Posted on 02/09/2010 11:24:31 AM PST by Palter
Though local lore held that the so-called "scorpion tree" had been the work of cowboys, paleontologist Rex Saint Onge immediately knew that the tree was carved by Indians when he stumbled upon it in the fall of 2006. Located in a shady grove atop the Santa Lucia Mountains in San Luis Obispo County, the centuries-old gnarled oak had the image of a six-legged, lizard-like being meticulously scrawled into its trunk, the nearly three-foot-tall beast topped with a rectangular crown and two large spheres. "I was really the first one to come across it who understood that it was a Chumash motif," says Saint Onge, referring to the native people who painted similar designs on rock formations from San Luis Obispo south through Santa Barbara and into Malibu.
Amazingly, Saint Onge had just identified the West Coast's only known Native American arborglyph, one long hidden behind private property signs. But the discoveries didn't stop there. After spending more time at the site, Saint Onge realized that the carved crown and its relation to one of the spheres was strikingly similar to the way the constellation Ursa Major — which includes the Big Dipper—related to the position of Polaris, the North Star. "But as a paleontologist, I live my life looking down at the ground," says Saint Onge, who runs an archaeological-consulting firm out of nearby Arroyo Grande."I didn't know much about astronomy at all."
He quickly learned that the constellation rotates around the North Star every 24 hours, that its placement during sunset could be used to tell the seasons and that the Chumash people also revered this astronomical relationship in their language and cosmology."It's the third largest constellation in the sky and they saw it every single night for tens of thousands of years," says Saint Onge.
(Excerpt) Read more at time.com ...
You’re right. Probably better off not knowing.....
BIRDS DO IT
BEES DO IT
EVEN MONKEYS IN THE TREES DO IT..
LETS DO IT..
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LOL!
What in the world are you talking about?
I’m laughing so hard I’m crying!
“I’m laughing so hard I’m crying!”
And now you need to reword your tagline somehow.
From the article: “Located in a shady grove atop the Santa Lucia Mountains.....long hidden behind private property signs.”
Sounds very romantic.
omigawd! The Ancient Ones who did the roadsigns to Ancient Astronauts for landing fields in Chile’s plain of Nazca were also the first Americans.
No question that the only people who could see these arcane messages would have to be in a spaceship with a KH33 spy satellite in order to see them.
Erik Von Daniken, you’re deniers have been tin-foiled again.
Locals want everyone to have access to the story of the rise and fall of the Chumash people�
Mystery cave Researchers speculate the Chumash Painted Cave, located north of Santa Barbara, may have served as an ancient observatory.
The signs are everywhere: in place names like Nipomo, Lompoc, and Sisquoc, in art and rock carvings hidden among dim caves and wind-swept valleys, and buried deep in the soil under our feet...
Please tell me what you are drinking or smoking i want some...
Geez, people! Enough with the Megan McCain threads already!
Thanks!
The implications leading to the equine actio nare very subtle.
Oh, I don’t know about that.
I just assumed some poster was wading around in their own personal [and normally private] “stream of consciousness”....right before the dam broke.
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