13 Moon & Cistern Chapel Petroglyph Sites, Bishop - California

[@claimtofame373]

Thank you Alex for another wonderful video from our Native American Brothers! Very beautiful place with so much mystery, and history.❤💯🖐👏👏

[@ginaevlogs]

Alex. Thank you so much for another incredible video. I love your peaceful energy and the music you use. I can tell you put a lot of time and research into these videos. It is much appreciated.

[@gregkester9075]

Alex I always enjoy you sharing your treks, especially when you are on the eastern slope of the Sierra. Thank you!

[@myronbenware8779]

I enjoy ALL of your videos. Full of information and very relaxing.

[@thebeautifulhobo1]

The Owens Valley is loaded with Petroglyphs. A practise, which is now forbidden, was chalking the carvings with colored chalk to take prints and more easily identify the carvings. Possibly the coloring you are identifying was from former study of the area. However, there are pictographs as well.

[@tomjones413]

Alex, I love the music you do with your podcast. I think it’s the best I’ve seen or heard anywhere else. Thank you.

[@mrrec0very956]

Always look forward to your videos! Thanks!

[@smileawhile3788]

Thank you so much for showing us these amazing pieces of forgotten but important parts of our history. 🙏💞 I wonder if a filter or infrared camera would show any remaining traces of paint? Thanks again

[@RandomGuy-qm3mg]

Thanks so much Alex for sharing such an interesting site. One day I hope to visit that site myself. Living in Southern California and spending a lot of time in the Eastern Sierra that area still stuns me. The visual between the Sierras and White Mountains is just incredible. So interesting to see the globes in other sites near the 13 Moons, I haven't seen the Cistern Chapel mentioned before. Calendar or commemorating a significant event like a birth, death or wedding? Fun to speculate! Understandable the location is secret so I'll have to be determined to enjoy the journey there when the weather cools.

[@davidjohnson7484]

I love the enhanced pictures. Some things really pop out. Good job!

[@blukeblue1235]

Thanks for another great adventure. I haven't seen painted petroglyphs before. That's very interesting. I have seen a few petroglyphs before and whenever I first see them I get a strange feeling that is a mix of awe, excitement and a little spookiness. I can't really describe it but I bet you know what I mean.

[@ShelleeGraham]

Great video, Alex. Thanks so much. Enjoyed the pictoglyphs (petroglyph + pictograph), showing regular view, enhanced view and hand drawing images. Nice 👍 job.

[@janebeckman3431]

I do wonder what kind of shelters went with those ring foundations. And what were the ancients trying to communicate with these carvings? Stories? Water? Weather events? Maps? Spiritual concepts? Thank you for yet another fascinating adventure!

[@rsavre1]

Thank you Alex, you have inspired my wife and I to seek them out as we travel.

[@afineday1]

Quite a trek in that heat. Thank you for sharing this.

[@mohamedalkurdi643]

Alex . Thank you for this informative video . The engravings were marvelous .

[@markgibsons_SWpottery]

Good video! I think there is some lost information in these timeless pieces of art! I like to imagine these places with tall trees and ample precipitation, like it was for some time! Thanks for taking us!

[@bcbconklin]

Good one, Alex. Thank you.

[@jigold22571]

Fascinating. Thank You. 💐

[@Beingnessing]

Reminds me of the famous woodblock a d paintings of the war above Nuremberg and also what was depicted over basil

[@Ed-ym4tu]

Fascinating. I always laugh imagining these were done by children and here we are trying to make sense of them.

[@HarleyRunner]

They are very old. Oldest. Like they started to write on rocks here then spread out. . Practice. At places of origin.. Numic spread from this area . Proof of this.

[@Teresa18565]

Love your work,Alex. Touches my soul.

[@jerijames2876]

INTERESTING!! My sister in law lives in Bishop.

[@zeynelocak9557]

Dear Alex your works so important for mankind .Petroglyphs are first written stage of human thinking than comes writing and current stage.What’s missing is global investigation of petroglyphs.Otherwise we can not see a whole true picture.Thanks a lot.

[@harirao12345]

Awesome Alex! I have been to 13 moons .. fantastic site!

[@janjohannessmith7033]

Just fascinating!, Thank you so much Alex ,for showing us this sacred past, that is not erased at all! Your presentation of the scarce evidence, of a hunter-gatherer Stone age peoples,.. who scratched a portrayal of an event, long ago, in my interpretation ,when their everywhere Spirit was compelled by prophecy, to travel across the universes and appear before these people's, and a test, verily! Verily it is so! Thus I heard! And then these primitive Stone age people's would behold their creators in front of them in their interstellar ship! And the world honored one was an accompanied by Entourage, of resplendent golden transcendent beings,, singing the song of life with ravishing voices. 'Who are these golden beings that come from the parted skies, so filled with light and brightness?.. what booming voice is emanating from this fire tower before us?" The booming voice replied, "we are none other than your former disciples from across the universe, by time., When one or any common mortal in any major world system declares the true mystic law, then instantly! We appear! Verily, verily! It is so! Deleting disciple uttered,"since the remote past,, I too, practice the bodhisattva austerities, the lifetime I then attained?, Has yet to be expired! Know!,, This entire three-fold world domain,,, and all of the sentient beings dwelling within it in all of their mortal karmas, are all of my children! "At the end of the age, when all is consumed in conflagration, this land the eternal land, remains pure and undefiled through the three existences of past present and future. It cannot be burned by fire or washed away by water. Where is this pure land, it is where the common mortal sits and sets his sight upon emancipation!""

[@jamesbingham4538]

How well protected is this site? Can the scumbags be kept from finding this sacred place?

[@russellfraser9826]

The g.p.s. coordinate has been removed, which I appreciate. It takes some exploring to find, and sky rock is nearby. I have coordinances but won't give them out. I have been in and around Bishop many years, many amazing sites if you're willing to explore. Leave no trace.

[@pyromilk]

Someone already used concrete tools to cut them off.

[@anewman1]

Fantastic!

[@astrogypsy]

Cistern Chapel! I google and YT searched and see that term no where else. If I ever start another dive bar band, that's the name.

[@LoamReaper]

Pretty sure he meant Sistene Chapel, lol.

[@astrogypsy]

@@LoamReaper Maybe- I'll watch it in full later, but if you appreciate that sort of blasphemy humor, it's a good one.

[@LoamReaper]

@@astrogypsy Turns out it is Cistern Chapel, beause of the water that collects in spots. It's a pretty good play on words!

[@astrogypsy]

@@LoamReaper Yea I watched it and got that, but still, if I ever have another ditch band, that's the name. lol.

[@Lordperson3]

I can show you a ton of those house circles around bishop! I know where a bunch are

[@shatterstar913]

I'd love to go. Take me

[@peterbedford2610]

Thanks

[@TheSlimej]

A few of these are representations of plasma discharge. Stickman variations and phases of some kind of plasma event.

[@michaeleveleth7979]

Was wondering if you have study along the Snake River Plain in Idaho

[@SamanthaTollstam]

Those are trees, a fence/ stick barricade, and I'm not sure if the block is the city layout or a makeshift stick tower.

[@philipcallicoat3147]

It's evident the people who used the stones to prepare the food grains, lived a very basic and tough life.

[@zeynelocak9557]

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[@makesmefeellikeatalltree8250]

Alex. Please refer to Chris McDowell YT channel for this - it's fantastic: The Rochester Rock Art Panel sits at the end of a peninsula of rock surrounded by an ocean of green vegetation at the bottom of a pretty canyon in the San Rafael Swell. This panel is pretty accessible by the ordinary street car and a pleasant 0.5mi hike.

[@Beingnessing]

Wow.the 13 moons looks like a cataclysms

[@ratchetboo]

LET'S GO!!!

[@ram2791]

that the Tardis?

[@goldenpeanuts9]

amazing thank you view 999

[@zeynelocak9557]

Hello this is Zeynel from Turkey Did you see saymalıtaş petroglifs

[@robertmcmanus636]

So cool! Thanks again for your videos. Have you found any further information on cup marks? Are the ones in the video in granite? If they are, it would seem to point to them being used to make white face paint...although, I suppose any number of rocks would sulfide for that purpose.

[@racsorange]

@11 30 I see a Conquistador at the top! Lol

[@Lowridersdoggs]

Did the Indians live there? Doesn’t look like any water source near by

[@kickapootrackers7255]

Ty

[@HarleyRunner]

Thease are made by Eastern Mono!

[@storiesbyalex]

Thank for watching the series and your information...............................alex

[@LoamReaper]

Do you mean the Sistene Chapel?!

[@storiesbyalex]

Loam, thanks for watching and your comment. It is named Cistern because these dessert gullies/washes sometimes fill up quickly during rainstorms and occasionaly form water storage pockets..........alex

[@siriusfun]

He's in California, not Italy.

[@LoamReaper]

@@siriusfun People borrow names!

[@LoamReaper]

@@storiesbyalex That's interesting, Alex--and a pretty funny pun!

[@cat7093]

that is a star map. they are showing you how they got to earth.

[@joedavis4150]

.. alex, thank you for your informative, hard won videos.... do you agree that the p l a i n of jars is most likely an ancient work of art honoring the Opium poppy? The jars are in an ancient opium culture area, they are poppy pod shaped, and they are scattered randomly like p o p p i e s in a field. Evidence for burial use is scant.

[@storiesbyalex]

Joe, there is recent on site archaeological work ongoing from an Australian university ( can be googled). Most current theory and one exposed by a French archaeologist in the 1930's was that possibly they were associated with burial practices. However, everything at this point is speculation....................alex

[@joedavis4150]

@@storiesbyalex ..... alex, speculation or not, I certainly do respect the great videos you did on them.

[@daveadalian4116]

That's a map. The globes are huts. The rectangle is a floor plan. Maybe...

[@calenlight6817]

I its quite clear from this petroglyph, that there was a solar EMP Plasma phenomenon that occurred and forced the 22 families of the village who carved this, to run for their lives and hide in caves. They were warned by the appearance of a Comet, but unfortunately they did not listen and were caught off guard. The village was forced to live in the caves for 13 months before they could return to their lives outside of the caves they used for refuge, due to the massive amounts electric energy moving through the ubiquitous basalt that surrounded them in all directions!

[@shatterstar913]

i want what you're smoking

[@bertnerny]

We are seeking knowledge by watching. We aren’t here just to see pretty pictures.

[@5barkerstreet]

those are ufo

[@HarleyRunner]

Mono Calander?

[@anewman1]

Fantastic!