The Paracas ‘Trident’ or ‘Candelabra’ is a huge cactus-shaped figure carved into a hillside at Pisco Bay on the Peruvian coast. It measures about 240 m long by 120 m wide, with trenches a metre deep, and can be seen from as far as 24 km out to sea. It is aligned almost exactly north-south. It is variously regarded as a navigational aid or as a ritual object, representing a cactus or tree of life, where high priests worshipped the setting sun. Paracas-culture pottery dated to about 200 BC has been found there. Graham Hancock notes that 2000 years ago, viewed from a kilometre out to sea, the constellation known as the Crux (Southern Cross) would have been suspended in the sky directly above the cliff diagram at the March equinox. This quote taken from
this informative web site
This is the only figure I got a good shot of on our flight over the Nazca Lines. I have seen it called Wing or Hands.
More information on this site.
This was a very busy and active trip.
I have set up a
'desert' community on Megashot.net and so got searching my old photos for some sand, desert, canyons and badlands photos. I was up way late last nite working on this, so need my beauty sleep. This is a surprisingly short post for me. All the interesting stuff is in the hot links.
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