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This is the sequel to “Chariots of the Gods.” This one was better because it had color pictures, and the author wrote more objectively.
The name Nazca comes from the Kechua word “nana” which means “pain and woe,” what the people cried out when they were starving due to the dried out land. The god Viracocha came down in fire and smoke, and cried a lake and created the puquios, underground aqueducts (78).
The Nazca lines are up to 30 cm deep and come in a variety (28):
- There are some which depict animals: one monkey, spider, whale, dog, iguana, whale, flower, and 20 birds (9, 15). So far 32 scrape drawings have been found (15).
- Some are spirals or “paperclips” (15).
- The ones he calls runways are very large and long (14).
- More than 2000 narrow lines connecting to the runways (14).
“The creators of these lines chose this region in the knowledge that their works would be obliterated neither by wind nor rain: the wind just blows away any dust and sand that might cover up the trails; and before air pollution arrived, there was hardly any rain to speak of” (28, Maria Reiche).
“No blade of grass, tree or bush grew there, there was nothing to harvest and therefore nothing to eat. OK, I know there are clever Dicks who will say it was different 2,000 years ago. Really? But IF the pampa had enjoyed a different climate in those days, IF it had been covered in a lush green, it would have been impossible to scrape away stones from the dry (!) surface to reveal the lighter layer beneath. You can’t have it both ways” (36).
For the most part there are no foot/shoe prints or walking trails near the lines (30). “The argument that such footprints have been blown away by the wind over centuries (or millennia) is just so much hot air. If footprints had been blown away why are the narrow lines next to the runway still visible? They are, after all, no wider than footpaths” (45).
“In the region around Nazca there are mountains which are level as tables—as though they had been planed by a giant. Yet the ‘normal’ mountains of the region by no means share this appearance” (43).
“In the Gold Museum of the Colombian capital Bogota, aeroplane-like models that were found in royal graves have been on display for several decades” (144). The models have been airworthy (150).
“Why should a contingent of extraterrestrials land in the arid and inhospitable region of Nazca? Because the area is chock-full of minerals: iron, gold and silver” (138). The author speculates that the aliens “placed huge geometric patterns on the mountain summits, which served as landing orientation, like the VASIS or PAPI sites of today” (140).
The book shows photos of scrape drawings of human-like figures with antennae and tongs for hands (111, 113, 119). Later, the author mentioned North American Indian sand paintings (128), but didn’t provide pictures, so I looked them up. It just so happens that these Native American artworks look very similar to the Nazca and Chile figures. But the Native American artworks are clearer in what they are depicting: feathers on the head, and holding a dead animal. https://www.kellyscollectiblesmt.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/E32EAE4F-474F-4B7B-BEEF-59C5AE98965F-scaled.jpeg I’m surprised that the author didn’t mention the similarity. Maybe he didn’t because the feathered figures don’t suggest they are aliens.
In addition to the Nazca lines, this book talks about mysterious carvings and pottery found around the same area. Some have dinosaurs and humans on them in the same picture (58, 60, 76). Others display men looking through telescopes and people doing a heart transpant (61). Dinosaur and human footprints were found in the same layer of stone in the Paluxy River near Glen Rose in TX (72).
“At the beginning of the seventies, Cabrera possessed some larger pieces of rock—by larger I mean about 1.5 meters high—on which flying machines were clearly depicted. Not aeroplanes of the kind we are familiar with, but strange flying contraptions in the sky, similar to those found in ancient Indian texts and described by the Indologist Lutz Gentes in his factual yet exciting book. (The same thing is described from the point of view of Vedic religion by the author Armin Risi.)” (64). This is interesting, but the book doesn’t provide any pictures of this. The cited books are in German: Die Wirklichkeit der Gotter by Lutz Gentes and Gott und die Gotter by Armin Risi (87). The author also said that the ancient Indian holy books described aircraft (called vimana) in detail (97). “No single one of these flying contraptions covered interstellar distances with the aid of wings. For their earth exploration sorties, they all exited without exception from the hangar of a mother ship” (97).
The author also didn’t provide any pictures of the deformed skulls he talked about, which have been found in Nazca, Mexico, Ecuador, Bolivia, Chile, Patagonia, Oceania, Brittany, Egypt, North America, the European steppes, central and western Africa (91-92). I was able to find photos online. They look like cone heads. The author suggests that the skulls might be aliens or that they were humans who purposely deformed the skulls in order to imitate the aliens. I would guess that this longer skull would have a bigger brain and thus have higher capacity for intelligence, maybe the psychic powers Cayce said we had in the past too. But the author says that the longer heads didn’t alter brain capacity (92). And a child whose head is lengthened “will either not live long or suffer from hydrocephalus (92). Another interesting thing is that none of the ancient drawings of humans done in the Nazca area have cone heads.
In Mormonism’s Book of Esther, “the Jaredites are supposed to have left Mesopotamia at the time the tower of Babel was built—whenever that was. In two strange ships, illuminated day and night by 16 ‘shining stones’, they reached South America. they achieved this by following the directions of the ‘highest Lord, who came from the clouds’, and who not only taught them the art of shipbuilding, but also gave them the compass. The Jaredites were the ancestors of the Mormons. Their trek from the coast of present-day Chile to Central and finally North America, took many thousands of years” (70). This fits in with Edgar Cayce saying that Israelites came to Lemuria/South America. But it definitely doesn’t make sense that the modern Mormons descended from those Israelites, because the modern ones came from Europe to the eastern US, and then kept going west until they reached and settled in Utah.
What also fits in with Cayce are the human-animal creatures depicted in South/Central American sculptures and in Japanese ones too (72, 75). Cayce would say this is evidence of the monstrosities/daughters of men, although it could just be people’s imagination.
From Indian literature: “The heavenly chariot flew round the globe, over the oceans and was then steered int he direction of the town of Avantis, where a festival was taking place” (125). That town name is very similar to Atlantis. My Indian friend said that there’s a city in central India called Ujjain which used to be called Avantika.
Nazca isn’t the only place with earth drawings. There are others around the world, and they aren’t only in deserts. What most of them have in common is that they can only been seen properly from the air (122).
My theory is that the Nazca lines were made by lasers from above. (The author says on p. 103 that he doesn’t believe this.) I don’t think humans did it, unless they had access to aircraft back then. The drawings of animals are too large to be able to do them on the ground alone, and it’s also nearly impossible to see a difference in the dirt color at ground level (26, 36). There also aren’t large piles of discarded rocks/dirt, which suggests that people didn’t remove rocks/dirt to make the lines.
Some might have been made by a child because some of the drawings are crudely drawn (for example, the human figure on p. 108 looks similar to how children draw people [no torso]), while others (spider, birds) have very precise lines as if created by a stamp or computer. The monkey and another figure have one hand/foot with five fingers and one with four (17).
Some rock formations in Arches National Park also look like they were placed there by some giant. But the creature left no footprints as far as we know, so maybe it too was done from an aircraft, or telekinesis.
The author thinks that humans can colonize other planets simply by flinging human DNA throughout the universe (158-159). I don’t think leaving a human hair on another planet is going to make a human grow; we aren’t plants. Even a human baby would need someone there taking care of it.
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