Response to Bigfoot Pictograph

[ann]

Hi Chris and All:

I am very much enjoying your reportage. I just found a connection between your first Bigfoot image and an image I found in "A Field Guide to Rock Art Symbols of the Greater Southwest" by Alex Patterson. In this book, a very similar Bigfoot image is represented and identified as "Weeping Eye". You commented in your report that the image you saw had dark streaks under its eyes. There may be more images like this in other locations in the southwest. I'll let you know if I can find any other connections. And thanks very much for your explorations.

Ann
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[ann]

Patterson says that the Weeping Eye Bigfoot is a "rainmaker" because of the streaks underneath the eyes and the straightlines around the hands. Perhaps this definition will work until or unless we have more data. ann
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[chrismaier]

The image of "Weeping Eye" in "A Field Guide to Rock Art Symbols of the Greater Southwest" is actually the same pictograph shown in my report. This book simply reprints the observations of Garrik Mallery from his visit to the site in 1893.

It is interesting to note that Mallery says, "the arms and hands are in the exact position for making the gesture for rain." If you look at the photos I took of the pictograph, you will see long, thin red streaks running from above the creature's head to its chest level. The most obvious interpretation would of course be that these streaks represent rain.

Perhaps this is evidence for the pictograph representing a shaman performing a rain dance?

-Chris Maier
http://www.UnexplainedEarth.com

[ann]

hi chris -- that was my first thought -- that the image represented a shamanistic rain dance. i didnt know that about the book that i have. hope i can find the one you referenced. ann
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