Looks a lot like the Cirth language from The Hobbit! Look for...
and then...
Don't speak the words out loud!
Posted on 01/09/2006 6:45:23 PM PST by Muleteam1
The sign in "Lonesome Dove" is a misquotation of a scholiast's commentary on Juvenal 2.81: "Uva uvam videndo varia fit." Roughly translated, "A grape changes color when it sees [another] grape." The original verse in Juvenal is "uvaque conspecta livorem ducit ab uva" - "a grape assumes a livid hue from a nearby [visible] grape." The closest proverb we have to this is "one bad apple spoils the whole barrel."
She's somewhere in California, stubbing unwary men's toes!
It's right about 25 miles south of Albuquerque on I-25. Can't miss it.
Looks a lot like the Cirth language from The Hobbit! Look for...
and then...
Don't speak the words out loud!
How old is the los lunas inscription?
Volume 13 of the Epigraphic Society's Occasional Publications (one of two volumes for 1985) contains several articles of great interest to anomalists with an archeological bent. We have space for only two in this issue of SF.
In the first of these, Barry Fell deals with the criticism that the now-famous Los Lunas (New Mexico) inscription cannot be the work of ancient Hebrew-writing visitors to the New World because it employs modern punctuation marks. Fell counters this by reproducing several ancient texts that use similar punctuation conventions, thus blunting this attack on the antiquity of the Los Lunas inscription.
For readers unacquainted with the Los Lunas inscription, it consists of the Decalogue (the Ten Commandments) engraved in ancient Hebrew on a large basalt rock near Los Lunas, NM.
In the second paper, geologist G.E. Morehouse comes to grip with a second criticism leveled at the inscription; namely, that the engraving looks fresh and lacks the patination characteristic of great age. Morehouse concludes that the freshness actually derives from the frequent, recent scrubbing of the inscription (with wire brushes on some occasions) to improve its visibility. Taking this into account, Morehouse estimates the age of the Los Lunas inscription by comparing its weathering with a nearby 1930 inscription. Conclusion: the Los Lunas inscription is much older than 1930. Any length of time from 500-2000 years or more older would be "quite reasonable."
We are, therefore, still left with the possibility that Old World travelers with a knowledge of ancient Hebrew visited what is now New Mexico perhaps as early as the time of Christ.
(Fell, Barry; "Ancient Punctuation and the Los Lunas Text," Epigraphic Society, Occasional Publications, 13:35, 1985, and Morehouse, George E.; "The Los Lunas Inscriptions, a Geological Study," Epigraphic Society, Occasional Publica tions, 13:44, 1985.)
From Science Frontiers #43, JAN-FEB 1986. © 1986-2000 William R. Corliss
http://www.science-frontiers.com/sf043/sf043p02.htm
That Dick Clark sure looks young!
Phoenician Inscription Rock: History or hoax?
By Joseph Maes
The New Mexican
January 26, 2006
http://www.freenewmexican.com/news/38502.html
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I have been there. I tried to find it 10 years ago, but didnt want to cross any fences illegally. I also went about three weeks ago and there is a trail leading right to it. Yes it is exactly the way the picture look. It is 16 miles West of Los Lunas on Hwy 6. There you will come to a single dirt road that leads to several gates. There is a small building that indicates the gates that go south leads to some kind of transfer station. You should take the East gate that allows you to walk through it. Hike maybe a mile, but stay against the the base of the mountain. Follow the tracks. You need to hike uphill for a very very short way, but when you get to a small section where there are several big rocks, look at the rock facing southeast. It is about two feet off the ground. Happy hunting!
The carving looks recent.
It’s Helen Thomas’ birth certificate.
I have come to this place to stay,” translated amateur epigrapher Dixie L. Perkins in The Meaning of the New Mexico Mystery Stone. “The other one met with an untimely death one year ago; dishonored, insulted, and stripped of flesh; the men thought him to be an object of care, whom I looked after, considered crazed, wandering in mind, to be tossed about as if in a wind; to perish, streamed with blood.
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I have visited this rock many times. I am not a scientist or linguist, just a hiker. I will not speculate as to its meaning or origins. I will tell you that I am convinced it is not a hoax in the ordinary sense of the word. The rock is extremely hard, durable, and excrutiatingly difficult to carve or etch. (I have taken samples from the surrounding area just to see how difficult such a task would be.) Also, the area is ravaged by wind and bad weather, blistering heat in the summer months and bitter cold in winter. It is not a comfortable place to spend a week or two etching BS into a rock. Another thing I find remarkable about the place is that the rock sits at the bottom of a ravine that leads up to a mesa, upon which sits the ruins of a clearly identifiable ancient village of some kind, such as those common to Anasazi or Toltec.
There are other etchings and hieroglyphs nearby, most of them are not as deeply carved into the rock, yet it is clear many of them have been there since ancient times. There are also many vandal or hoax etchings in the area, (grafitti) but none of them rival the kind of work that has obviously gone into the inscription of this one peculiar rock. If you visit, please treat the place with respect. It may be a hoax after all, but the sheer amount of effort involved convinces me that whoever did this was very serious about the work regardless of what it says or means.
It says: “Tell the forrest service not to do their control burns in May. It’s windy in May.”
Secret “codes” like that are among the easiest to break. Maybe not by me, but for those who make that sort of thing their lifes’ work.
It looks as if that rock once had a lot of lichens. Crustose lichens, when they get big, are supposedly thousands of years old.
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