Many theories, none of them very good, have sought an
explanation for the mystery posed by the Nazca Lines of Peru.
My approach, though simplistic, seems to have yielded some
fruit. I merely looked carefully at the
map of the figures and noticed what I believe to be a clearly discernible
pattern. If I’m right, the spider lies
at the center of two crossed ecliptic paths.
One path represents the Summer Solstice sunrise ecliptic as seen from
this location, a sort of mirror image of the sky constructed onto the surface
of the earth. The sky image (taken here
from my CyberSky program for Lima, Peru in 100 A.D.) looks like this:
Notice how the ecliptic slopes decidedly from the NE to the
SW.
The Winter Solstice ecliptic path is the opposite of this
image. Again, here it is as it would
look in the sky, stretching from the SE to the NW:
We need now only reverse these two sky images for the Summer
and Winter Solstices and place them both on the ground, with their respective
constellations revealing the courses/directions of the ecliptics for these two
times of the year. Not coincidentally,
the spider, a creature which always sits at rest in the center of her web
awaiting her prey, here stands at the intersection of the two different
ecliptic paths, directly where we find the point of the Spring and Fall
Equinoxes.
So that we might see this better, I have altered the
following aerial map of the Nazca Lines accordingly:
It is, of course, impossible to determine exactly what stars
in the Nazca system go to build their various constellations on the two
seasonal ecliptics. In the case of our
own constellations, we have the sun rising in Gemini on the Summer Solstice,
with Taurus through Capricornus being on this particular portion of the ecliptic,
while on the Winter Solstice the sun rises in Sagittarius on a part of the
ecliptic that includes the Zodiac signs from Scorpio through Cancer.
This is a beautiful and straight-forward cosmogram built by
human beings who had a profound interest in and knowledge of the heavens. It is not the work of ancient astronauts!
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