Researchers: We may have found a fabled sunstone (Update)

Phys.org ^ | 08 March 2013 | Raphael Satter

[okie01]

I might add that I myself have viewed some of the "historical record".

Some years ago, I visited the Three Rivers Petroglyphs in New Mexico -- between Carrizozo and Tularosa, at the foot of the Sacramento Mtns overlooking the Tularosa Basin.

Three Rivers

The site is a jumble of igneous rocks and boulders, generally about 3-5 ft high. The petroglyphs themselves are in profusion, but faded and somewhat indistinct -- to see them well, you really have to let your eyes adjust.

At one point, I sat down to rest in the shade of one boulder and looked at the boulders opposite that were highlighted by direct sun.

Suddenly, the faint forms fell into sharp focus. And one of the glyphs that stood out was a Viking ship in profile -- the high prow and stern, the square sail, the row of round shields along the gunwales.

The Three Rivers petroglyphs reportedly date to 1000-1400 AD. How did such an accurate depicition of a Viking ship appear in Southern New Mexico during this period if someone hadn't actually seen one?

[Fred Nerks]

excerpt: Remaining in the Pacific Northwest, the question naturally arises as to whether representations of the "Sisuitl" might exist among the many petroglyphs in the region. Bearing in mind two things - firstly, the crocodilian snout plus the large eyes, and secondly, that an exact match with a Viking figurehead would be extremely difficult to emulate - its nevertheless seems that some examples of "Sea-Monster" petroglyphs do exist in this context, such as those found at Sproat Lake near Barkley Sound and Nanaimo. Oddly enough, in casting about for a suitable match, one of the most complex figureheads found was that used on the "Sigrid Storrada replica Viking Ship (lower right inset, Figure 7-1b below; Defunct link: http://www.sigrid-storrada.com/ ). This figurehead along with that of another working replica, the Danish Vikingship Helge Ask (lower left insert) are compared below with "Sea-monster" petroglyphs at Nanaimo on the east central coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia:

SPIROSOLARIS LINK

[okie01]

Fascinating, Fred.

Did the "long ships" actually make it to Vancouver Island...???

Or did an adventurous Viking somehow make his way from Lake Winnipeg to the Pacific coast...???

[Fred Nerks]

http://www.spirasolaris.ca/sbb4g1bv3.html

It’s been a while since I first read all of this website, maybe the answer is there in part. There’s a fascinating section on Easter Island also, it shows structures that are remeniscent of structures on the island of St Kilda, in the Atlantic, off the New Hebredes. I’m inclined to think the Vikings (I think of them as Norwegan sailors) owned the oceans in the Northern hemisphere.

[Fred Nerks]

Sorry, I meant the OUTER Hebredes

It's on the island of St Kilda, not shown on the map, that one finds undated structures such as this, named cleits, supposedly constructed for storage of goodness knows what:

Which appear in similar appearance to structures found on Easter Island, described as chicken coops!

[Fred Nerks]

EASTER ISLAND STONE STRUCTURES.

Note the large man-made WHARF!

[SunkenCiv]