Ancient messages
carved into stone
What is their meaning?
The Paiute may know.
~
Warriors and shaman
celebrating the hunt,
family stories
symbolically unfold.
~
Listen carefully
to the wailing of the wind.
Mother Earth’s impassioned plea ~
“Stop destroying
my gifts, my beauty.
If you continue,
barren soon I will be.”
~
The skies open
as the rains begin.
Mother Earth chanting
her song of sorrow.
© LuAnn Oburn 2012
Chidago Canyon, roughly a 30-45 minute drive northeast of Bishop, CA is where you will find The Volcanic Tableland, a wide expanse of far-flung boulders and deep ravines formed 700,000 years ago, when clouds of ash and rock were spewed forth from volcanic activity in Long Valley.
A few petroglyphs can be seen at Fish Slough, but travel a little further down the road to see the larger panels of these ancient carved rocks at Chidago Canyon and Red Rocks Canyon.
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