He hypothesized that the North Pole was near Hudson Bay during the last ice age. Figure 4 summarizes a series of inter-related alignments. Google EarthĬharles Hapgood proposed that the ice ages were caused by shifts in the geographic location of Earth’s poles. Figure 4 Overview of Blythe Intaglios showing the alignments of the three humanoid figures to the north (white), the Hudson Bay pole (magenta), and one to another (orange). The inescapable conclusion is that they were built for someone who could view them from the air. There are no hills high enough or close enough to be able to see these features from above.
None of these figures can be fully visualized at ground level. The animal figure to the southeast is aligned approximately in the direction of the winter solstice sunrise/summer solstice sunset. One of the humanoid figures faces due north. There is also a fourth humanoid figure forty kilometers due east in Bouse AZ that faces south. A second figure is aligned with a third that, in turn, points north, northeast. Three are humanoid forms with outstretched arms. The Blythe Intaglios are a number of large biomorphic glyphs etched into the ground in California along the Colorado River. Unlike these features rendered on hillsides that can be seen at ground level, the following geoglyphs can only be seen from above. Figure 2 Arrow on Cerro Pintados is aligned exactly north-south. One is an arrow that points due south (Figure 2). These figures are smaller, on the order of tens of meters in size. More than a thousand kilometers southeast of Paracas in the northern Atacama Desert near the town of Pintados Chile lie an assortment of geometric, anthropometric, and animal forms on the side of a hill. It is even more closely aligned to the Hudson Bay pole (magenta line). Figure 1 The Paracas Candelabra is oriented to within a couple of degrees of due south. Almost two hundred meters tall, the geoglyph would have provided ancient mariners with a directional reference that can be seen twenty kilometers out at sea. Lacking a celestial reference to north, the Candelabra faces within a couple of degrees of due south (Figure 1). The Paracas Candelabra is on the north side of a hill on Peru’s Paracas Peninsula. Those of us who live in the northern hemisphere forget that the southern hemisphere currently has no pole star. Directional Markers in the Southern Hemisphere In this article, we discuss the alignment of other geoglyphs aligned to the poles (i.e., north-south) and to other geographic locations. We showed that this feature is oriented to the cardinal directions and by virtue of its orientation with respect to the path of the sun will tend to maintain its facial appearance over the course of the year. The Badlands Guardian is thought by many to be simply an example of a hollow-face illusion resulting from natural erosional processes. Most defy explanation either in terms of what they represent or attempt to communicate, how they were constructed, or for whom were they intended.Ī previous post examined a geoglyph known as the Badlands Guardian east of Medicine Hat, in Alberta, Canada. Some are the remains of ancient structures long since abandoned, others were created to express an idea, perhaps even to communicate some kind of message. The term geoglyph has become synonymous with almost any kind of large organized pattern on the ground.
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