Solar Calendar Pictograph

Young man,

If you cherish a special idea rightfully yours, hold it close to your heart. Keep it secret if you must. Nurture it, scrutinize it, purify it, educate it, keep it safe all your life. Until which time you will know_  and only then give it purpose, make it fly. Don't let them kill your dream.

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Solar calender pictographs are few and far between in the rock art of the desert Southwestern U.S... Standard pigments used in pictographs include red iron oxide, charcoal, white clay, ground malachite, and azurite mixed with saliva or  vegetable extracts to make a paste.

Photo By Paula R.

These basic concoctions have endured millennium beneath alcoves and cliff overhangs protected from the elements, conveying their messages across time. 

These people were far more advanced in their understanding of the patterns of the Earth and its seasons than we. They understood the power of written words, and that men lived within them. They personally knew death, and life giving sustenance, thus called them by rightful name. They appreciated the simple design of life and fluently spoke its pure language.

Canyon Pintado National Historic District  -  Sun Dagger Site
Rangely, Colorado

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ca%C3%B1on_Pintado

Painted Rocks Petroglyph Site, Gila Bend Arizona

Young man,

I want to give you a freedom exceedingly difficult to achieve in the age in which you live, in the limited time of a life, by your own means. This freedom requires you understand the world in which you live, the written history of mankind. To imagine the odds you must look into space. Get a telescope and excel in your math class. Realize a universe as infinitely small as it is big, ponder it to great lengths, and who's judge of where big becomes little, that science and religion are one and the same.

I'd like to make an assertion that there is inscribed in all things a universal language recognized by few. This universal language is all around us, in place now in the glyphic language of images.

The quantity and quality of readily available evident information stored in images is taken for granted, overlooked, and not taken seriously. It is now necessary to make an addendum to the learning process and expand the way we think to institute methods of higher learning, since we are learning machines and definitely have the capacity. Every vista we will ever see contains immeasurable amounts of information.

The capability of the human intellect to understand is vastly superior to the means currently available to learn. Great insufficiency exist in today's written languages rendering them obsolete in this age of information. There are 26 letters in the English alphabet. This method of communication allows the masses to understand one another and the world to function, but is extremely basic. 26 letters are far too few. Complacency is a great danger.

Peace in the world demands that we better ourselves with a greater knowledge base. An intelligent species must abolish poverty, disease, and greedy little men, all of which profit from ignorance. We need be far better stewards of our wonderful planet, expand our compassion beyond our ambitions and close social groups, to encompass the whole of understanding, see the big beautiful picture.

 I want you to build a new alphabet. Yes you. You have been called.

That's what the rocks say.

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Painted_Rock_Petroglyph_Site

Hueco Tanks

Rock art in the Southwestern U.S. dates back 3000 plus years.  During these early years it was common for one people to respect the art of those who came before, even though they might be of different tribes, as many led transient lifestyles.

In this depiction, the inconsiderate and selfish nature of the modern day is accurately displayed by destructive individuals who's understanding is dwarfed by a people who lived hundreds or possibly thousands of years earlier.

Since earliest know time, Hueco tanks has been a junction for travelers, where year round water  has allowed  crossing the hostile environment of the desert. A rock hound paradise  yes, but a world renowned rock climbing mecca.    Northeast of Elpaso Tx

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hueco_Tanks

Three Rivers Petroglyph Site, New Mexico

 Above a vast  desert plane, a high out cropping of large stones is pointed skyward, as if all placed  there purposely for the inscription of prayers, hopes, and dreams of a  spiritual people.

 Three Rivers has all the qualities of a Grand Cathedral, yet also peace and solitude. The inscriptions are no less valid than anything ever written, 20,000 prayers and storys, all canonized by the Mogollon, (Mo-gee-yon) or sometimes called by their descendants, "First Peoples".

The impact of drought upon this already arid environment  caused the authors to migrate following  the desert animals they hunted, to lands more hospitable, where  rains allowed the planting of beans, corn, and squash.

There is little evidence of the large population that once lived here, as the land is now quiet, clean, natural, and the wild has returned.


There is plenty of dry camping in and around the site on BLM property, and many things to see very near here. New Mexico has a wealth of Native American Culture. It's not the type of place you'll want to hurry through. A camper or motor home is the best way to do it. New Mexico is camper friendly.

http://www.blm.gov/nm/st/en/prog/recreation/las_cruces/three_rivers.html

Pueblo Bonito, Chaco Canyon

Anasazi ruins at Chaco Canyon, New Mexico.

http://sacredsites.com/americas/united_states/chaco_canyon.html

Canyon De Chelly National Monument, AZ

Words are fast examples for long roads and hard years.
The world is a good teacher.

Chaco Culture National Historic Park

This is by far the largest and most well preserved Anasazi Indian Ruin in the U.S. Petroglyphs line the canyon walls. No one really knows why such an extensive site was abandoned.

There is a campground here for campers, but be aware of the twenty mile road which will be impassable should it by some slim chance rain.

There is also an observatory with official guided viewing in the dark night sky of the New Mexico desert. The Anasazi were astronomers, seeing here is often good.

Kokopelli

This is the biggest and best kokopelli pictograph I've ever seen. It is near life size in red ochre. If I remember correctly, it's in Southern Colorado near Great Sand Dunes NP. Kokopelli was a fertility God, bringer of the spring and rain with the playing of his flute. Petroglyphs date back 3000 years throughout the southwest.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kokopelli 

Saguaro National Park, The Circle of Life

Though ages old, improvement upon this basic message has been illusive. Remarkably simple, particularly attractive where the end meets the beginning, all questions meet with all answers.