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Prehistoric art found in Colombian jungle



A British wildlife film-maker has returned from one of the most inaccessible parts of the world with extraordinary footage of ancient rock art that has never been filmed or photographed before. In an area of Colombia so vast and remote that contact has still not been made with some tribes thought to live there, Mike Slee used a helicopter to film hundreds of paintings depicting hunters and animals believed to have been created thousands of years ago. He said: “We had crews all over the place and helicopters filming all over Colombia. As a photographer, Francisco Forero Bonell discovered and took the pictures for my movie.” The extraordinary art includes images of jaguar, crocodiles and deer. They are painted in red, on vertical rock faces in Chiribiquete national park, a 12,000 square kilometre Unesco world heritage site that is largely unexplored. There are also paintings of warriors or hunters dancing or celebrating. “It is the land that time forgot,” Slee told the Observer. June 20 http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/20/colombia-wilderness-film-maker-prehistoric-rock-art







Chiribiquete National Natural Park, the largest national park in Colombia, is located close to the city San José del Guaviare. Shown here is the chart for the New Moon for San José del Guaviare.  The New Moon is semisquare Venus (art) on the Ascendant . It is also opposite the TNP Cupido[1] which Martha Wescott relates to “décor, artistry and sense of art”.

On the MC [15ta] are stars of Eridanus.  Diana Rosenberg links this area with “discoveries of prehistoric art” [2]. Eridanus was an ancient celestial river. As a symbol, a river relates to the creative power of nature and time and everything transitory: the flux of the world and the irreversible passage of time.  Unlike earthly rivers, Eridanus is depicted flowing upstream symbolizing a return to the past. Archaeological discoveries are, therefore, quite appropriate under stars of Eridanus.


[2] Secrets of the Ancient Skies; Diana K. Rosenberg (v.1, p.170-71)

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