The Great Snake
Apr 2, 2024 19:25:34 #
Cany143
Loc: SE Utah
On the cliffs above Moab and below Sand Flats, just past the town dump. A place where locals like to hike or walk their dogs. The 'snake' is about 20' from head to tail. This is neither the largest nor is it the most ornate of snake petroglyphs that exist, but it's close to home and I felt like getting out.
Twelve images stitched together into panos that show a roughly 180-degree view of the site. The first pano is as the petro panel actually looks; the second pano is as the panel may have appeared before idiots arrived and did stupid things.
Twelve images stitched together into panos that show a roughly 180-degree view of the site. The first pano is as the petro panel actually looks; the second pano is as the panel may have appeared before idiots arrived and did stupid things.
Apr 2, 2024 19:32:02 #
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Apr 2, 2024 23:37:51 #
Cany143
Loc: SE Utah
NMGal wrote:
Are those bullet holes in the first?
Uh huh. Bullet holes, somebody’s initials and some scratched graffiti.
Apr 3, 2024 02:26:54 #
"Before idiots arrived"?? I don't grok??
Lots of bullet holes associated with the RA in Nine Mile Canyon too.
Nice restoration, too bad it's not possible on-site!
Lots of bullet holes associated with the RA in Nine Mile Canyon too.
Nice restoration, too bad it's not possible on-site!
Apr 3, 2024 07:10:05 #
Retired CPO wrote:
"Before idiots arrived"?? I don't grok??
Lots of bullet holes associated with the RA in Nine Mile Canyon too.
Nice restoration, too bad it's not possible on-site!
Lots of bullet holes associated with the RA in Nine Mile Canyon too.
Nice restoration, too bad it's not possible on-site!
grok?...acronym??
Apr 3, 2024 08:30:41 #
Apr 3, 2024 09:44:16 #
EJMcD wrote:
grok?...acronym??
From "Stranger in a Strange Land" by Robert A. Heinlein. A science fiction classic. From 1961.
To understand utterly and completely. And much more.
If you haven't read it, it's worth a few hours of your time.
It's extraordinary!Apr 3, 2024 09:51:18 #
Apr 3, 2024 10:20:50 #
Very, very nice, Cany. And your clean-up is very well done. I've seen similar snakes on other boulders, and I wonder if perhaps they're warning people that a really huge snake lives in the area.
Apr 3, 2024 11:29:39 #
Cany143 wrote:
… the second pano is as the panel may have appeared before idiots arrived and did stupid things.
…that’s why we can’t have nice things…
Apr 3, 2024 12:02:40 #
Cany143
Loc: SE Utah
AzPicLady wrote:
Very, very nice, Cany. And your clean-up is very well done. I've seen similar snakes on other boulders, and I wonder if perhaps they're warning people that a really huge snake lives in the area.
Couldn't say how many snake petros/pictos I've seen, but I've seen a bunch. Could some have been meant as warnings? Sure, but not in a 'naturalistic' way --ooooh! I got snakebit!-- one might expect.
Won't try to describe the various ways snake imagery has been used and/or what their depictions may have meant to convey --UHH isn't a place where anybody'd want to read somebody's Master's Thesis on 'Symbolism In Native American Rock Art'-- so how 'bout if I just simplify things and tell you what a Bluebird Clan Hopi elder told me: "I may not speak of our Underground Brother this time of year. Our Ancestors the Clouds would not allow it."
Apr 3, 2024 12:11:03 #
Cany143
Loc: SE Utah
Retired CPO wrote:
"Before idiots arrived"?? I don't grok??
Lots of bullet holes associated with the RA in Nine Mile Canyon too.
Nice restoration, too bad it's not possible on-site!
Lots of bullet holes associated with the RA in Nine Mile Canyon too.
Nice restoration, too bad it's not possible on-site!
What's not to grok, Cheepfster? Unless mindlessly shooting up a Mona Lisa or a Sistine Chappel or a Kindergarten class is what somebody calls good, clean, intelligent fun, that is.
Apr 3, 2024 12:18:04 #
Cany143 wrote:
What's not to grok, Cheepfster? Unless mindlessly shooting up a Mona Lisa or a Sistine Chappel or a Kindergarten class is what somebody calls good, clean, intelligent fun, that is.
Just my inelegant way of saying that there has never been a "before idiots" period in human history! Or if there was, I must have missed it!
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