Lizard-Man Sighting at Chaco Canyon Ruins, New Mexico
On May 21, 2008, I continued my personal tour of Chaco Canyon, New Mexico. At 2:00 PM each day, a park ranger or volunteer takes those who are interested on a tour of Pueblo Bonito,
the grandest Pre-Puebloan Indian ruin in all of North America.
Arriving early, I took a self-guided tour around the huge masonry
artifact.
Built, rebuilt and added to from 800 CE to about
1200 CE, the complex was at its peak around 1100 CE, with large
ceremonial kivas, granaries and multi-story dwellings. Excavated and
placed in a state of arrested decay through the
judicious use of concrete and native capstones, one can get a good
feeling for the grand affect that Pueblo Bonito must have had on
tourists and traders in its heyday.
At sundown, many people gather in the great plaza at
Pueblo Bonito, perhaps to soak up the spirituality of the site or to
commune with the souls of those who made this the ceremonial center of a
once-vast culture. At sundown, I prefer the less crowded sites, where
the wind and birds are my only company.
This particular afternoon, I decided to take the
self-guided tour starting at the end of trail, then making my way back
from section to section, “ending at the beginning”, so to speak. My
intuition told me that I might see different things than I would if I
took the same old trail in the same old way.
About
half way around the trail, there was a reward for my iconoclastic
approach to the tour. While people were passing me going the other way,
I came across a huge bolder cleft by its fall from the canyon rim.
Upon it was the image of what I would call “Lizard Man”. Facing west,
into the sun, the profile of a half-human, half-lizard was warming
himself in the afternoon light.Those who say it cannot be true that a spirit
chose to show himself to me that afternoon might want to stick to the
paved roads and sanitized attractions of our ubiquitous theme parks.
There, they can rest assured that even if something looks “real”, it is
probably “real-fake”.
To those who are interested in meeting Lizard Man
or other ancestral Puebloan spirits, take the Pueblo Bonito trail
backwards, in place and time. When you round that corner where he
stands, if he wishes to, he will make himself known. Either way, I
assure that he is there.
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