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Woodworm - Legends and Fairy Tales

Our Memorial - The Nazca Scratchings

Once upon a time, long, long ago, there was a great assemby of the most learned woodworms, bookworms and glowworms. The met to discuss what they could do to be more respected by humans.

"It can't continue this way," cried some, "everyone thinks we are completely unimportant, nobody takes us seriously!"
"We have to invent something," cried some. "We must build something," cried others. "The first thing is for us all to come together," someone suggested, "we must be many, as many as possible!"

The call for a general meeting travelled through the entire land, and everyone met at the edge of a forest on a large mud field. They came in enormous numbers. Some travelled long distances, some arrived late, but none turned back.
And then they made a Plan.

So the idea was born to dig a memorial for the woodworms. It should become a giant city, with hundreds of streets and plazas.

Hundreds of thousands or even millions of animals - nobody counted them - worked more than fifty years on the memorial. Some drew up the plans, some bored and dug, snd some carried the mud away.

Once they had built enough streets, the "Great Worm of Lima" helped by gnawing down all of the trees. The rest of the work would be done by time and the sun. And so it was.

In time the trees decayed and turned to dust. The sun could now shine on the mud and bake it hard as stone.
No person can live there now, there are also far and wide no more woodworms.....

© Peter Dörling, 2000

Today humans fly in airplanes over this work of wonder and are amazed, simply amazed....

So much for legends. Here is the truth :

The Nazca Puzzle Was Her Life

Maria Reiche, 95, Dies in Peru

Hamburger Abendblatt 10.06.1998
Lima - For half a century she tried to solve the riddle of the mysterious Lines Of Nasca in the Peruvian highlands. Now 95-year old mathematician Maria Reiche has died on May 8, while undergoing surgery for abdominal cancer.
The German-born woman lived for years in poverty at the Pampa's edge and dedicated her life to solving the Nazca puzzle.
She invested all donations and contributions into her work, which she had to end in 1984 after she became almost completely blind. In countless books and scientific works, Maria Reiche presented the theory that these more than 1000 "scratchings" were accomplished through the ancient American Indian's removal of the earth's dark upper crust of gravel. Up to 2000 meters long and representing monkeys, spiders, fish and birds, Reiche's opinion was that the lines created the world's larges astronomical calender. In his book "Memories of the Future" (1968), bestselling author Erich von Däniken suggested that these fields resembled aircraft runways.(ap/afp)

Related Links :
http://www.uni-koeln.de/phil-fak/fs-rwl/portunol/11/nasca.htm
http://www.alien.de/UnknownReality/

Herzlichen Dank für die Übersetzung an EvaSara Tullier !

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Woodworm - Legends and Fairy Tales
Our Memorial - The Nazca Scratchings
Once upon a time, long, long ago, there was a great assemby of the most learned woodworms, bookworms and glowworms. The met to discuss what they could do to be more respected by humans. "It can't continue this way," cried some, "everyone thinks we are completely unimportant, nobody takes us seriously!" "We have to invent something," cried some. "We must build something," cried others. "The first thing is for us all to come together," someone suggested, "we must be many, as many as possible!" The call for a general meeting travelled through the entire land, and everyone met at the edge of a forest on a large mud field. They came in enormous numbers. Some travelled long distances, some arrived late, but none turned back. And then they made a Plan.		So the idea was born to dig a memorial for the woodworms. It should become a giant city, with hundreds of streets and plazas. Hundreds of thousands or even millions of animals - nobody counted them - worked more than fifty years on the memorial. Some drew up the plans, some bored and dug, snd some carried the mud away. Once they had built enough streets, the "Great Worm of Lima" helped by gnawing down all of the trees. The rest of the work would be done by time and the sun. And so it was. In time the trees decayed and turned to dust. The sun could now shine on the mud and bake it hard as stone. No person can live there now, there are also far and wide no more woodworms..... © Peter Dörling, 2000
Today humans fly in airplanes over this work of wonder and are amazed, simply amazed....