Random Picture Thread

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Elephant and human foot bones...

 

Rails East to Promontory: The Utah Stations (Historial Sketch) https://www.nps.gov/parkhistory/online_books/blm/ut/8/sec1.htm

 

Walla Walla County, Washington. Farmer and the mules which pull the combine through the wheat fields Photo: Russell Lee
Human tragedy of the Great Depression http://erroluys.com/greatdepressionarchive25.html

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1955 Film of Cutting Open The Copper Scroll https://dqcaas.com/2016/11/24/1953-film-of-cutting-open-of-the-copper-scroll/

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Wow, I just got caught up on the last 8-pages, amazing stuff, real quality.

The Elephant Vs Goose video was extra entertaining.

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I looked back and learned that only Christians had spoked wheels. Amazing. That must be a Bishop's car.

 

Wait ... what?

 

Yeah, me too. It's in the post below the petroglyphs.
Random Picture Thread https://www.boatdesign.net/threads/random-picture-thread.11052/page-551
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They could have used spell check or at least a competent proof reader.

 

This is curious. I guess what's being proclaimed is back in 1907 Misters Dashell and Donohoe were pretty excited to be the first people to grow watermelons and canteloupes in Falfurrias, Texas, since there's been watermelons grown in the New World since the 1600's. And then you wonder if there's even any watermelons in the boxcars. With all the white hats it could be a group of lawmen setting a trap, some sort of early sting operation.

 

I believe they were claiming the first harvested in the "Uniteid States" for the year of 1907. They just could not put all that on their banners I suppose.

 

I try not to interact with some folks as it's pointless, but when things are posted that seem backward...
This photo was posted and a following comment was

My thoughts were "What, only Christians had spoked wheels? wagon trains were only full of Christians?" Another poster seemed to echo that thought.
Eventually I noticed all the crosses and saw the connection of Christian religion with the 'spoked wheel'.
In the meantime individual 1 answered

So I googled around a little bit.


"Wheels" as such were not unknown to true Americans, the Native Americans.
This medicine wheel in the Bighorn National Forest is dated to 7,000 years ago, way before the arrival of WASPs.



The most recent pictograph (below) on the "Newspaper Rock" in Utah is 900 years old and so this 'spoked wheel' is obviously not concerned with sophisticated Europeans.
Note the 6 'spokes' on the one below, the 6 positions on the one above, and the single inner spot on both. Note also the lack of crucifixes.



Crucifixes do appear in later pictographs, but nowhere in the amount shown in the photo at the top of this post, where the rock is littered with them. They're also not too old and they are usually a bit stylized as below.



Looking just a little deeper at religious wheels, I find "Cristian Prayer Wheel"s in various forms. Compare them to the alleged "spoked (wagon) wheel" in the top photo.



Taking all that into consideration, my conclusion is the top photo in this post is not a depiction of what Native Americans saw and recorded and not so much Native Americans left so in awe by the preachings and teachings of a passing wagon train of resolute Christians that they had to Witness in stone, but as graphic evidence of passing Christians vandalizing and defacing Native American artifacts by chiseling a Christian prayer wheel and numerous crucifixes all over it, more than likely in the hope of protection from Native Americans, but also possibly as a kind of "Screw you, Redskin Heathens" graffiti.

So, in a way, "Whoever drew that knew Christians who traveled on spoked wheels." could be perfectly true.

My bad.

YMMV

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Here's some more grasping at straws Anglicizing and misappropriating of native cultures and artifacts...
Popularly known as "The Sisteen Chapel Of The West", The Great Gallery of Horseshoe Canyon located in Utah is 200 feet long with life size images.



Way on the left hand side is a panel typically called "The Holy Ghost And His Companions".



The newest pictograph is more than 900 years old, so unless you can believe Native Americans had a seat at The First Council of Nicaea hashing out the particulars of the Arian controversy, to label these sites "The Sisteen Chapel Of The West" or "The Holy Ghost And His Companions" is very rude and demeaning.

 

Due to other activities I'm just lurking around here every now and then nowadays, but must say that's a master analysis of the spoked wheel petroglyphs Sam, and a lot of insight in the next post as well, thanks . . .

First we had the Wasps, then the WASPs came in, and eventually the W.A.S.P.s came to us, the latter is a revolution for the better I think, especially for the residual original petroglyphs, as that band rocks the hell out of ya ! , but again YMMV . . .

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↓ W.A.S.P. - Show No Mercy - (1984) - in the lyrics 2 × ‘‘ white anglo saxon, a violent reaction ’’

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Movies in this 2017 clip: Raising Arizona (1987), Mad Max (1979), Mad Max - The Road Warrior (1981), Mad Max - Beyond Thunderdome (1985), Mad Max - Fury Road (2015)

 

1. I never said that only Christians had spoked wheels.
2. Cabeza de Vaca was the first one in the region with wheel technology.
3. Native Americans were introduced to the wheel by the Conquistadores.
4. Don't try to twist my words. I am perfectly able to twist them myself.

Early Conquistadors Explore the Southwest http://arizonaexperience.org/remember/early-conquistadors-explore-southwest