The Naozca Lines Over The Nazca Desert

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The nazca lines are all over the nazca desert. The nazca lines are giant geoglyphs, geoglyphs are large designs that can tell a story most are longer than 4 meters across. That are ancient, ancient means old I mean really old thousand, millions, billions of year old. The nazca lines have had several meanings of existants. They have had many theories of why there are giant lines in the nazca lines. One theory caught my eye, that theory was the theory by: Robin Edgar
His theory states that the nazca lines were a way for the early nazcan people to communicate with god they used animals and people to ask for food and rain for their people to be able to survive they would perform rituals in which they would walk in lines, on the lines

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