The Nazca lines of Peru

THE NAZCA LIN

ES OF

PERU

What do you already know about NazcaLines?

THE NAZCA LINES• The colossal drawings made in Peruvian desert. • The lines are roughly 1500 years old, created by a culture — the Nazca —

which lived in the area between the years 400 and 650. • The lines are actually four to six inch deep trenches over which the pebbles

have been removed exposing the white sublayer.

These are newly revealed figures discovered by de la Torre are of a snake (approximately 196 feet in length), a bird, a camelid (perhaps a llama) and some zig-zag lines.

The lines are many kilometers long and crisscross sectors of the pampas in all directions. Many of the lines form geometric figures: angles, triangles, bunches, spirals, rectangles, wavy lines, concentric circles.

On the Following sides, can you names the shapes or objects on the drawings?

Spiral

Trapezoid

The Monkey

http://natgeotv.com/za/nasca-lines-decoded/videos/mysterious-lines

KEYWORDSShamans These are gifted individuals claiming to be able to live their physical

bodies at will and commune with this spiritual dimension in a non-physical or astral body.

Geoglyph A large design produced on the ground that is quickly formed by rocks

and stones.Astral Body This is a subtle body that is between the intelligent soul and the

mental body.

QUIZ1) How old are the Nazca Lines? 2) Where are they located. 3) Give two examples of them.4) Who is believed to have made them? 5) How are they linked to life after death?