Thursday, April 09, 2015
Wednesday, April 08, 2015
Buford's Serpent Gate
Above is my friend's driveway, just up the road from where I live. I had to wait a few months for the snow to go away, but I remember thinking: "That's another Serpent Gateway!"
There's the Law of Parsimony at work here: it was easier to leave that big stone alone than move it (just like it was easier to take the photos without getting out of the car). I am going to make a guess that the other side was easier to take apart when it came time to widen the old "cart path" when Buford built his house and put in the driveway.
I wonder if he has some "before photos..."
Could be a suggestion of a snake eye, looking out toward the Old Indian Trail to Nonnewaug, just before it meets up with CT Rte. 6 that was the Old Connecticut Path.
And maybe, when seen just right, it's also somewhat Anthropomorphic too perhaps...
Social media contributing to rock art vandalism (Utah)
"(Artist Jonathon) Bailey has noticed a disturbing trend. It used to be that he would find vandalism at three sites a year. Now, he says, he's finding it at as many as 10 sites annually.
"It's really almost murder," he said, describing the damage he's found to petroglyph panels, rock shelters and other sensitive cultural sites. "You're killing something that's existed for thousands of years..."
"...Mohsen acknowledges that online posts and social media are responsible for spreading the word about cultural sites that otherwise might rarely see visitors, but he said those posts also raise awareness about the need to protect these sites..Bailey shares Mohsen's hope that people will become more appreciative of Utah's prehistoric past. Until that happens, though, he wants people who find pristine cultural sites in remote areas to think before spreading word of their discovery online.
"The analogy I always use is don't give a site to anyone that you wouldn't give your credit card information to," he said.."
http://www.nbcnews.com/watch/nbc-news-channel/is-social-media-encouraging-vandalism-of-ancient-petroglyphs-424164931526
http://www.ksl.com/?sid=34132886&nid=148&title=social-media-contributing-to-rock-art-vandalism-artist-says&s_cid=queue-2
Tuesday, March 31, 2015
Rivers of Stone, Rivers within Stone
(Rock Art in Ancient
Puerto Rico) – Peter G. Roe
“Rock art has eluded quantification, pictographs and petrogylphs
tend not to be regarded as fit subjects for “scientific” study. Because of that
abdication, many amateurs have rushed in to fill the void, some competent and
cautious, others rash and sloppy, reading all sorts of bizarre notions into the
“ultimate Rorschach test” that is rock art (page 298).”
Isla de Mona: http://islandsofpuertorico.com/isla-de-mona/
http://www.flickriver.com/search/Isla+de+Mona,+Puerto+Rico/interesting/
Amateur Rushing In with Bizarre Notions Somewhere in CT: Faces in Stone
And then there's this:
Saturday, March 28, 2015
Musical Row of Stones
North of the Grinning Serpent's Tail, on the edge of the floodplain, is a barely perceptable trail, just above the remnants of a stone row, that leads to an intersecting row of stones that, when conditions are right, sounds like the running water of a little stream. "Nobody is taking care of this place," as they saying goes, but the water continues to flow and stone spirits in the wet zone it creates below it have their eyes on you as you pass by...
Above: another day, long after this was written, as I passed by this spot for the 100th time (or so it seems), I realized that here was another Great Serpent:
There's a spot you come to, by a choke cherry tree...
...with a small stone lined spring at it's base:
That's about where the stones on boulders still show well...
Was this one below chosen because of the natural features of the stone
or did human hands help it along to give the suggestion of eyes,
a stone spirit watching what you do?
This one could be said to be anthropomorphic, suggesting a representation of perhaps a person, or perhaps a spirit, perhaps yelling or perhaps singing. James Porter suggest I see what happens if I rock that stone, to see if it's a "Drum Stone" and will make the sound that's might be suggested by the open mouth that could be natural or could be pecked and polished into the stone...
(Above: Jan. 2008, below: March 2012)
More Singing:
The other side of the stone I'll have to look at again - there might be the suggestion of something...
...looking toward the first terrace hillside from behind it, you can just see little bits of the row of stones under the pine boughs and above the brush...
...and turn back around to "see" that stone singing, hear the water trickling.
And is that another sort of face in the same stone, shape-shifting into perhaps something zoomorphic,
perhaps sort of reptilian??
But there's the row of stones I was going to tell you about (above), three January 2008 photos stitched together. You'll notice there is no little stream alongside it:
I walked along it on spring day in 2012 and put my video camera down inside the row:
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