Guardian, Thompson Springs, Sego Canyon

Morn­ing, night or after­noon you never know how the sun will treat images on stone when you finally get there.

South of Sego Springs and across the river — when you look back from the south bank of the Col­orado (20 miles east of Moab), you see these square shoul­dered, robed spir­its com­ing out of the val­ley away in the dis­tance, below.

Seen them before?  Well, maybe… actu­ally, yes:  in the Great Gallery in Horse­shoe Canyon.

The left-most panel con­tains The Holy Ghost group­ing of life size fig­ures.  The Holy Ghost him­self is tall, straight robed, square shoul­dered.  Like these forms below.

There are many the­o­ries about the Holy Ghost image.  My the­ory is he came from here.

So, why didn’t the 2 Old Men in a Jeep get closer and take a decent pic­ture?  The trail was blocked off by a movie com­pany from Hol­ly­wood, Cal­i­for­nia.  Their secu­rity guard did not speak Eng­lish, French or Japan­ese.  So we left and found a dude ranch, which took us in for lunch.

Canyon Lands, near Moab, Utah, 2010