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Every time I dig into the Nazca mystery I am reminded of crop circles. Certainly in the UK they are not alien landing sites (!) but made by a couple of farm hands with rope and some planks.

I can never prove it, but I hope in some Peruvian heaven there are a couple of generations of jokers looking down and absolutely pissing themselves over this, how their priests were fooled and now us.

Pour a Pisco Sour guys and enjoy :-)




It's not really a mystery. The geoglyphs are visible from surrounding hills and other vantage points on the ground. They're essentially just giant works of art.


The mystery is not "did aliens do it", the mystery is who and why.

I love the idea that it was not the High Priest who used their extensive elite status, wealth and power to create signs to the gods to bolster their own elite status, but that instead it was a bottom up rebellious act of "real" art




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