A New World Monument to Mithras - Old News documentary

Southeastern Colorado is
home to a large number of
petroglyphs exhibiting many styles,
some with solar alignments. We
have found dozens of sites with
solar alignments. Nearly all are of
Native American origin. (See
Figure 33 in Addendum.) The three
sites, we have chosen to describe
here have been termed the Anubis
Caves, Crack Cave and the Sun
Temple . While the last two sites
memorialize important, solar and
celestial events, the Anubis Caves’
sequential alignments operate on
the equinoxes and summer solstice
as part of a Mithraic Temple known
as a Mithraeum. It can be argued,
because of the absence of a clear
Figure 2. Ted and Alma Barker, in front of the entrance to
Crack Cave. They have worked tirelessly to locate petroglyphs and
share their knowledge of them with others.
representation of the bull slaying scene frequently displayed in late Mithraea, we
actually have a Mithraic monument. The engravings reveal to the initiate something of
what he must learn.
Figure 3. The Sun Temple. A. Sun Ring petroglyph. B. Shallow Cave. C. Noble Twins Ogam. D.
Untranslated Ogam-like inscription. E. Tree Ogam. Drawing by Jan McConnell.
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