Sunday, November 25, 2012

SEMINOLE CANYON

Can't get over that whirring wind--the vastness--the harsh, harsh landscape (note the photos).
Roughly 4k yrs. ago native people lived beneath mammoth rock outcroppings in the canyon walls away from unfriendly critters--4 & 2-legged, and painted from the heart. There's a Shaman, a portal to pass through upon death & assorted animals. We're talking legitimate religion, here.
Iron oxide mixed with animal fat constituted that dominant reddish color which proves to be the most permanent.
Creationist contend that the world is 6K yrs. old, (that evolution is pretty much a crock). Hence, in their minds these indigenous Seminole Canyon natives would have been around a mere 2k yrs. when they did this painting--when they mastered the art of subsisting on this unforgiving land and dinosaurs would have been running around in their hood.
Met a flint-lock deer hunter and re-enactment nut this evening--they do an annual re-do the battle ofSan Jacinto when the U.S. Army whipped the Mexicans and officially stole their land. Said he shot 20 female deer last year during an approved hunt to cull the over population. Whatever....
Back to the rock drawings, I think about the fact that +-50% of Americans don't believe in evolution and this prompts me to go outside on this windy clear night with clean cool air, nothing much for as far as your eye can see, and think about tomorrow--the last leg to Big Bend. Trippin out...
Later.....
hope the photos show up. lots of mystery associated with this electronic stuff. Gates and Jobs have the last word.

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