Our ancestors left behind a great many material traces, but not all of them manage to find an explanation. No matter how hard the researchers fought, some phenomena remained unsolvable mysteries.
Here's one example …
Geoglyphs are giant images painted onto the surface of the Earth. Probably the most famous of the geoglyphs is the Nazca Desert Lines (Nazca Lines). However, just two hundred kilometers from the Nazca plateau, you can see an even more mysterious example of a geoglyph.
The Paracas Candelabrum (or Andean Candelabrum) is a giant trident, painted on the surface of a coastal rock in Pisco Bay, about 180 meters in size. Despite its close proximity to the Nazca Lines, this geoglyph most likely was not created by the Nazca people. An ancient pottery workshop discovered nearby, dating back to around 200 BC, indicates that the authorship is likely to be from the Paracas culture.
Some signs indicate the religious nature of the geoglyph, in addition, the locals consider it to be an element of the cult of the deity Viracoch, the ancient creator god. Other sources suggest a more practical use for the trident. The candelabrum is cut into the wall of the hill. The angle of inclination and gigantic size means that it was visible from a great distance, something about 20 kilometers from the coast. This convinced some researchers that it was used as a kind of beacon for sailors.
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The Nazca Desert, a huge tract of land literally dotted with huge figures carved into the surface of the earth. Many scientists, even now, cannot come to a consensus about the meaning of the inscribed images of colossal dimensions. Who put them on the surface of the Earth, and why.
Scientists believed that precisely adjusted straight lines, triangles and trapezoids were performed in the Peruvian desert by the local Indian culture that existed in antiquity. She also painted in these places the figures of monkeys and spiders, a bear and a bird, and the "Paracas Candelabrum" - and all this is of enormous size, when you see and understand what is depicted can only be seen from a height.
According to the English astronomer D. Hawkins, who studied drawings in the Nazca desert, the ancient Indians had to spend about 100 thousand man-years on their implementation. Another thing is of interest, a tremendous amount of work has been done, huge drawings have been inscribed on the surface of the planet, - however, in the legends of the Indians, such large-scale and laborious works are not mentioned, and the Spanish chronicles are silent about this.
There are many speculations about the origin of ancient artifacts, and over time, some of them remain a legend.
If you look at the Andean Trident on Google Maps, you can hardly believe it - the Paracas Candelabrum points from north to south, only slightly deviating east towards Nazca, but this deviation is not enough … GoogleMaps uses the Mercartor projection onto the sphere. But, even taking into account these distortions, which are near the equator and so small, somehow it is impossible to see that the candelabrum points to Nazca …
It is believed that the Paracas Candelabrum was created by representatives of the Paracas archaeological culture, a descendant of which is the Nazca culture.