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The Atacama Giant, Atacama Desert, Chile,

It is the largest prehistoric anthropomorphic figure in the world with a length of 119 metres, and was made between 1000-1400 CE.

The figure was an early astronomical calendar used for predicting the weather.

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Mysterious ancient earthworks called Geoglyphs, in Rio Branco, Acre, Brazil. (Larger).

The Marree Man, a mysterious geoglyph, discovered in the Australian outback in 1998.

It was "five times larger than the largest drawing at Nazca in Peru, 24 times larger than the largest English chalk hill carving, and 50 times larger than any portrayal of the human form. It appears to be the world’s largest work of art.”

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Lyrics are a sample from U. K. LeGuin's 1974 short story The Author of the Acacia Seeds and Other Extracts from the Journal of the Association of Therolinguistics:

"All we can guess is that the putative Art of the Plant is entirely different from the Art of the Animal. What it is, we cannot say; we have not yet discovered it. Yet I predict [...] that it exists, and that when it is found it will prove to be, not an action, but a reaction: not a communication, but a reception. It will be exactly the opposite of the art we know and recognise. It will be the first passive art known to us. [...] And with them, or after them, may there not come that even bolder adventurer—the first geolinguist, who, ignoring the delicate, transient lyrics of the lichen, will read beneath it the still less communicative, still more passive, wholly atemporal, cold, volcanic poetry of the rocks: each one a word spoken, how long ago, by the earth itself, in the immense solitude, the immenser community, of space."

Edit: Interestingly, the very last stanza of lyric is not a sample from LeGuin's story but a sample from Henry Vaughan's poem The Bird:

"So hills and valleys into singing break; And though poor stones have neither speech nor tongue, While active winds and streams both run and speak, Yet stones are deep in admiration."

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