The Mysterious Nazca Astronaut

The Mysterious Nazca Astronaut or the Nazca Owl man

The Nazca Lines are a series of large ancient geoglyphs in the Nazca Desert, in southern Peru. The largest figures are up to 370 m (1,200 ft) long. They were designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1994. The high, arid plateau stretches more than 80 km (50 mi) between the towns of Nazca and Palpa on the Pampas de Jumana, about 400 km (250 mi) south of Lima. Although some local geoglyphs resemble Paracas motifs, scholars believe the Nazca Lines were created by the Nazca culture between 500 BC and 500 AD The figures vary in complexity. Hundreds are simple lines and geometric shapes; more than 70 are zoomorphic designs of animals, such as birds, fish, llamas, jaguars, and monkeys, or human figures. Other designs include phytomorphic shapes, such as trees and flowers.

Stretching across the Nazca plains like a giant map or blueprint left by ancient astronauts, lie the famous Nazca Lines of Peru. Peru is associated with the Incan Civilization who many link with alien visitors who still interact with local people to this day.

No one has proof who built them or why. Since their discovery, the Nor rituals probably related to astronomy, to confirm the ayllus or clans who made up the population and to determine through ritual their economic functions held up by reciprocity and redistribution, or a map of underground water supplies. Nazca Lines have inspired fantastic explanations from ancient gods, a landing strip for returning aliens, a celestial calendar created by the ancient Nazca civilization -- putting the creation of the lines between 200 BC and 600 AD, used for rituals probably related to astronomy, to confirm the ayllus or clans who made up the population and to determine through ritual their economic functions held up by reciprocity and redistribution, or a map of underground water supplies.

There are also huge geoglyphs in Egypt, Malta, United States (Mississippi and California), Chile, Bolivia and in other countries. But the Nazca geoglyphs, because of their numbers, characteristics, dimensions and cultural continuity, as they were made and remade through out the whole prehispanic period, form the most impressive, as well as enigmatic, archeological group.

1. Nazca Killer Whale
2. Nazca Wing
3. Nazca Baby Condor
4. Nazca Bird
5. Nazca Animal
6. Nazca Spiral
7. Nazca Lizard
8. Nazca Tree
9. Nazca Hands
10. Nazca Spiral
11. Nazca Spider
12. Nazca Flower
13. Nazca Dog
14. Nazca Astronaut
15. Nazca Triangle
16. Nazca Whale
17. Nazca Trapazoids
18. Nazca Star
19. Nazca Pelican
20. Nazca Bird
21. Nazca Trapazoid
22. Nazca Hummingbird
23. Nazca Trapezoid
24. Nazca Monkey
25. Nazca Llama
26. Nazca Trapezoids