Open air stone paintings inwards the world's driest desert pay will to the importance of the llama to millennia-old cultures that traversed the inhospitable terrain.
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| The paintings left past times shepherds almost 3 millennia agone on the walls of the rocks that flank the class of the Loa River, that crosses the Atacama Desert from eastward to west, plough the Taira Valley into the epicenter of fine art stone inwards Chile, which aims at becoming a UNESCO Heritage Site [Credit: Martin Bernetti/AFP] |
Taira is "a celebration of life," said archeologist Jose Bereguer, describing the site every bit "the most complex inwards South America" because of its astronomical importance every bit good every bit the significance to local shepherds.
The stone fine art was a "shepherd's rite" needed to inquire the "deities that governed the skies too the earth" to growth their llama flocks.
First rediscovered past times Swedish archeologist Stig Ryden inwards 1944, the Taira stone fine art is betwixt 2,400 too 2,800 years old.
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| The paintings left past times shepherds almost 3 millennia agone on the walls of the rocks that flank the class of the Loa River, that crosses the Atacama Desert from eastward to west, plough the Taira Valley into the epicenter of fine art stone inwards Chile, which aims at becoming a UNESCO Heritage Site [Credit: Martin Bernetti/AFP] |
The gem inwards the crown are the Alero Taira drawings some xxx meters from the Loa inwards a natural shelter, inwards which the importance of the llama becomes abundantly clear.
Not simply the principal source of wealth for desert dwellers over thousands of years, the llama has been used inwards ritual ceremonies throughout the Andes for simply every bit long, such every bit inwards the "Wilancha," or sacrifice to "Pacha Mama," or Mother Earth.
"No i tin hand the sack empathize the things done 18,000 years agone because the cultures that did them convey disappeared," said Berenguer, curator at Santiago's Museum of Pre-Columbian Art.
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| The paintings left past times shepherds almost 3 millennia agone on the walls of the rocks that flank the class of the Loa River, that crosses the Atacama Desert from eastward to west, plough the Taira Valley into the epicenter of fine art stone inwards Chile, which aims at becoming a UNESCO Heritage Site [Credit: Martin Bernetti/AFP] |
According to Rumualda Galleguillos, i of to a greater extent than or less fifteen indigenous people all the same raising llamas inwards the Atacama Desert similar their ancestors, these pictures are a "testament" to forefathers who could neither read nor write.
Around xc precent of the engravings, painted mainly inwards cerise but besides ochre yellowish too white, pull llamas of diverse sizes, some pregnant, others suckling their young.
But the remaining 10 per centum pull the desert's diversity, such every bit foxes, snakes, ostriches, partridges too dogs.
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| The paintings left past times shepherds almost 3 millennia agone on the walls of the rocks that flank the class of the Loa River, that crosses the Atacama Desert from eastward to west, plough the Taira Valley into the epicenter of fine art stone inwards Chile, which aims at becoming a UNESCO Heritage Site [Credit: Martin Bernetti/AFP] |
What the paintings besides demonstrate is that 2,500 years ago, people were already studying the stars inwards an expanse that has to a greater extent than lately move the astronomy upper-case alphabetic lineament of the populace amongst some of the most powerful telescopes e'er built.
H5N1 majority written inwards conjunction amongst the Atacama observatory called "The Universe of our Grandparents," claims that the ancient inhabitants of this expanse studied the stars to aid larn how to domesticate the inhospitable desert too endure its dangers.
In this vision, the universe is made upward of the skies too populace every bit i whole, amongst the skies forming the horizon of life. What is seen inwards the skies is a reflection of what in that place is on Earth.
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| The paintings left past times shepherds almost 3 millennia agone on the walls of the rocks that flank the class of the Loa River, that crosses the Atacama Desert from eastward to west, plough the Taira Valley into the epicenter of fine art stone inwards Chile, which aims at becoming a UNESCO Heritage Site [Credit: Martin Bernetti/AFP] |
They saw llamas, their eyes, corrals, a loaded slingshot too a shepherd standing amongst his legs spread broad too arms inwards the air, worrying nearly foxes, said Silvia Lisoni, a professor of history too amateur astronomer.
Taira is located on an axis that aligns the sacred Sirawe "sandy eye" quicksand from where locals would pray for rain, the San Pedro volcano, the Colorado hill, too the Cuestecilla pampas, some other sacred spot.
Volcanoes, similar springs, were considered deities past times the Atacama natives, spell llamas were idea to convey been born of springs.
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| The paintings left past times shepherds almost 3 millennia agone on the walls of the rocks that flank the class of the Loa River, that crosses the Atacama Desert from eastward to west, plough the Taira Valley into the epicenter of fine art stone inwards Chile, which aims at becoming a UNESCO Heritage Site [Credit: Martin Bernetti/AFP] |
"There's show that this site was built hither for specific reasons," said Berenguer.
Taira is non the oldest representative of stone fine art inwards this business office of Chile, though. To the northward inwards the copper mining Antofagasta percentage lies Kalina, to a greater extent than or less 1,000-1,200 years older than Taira, too Milla.
This agency of fine art has been institute besides inwards the Puna de Atacama plateau inwards neighboring Argentina, but Taira "has few equals inwards damage of beauty too complexity," said Berenguer.
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| View of the San Pedro Volcano, close the Taira cave, nearly 75 km northward of Calama, Chile [Credit: Martin Bernetti/AFP] |
Source: AFP [July 31, 2018]
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