Album Rock Art and Ruins

Capitol Reef, Pleasant Creek

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intuitive cat said:
flute players? looks like they are riding sticks to me (witches? ;) )- not a single one is in a mouth.
it's like saying concentric circles are spirals. or that watercourse maps are snakes.
they aren't. and that is what makes rock art so interesting. :)

really like the panel though. wonder what exactly they are up to.
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Just because the flute isn't in their mouth doesn't mean it's not a flute.;) Actually, the "flute" is really a detachable penis that the kokopelli uses to impregnate young women. Whoever made this panel was most likely wanting to have children or maybe telling a story of how they became pregnant. There is a personage with big(swollen) hands, feet, and what appears to be an enlarged midsection just out of these frames(I think I have a better picture on flickr). But you're right, we'll never know exactly what was being portrayed. :D

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I'm not going to get into discussing weather they are flutes or staffs in the panel, but I will state that the panel has long been known as 'The Supplication Panel' before a certain beta site called it the 'Kokopelli Panel'

That's causing a lot of people to believe they are flutes.
 
IntrepidXJ said:
Snake-in-Mouth Panel


Snake-in-Mouth Alcove by IntrepidXJ, on Flickr
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I was hear just last Friday but didn't make the ascent up to this. I just shot it from below with my telephoto because I had my son in a backpack and had just hiked about 5 miles in this canyon visiting some other panels. That sandy wash is a bugger to hike in...especially carrying 30lbs of kid/gear.
 
Deadeye008 said:
The road was closed when we were there on Friday. Do they close it periodically?
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I've never seen it closed before.

I just checked the travel management map to make sure they didn't close it recently, but it shows up on there as an open route.
 
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