Nazca
About Nazca
Nazca is a city and system of valleys on the southern coast of Peru. The city of Nazca is the largest in the Nazca Province. The name is derived from the Nazca culture, which flourished in the area between 100 BC and AD 800. This culture was responsible for the Nazca Lines and the ceremonial city of Cahuachi. They also constructed additional underground aqueducts, named puquios, in a regional system that still functions today. The first puquios are believed to have been built by the preceding Paracas culture.
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The Nazca are famous pre-Colombians who lived in the desert and made these massive lines in the middle of the desert, which you can go and visit — you fly over them and you can see all these different shapes.
from 183: No Such Thing As A Bouncy Theatre, 2017-09-22 at 00:10:46 · read transcript
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If you next time you're at my house, I've got about six books I can lend you, which very much put forward that idea. Thank you. No, it's who knows. They just thought it looked manmade is rather what it is, is the main thing. Nazca lines are shapes when viewed from above. The Cernapis giant, he's a big face on the ground and a whole lot else besides. Good point so people with faces also make faces. Yeah.
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They were professional ballooners who built this trial balloon in 1975. Admittedly, they were doing it to a design from the 18th century still. They used only things that the Nazca people would have had available to them. Only local cloths using the same sort of materials and crops. Even the fires that they got the hot air from were made using wood that was available locally.
183: No Such Thing As A Bouncy Theatre, 2017-09-22 · listen
It floated away to the 19th century. What he says is that they used it for burial rituals. What they were doing was they were putting the dead Nazca people inside the hot air balloons and they would fly off into the Pacific Ocean. But if you happen to accidentally be in one of the funeral baskets of a hot air balloon, then you could see from above.
183: No Such Thing As A Bouncy Theatre, 2017-09-22 · listen
Actually, while we were in Peru, we went to a place called the Sistine Chapel of America, San Pedro de Andahualeas, or something like that. It's very nice church, but the tour guide was a bit boring. We kind of just ducked out. Next to it, there was a little museum of, like, Nazca people. They had a whole load of stuff about aliens. It was a proper museum and they had these, you know, these elongated skulls that they find sometimes and stuff like that.
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