Chapter 1. What Are We Looking For? San Bernardino’s lost mega-art is meant to be read and taught by a trained shaman to a Native raised in their common culture, before the Spanish mission system. (Figure 1. Is a Native Mega-Art panel photo with outlined photo inserts of Hummingbird hovering on the bottom left and Roadrunner attacking top left, all found in center of main photograph.) I will do my best to explain some of the old artistic vision inspired by these huge ancient writings or mega-glyphic art. Then using photographs the reader can recreate the vision-questing observation style and focal placement. I will also present the ancient arts significance to the people in Southern California and their common creation history. This mixing of art and history should alter your view of the San Bernardino Mountains and foothills and how the local natives utilized them. I believe in the past some 100,000 B.C.E to 1800 C.E. when Western Expansion took over and most likely in periods of moderate climatic intervals. The local natives were in full control of the North American Southwest. These modern humans had the same mental and physical skills as us and had a superior understanding and adaptation to this resource rich area. Westerners believe in the concept of the wild, but is this a reality for peoples that have lived in a place for so long? I mean to give credit, where the credit is due. In my opinion this was not the wild for the local natives. Southern California was the spot they were created, loved, sang, danced, and survived for many thousands of years near the cold and hot springs. Could local peoples, in one of the good climatic intervals, create a civilization here using and trading all the incredible resources available? The answer is yes they did and now we must open our eyes, to see the mega-art and ancient culture left behind. This native art could have represented many things including creation history, astrological signs, calendar ritual timing, bird and sheep songs, musical notes, and other things related to native life. In A.L. Kroeber’s book written in 1925, Handbook of the Indians of California: Chapter 46; The Luiseño; Elements Of Civilizations; Shamnism; pg. 681, he mentions an old Luiseño story of shaman receiving songs from a rock or the mountain. “There is, it is true, one Luiseño statement to of the effect that the shamans dream of “a rock, a mountain, a person, or something similar” and receive songs from this object of their dream. But this reference is too vague to count for much. The mountain or person might be mythological, as among the Mohave; that is, an ancient bestowing divinity rather than a present and controllable spirit.” The local native shaman could read the mega-art on the hills and teach others while vision-questing and reading the ways life the bird songs and sheep songs should be spent. This mega-glyphic art will eventually help prime, a paradigm shift in southern California anthropological thought, as we stop using the primitive local Indians theory. Taking on this task, is taking on a moral responsibility. I must stay within the realm of local Native probability. This means to me No “Zebras” or “UFO’s” interpretations, as these tangents would diminish the Native recognition the art deserves. So when searching for mega-glyphic art it should represent the native biosphere, natural phenomena, and local cultural concepts. There are some possibilities for Ice Age fauna and flora designs, but no conclusive find of this type of art has been made yet. I have discovered while searching for mega-glyphic art designs, local fauna and flora such as animals, reptiles, fish, birds, and oaks. The types of natural phenomena I have seen are shooting stars, star alignments, and thunderstorms. The interesting cultural art I have seen is humans wearing masks and shields representing the First People, a shaman blowing smoke three times, and a human figure swinging a bull-roarer. What I am explaining is that staying within the local native guidelines, will help when searching for new or previously discovered mega-glyphic art.
Posted on: Sat, 27 Dec 2014 21:23:05 +0000
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