Judaculla Rock
My dear friend Luz and I took a road trip ‘off-mountain’ today.
One of the places we went was located fairly close to Sylva, North Carolina. Sort of amazingly, we tracked down a field in which a substantial soapstone boulder, known as Judaculla Rock, can be found off an obscure dirt road guarded by half a dozen massive bovine protectors.
Photo – L. Weikel
The rock is covered with petroglyphs that are thought to be as many as 3,000 years old.
Photo – L. Weikel
They’re weird looking. Not your average ‘spear a mastodon’ type of petroglyph, nor the type that make it obvious what anyone our ancestors might have been trying to convey.
To me, the figures look decidedly otherworldly – or at least not much of anything that would be readily hanging around in a field surrounded by the Balsam Mountains 3,000 years ago.
See what you think:
Photo – L. Weikel
My mesa was pretty stoked to have a chance to sit on this stone and synchronize itself to this ancient being’s vibrations.
My mesa sitting beside the “hand print” of the fabled Judaculla; Photo – L. Weikel
There’s so much out there in our world that we simply cannot explain. This is one of those objects.
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