Posted on 09/17/2011 3:24:59 PM PDT by NYer
The native American medicine wheel is an example of the reoccurring tradition of the mandala in world religions. The mandala is a sacred circle which is also one of the most reoccurring physical shapes in the universe. It is the circle of life, which is eternal.
Actually it’s the symbol of the quartering of the
universe into active and passive principles.
Maybe a Neolithic bullet drop compensator?
Or the Neolithic bullet drop compensators are actually "surveyor marks" on the political landscape.
Go to Google Earth coordinates 31°15’39.02” N 36°27’53” E (part of Jordan)
Pull in to about 3,500’ altitude, and look about 75 yards east of the crosshair: you’ll see some very interesting circular & spiral lines. Most—not all— of them are in pairs, an ‘inner’ & an ‘outer’; most are closed circles, though there are open spirals & other shapes.
Each of the paired lines line are about 18-20” wide; and the pairs are about 6-7’ from outside edge of the outer to the inside edge of the inner, leaving a clear “aisle” of about 36” between them. The inside-inside diameters are mainly 20-25’ across.
If you do a slightly higher sweep —5,000 t0 6,000’— of the larger surrounding area, (it shows up as a darker square than the rest of the area at 20 miles altitude) on Google Earth you can find more singles and groups, as well as other simple shapes.
Hahaha, was watching “Road to Utopia” the other night.
Bing,”...don’t be facetious.”
Hope,”You’re the one bringing politics into this.”
Yeah, desert graffiti. I'll bet at least one of them says something like "Abdul wuz here" in ancient hieroglyphics.
That way the animals can warn them of the approach of marauders or lions, et al.
Maybe they built or grew a double wall of thorn bushes along the sweeps ~ to keep out the cats.
Remember, they used to have some pretty nasty predators around this wadi, and it hasn't always been a wadi. Sometimes it was a year round river.
Somebody somewhere has a date when the Sahara dried up ~ so did this part of the Arabian peninsula (5000 BC perhaps), and paleontologists have figured out when the big cats were driven out (by famine) to the degree humans with herds could move in during warm, wet periods.
There are some here too, one in WY or Montana, a circle, over an empty mound of some sort. It’s from the “old” people, before “us”.
No, that’s not true. God promised Adam a woman who would do his will and men like him, in every corner of the world. Then God made the world round.
They keep coming back with the herds, leaving their mark (due to vegetative decay). Finally the 18 year clock ticks on and then they set up another camp nearby. This goes on for a couple of thousand years you eventually get a build up of rocks (to hold down the tent flaps during bad weather), and more and more decayed vegetative discoloration ~ plus, they sweep the little rocks out of the area.
American Indians customarily would live in their long houses for a period of years, then build new long houses elsewhere and burn the old ones to the ground.
It gets rid of the more aggressive lice and cockroaches.
In more luxurious times the guys living in tents might well have burned the old ones on site every now and then. That'd give you some photoreactive chemistry stirred up to help discolor the ground.
BTW, i'm thinking about things like this constantly these days figuring out what signs the earliest Spanish settlers in Virginia left behind. The written record is "thin" ~ to say the least ~ but the more aggressive Iroquois moved into this region between the Shenandoah Valley and the Algonquian people who lived along the Potomac and the Cheseapeake Bay back in the 1500s.
The Iroquois were always pretty good about making deals with Europeans and actually played the middle man part of traders in the fur trade. Elsewhere Europeans played that role.
What that means is there should be TRACES of extensive Iroquois stockades and long house complexes ~ modified with Spanish Technology ~ like cut stone. So, where are they and what might remain 300 years later.
Remember, the Iroquois wouldn't be living out in the open in flimsy tents ~ if they could help it.
Interesting.
This is AFTER THE HARVEST ~ and shows you what's on the thinner ground in this upland area.
Interesante eh?
+38° 51' 7.79", -77° 46' 13.72"
Sand blows around the place so if you abandon your camp for a century or so when you come back its covered with sand.
I see what I believe are well worn paths to hunting areas downhill of this site. And ONE "raven" ~ which is probably more recent.
“Fred Flintstone’s SUV”
ROFL
Hm, these things might be a little tricky to blow up.
America’s Cerne Abbas? ;-’)
ping
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Nothing to see here folks, just ordinary random structures as found everyday in a random universe. Theories of evolution don’t only apply to living creatures, they also apply to structures like this. No intelligence behind these what so ever. Nope...
The bird(?) like figure is very interesting. Is that the remains of a flying eagle?
But not as intrigueing as the more obliterated figure(s) in the next field to the NNE. That one looks a bit like the feet of a man on horseback; and the remains of the mane of the horse he was riding over a jump. The cows grazing in the pasture have pretty much destroyed what could have been a major future archaeological mystery!
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