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mounds for them. Some flying saucer writers have borrowed a page from Professor Agrest's Baalbek theory and suggested that the flat-topped mounds were intended as UFO. airports. If the great mounds were merely monuments to the dead, they were costly ones. Even with modern bulldozers and steamshovels, it would take much time and money to construct, a mound 130 feet - high and five acres square, like the Silbury mound. It is difficult to visualize tribes of prehistoric people engaging in this activity for months or years. It is even more difficult to think of them planning 1967. Now. it has been established that while the early Britons were simultaneously erecting Stonehenge and piling dirt for the Silbury mound, they were also carving giant figures in nearby hillsides. The figure of a great white horse is cut into the summit of a hill in the Berkshire Downs. At Ceine Abbas a giant caveman is traced upon a hillside. He carries a club, and his male genitalia are prominently displayed. A similar figure, the Long man at Wilmington, was emasculated by early Christians. There are many others spotted from Australia to Africa to the United States, all obviously meant to serve as landmarks for unknown pilots cruising the virgin skies. The tradition for making these landmarks survived until at least fifteen hundred years ago, for that is the apparent age of the famous Naze a lines found in the Peruvian desert. Nobody paid much attention to these lines until the early 1940s. Since then they have become an important Cook kt, tea From ground level the Nazca Lines are merely a jumble of paths made by brushing aside the stones and pebbles of the desert. There is little rain or natural erosion in the area, so the lines have remained intact for at least seven hundred years and possibly even for fifteen hundred (estimates vary}. Seen from the air, the clearances form the outlines of spiders, birds, fish, assorted monsters or unknown animals, and numerous squares and rectangles... some longer than two football fields. Dr. Maria Reiche, a German astronomer, has lived at Nazca for twenty years, carefully charting all the lines by viewing them atop a high ladder. Daniel Cohen remarked in Science Digest, May 1970: In spite of such devotion to her work, she is regarded by some scientists as a woman obsessed with a theory, rather than a careful scientist. Dr Reiche had produced all sorts of correlations be- tween the lines and the positions of the sun, moon, and stars. She postulates a gigantic "desert calendar’ with which the ancient Peruvians could mark the passing of the years. Her opponents argue that with so many lines and so many astronomical bodies with which to make alignments, it,is possible to work up many correlations, but that they are~meaningless. * The Inca-Nazca people who created these lines were massacred in the wars which followed Francisco Pizarro's invasion of Peru in the 1500s. The Inca civilization destroyed by Fizarro eo apparently came " See "Pre-Columbian Ridged Fields'’, J. J. Parson and W. M. Denevao, Scientific American, July the mounds so they would present specific symbols when seen from the air. facet of Atlantean and,flying saucer lore. ,