| Show WATER WATER WATER- A People Prayed For It i That people not only prayed for it they danced in joy for it they held mimic ceremonies an and d dancers V ers with rattles on leg made that rattle sound like rain drops pattering on a roof they chanted of the ther r charms of the they cut picture glyphs on the rocks of each of these acts 1 They worshipped rain But they were pagans I hear you say Yes they were pagans But I sat in church one Sunday when the pastor of that church and the pastors of two other churches in that town prayed for rain rain rain- their was prayer pagan I saw a picture of the Boulder Dam well come to think of it also one of the Fort Peck Dam and one of the Arrowroot Grand Coulee across the Mississippi and everywhere else water is a big dam impounds it Therefore modern man worships can we use the word with propriety water If not worship yet he wants it as much as did his predecessor I Let us look at home Deer Creek Reservoir Moon i Lake Reservoir Bear River Reservoir closer still to toi 1 i home a Sevier Bridge Reservoir a Diversion Dam Reservoir and a Gunnison Bend Reservoir Yes before re we can thrive water is a necessity We must have it So So did ancient man want it it- it so was it his main prayer We plan for water build great I dams for water engineers survey giant aqueducts to convey convey water to big cities cities in in every way water is very important to us Six hundred any hundred which may be estimated estimated estimated esti esti- mated years ago man in Millard County also felt the necessity for water here in this arid waste They held a sing for it They put the sign of that sing singon on the rocks southwest of Deseret They saw the arc of a wondrous rainbow span span the heavens and andas as that to them was a promise of yet other rains to come to this favored people largely the opposite of our concept concerning the rainbow they went to the lava flow near us and cut rudely that spanning arc on the stone man does these things things- what is important to him he makes permanent record of Even we do Not content nt with just the arc of the rainbow the they gave it personal being and fashioned the mystical magical wondrous gorgeous Rainbow Y Youth to wear it to shoot arrows of lightning from it And this people went to Emery County and cut that bow painted it to simulate as best they could the gorgeous gorgeous gor gor- they appearance of the original and by it they cut the great gift-bearing gift Rainbow Youth with an arrow of strung on a bowl All blessings in an arid region come from rain rain rain- so they cut in another county in UtaH Utari the sun present present present pres pres- ent as it must be for the rainbow to appear the big rainbow creatures by rain a snake as the snake is associated in Indian mind with rain an and l water a frog water creature the deer which too ni must st have water to live and then they cut many men mostly with rain sign insignia in hand or headdress headdress headdress head head- dress as these important men function in bringing j rain 1 We with dams and canals water mains aqueducts aqueducts aque que- ducts merely reflect just what was felt in this arid region centuries ago Grant they were pagan yet also grant their need was our need grant that we too pray for rain when drought is imminent V they left records of their acts acts acts- we likewise record it in picture and press This is written as a prelude to direct thought to the intensely interesting quest of f ancient man in Utah as revealed by writings on the rocks what we call If one will segregate from the vast mass only that which pertains to water water wa- wa V ter and to rain that resultant selection is fraught with keen interest especially appealing to all who wish a clue as to some meaning in A series of articles in this paper will expand this s subject giving examples of the best found in in each locality in our state The articles will be directed to toV toc c V Boy Scouts Why is a bear paw glyph put with witha a rain sign Why is the snake associated with rain Why is a bird and a rainbow put together on the the altar of the Zuni and the Hopi Indians What is the source of the vignette or trademark so to speak which the Bureau of American Ethnology V g gy uses in the title pages of its Bulletins Why used These and ond a lot of other questions will be an answered an- an n- n r in the series r F. F Would you like to know authentic rendition of off f some of these interesting glyphs If so keep a very t I close watch on what appears in n this paper The lend-lease lend bill is put over Now we can get down to the solid business of getting aid to England in time And that time is very short England says she has men But she does want munitions tanks planes lanes |
