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What constellations do the Nazca Lines project from?
Were the Nazca lines projections of constellation movements?
What books explain the Nazca lines?
What books explain the Nazca lines?
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The evidence that the Nazca Lines projects into certain constellations is in some way small.
Maria Reiche, the German mathematician and archaeologist who researched the Nazca Lines during 50 years believed these were part of an Astronomical Calendar which indicated the direction of the rising of important stars and the Sun solstices.
Famous Nazca drawings like the Spider and the Monkey could show star constellations like Orion and Ursa Mayor. But all these astronomical theories faced a problem, the unknown age of the lines could not be measured by radiocarbon traces, and the direction of the stars also changes within the centuries thru the precession of the equinoxes.
In 1968, the National Geographic Society did a study and found that in fact some of the Nazca Lines pointed to the positions of the Sun, the Moon and certain stars two thousand years ago, but this was a mere chance, because again in 1973, Dr. Gerald Hawkins studied 186 Nazca Lines and with a computer program found that only 20% had any astronomical orientation.
Here are some of the books that talks about the relation between the Nazca Lines and the costellations, among other subjects:
* Chariots of the Gods by Erich von Däniken (1968)
* The Nasca, by Helaine Silverman and Donald A. Proulx (2002)
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"Chariots of the Gods" is a Classic, my father has a copy. Erich von Däniken became somewhat of a promoter of the Nazca Lines to the rest of the world with this book, at the end of the 60's and beginning of the 70's. He focuses on the extraterrestrial connection and several cultures throughout the world, not only with Nazca but also with the Maya, Egyptian an Inca cultures. It was a hype era with such interest as the UFO phenomena during the 1970´s along with bestseller publications like the "Bermuda Triangle" by Charles Berlitz.