You’d never know this was here until you spotted it from above. This is an almost-forgotten Mojave formation near the Colorado River. The most famous rock art in the Southwest is typically on cliffs, but indigenous people left behind intaglios, too. This was a maze intended to protect returning warriors from bad spirits, letting only the good rise to heaven. Because it doesn’t look like much from the ground, it’s understandable that this intaglio was overlooked and split in half by development and highway construction decades ago. But still a shame to let it fade into obscurity as we whiz on by on the freeway.
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