Language of the Rocks

One afternoon as I was scrabbling my way down the steep path on one side of the Gorge of Samaria, on the island of Crete, I stopped and gazed up at the opposite sheer cliff and was sure I was looking at a series of vast petroglyphs--clearly not the work of human hands--etched out of the living rock.
Although the forms on the cliffs are long lost to memory, the twin snakes moving in opposite directions, as an Australian aboriginal symbol for time, seemed an appropriate substitution.

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