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2 weeks ago

Robert Devereux, in his book "Shamanism and the Mystery Lines" Quantum, 1992, makes a very strong case hat Peruvian straight line geoglyph, including those at and not at Nazca, represent the direct flight paths made by shamanic priests as they flew in trances from their ritual sites to the points where they entered their '"heavens" or "afterlife" or "heavens'. Devereux strongly argued that the straight lines crossing the landscape without deviation indicates astral flight through the air, without regard to topography These shamanic flight made, with or without the use of drugs, to contact the gods to ask them to increase rainfall. The deliberate destruction of the Casma Valley concentric Chanquillo Forest Sanctuary temple could represent the annihilation of the old gods when they failed to stop the increasing numbers and duration of droughts. The gods were found to be wanting and the locals probably broke with the false old gods for new gods elsewhere. The multitudinous straight lines in Peru, according to Devereux, reptesent a flurry of religious fervour as the shamans expanded their personal trance flights to include ritualised public ceremonies still seen of whole villages walking the shaman flights to beg the gods for water orr tather , rainfall. The fortress- like structures at Chanquillo and the straight lines and animal figured could easily be done using basic poles and ropes.

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