Monthly Archives: October 2017

“Black Hole Sun” Pictographs Part III – Black Hole Sun

In the previous two segments on this pictograph site, found within a larger habitation complex in the Eastern Sierra foothills in Kawaiisu territory, I talked about how I came across the site, and what elements can be found on the left-hand part of the panel.

Now it is time to look at the last part of the panel, and then look at the panel as a whole.

I’ll note now that this site does have some interaction with the sun at significant times of the year such as the winter solstice, as documented by other visitors. I haven’t had a look at the site at suitable times yet, so I can’t yet comment on it in that regard! I’ve had some unfortunate adventures with two other “solstice” sites to date ( you can read all about the Diamond Solstice site or the Shooting Star site, if you like! ) and those were at dawn on a summer day when the only bad thing was waking up at 4am … there are no Starbucks locations close to any of these sites and I’m not much of a morning person! Then again, I’m not much of a person for resisting interesting things either, so … check back for more occasionally! I may well have shown up on a mid-winter’s day to see what happens then.

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“Black Hole Sun” Pictographs Part II – Catcher On The Wall

In Part One of this series on the “Black Hole Sun” pictograph panel I talk about how I discovered this pictograph panel in Kawaiisu territory in the eastern Sierra foothills and also showed an overview of the panel itself. Now, I would like to take a look at the left hand side of that panel and the elements that can be seen there.

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