Page 51 - Fingerprints of the Gods by Graham Hancock

Graham Hancock – FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS

Rodolfo is steering the Cessna in a gentle circle over the figure of the
monkey—a big monkey tied in a riddle of geometric forms. It’s not easy
to describe the eerie, hypnotic feeling this design gives me: it’s very
complicated and absorbing to look at, and slightly sinister in an abstract,
indefinable way. The monkey’s body is defined by a continuous unbroken
line. And, without ever being interrupted, this same line winds up stairs,
over pyramids, into a series of zig-zags, through a spiral labyrinth (the
tail), and then back around a number of star-like hairpin bends. It would
be a real tour de force of draughtsmanship and artistic skill on a sheet of
notepaper, but this is the Nazca desert (where they do things on a grand
scale) and the monkey is at least 400 feet long and 300 feet wide ...
Were the linemakers map-makers too?
And why were they called the Viracochas?

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