Every day we are employed in the manipulation and recognition of symbols. We take for granted a vast dictionary of wordless definitions of archetypal imagery like dream beads on the intimate necklace of self-awareness. This mirror of experience has been looked into by every person and expressed in every way possible. Language is supported by this vocabulary of images and experience, just as sound is supported by silence. The internationally known recording artist, Sting, was quoted [in Reader's Digest] as remarking that “Great music’s as much about the space between the notes as it is about the notes themselves”.

             The invisible landscape which connects us lies hidden behind our eyes. We go out the back door,  play and sample this dream sandbox of collective consciousness all the time.  Dreamland is a concept  found in cultures around the earth from time immemorial and is no more a fossil or irrelevant antiquity, than you or I.

            What does any of this have to do with Petroglyphs?  The Rock Art images of Hawai'i are Prehistoric Icons on the desktop of the largest volcano on earth. Visual vocabularies representing Prayers invoked for long life, procreation and fertility, prosperity and protection. I imagine our ancestors had many of the same thoughts and feelings we experience. The biggest difference between prehistory and our contemporary time is that was then and this is now.

  Intelligence will never be transmitted by words alone.  Symbols stare back at us from our computer keyboards and traffic signs.    Conclusions

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