Priests may have designed Nazca lines, expert says
REUTERS
Tucson, Arizona | Published: 09.24.2006

"NAZCA, Peru — High priests at an ancient religious compound in southern Peru may have designed the mysterious Nazca lines ... the area's top archaeologist said. ....
"It is logical to think that the Nazca people's religious beliefs originated in this ceremonial site and got expressed on the wide-open plain," Italian archaeologist Giuseppe Orefici, who leads research at Cahuachi, said last week. ...."

Well, an expert said so and "researchers say"!

"It is logical to think that the Nazca people's religious beliefs..." would be easier to accept without the word "religious." Does anyone else see an assumption in all this? Building on assumptions is NOT logical.

We need a parallel term for "anthropomorphization," one meaning to turn populations into religious believers. How about "paganization"? (verb nov., to make pagans of). Maybe the term "othering" is adequate.

Why can't non-historical actors be scientists or free-thinkers instead of priests? Is that too illogical?