressed him was undoubtedly that immense bird with open wings, as if he were point of flying, but who had taxed that on the ground? Who had created those figures that were only visible from the altitude and never from the ground? Professor Paul Kosok made it clear.The Nazca Valley was a book.A wonderful and fascinating book of Astronomy , the largest in the world in fact….

The four pampas of the Nazca Valley

The territory that hosts all these figures is not negligible: With a perimeter of 50km in length and 15km in width, it extends what they call the four pampas: Palpa, Ingeni, Nazca and Socos .Incredibly arid and dry areas of brown hue, but yes, in the lines where these drawings extend a second layer of yellow hue opens.

The mystery of the Nazca lines

In 1946, Kosok returns to his country leaving Maria Reiche , the testimony of his investigations.A woman who dedicated her life to the Nazca lines, a tireless passionate about the mystery of these drawings drawn with exac Mathematical attitude, as if those who had made them, had sophisticated techniques not seen so far.

According to M.Reiche there are more than thirty geoglyphs: marine and terrestrial animals, geometric and human figures, among which always attracts the attention of that bird of almost 300 m , as well as a condor of 135 meters, a pelican of the same size, or a spider of 42 meters.Incredible.

The mystery of the Nazca lines

But who made the drawings of the Nazca Valley?

The theory that the Nazca lines were made by alien entities comes from a book by Von Daniken , entitled "The response of the gods", arguing that they would actually be runways for extraterrestrial ships.And many of the drawings seem to be associated with old pre-Columbian legends ace of the place, to mysterious gods, to beings from other worlds and diabolic owl men.All of them associated in turn with many of the Nazca ceramics of the country.

For M.Reiche, however, no they are more than the testimony of Peruvian culture.The Pampas de Nazca would actually be according to this historian, the pages of a book written with a strange graphic alphabet , through animals, geometric and human figures of unique appearance that seems to connect with the celestial world, that, which seemed to have great knowledge...

Anyway, doubts about the origin of the Nazca figures does not leave indifferent to No one.Human, alien, perhaps? Who knows.

Image: Paul Williams

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