Friday, November 7, 2008

To Effigy or not to Effigy

I recently posted a new site on Rock Piles, a place I visited last spring, but missed the best site on the top of the mountain.

This is a structure I found in this same general vicinity. Leading up the mountain, some rocks on a boulder. Here is a side view. When I find something like this, I'm always looking for an effigy:

Here's a view from the top. For a long time, I thought this doesn't look like anything I can relate to:
But now, I'm wondering...
...if this looks like:

This image is from Jodrell Bank Observatory.

Well, it's known commonly as Orion, but some call him Long Sash.

2 comments:

Tim MacSweeney said...

The Mayan called it the "Great Turtle." The crack in its back, what we call the Belt, was where the world was created from. I think I have some old posts about that...

theseventhgeneration said...

Thanks for the comment and reference! I found your post here: Waking Up on Turtle Island
This is so interesting because I've been finding "turtles" here and there along that ridge that seems to have hints of celestial parallels. Before I finished reading your second post ("Speck and Pleiades"), I said to myself "mounds!!" when talking about the seven stones.