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Origins of the Nazca Lines Linked to Tiwanaku
Origins of the Nazca Lines Linked to Tiwanaku
Archaeological investigations expose thematic connections between the Nazca and Tiwanaku civilizations.
Fort Lauderdale,
FL,
United States
(pr4links.com)
30/06/2011
FORT LAUDERDALE, USA - It is a well-known fact that ancient geoglyphs found on the desert floor near Nazca in Peru have survived into modern times due to the unique climatic conditions of that region. It almost never rains there. Curiously, although dozens of theories have been proposed on why they made the Nazca Lines, few have entertained the idea that perhaps similar lines once existed elsewhere in the region, i.e. in places where it occasionally rains, and we just do not about it.
Amateur archaeologist Morten St. George has probed into the regional idea, and his investigations turn up a strong link between the Nazca Lines and the civilization of Tiwanaku in the Bolivian highlands. It all centers around the Tiwanaku sky god. On the Gateway of the Sun, the sky god is depicted surrounded with bird heads (symbolic of the power of flight) and elsewhere surrounded with fish heads (symbolizing the sky god as an aquatic). St. George notes that a mirror image of one of those fish-head depictions has been found on Nazca pottery.
According to St. George, spiral drawings are found in Tiwanaku and all over the desert floor in Nazca. The sky god is always depicted with only four fingers and there are geoglyphs contrasting four and five fingers. Tiwanaku drawings often attach human heads (symbolic of intelligence) to the aquatic sky god and there is a geoglyph that attaches a human head to the head of a fish. The Tiwanaku artists made drawings of their sky god's tri-pod tail and a mirror image of that tail can be found a cliff in Paracas, Peru, to the north of Nazca. To prove his case, St. George displays photographs and drawings from both Tiwanaku and Nazca on his Andean Sky God website.
The civilization of Nazca is older than the Nazca Lines and the civilization of Tiwanaku is a lot older than their expansionist sky-god epoch. St. George states that on the basis of the best available evidence, including radiocarbon dating, both the Nazca geoglyphs and the Tiwanaku expansion arose during the time-frame ranging from the late sixth century to the early eighth century. Historical maps of the Tiwanaku empire show it occupying a chunk of southern Peru but falling short of Nazca. St. George feels these maps need to be revised: “There is now overwhelming evidence that the armies of Tiwanaku pushed northward along the Peruvian coast and reached Nazca.”
St. George thinks the sky god of Tiwanaku may have been an ancient astronaut but he feels this should not detract from his Nazca - Tiwanaku theory. “The mystery of why the people of Nazca made the geoglyphs has been solved: they made the Nazca Lines to attract the sky god and guide it back to Tiwanaku. This applies regardless of whether or not that sky god was an alien.”
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