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Published: March 12th 2005
Shaman
from the lines at nasca have you ever spoken to a sheep and heard a response back? if you have not spoken to an animal, perhaps try it, first when no one is around, and then as you become comfortable with your sanity, try it around others -
after spending the day walking in 100 degree weather in the hot desert of nazca, looking for Petrogliphs which created before the nasca civilizatition ' i came upon a herd of sheep ' which when promted as to which way i should go to get out, they responded .... vaaaaaa yyyya aaaayy yaaa, translated into human - español - go that way, i did and found the way out of the canyon
nasca are precursors to the inca empire - having occupied this valley between 100BC and 700AD, (inca from 700AD to 1500AD - spanish conquista 1500´s - modern day) which provides and interesting background to the information provided previously. consider a precolumbian people capable of engineering and constructing -
· one of the most sophisticated and earliest irrigation and aqueduct system (aqueducto de CANTALLOC), which continues to operate providing clean water (yes i drank it)
· the largest city-structres of adobe in the
sons of the incas
on the pyramid at sundown - jesus world at the pyramids of CAHUACHI
- ceremonial in nature
- speculated to become the greatest find in latin american archeology once completed
· the lines of nasca
- contained in an area of over 520 square KM
- discovered in 1926 by a peruvian archeologist torbio mejia gespe
- panamerican highway constructed over the lines in 1935
- studied, documented and protected by the efforts of german imigrant maria reiche
- built on ontop of other lines by successive generations
- created by either stacking igneous rocks, or clearing rocks from the floor
- maintained visible and clean due to thermal heat currents which sweep the floor of the valley
- mathematically and astoloically sophisticated beyond modern comprehension
· solstice and equinox calenders
The PETROGLIPHS at PALPA located at S14 27.947 W75 08.106 190g ft above sea level, oficially named CHICHICTARA date from before the nasca people and are beleived to be the original valley from which the nasca people developed.
· there are some 200 carvings in rock which were done before the iron age
· man, horses, snakes, condors, shrimp, shelter sun, moon and a variety of other representations are found
cerro blanco
from the hacienda that once was ·documenting some fifty of the PETROGLIPS (not to be confused with pictographs which are drawings on rocks)
climbing up steep igneous and metamorphic structures with ocassional sedimentary deposits for six hours in the burning sun of palpa helped me remember how much fun it is being a kid...
you get to listen to old people of 55 (jesus) tell Antonio (6) and his cousin alavaro (5) to slow down, dont fall, get back, watch out... while they climbed through their ancestral peoples carvings serving as our guides.
i also found a peice of my childhood which i had long forgotten - climbing up and down rocky mountains is fun play... not sport, not work...
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a couple of clarifications or corrections
- i am typing sitting on a old fruit box, using a spanish keyboard with english letters, reading spanish menus, typing in english, thinking in uhm, enlish ¿español? ... makes for some typos
- nasca is located at S14 49.908 W 74 54.481 not s78
- the blog serves as a basis for developing notes for future use - if it entertains you, great - if you do not want to get
looking down acueducto
nasca engineering 2000 years ahead of their time it, let me know and i will be happy to remove your name - thanks
- the temperature in nasca is 100 plus, not 80
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for now, peace and love from nasca - peru
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