{"id":2347,"date":"2021-06-15T13:54:23","date_gmt":"2021-06-15T19:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/invertedsky.net\/?p=2347"},"modified":"2021-06-15T14:28:15","modified_gmt":"2021-06-15T20:28:15","slug":"buckhorn-wash-rock-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/invertedsky.net\/?p=2347","title":{"rendered":"Buckhorn Wash Rock-Art"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Maybe it’s obvious to others, but I was struck by an epiphany while pondering the Buckhorn Wash art-rock panel, with its many eras represented.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The epiphany was how the older stuff was universal, spiritual, other worldly. The stuff thousands of years later is more about the tribe: hunting and food. Another 1000 years later, it’s all about the individual who has nothing to offer other than his\/her name and the date they were there; or the heart-shaped outline with two anonymous and banal names contained within. It’s shrunk from worldly, to tribe, to self. What will humans be like in another 1000 years?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Earlier era pictographs. I believe the serpent lines represent lightning. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Rain gods watering the earth?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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My favorite is the second from the left.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Later era petroglyphs<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Looks like one of the horned animals is on its back.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Maybe it’s obvious to others, but I was struck by an epiphany while pondering the Buckhorn Wash art-rock panel, with its many eras represented. The epiphany was how the older stuff was universal, spiritual, other worldly. The stuff thousands of … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[205,206,120],"class_list":["post-2347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-observations","tag-petroglyphs","tag-pictographs","tag-utah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/invertedsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/invertedsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/invertedsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invertedsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invertedsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2347"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/invertedsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2354,"href":"https:\/\/invertedsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2347\/revisions\/2354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/invertedsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invertedsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invertedsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}