Some of you may know where this is, though I hope you don't. I'd like to think we can keep this a secret a while longer. This natural anomaly is a spot where, if you looked hard enough, you'd find rhetoric.
And you might be thinking someone tagged the wall inside, or perhaps glued a communist work force poster, or maybe Rick Santorum was spewing within. And you wouldn't be quite correct. While rhetoric by definition begs meaning in the semantic of sarcasm or hyperbole, Aristotle would remind you that rhetoric meant something different at its genesis.
Drop inside and this is what you'll see. It's ookie in its order and parallelism, almost symbolic in a way.
No doubt (couldn't resist), you've noticed what's on Addie's t-shirt. Recognizable, at least from the pop symbol of Rolling Stone's masthead. If it's not, perhaps you need to get out more. Look a little closer above her head and you'll spy symbols more ancient than the Rolling Stones. Pretty old, indeed.
There are big-horned sheep seen profile and from behind, along with a representation of a really big snake.
Look closer and you'll see this...
...rhetoric. Any would be hard-pressed to think that these weren't created by humans, or humanoids at least. Humans create rhetoric, in fact it's been argued that our ability to create rhetoric via symbols is what sets us apart from the rest of the animal kingdom.
Symbols like you see above are the media of rhetoric. So are the symbols you're reading in this post along with the photos posted within. And all of this, ancient and current are communicating. Hopefully you know what the current is communicating (METACOMMUNICATION), if not, I should probably find something else to do, but we can only guess what the ancient was intended to say.
What's fascinating with these symbols is their universality. Later that night Addie and I watched a NatGeo special on finding ruins that could have been Atlantis along the Mediterranean. Among the symbols they showed was one that was remarkably similar to the one you see above.
Cue Twilight Zone music.
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