Wooden Fragments in the Rows of Stones

      Wandering about, following a path only sometimes, once in a while I’ve spotted some pieces of wood in more than one “stone wall,” usually one I suspect to be a Ceremonial Stone Landscape (CSL) feature called a Qusukqaniyutôk, a row of stones as I understand it:

“Qusukqaniyutôk ~ ‘stone row, enclosure’ Harris and Robinson, 2015:140, ‘fence that crosses back’ viz. qussuk, ‘stone,’ Nipmuc or quski, quskaca, ‘returning, crosses over,’ qaqi, ‘runs,’ pumiyotôk, ‘fence, wall,’ Mohegan, Mohegan Nation 2004:145, 95, 129) wall (outdoor), fence, NI – pumiyotôk plural pumiyotôkansh” {http://oso-ah.org/custom.html}.

    And you know, thinking of the two Rows of Stones these photos come from, both of these could be easily confused for an “Estate Wall” since both are rather massive wedge-shaped stone structures, on the tall side. “Up to your neck” tall rather than down by yours knees short and up to your waist average, you could say.

      And they both exhibit a suspected snake head-like boulder (or two or more) at at least one terminus (beginning, not “end”)  which would also designate both as “Snake Walls” in CSL language, composed of an unknown number of other effigies – oops: “suspected effigies” – all along the length of the “suspected bodies” of the “suspected Snake Walls.”

   I suspect these rows of stones to be “quite old,” and if they are that old, maybe they were also maintained over that long period of time. I suspect that these tiny effigies I come across were later additions, tilting the stones above it toward the center of the “wall,” keeping them from falling forward and off the structure. These bits of wood, perhaps the ends of long levers, moved the stones (balanced them “mo’ better”) before the stones were (Shaped? Found?) inserted, another little effigy added to the Qusukqaniyutôk...

The Wooden Fragments:

(Perhaps awaiting just the right Turtle-like head?)

Well, I told you about that so that I could tell you about this:

Before...

This is a very much suspected Snake Effigy incorporated into the retaining wall in front of my house, an opinion seconded by Curt Hoffman (reported to the State of CT and, I at least think, to Tribal Historic Preservation Officers), as well as prompting Jannie Loubser to exclaim, "Just like Sexy Woman!" as we both struggled to remember how to pronounce Sacsayhuaman:

“Foreigners often have difficulty pronouncing Sacsayhuaman, so tour guides joke that Sacsayhuaman sounds a lot like “sexy woman” in English.”

https://www.peruforless.com/blog/sacsayhuaman-perus-sexy-inca-ruins/

After...