Mystic Bird

Background

I found the Mystic Bird geoglyph after fellow Anomaly Hunter Sharon (snc) discovered an interesting head-shaped formation in the same image (MOC image E15-00427), which was posted at the Anomaly Hunter’s discussion board back on 4/26/07. The formation is located in the Arcadia area of Mars - within a traverse across a crater at 43.4 N 119.4 W. She called the head the Natural Mystic (Figure 1).




Figure 1
Natural Mystic with key
(crop of MOC image E15-00427)

The facial features include a neck, chin, forehead, brow, a small eye, protruding tongue and a shell-like ornamented nose feature with attached mouth gear.

The overall large headdress is shaped like a war helmet that includes a shield-shaped emblem at the forehead, which includes a profiled view of a feline head. Additional features include a hexagonal-shaped ear spool with flowing tassels that hangs down across the base of the helmet.

The large arching headgear and facial ornamentation resembled the types of profiled heads seen on many of the stone hacha’s produced in Varacruz Mexico (Figure 2).



Figure 2
Hacha (Veracruz)
Image source: Dumbarton Oaks

So, as you can see the Mystic Bird is not the only geoglyphic formation found in this strip.

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