See those lines coming out of the petroglyphs in the first picture? They're called "power lines" . .. I don't know if that's their official title, but that's what the people I was with called them. See how they're even coming off the guys fingers? Isn't that cool? I don't think anyone really knows what they mean.
That's me sitting in front of a small cave that people probably lived in about a thousand years ago. There are petroglyphs on the rock wall behind me.
The third picture is the most interesting . . . although not visually. What you see . . . or kind of see . . . has been done with a chisel. Why? Because some Native Americans believe that these petroglyphs (some of them) still have a lot of power. So, when a family member becomes sick, they go find the petroglyph that they think is causing the sickness, and they destroy it. Although it destroys wonderful petroglyphs that are like a thousand years old (or so), I find it fascinating. It also makes me happy that they are keeping to their own true spiritual practices instead of being indoctrinated into following "Western-type" religions.
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