A COMPLEX EXAMPLE OF NON-METRICAL IMAGE WRITING.
The finding of this particular piece presented the successful conclusion of the first part of what has turned out to be a truly amazing 'vision quest'. It took me a bit under a year and a half to locate: and although some might think that finding such an object, which could have been anywhere on the Northwest Coast, would have been impossible; it was in fact 'compossible' since, after all, it could only have physically been in ONE place! As it turns out, this object is in fact an "event map" of the entire Northwest Coast...from many, many thousands of years ago. I have to this date managed to connect three glyphic positions on this event map with three physical locations on the Northwest Coast...through referencing glyphic composites found in those three locations with those shown on this event map. Now, THAT'S geophilosophy! But, it was not an easy thing to do (although it WAS a lot easier than actually teaching myself how to read non-metrical image writing - quickly).
If you would like to have another look at the close-up photographs of this example of non-metrical image writing which were presented on this site's
HOME PAGE then, by all means, be my guest.
"An Analysis of Non-Metrical Image Writing".
"An Intelligent Species of Reptile" .
There is one more image of a 'double mountain' that I would like to show you. Whether this is "the same" 'double mountain', I can not say; although, it is in about the right geographical area. Still, that was thousands of years ago and, although the 'double mountain' would still be there, much else would have changed. Here is a truly exceptional example of non-metrical image writing; and on it can be seen (among other interesting things) both the image of a "double mountain" (among many mountains portrayed upon this 'stone')...and the instructions used for navigating toward this 'double mountain', as presented in the form of a mapped territory. You can view the complete image of this stone by visiting: The Ivory T. Rex .
Finally, I would like to show you a close-up view of a "sighting glyph" (one of the 'instructional glyphs') from the pre-Columbian stone astrolabe I mentioned above. The use of this astrolabe was clearly integrated with those procedural methodologies which were employed by the First Nations in the mapping of their traditional territories... a process also intimately associated with the most advanced forms of production related to the creation of amazingly intricate examples of non-metrical image writing.
This 'sighting glyph', the image area of which is shown greatly enlarged below, is located on the photograph above about 1/3rd of the way from the bottom, and 1/3rd of the way over from the left side.
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The Three Feather Chief stone, which was the first example of non-metrical image writing that I found; this stone is presented and analysed in the second section of the page titled "Interpreting Non-Metrical Image Writing", 
An Intelligent Species of Reptile, shown by firelight (hence, something that only a human could have created) and associated with a horse. This stone is presented on the page titled 
A mountain that either has a line of some sort down it's side or, is always seen with a taller mountain behind and to the right of it; and which is associated with a cloud or (volcanic) smoke plume above it. Luckily, the example that I found of this image was on a stone that is also a functional astrolabe...with the latitudes where it was used clearly etched into it. And it still works too, since the only moving parts it has are itself and the earth (or, if your prefer, the sun). Of course, relative latitudes are shown on the map-stone cross referenced here; and I did indeed worked out how this system of mapping functioned...even before I realized that the stone astrolabe also carried instructions as to how maps were made...
