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This article was originally written for a paranormal magazine called The Paranormal Journal, it became known as The Underground Files covering ghosts, ufos, cryptozoology, and government conspiracies amongst others. I no longer write for the magazine and it is no longer in existence. New Mexico's Mysterious Rock Deep in the hot sandy desert of New Mexico, near the city of Los Lunas, a hand inscripted message chiseled into solid rock was discovered, just when the find was made is not certain. Florencio Chavez, Sr., a former Los Lunas citizen, remembers his grandfather, Simon Serna, showing him the rock, Serna born in 1829. He says his father had seen the rock for the first time in 1800. Tales amongst the Pueblo Indians state the rock, nearly concealed half way up a mesa known as Hidden Mountain, as been around for several generations. Carved into a flat rock embedded in the basalt face of the mountain is an inscription that has puzzled archaeologists, anthropologists and researchers for many decades. A close examination determines nine lines of writing, comprised of 214 letters. Experts say the letters represent a combination of different alphabets, Canaanite-Phoenician, Hebrew letters, characters that resemble Russian Cyrillic and at least one Egyptian symbol. Basalt, the product of volcanic activity, is formed when lava begins to cool to normal temperatures. When the dark varnish that coats the rock is removed, a light-core inner colour remains, giving Mystery Rock the appearance of chalk writing on a blackboard. The inscription is easily read, though it's interpretation has been difficult to translate. Photographs have been taken, plaster casts have been moulded and theories have been made. A photograph of the inscription was sent to Dr Robert Pfeifer of the Semitic Museum of Harvard University in 1949. He published is findings in an article stating the inscription was a summary of the Ten Commandments, describing the writing as Old Phoenician, not used in over two thousand years, though it was nearly thirty years later it was discovered who had carved it. A number of scientists had tried to understand the mystery, arguing the writing resembled ancient Navajo, others the inscription was much later than first thought, though it was an Albequerque woman, Dixie Perkins, having experience in deciphering ancient texts that cracked it. She identified the writing, early Greek, a form of Phoenician alphabet, interpreting the inscription and also discovering the name of the author. Translated it went like this: “I have come to this place to stay. The other one met with an untimely death in battle, dishonoured, insulted and stripped of his flesh. The men thought him an object of care, whom I looked after, considered crazed, to be tossed about as if in a wind, to perish in poverty and need. By my kinsmen I was respected and honoured, of blessed lot, with a body of slaves and so many olive trees, a peg to hang anything upon. Men punished me with exile to exact a retribution for a debt; meanwhile, I remain here as a rabbit. I, Zakyneros, just as a prophet, out of reach of mortal man, I am fleeing and very afraid. I am dross, refuse, scum, just as aboard a ship a soft, effeminate sailor is flayed with an animal hide, all who speak offensively are lashed or beaten with a cane; but after a short time, the hurtful ones maybe sated; at an unreasonable time, I remain to protect from the rainy southwest winds the hollow or the ravine. Very much harvest is gathered in, very much is in the woody dell and glen; very many bags of young deer. Very many hides with luxuriant hair; by the channel of a river, swift flowing. Very much is given by the gods, the choicest kind of gift, to call upon the gods for again and again, at the unseasonable time I become gaunt from hunger.” The message was now decoded, as it was necessary to add the vowels to the text, the custom in ancient Greek to eliminate them to save time in chiseling hard rock surfaces but it created more questions than answers. The stone writing being Greek, suggests visitors from Greece came long before Columbus or the Vikings. New Mexico's Mysterious Rock written by Bill Barber |
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