The Nazca Lines: It wasn't me! I swear!

Just the other day I was sitting down, drinking soda water thinking “Hmmm, I haven’t had a rant about the Nazca lines in a while…I wonder if I could do that sometime soon…”

So when I read this:

Heavy rains damage Peru's Nazca lines




Oops.
I didn’t mean it! I swear I didn’t! I would never hurt an international archaeological icon, even if I was Indiana Jones or Lara Croft!

So after my initial freak out at the thought that I’d somehow used ‘the force’ or some form of equivalent mitochlorian based powers to damage a UNESCO World Heritage Site (listed in 1994), I decided to write a blog about it.

The Nazca Lines
In a nutshell, the Peruvian Nazca lines are enormous geoglyphs carefully and precisely engraved into the earth, preserved by the dry and windless climate. There are many theories behind the lines. Of course you have the main stream archaeological view that a pre-Incan population etched the lines by removing small rocks to form the great patterns that possibly depict religious icons.

On the other hand you have the E.T. viewpoint. That small men with oval-ish craniums and a epidermis of a green persuasion used their little silver saucer with and giant laser ray to carve funny markings in the earth to confuse the hell out of us humans (some people I know would love that cluster f—k).

And then we have the view that the lines are associated with magnetic fields, horoscopes and other “…mass cultural delusion[s] that the sun’s apparent position relative to arbitrarily defined constellations at the time of your birth somehow affects your personality.”*
But each to their own I say.

Anyway, so after I talked myself out of the idea that I was in anyway connected to the recent damage done to the international icon I read that the damage was mostly minor and efforts are underway to restore the lines. It has also sparked fears that more damage may be on its way.
So buckle down chaps, we’re in for a bumpy ride!

*anyone who knows where I stole this quote, I present you with the highest form of kudos and friendship!