[blam]

Go to the site to view the images.

[blam]

Glyphs?

[gg188]

"Perhaps,'' Wood said, "someone will give us a grant."

Dude---what you do is tell everyone it is MUSLIM art, or animal worship, or tree worship, or buddu, voodoo, or raghead art....ANYTHING but CHRISTIAN!

[VOA]

I suspect this is the same mission I saw profiled on TV.
It's small and not ornate...but IIRC, the walls are so thick and substantial, it has
survived earthquakes while more contemporary neighboring structures have not.

Also, it's such an humble structure that tourists think a more modern church next door is
actually the mission.

[Tacis]

I'm sorry, but if they were done by Indians and they are located in San Francisco, then every use of the word "Indian" or phrase "Native American," must be preceded by the word "Sacred." To the extreme left, ALL things Indian are automatically Sacred.

[farmfriend]

Gods, Graves, Glyphs
List for articles regarding early civilizations , life of all forms, - dinosaurs - etc.

Let me know if you wish to be added or removed from this ping list.

[JudyB1938]

I wonder how much the knives the Aztecs used to cut out beating hearts later influenced Christian art depicting hearts with daggers.

The knife seems to be an important part of their lives in more ways than one. The mother of the Aztec creation story was called "Coatlique". She was first impregnated by an obsidian knife.

[visualops]

The pictures accompanying the article are almost all of those 2 guys. There is only the one decent one of the heart. Sheesh.

[Varda]

""You can only imagine what these people were thinking to be put to work painting a wall with completely alien symbols," Blind said."

Maybe they were thinking they were honoring Christ their Lord and Savior.

This assumption that the Indians couldn't possibly have done this for their own reasons is common among archaeologists. I visited the British Museum last summer and wandered over to their North American exhibit. There among the artifacts was a letter by a newly Christianized Indian from one of the California missions. He explained that life was better now that he lived at the mission. The English of course in their hatred for all things Spanish and Catholic couldn't let that stand unanswered so they had a modern interpretation beside the letter explaining that the Indian was a slave. They did that for nothing else in that exhibit.

[msdrby]

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[nickcarraway]

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[Rockpile]

" painted in red, black and yellow by Native Americans in 1791"

And just how the hell does anyone know WHO painted the figures? What are they signed "Jose Blanketass" or something?

[Henchman]

"Blind said, anyone can see them"....WHAT???