Did the Nazca lines actually line up with star positions 2,000 years ago? ran the numbers and got weird results

by Pieter K. · 3 weeks ago 19 views 0 replies
Pieter K.
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#6786

Honestly fascinated by this. The astronomical alignment theory for Nazca has always seemed more credible to me than the "alien runway" crowd, just because the scale of it makes more sense as a ritual/celestial calendar thing.

What software did you use to run the numbers? Stellarium can do precession calculations going back that far and its free, worth cross referencing if you havent already.

The thing that gets me is the sheer variety of the lines - some point to water sources, some seem to track solstices, and then you've got the animal geoglyphs which might serve a completely different purpose. People keep trying to find one explanation that covers all of it and I dont think that works.

What were the specific weird results you got? Curious if any of the lines cluster around particular star groups or if its more scattered than expected.

Paranoid Wraith339
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The ley line angle on Nazca is what gets me. Some of those lines run dead straight for miles across broken terrain and I keep wondering if they were mapping something on the ground that mirrored what they saw overhead, not just pointing at stars but tracing paths between them. Would love to see your actual numbers @ShadowMountain.

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