Evidence of the Gods (14 page)

Still farther northward, not far from the little town of Blythe directly on the Colorado River, there are figures of people and animals that are up to 100 meters in size and which can only be seen from the air. (
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There can be no dispute: be it in South, Central, or North America, the native populations clearly operated a cult of mighty geoglyphs. Equally beyond dispute is the fact that the large majority of these geoglyphs are only recognizable from the air. Scientific work should look beyond its narrow local confines. Science normally looks for a common factor if there are several problems of the same kind. What is the common factor in all these geoglyphs? They are only recognizable to flying beings and have been created in areas in which they cannot be destroyed by flooding.

Thus we are entitled to assume that our artistic ancestors around the world at least believed that someone “up there” would see their pictures. Smart alecks often accuse me of categorizing the people who lived thousands of years ago as not particularly intelligent. On the contrary, I consider them to be very clever. They were not so stupid as to lay down huge markings on the ground over generations without knowing that they would also actually be registered by some god or other. Which gods? All the gods that emerge from the psychological fog are of no use, because they would at best be relevant over only a narrowly restricted area. People for whom that is sufficient are welcome to look for the Nazca gods in Nazca—not in the Sonora desert! Let anyone who sees the indigenous Nazca people as being so restricted that they created their gigantic lines and markings for water gods be satisfied with that, but we can say with “divine certainty” that the water gods had nothing to do with the Atacama Giant in Chile. The rectangles scraped into the ground of the Nazca desert are “ceremonial sites,” I read.
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And what about the ones on the mountain slopes of San Pedro de Atacama? Scraped-out areas exist there too, only there is no opportunity for pious pilgrims to gather, because the slope is too steep, in addition to the horrific heat and the absence of any trails. Professor William Isbell argues in the journal
Spektrum der Wissenschaft
that the native Nazca people had scraped their symbols into the ground and on to the mountain slopes as “occupational therapy.”
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It strains credulity! Does “occupational therapy” not apply in other deserts, then? Or take Professor Helmut Tributsch, who saw a “Fata Morgana” behind the symbols.
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That does not even apply to Nazca, let alone the Atacama desert.

And there is lots more in the same vein. A flood of academic nonsense, and each one of them is convinced of the correctness of his or her theory—indeed, considers it to be proven. Yet none of them can think outside the box. Rock drawings and large geoglyphs are a worldwide phenomenon which cannot be looked at in isolation. Even England boasts large figures on hillsides, such as the Cerne Abbas Giant or the 110-meter-long Uffington White Horse in Berkshire. (
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) Although the depictions in England look “modern” because the colors have been restored, they were nevertheless created in ancient times.