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jbeegoode

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Agua Fria: A Trip Report
« on: October 28, 2016, 10:43:14 AM »
I just posted the next leg of our trip to the Bradshaw Mountains for the FRN regional gathering. After we left the area, we stopped in the Agua Fria National Monument to check out a recommended spot with water. It was on the way home. It was an amazing spot:
https://thefreerangenaturist.org/2016/10/28/agua-fria-a-trip-report/
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Re: Agua Fria: A Trip Report
« Reply #1 on: October 29, 2016, 02:15:09 PM »
Two thoughts arising from reading that blog post, Jbee

1) How sad and frustrating that the messages of petroglyphs remain hidden to modern eyes and understandings. On my one visit to petroglyphs around Lake Powell, the guide explained some of the efforts being made to decipher them, with little success.  How wonderful it would be to be able to read their meanings and understand the mind of those thousands of year old people.

2) A quotation from you about the trip "Each moment is wonderful" - I can definitely agree with that even though all I have of the experience is in the reading of the report. It exudes from the text and pictures!

John

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Re: Agua Fria: A Trip Report
« Reply #2 on: October 29, 2016, 09:32:59 PM »
It is gratifying to know that I have communicated what I had the intention to do. Thank-you for that.

It is a challenge to express things like the senses, or the experience in FRN activities, which is the intent of the website, to inform what it is, encourage and show how to liberate people.
Jbee
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Re: Agua Fria: A Trip Report
« Reply #3 on: October 30, 2016, 11:19:11 PM »
We have visited petroglyph sites in Nevada, Utah and Colorado and all of them appear, to my untrained eye, to be from different cultures. According to an archaeologist we know in the area they have no clue what any of them mean.

Some can be identified as to what they are, but not what they mean. Others are so foreign that the meaning is simply unknown.

The Indian cultures didn't use a written language like we do. All we know comes from translations by anthropologists that spoke with surviving tribal members who knew the oral histories of the tribes.

They don't know if it's a message or just teenager graffiti.

Duane