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Geoglyph of a Standing Monkey

Posted by c tito young on 2 February 2021 in English. Last updated on 11 March 2021.

This 20m x 50m geoglyph depiction of a standing monkey has his head turn to the west. He is oriented in the north to south and admist groups of Nazca lines on this flat topography. It is completely unclear what he is doing or what the artist intended monkey to be representing.
In the westerly direction of which the monkey was viewing, 3000m away is where Rio Nazca intersects a stream. (Suggesting a village location)

Location: Cahuachi, Nazca, Province of Nasca, Ica, Peru

Geoglyph of an Alligator attacking a Swimming Man.

Posted by c tito young on 2 February 2021 in English. Last updated on 11 March 2021.

The geoglyph of the alligator attacking a swimming man 100m wide x 40m long is oriented east (head) to west (tail) on moderately sloped land. It appears to be chasing a person trying to swim away approximately 15m from its mouth also oriented east to west.

The artwork indicates the alligator with a slightly open mouth targeting the swimmer that is directly in front of him.

Location: Acarí, Province of Caravelí, Arequipa, Peru

Geoglyph Meeting Circle with a Circle Design

Posted by c tito young on 29 January 2021 in English. Last updated on 11 March 2021.

The Geoglyph Meeting Circle 18m in diameter within a series of complex geometry of lines, connecting points, and unexpected alignments. The meeting circle shape also becomes repeated in a location 900m to the northeast. Located in an area of relatively low amounts of slope, the vast distances are difficult to fathom when you think of the primitive tools used to make them. The use of meeting circle is unclear as an overview with these maps. It is also difficult to say if the geoglyphs relate to each other or for that matter the layers of geoglyphs covered by time.

Location: Chiquerillo, San Juan, Changuillo, Province of Nasca, Ica, Peru

Geoglyph of a Shrimp

Posted by c tito young on 29 January 2021 in English. Last updated on 15 April 2021.

This geoglyph appears to be a 50m wide x 75m long shrimp with a rounded tail. with a stinger. It is sideview orientation has its head northerly and its tail southerly with its feet’s orientation facing east. It has a set of dark round eyes on its head.. The object is etched on a moderately sloped terrain and nearby, to its south is a geoglyph of a puffer fish.

The look of this object is difficult to decipher and still in progress.

Location: La Tiza, Nazca, Province of Nasca, Ica, 11401, Peru

Geoglyph of a Shark

Posted by c tito young on 27 January 2021 in English. Last updated on 15 April 2021.

The geoglyph of a shark is a 75m long x 35m wide and is an oriented to head southwest (head) and northeast (tail) on relatively flat grade. It seems to be pointed towards a series of multiple geoglyphs just 200m to the southwest. To the northeast, a very interesting Mandela Square (also, not a perfect square) is located just around 700m away.
it is a side view of the shark and there is no other indications of other nearby geoglyphs immediately associated to this graphic.

Location: La Legua, Llipata, Province of Palpa, Ica, Peru

Geoglyph of a Coiled Snake

Posted by c tito young on 27 January 2021 in English. Last updated on 11 March 2021.

The geoglyph of a coiled snake 100m wide x 125m long (including the coil) and oriented in a northeast (head) to southwest (coil including tail) direction is adjacent (approx. 5m) to some Nazca lines and similar geometrical shapes. The coil followed by a straight body, eye, wide open mouth and forked tongue makes the snake look like its hissing as a warning. The snake appears to sit on a trapezoid shaped feature. It is possible that the snake is inside a box or container. It is difficult to tell more about what this snake is doing.

Location: La Victoria, San Antonio, Llipata, Province of Palpa, Ica, Peru

Geoglyph of Feathered Crane

Posted by c tito young on 27 January 2021 in English. Last updated on 11 March 2021.

The 30m wide x 50m long geoglyph of a flying feather crane drawn on a relatively flat surface appears to be oriented northeast (head) and southwest (tail) Its smallish head with eye, Long beak, long neck, body and two wings seems to be carrying some kind of food or nesting material. There also. seems to be a long geoglyph line behind it, possibly showing the birds curving flight path?

Location: San Miguel de la Pascana, El Ingenio, Province of Nasca, Ica, Peru

Geoglyph of Running Woman

Posted by c tito young on 24 January 2021 in English. Last updated on 11 March 2021.

A geoglyph 50m wide x 100m long, oriented northwest (head) and southeast (feet) on flat land shows a woman sauntering quickly in a long robe, and head scarf in a westerly direction while carrying some kind of moderately sized object at waist side. The image is created as a side view thus allows the viewer to see her face in profile, one hand, two feet, and her body in motion. She is drawn on some relatively flat land, and there are other geoglyphs nearby.

Location: Chiquerillo, San Juan, Changuillo, Province of Nasca, Ica, Peru

Placeholder

Posted by c tito young on 24 January 2021 in English. Last updated on 11 March 2021.

Geoglyph of a campfire (25m x 20m). At first it looks like a bunch of random lines going nowhere and coming from nowhere, but they were connected and only after establishing the location of the Man with the decapitated head, are you able to conjecture its meaning. This geoglyph seems to represent a hot flame campfire from a side view. This seems to be more than a zig zag trail we see typified everywhere making it appear as if its a side view of a campfire.

Location: La Vinita, Changuillo, Province of Nasca, Ica, Peru

Geoglyph of the Landing Strip

Posted by c tito young on 24 January 2021 in English. Last updated on 11 March 2021.

This geoglyph appearing like a massive landing strip and bisected by a channel scar 225m long x 75m wide on moderately sloped land had to be built as two massive parts to appear connected like one. There are five major lines with a center line appearing like a landing strip oriented north to south. There are many other lines in this immediate area and there is little evidence what this is for. The channel scar that cuts this particular geoglyph in half appears to have been there before the geoglyph was created. This assertion seeming older than the geoglyph is because the lines from one side of the channel scar are not razor sharp and have some “off alignment” associated to it..

Location: La Banda, El Ingenio, Province of Nasca, Ica, Peru

Geoglyph of the Giant Salmon

Posted by c tito young on 24 January 2021 in English. Last updated on 11 March 2021.

A geoglyph of a salmon 50m wide x 110m long oriented northwest (head) and southeast (tail) has its belly to the north. This single fish appears as a side view on moderately sloped terrain, with one eye, one gill, fins, and tail all splayed out on a hill. The nose of the fish in terms of the terrain is pointing downward and flipped in a action being upside-down, suggesting it is in the spawning process to lay eggs upstream. The fish is relatively well made and the artist had some knowledge of anatomy or at very least, a good eye with technical skills. .

Location: La Vinita, Changuillo, Province of Nasca, Ica, Peru

Supplement to the Valley of the Elongated Heads.

Posted by c tito young on 23 January 2021 in English. Last updated on 11 March 2021.

I may have proved a point. Elaborate geoglyphs equal elaborate ground etching and the two go side by side. To the southwest of the valley of the elongated heads is an array of geometry of accuracy that cannot be of chance. Lines tangent and alignments set up a series of geometry. More and more these geometries were created so that a culture can do anything and everything it can to appease gods for crop growing or better weather. Not always are these glyphs of recent times but rather it seems to be built upon each other through generations. Could it be a marking of success, or failure like the stock market? Could these represent navigation points? Could these lines be part of a machine? Could these lines point to shapes that tell a story? In some areas, shapes are surrounded by lines, some finished while others unfinished. There is some of the lines that obviously connect, and others that are close, near misses or that the terrain fails to give much clues as to what used to be there, and ALL seem intentional. .

2nd Entry:
How exciting to find additional geoglyphs to the east of the valley of the elongated heads. Finding it substantiates the overall importance that these glyph geometries are part of symbols that start to unlock the Nazca geometric efforts. I am taken by yet the fresh and very different types of lines and how the geometric shapes interlock. Surprisingly, I didn’t see them before, but as I am identifying each one by one, some of the line escape the other lines and shapes giving way to a brand new area. Are they doing this as a desperate way to save their crops or are they after something else. Why is the secret so difficult to understand? The more dive into these weird and obscure lines, knowing they have been created over a period of around 2000 years at least, the more questions they have. What is their secret? Why are they really doing this? Why is the geometry so precise?

Location: Santa Elena, Changuillo, Province of Nasca, Ica, Peru

Adding Nazca Lines new and old.

Posted by c tito young on 22 January 2021 in English. Last updated on 23 January 2021.

I have been noticing the Nazca Lines and triangle shapes are generally “large, clear and easily” visible. I have been raising the questions on the lines that are small, old looking and barely visible. I think its for more important to record these before they get grown over or washed away, so I have been making a conscience effort in recoding them. One of the lines I placed down crossed the entire valley, but it wasn’t as clean looking as earlier lines. I think if its clear to you that these lines are visible, but old, worn or even tiny, record them.

I am still looking for patterns on these shapes. Its important to recognize the ends of the line point, aim or circle around.

The most important thing one can do on these Nazca lines is get them recorded.

Valley of the Elongated Heads.

Posted by c tito young on 17 January 2021 in English.

So this one I think is very odd.. coincidental? But here it is, on a hillside. at least 10 figures, side by side, in plain view.. All ten have elongated heads which includes a mother with child. I tried to be as faithful as I could be simply tracing but when I got the the mother, I saw an etching, positively a bearing hand and a lower hand. There are at least two Sharman and an Alien. I am reviewing the site again, as I think there are at least three more hidden elongated heads tucked along side.

There are a few trails leading up to the side from the south. Ill be indicating those as well. .

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Location: Santa Elena, Changuillo, Province of Nasca, Ica, Peru

Two Geoglyphs; Bird Pointing North and Thrown Rider

Posted by c tito young on 17 January 2021 in English. Last updated on 11 March 2021.

So what do you do when you are carefully floating around the Nazca valleys, and you see a horse head, then the horse, and with much surprise an upside down rider is seemingly being thrown from it. After then drawing it, as remarkable as it might be, you then see a beak.. pointing north, connected to birds head and then a bird, with a claw.

Deep down you think its a coincidence, but then, is it? The shapes reflect that discovery you’ve been kind of watching for the last few months following these.

Geometric trapezoids near any area, some conspicuous others not so much. Not all have to be razor sharp, and even that might unlock yet another glyph.

osm.org/edit#map=17/-14.80695/-75.07324

Location: El Milagro, Nazca, Province of Nasca, Ica, Peru

Geoglyph of the Lounging Cat

Posted by c tito young on 16 January 2021 in English. Last updated on 1 March 2021.

The location of the Lounging Cat is on a hill, graphically pinpointed by Nazca lines. On the eastern side of the hill lays a figure of a cat, semi incomplete and approximately 75M long by 30M high. The cat is positioned in a north / south orientation.

Due to much of this geoglyph being washed away, the shape of the lounging cat object was drawn in using framed in landmarks and then through interpolation worked in.

UNESCO has recently built a viewing platform which includes foot paths to parking areas.

Location: El Ingenio, Province of Nasca, Ica, Peru

Inca Tracings

Posted by c tito young on 11 January 2021 in English. Last updated on 1 March 2021.

I had stumbled into the area of the Nazca lines. With so little of the geoglyphs indicated I decided to trace the artwork with the hope better ground images might be made focusing on specific places. There is also plans to have field visits during a four year span between 2021- 2025. The key objective in tracing this lines is defining the line groups in the valleys and their geoglyph and associated petroglyphs.

Geoglyphs included: Figures Lines Multi-lines Irregular shapes Incomplete and completed artworks

Enhance A Village

Posted by c tito young on 15 July 2017 in English.

We are a 501-3c Non-profit on a mission to end poverty. We started with a small village in the Philippines, and then I had learned that while this village is literally on the cusp of extinction it wasn’t even listed on a map. So I’ve made the consorted effort in trying to lay out its existence using digital maps. I’ve never been there. Anyways.. anyone not having problems hanging out with mosquitos the size of tennis balls, crocodiles and spitting cobras, please check it out. Extra kudos for anyone near enough to explore it.

more info.. http://www.enhanceavillage.org

Location: Lungib, Calauag, Quezon, Calabarzon, 4318, Philippines