QUEST
FOR THE UNKNOWN-NAZCA LINES OF PERU
Human knowledge is
always finite. There is a definite boundary to our thought, our perception, our
psychology, our view. But there are many things which lie out of the boundary
of our reasoning capacity. We can push the inquisitiveness inside us towards
those unexplainable questions, but still no value, no solution. Sometimes it
feels as if we are playing in an arena with invisible spectators. Our field of
vision is so limited and confined that we can appreciate neither the micro nor
macro earthly things properly. Human psyche matures progressively; still we are
neonate to the nature. Still the thought plagues the mind that can we decipher
the codes of the nature, our great ancestors, the infinite universe? Ever will we
understand our past, the so called history of mankind?.......Whatever we think
still we are inside the boundary willing to leap across the fence. But till now
the mystery is a mystery and unsolved.....
astronaut figure |
lines of nazca |
In the western part of beautiful
and naturally illustrious continent of South America lies ancient Peru. Rich in
culture heritage and tradition it is one of the most coveted destination for travelers as well as scholars. In the southern part of elevated planes of Peru
small dark red surface stones are abundantly seen covering the crust and are
made lustrous by the desert winds. The climate of these ‘pampas’ is now
extremely dry with occasional rains. In these red, polished lonely deserts lies
beautiful immortal signature of ancient history, still mocking the conscience
of modern man. Even today, in the twenty first century the great Nazca lines pose
as an architectural marvel of the ancient people spreading across miles between the Ingenio and Nazca river valley.
This place was inhabited by Nazca People thousands of years back. The desert formed an enormous drawing board for the Nazca
upon which they etched huge lines, trapazoids, human and animal figures by
removing the dark coloured surface stones and top soil to expose the lighter coloured
sand underneath. Even some drawings are of unknown animals, birds, unknown signs.
A figure resembles to a standing astronaut. The drawings stretch kilometers and can be
seen from high hills and planes. Luckily the drawings are still preserved by the
arid Peruvian desert.
Why would these ancient people make
drawings so huge that they could not be appreciated from the ground, but only
fully from above? Perhaps they were intended for the eyes of the gods, as a
sort of offering to them. Some think it to be astronomical alignments of constellations;
some think they were made for alien contacts, even some think they were made by
extraterrestrials. Few people think the lines to be depiction of underground water
bodies. Whatever the depiction is, they are mere hypothesizes. Truth is yet
unknown and undiscovered. Still today in this scientific era the great NAZCA
LINES of Peru remains a big challenge to our scientific superiority and architectural luster. Were the ancients better than us? Are we evolving positively in the
fields of science? Were there any extraterrestrial contact in past? Too much
questions and too little answers…..But still the mysterious nature of the
mystery prevails…..