The Nazca Lines | The Coolest Stuff on the Planet

Built around 2,000 years ago in the Nazca desert of Peru, the mysterious Nazca lines form thousands of drawings across the desert floor. Learn more about the Nazca lines -- and what makes them so cool -- in this episode.

[@captainsensiblejr.]

In Paul Devereux's book "Shamanism and the Mystery LInes", Quantam, 1992, he argues, persuasively, that the Nazca lines, and the so-called ley lines were established by shamans whose trance flights to their version of heaven were marked on earth by these straight lines. The tribes in the Nazca area still use these straight lines as "Death roads|" which are noted for being straight to the point of ignoring easier topography nearby, in favour of the most direct route regardless of the terrain. Remnants of similar beliefs survive in Germany, the Netherlands and England, where there isolated instances of special tracks used to carry caskets from the church to graveyards.
Since the Shamans were flying in straight lines in their trances to make their way to the realms of the dead it made sense that they marked the shamans' trance flights to the same places.
According to Devereux, the giant animal geoglyphs at Nazca (and the chalk hill figures in t he UK) were deliberately designed to be seen from the air to guide the shamans spirits back to their tribal village or locality. I think it is a very elegant solution
to the Nazca Lines

[@beckyg5929]

Parents & teachers - please don't show this to your children all the way to the end. The narrator asks, "Why aren't there more dirty pictures?" to which the other narrator replied, "Good question!" SO, of course, my elementary-aged kids (6 years old) wanted to know what "dirty pictures" were... and I had to tell them poop emojis... Hoping the creators will see this comment and delete that bit. I won't be showing any more of the "How Stuff Works" videos that is for sure...

[@soniamcdonnell306]

Thank you for your post. This is ridiculous. The time it takes us to search through videos. I so appreciate your comment.

[@TheFlopperFn]

I watched this in class and I was wondering why my teacher didn’t play the rest wk I just got home and watched it and it’s wierd

[@AliHSyed]

Cool video guys, I like the video/podcast format

[@arcsta_rr]

I think they saw something on the sky (if we don't even know how these things move how could we know how old they are)

[@jakebeard1787]

Nazca lines may be made by sand crabs

[@nugget0428]

@radtwelve whales washed up on the beach, also when they breach... etc

[@teaninja12]

anyone seen the ancient aliens series
and how these carvings arent just pictures but like
an air strip for alien ufos to land
check it out

[@lingcodlarry7006]

geeks

[@MM-yl9gn]

Blah blah blah

[@Bullet7130]

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