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| Keywords: Crack cave se co.png Spectators await their turn as first light of sunrise approaches in Picture Canyon Comanche National Grasslands southeastern Colorado to witness the direct illumination of an inscribed rock knob and two smaller sandstone protrusions with vertically inscribed marks just above it approximately 30 feet behind the protective iron gate entrance to Crack Cave at dawn on the vernal equinox March 20 2005 The actual equinox moment came about a half an hour earlier Some epigraphers believe the rock knob is inscribed with the message The Sun Strikes here on the Day of Bel in consonantal Ogham one of more than a hundred variations of the ancient Celtic alphabet described in the fourteenth century Book of Ballymote's Ogham Tract Sun symbol is Beim in Celtic The vertical grooves representing the consonants B-M L H B-L may have been distorted intentionally to appear as a rebus or word picture of a balance beam Equinoxes come only twice a year when day and night are equal own Transferred from http //en wikipedia org en wikipedia to Commons by User Logan using http //tools wikimedia de/~magnus/commonshelper php CommonsHelper 2008-04-12 Author of this still image is Scott Monahan shot with a Panasonic AG-DVX 100A video SD camera downsized to 480 x 360 pixels Breadh2o at http //en wikipedia org en wikipedia Breadh2o Original upload log page en wikipedia Crack_cave_se_co png 2008-04-12 20 48 Breadh2o 480×360× 330402 bytes author of this still image is Scott Monahan shot with a Panasonic AG-DVX 100A video SD camera downsized to 400 x 300 pixels Spectators gather outside in Picture Canyon Comanche National Grasslands southeastern Colorado to witness the direct illuminat Comanche Equinox Canyons in Colorado | ||||
