Intuitive Archeology
Seeing & documenting what has been overlooked.
~Ray Urbaniak
Ray Urbaniak was an engineer by profession, a self-taught artist, and a passionate amateur archaeologist with many years of systematic field research in Native American rock art in the Southwest USA. He offered his unique theories in his books and over 80 articles, with original rock art photography for the Pleistocene Coalition News. Join us in celebrating and honoring Ray’s legacy of over three decades in creating an insightful body of work!
Reasons for Sacred Rock Art
By Ray Urbaniak
March 2018
With permission of the Rock
and after appropriate offerings.
Take advantage of a shadow or light shaft cast there, especially at the Solstices and Equinoxes
Use the contour of the rock as a shadow on the Solstices or Equinoxes
As a point from which to view a horizon point, Solstice, or Equinox Sunrise or Sunset
Fertility: human, animal, and crops
Energy of the rock, despite surface quality, from the area, rock, or panel, receives power/energy from the rock or existing rock art on the rock; it receives power from random pecking (especially at night with a quartz crystal when light is generated on impact).
Sound (acoustics) at that point via flute, drums, chanting, and rattles
Location
Honor
Petition
Healing
Hunting
Show connections
To appease the Gods
To manifest
To teach
To transcend time (immortality)
To warn
Offerings, glyphs, prayers
To commemorate what happened there (an event) that made that spot special
To mirror the stars
To measure time
To record stories (oral tradition) passed down from other faraway lands and the distant past
To align with other petroglyphs or sites
To record events, from mundane to major unexplained events like comets and meteors in the sky, to cataclysmic events on earth
To connect and or communicate with the past, present, and future
Influence events
Meet requirements for inclusion in a group (such as initiation ceremonies)
Protection
Maps
As a portal for astral travel
Other possible reasons, such as using a golden spiral (representing the Sun) in a cave to warm the cave
“The passing of Ray Urbaniak, a most astute Pleistocene Coalition researcher of 14 years, is a loss to everyone seeking truth in anthropology. He was a discoverer of often profound Native American parietal rock art challenging longtime dogma.
There can be little doubt that Ray helped change the entire picture of what native North Americans accomplished in prehistory and what they were capable of both artistically and intellectually (e.g., recall the Pleiades). Like others in the Pleistocene Coalition, Urbaniak challenged readers with evidence completely missed by mainstream anthropology due to its evolutionary and migration theory predispositions.”
–John Feliks, Editor-in-Chief, Pleistocene Coalition News
What our friends and colleagues are saying…
"Ray brought an engineer’s precision and an artist’s curiosity to the study of rock art. He saw patterns where others saw only stone, and he wasn’t afraid to ask bold questions. His work opened new paths of thought and reminded us that wonder has a place in research. More than that, he was a caring and loyal friend—thoughtful, encouraging, and always genuine. His legacy lives not only in his work, but in the many people he inspired and supported along the way."
-Mark Willis, Archaeologist
"Excellent work. You are leaving humanity a true legacy. My brain is now flooded with wonderful serotonins, dipping into your material. Exactly the stuff that verifies, justifies, and confirms what the elders were trying to transmit to us. You have rescued the interpretations and preserved the Knowledge. A great and fine thing."
-cp
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.” Marcell Proust
Ray saw the ancient rock images with new eyes. He did not let the bias that the ancients were not smart enough to look at the skies and understand the messages. That vision of bias never clouded his eyes. That made him brilliant and admired by many.
With those open eyes, he was able to see what others could not. His keen observation skills enabled him to discover calendar sites and rock images. He saw the images and messages of the past.
He added to his research a strong spiritual touch. He listened to the ancestors and translated their messages to this world. His work is his voice.
-Kaye Whitefeather Robinson, Blackfeet Elder