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March 5, 2016
The Long-Ago Shamans of Death Valley: Vision Quests and Magical Rites
– probably the reason why any trace of them survives at all. They are ritual and magical features left by long-ago shamans, probably of the ancestral Pima and Shoshone peoples, and they are fragile, so much so that their precise locations are not advertised. Indeed, only a few archaeologists have visited them, and then only rarely. I had to work from what I had been able to gather from obscure sources and personal guidance to find any of them, and so I quite often found myself standing at features I knew no one had seen for many years, possibly for decades. | Ancient Origins
Posted by gerardvanderleun at March 5, 2016 3:23 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
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Maybe. From what I've read and heard it's best to take any interpretation of a Death Valley phenomenon with a grain of salt.
Posted by: BillH at March 6, 2016 7:16 AM