Earth Work

The digestive tract begins with a double line at the mouth in Portugal and widening into the palate in northern Spain. It narrows again at the border of Spain and France and proceeds up the Atlantic coastline of France, looking like the esophagus. In Germany, it widens again. While one line continues along the northern coast of Germany and Poland, the other line drops down to include Switzerland and northern Italy. It traces a path through Slovakia and into the Ukraine, doubling back again to parallel the adjacent line at Lithuania (stomach). They continue close together and parallel, north of Moscow, and then begin a series of convolutions and turns through what was formerly known as the western Soviet Union (small intestine). They run into Mongolia and China, looking like a picture of the large intestine. Finally, the lines converge in northern Afghanistan (the anus). As unusual as this may sound, the concept fits the idea of viewing the Earth as a living organism. Southeast Asia and India mirror the sex organs, with the Earth having both male and female sexes. The penis extends down from China to Cambodia and the vagina with clitoris include Thailand, Malaysia and part of Indonesia. The testicles and ovaries are located in India and Pakistan and the uterus is in Tibet. A readily identifiable liver covers most of Iran, Saudi Arabia and Turkey, with the bile duct and gallbladder extending into Greece, and Italy. The bladder covers a large portion of northern Africa, extending as far west as Algeria and south to Zaire. There are large gland-like structures in West and South Africa. A lung takes up most of the western half of South America. The Amazon basin has often been referred to as the green lung of the world. The heart of the world is perfectly outlined in the western United States, extending from its apex near Los Angeles, into the Rocky Mountains, New Mexico and Arizona. The different hemispheres and lobes of the brain are identifiable in Pacific Ocean, with the hypothalamus and pituitary gland including the Polynesian islands. There are other structures of lines spiraling into themselves. These structures apparently represent sensory apparatus, like the eyes, ears, etc. Some shapes look exactly like the endocrine glands of the body and coincide with the tremendous diamond finds in southern and eastern Africa, Venezuela, and southern Brazil.

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