hummingbirds are truly mystical little beings—every visitation (and there are many now) is a flash of the miraculous
The Inca believed that the hummingbird was a messenger from heaven. The condor, which has the position of "king of the skies" conceded its status as the primary spiritual messenger of the "upper world" to the hummingbird. The hummingbird is seen as the key to the next stage of development of human consciousness. Incan legend tells that there was a contest between the condor and the hummingbird to see who would be king. The condor said he could fly to the edge of the sky and the hummingbird said he could fly beyond the edge to the center of heaven. When it came time for the contest, the hummingbird didn't show up. The condor took off and flew to the edge of the sky at which point the hummingbird emerged from the condor's feathers and flew beyond to the center of the upper world where he met Wiraqocha the metaphysical god of the Andes.
Hummigbird, Nazca Geoglyph, over 300 feet in length, formed approximately 2000 years ago
The creation of the Nazca Lines is attributed to the pre-Inca Nazca culture that flourished in the area between 200 and 600 AD.
Incredible. It’s incredible, what the land holds. Pictorial poetry all around us, that inviolable human impulse reaching across the millennia
