I dont recall where i read it but i found it interesting.<p>Using walkable paths and chanting while walking to memorize facts/stories. Great for groups of people to share the knowledge of one person with the rest of the group. One chants, the others repeat.<p>I also personally used this method to learn botanical names of plants. Walking rhythmically through a botanical garden and chanting the names rhythmically as a group was a great way to memorize them.<p>So each Figure could be a walkable memorizing pathway for future generations?
I'd you're wondering what a hermit bird looks like:<p><a href="http://www.peruaves.org/trochilidae/black-throated-hermit-phaethornis-atrimentalis/" rel="nofollow">http://www.peruaves.org/trochilidae/black-throated-hermit-ph...</a><p>So that does make sense.<p>I'm wondering if the drawings on the desert plains could have been some kind of manifestation ritual, i.e. "let's get some beautiful jungle up in here, everybody get drawing." When there aren't any super grounded or practical ideas as to how to do a thing, it seems like this is one of those ideas to which human psychology likes to attach.
People from Nasca also built a wind-powered aqueduct system.<p><a href="https://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/climate-weather/blogs/mystery-ancient-nazca-spiral-wells-solved" rel="nofollow">https://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/climate-weather/blogs/myst...</a>
> re-classified a previously identified hummingbird (Geoglyph No. PV68A-CF1) as a hermit<p>As Hermit here is referred to a type of Hummingbird, re-classified does not look like the right word for this. Would be like saying that a previously identified bovine has been re-classified now as a cow.
My one regret is not visiting these lines while I was in Peru. Due to climate change, there is danger that increased heavy rains in the region may wash the lines away that has persisted for over two thousand years...
I realize this is proposing that the birds depicted are not endemic to Peru.<p>However, on the topic of birds endemic to Peru , the Marvelous Spatuletail is just amazing and stunning.<p><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvellous_spatuletail" rel="nofollow">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvellous_spatuletail</a>
Considering their digit-counting to identify the hermit, I am curious what they think about this one:<p><a href="https://i.imgur.com/1wvFATq.jpg" rel="nofollow">https://i.imgur.com/1wvFATq.jpg</a>