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.
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