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244 cluding those by the late Maria Reiche, who made it her lifelong project, failed whenever an explanation was sought in terms of “it was done by native Peruvians”—people of a “Nazca culture” or a “Paracas civilization” or the likes. Stud- ies (including some by the National Geographic Society) aimed at uncovering astronomical orientations for the lines— alignments with solstices, equinoxes, this or that star—led nowhere. For those who rule out an “Ancient Astronauts” solution, the enigma remains unresolved. Though the wider lines look like airport runways, on which wheeled aircraft roll to take off (or to land), this is not the case here, if only because the “lines” are not horizontally level—they run straight over uneven terrain, ignoring hills, ravines, and gullies. Indeed, rather than being there to enable takeoff, they appear to be the result of takeoffs by craft taking off and leaving on the ground below “lines” created by their engine’s exhaust. That the “celestial chambers” of the Anun- naki did emit such exhausts is indicated by the Sumerian pictograph (read DIN.GIR) for the space gods (Fig. 112). This, I suggest, is the solution of the puzzle of the “Nazca Lines”: Nazca was the last spaceport of the Anun- naki. It served them after the one in the Sinai was detroyed, and then it served them for the final Departure. DIN GIR DIN-GIR GIR DIN THE END OF DAYS FIGURE I12