Chimney Rock - Ancestral Temple of the Sky

[@MichealJACKSON-ly6cd]

I lived in the SLV as a young man and worked with my father delivering the Denver post from Center to Durango so I saw chimney rock twice a day for years with the moon looming large in the background on the way to Durango and again on the way home at sun up. I never had an inkling that it was a dweling or place of religious significance. I'm not trying to sound hokey or anything but I'd be lying if I said I couldn't feel the power radiating from this site. I was floored when I found out 3 years ago what was up there and at once I felt vindicated about the feeling I got every time I looked up out of the valley at chimney rock.

[@skeeziks-i5k]

That’s bad ass to me. Below a single hard ninety turn to the east, a shale shelf along the Piedra an eastern bank was where my dad was born. South east my grandfather at carracas mesa. Great grandma at Gallina, NM. Spiritual visits arrived to my grandparents at chimney rock with guardian and call to medicine. (My take) true story.

[@skeeziks-i5k]

I remember late summer early fall my dad taking me out to see the sky; particularly meteor showers and such. My dad was born on the piedra at chimney rock. Jemez.

[@stevee1361]

I saw this rock formation from the highway, had no idea the significance. So beautiful thank you for the informative video.

[@TheAnarchitek]

The erosion that created Chimney Rock was NOT "several million years ago". Geologists' favorite phrase is their shorthand for "We don't have a clue", because, given Earth's reducing atmosphere, almost nothing of 1 million years ago would look ANYTHING like it had, then! These rock formations, like the other similar examples scattered across the West, are the products of erosion. A LOT of water passed through that area, and some sat, for more than 1,000 years, until the waters ate through the volcanic plug at the western end of the Grand Canyon, allowing the water backed up on the Four Corners area, from the Uintahs in the north, to the Mogollons in the south, the San Francisco peaks on the west and the Sierra Nacimientos, on the east. Also, the people who BUILT the structures at the TOP of the hills between the formations did NOT "hoist water up from the San Juan (more than a thousand feet below). They stepped out to the shore of the bay, or cove, they'd built on the banks of, and dipped their "buckets" in the water. When the water receded too far for that simple process, the inhabitants moved down the cliff faces. When the waters fell to the valley floors, they moved out onto the plains, on the hilltops above arroyos, before moving down to "streams", like the one that obviously coursed past Chaco for some 200 or more years. When the water began disappearing completely, the Anasazi moved away, some south, some east, some north. The "old days, with old ways" was over.

[@chasemoore1281]

Literally omw watching from pagosa

[@richardglady3009]

What a beautiful and informative video. Thank you.

[@geraldmorain3166]

I would like to talk about my experience coal mining there

[@literacytoliberty]

I would love to discuss with you!

[@PastInNumbers]

...well by all means. I want to hear

[@danielfinely8746]

Only the president(s) know's these structures where figure cravings of animals/people/thing's which our ancestors live in and they were all carved out of stone ,.. the new growth (pine tree's) hiding the stones that are the same size in relativity , indicating dyinomite was used to destroy to ruins , found them everywhere , nice video

[@heven729]

Excellent video! I work as a guide at Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles; we have major & minor lunar standstill markings on our sunset terrace there.

[@unjungchoi]

Very informative ! Thanks! Hopefully can see some of these ancient structures in few days

[@matdolor2564]

Did you see it? It's an amazing site in person.

[@murrayrothbard5347]

What “climate change” happened in 1100? Did the classify it as that or “global warming”? Thank you for this great video.

[@raydolo2530]

Great video. Its a shame and a blessing that at this moment so few people know about this cultural and astronomical treasure.

[@timreha]

Well done!

[@zendt66]

An excellent presentation.

[@LostSheepful]

Amazing! Why do you think that the stones were "carried" up hill, rather than cut from existing rock (now depleted) at and above the elevation where the structures were built? Couldn't the spires be evidence of this? While clearly eroded from weathering, the spires show a reference of the original bedrock depth. Perhaps the spires were a well planned out, non-removal of bedrock- maybe the most important celestial /solar marker, ever discovered? If dating is not possible due to constant erosion of the spires, if there is no tooling evidence on the spires, could it be, like many settlements, it was built over an even earlier site who excavated the spires and left rubble that was convenient for the next to shape and stack? Have any remains been found?

[@dubthedirector]

Good stuff! 🌌

[@acbabelgates9386]

1000 years 😅😂

[@SolaceEasy]

Out of date interpretation and cultural terminology in a few different spots.

[@yodaleiheehu3280]

these are ruins

[@lembas.]

History is a lie. Humans were much more advanced than we are led to believe. The people who destroyed these ancient civilizations rule the world today, making it seem like people of the past were crude. They destroyed these buildings and now call them mesas and rocks.