NASA baffled by structures in Kazakhstan
Hmmm..you are hunting and finding food, and you had time to build monster sized geoglyphs as a hobby? This is interesting...
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resources needed to recharge their rides. -- j
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the ancient aliens cruised by in their starships
looking for a place to park. -- j
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But - Why those monuments? What do they mean? Why was it important to make them, and make them BIG?
Jim
''have it your way" and the like; yes? -- j
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That, or prehistoric humanity were all Burners (ref. Burning Man, Black Rock City, NV), and built these huge party grounds to make music, dance naked, practice art, and get wasted.
The circle of mounds is in a way fascinating as there are 25 mounds in a circle. Maybe there were external markers/structures (as in stone circles throughout northwest Europe) and it was used for marking planting times, seasonal predictors, etc. When you look at Stonehenge (for example) that structure is far larger and far more complex than the actual stone henge... and people are just now starting to decode it.
My thought was it's part of some sort of religious ritual or belief system that was perhaps as, say, someone traveling today that sees a church (or even a synagogue or mosque) would recognize it for what it is and what it's used for (and in a very basic way, how it is used)....
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