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- The Natives including the Hopi Tribe once believed that the world began here at Spirit Mountain also known as Avi-kwa-ame which is a very sacred site to the native american tribes present along the Colorado River....along where the three states of AZ, NV and CA. The grapevine canyon area is just one of the many deep canyons that run deep into this sacred mountain. Their are other names for the mountain such as Newberry Peak......Dead Peak and is rumored to be the center of creation for all Yuman Speakers. Sadly as mystical and beautiful the area is many tourist are ruining the location. It saddens me when I hike in such a place only to find water bottles.....wrappers....and vandalism such as spray paint. It makes you wonder why someone would do this to a site that is thousands of years old and has tales of even life after the great flood.. Spirit Mountain is 5,639 feet high and played a very large role in the relious and mythological beliefs to the Mohave, Hualapai, Havasupai, Yavapai, Pai pai and Maricopa Tribes. Notice I left out the Hopi because I read that they were here prior to other tribes. The Hopi Indians were said to survive multiple apocalypses and everytime one would occurr they would go underground. I believe hidden within Spirit Mountain is hidden cave or burial ground. Today three Native American Tribes continue to use this area for their tribal ceremonies and practicing of ancient traditions. It is named a traditional cultural property and also listed on the National Register Of Historical Places. Unfortunately not even that can protect this sites ancient history. Its a well visited area just very few dare to venture past the canyons treachurous walls of rock formations.....thorns and overgrown grapevines. The road that ran up into Grapevine Canyon was called Christmas Tree Pass because often the trees were decorated with ornaments. This was a local practice that was eventually banned because it was becoming to difficult to maintain. As I said a good thing doesnt last to long but I found that fact interesting. To the natives it was an eye sore I am sure since nature is meant to be preserved not decorated. When you are in Christmas Tree Pass you will come up to the entrance of Grapevine Canyon which boast a fresh water spring that flows down the canyons wash. In the canyon their are quite a few pools of shallow water and a few small waterfalls. Due to this fact it draws in Big Horn Sheep and other animals from the Newberry Mountains to graze and drink the cool waters. The first couple hundred feet at the mouth of the canyon are littered with Petroglyphs also known as rock art drawings. Some say their are more petroglyphs here then all of southern Nevada. I never did see that many Petroglyphs perhaps because they only grace the entrance of the canyon and we hiked deep into it. If you look further below you will see a photo of a UFO depicted on one of the rocks which greet those who dare enter the canyon. The southern Paiute tribe are said to once have camped in the canyon itself while the ancestors of the Mohave Tribe also known as the Amacava built rock shelters around 1100 A.D. Their are many rock formations we crawled into that could be used from shelter. Their are burial mounds within the canyon and today its still a very active area for pilgramages. Rumor has it that some of the best views of the Southern Colorado River can be seen here including the city of Laughlin. I would not know because when I explored the area their was fog thicker then pea soup. I stood on a peak and couldnt even see the canyon we hiked up into. The odd rock formations on Spirit Peak had fog around them giving this place a very eerie feeling. One of the most unusual mysteries to this area is the petroglyphs which are said to contain photos of flying ships.....possibly ancient astronauts as well. In simple terms scholars believe that since the petroglyphs are over 1000 years old and that air craft did not exist during this time it was speculated that the ancient tribes experienced encounters of the third kind maybe even fourth. Also deep within the canyon is an ancient totem or statue which was apparently vandalized which was at one time said to have mystery origins or something rather relevant to those Petroglyphs. I guess that the reasoning behind visiting this site is to give skeptics food for thought that if these tribes depicted space ships in their rock art then isnt it possible that their is life outside of our solar system that once perhaps visited this ancient site? What it really comes down to is that the Shamans believed this place held supernatural powers. I somewhat believe it too you can feel something in the air here its different then other locations I hike and explore. This is a powerful place and I get to share this journey with all of you one taken with my family as we spent hours exploring all its wonders. Remember those who venture to this location keep in mind some canyons are almost impossible to get out...their are drop offs.....and it is an ancient site. With that being said treat the area the way you like to be treated appreciate it....take photos....leave foot prints and nothing more! © By Lord Rick - Grapevine Canyon & Spirit Mountain
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- Grapevine Canyon Petroglyphs Newberry Peak, NV http://www.johngregg.com/gra1.htm For the Yuman-speaking inhabitants of the Colorado River region, no location was more sacred than Avikwa'ame, or Spirit Mountain, which we call Newberry Peak, in southernmost Nevada. According to the Mojave creation myth, the oldest spirit was Matavilya, made from the mating of Earth and Sky. Matavilya had two sons, Mastamho and Kaatar, and a daughter, Frog. Matavilya committed an unwitting indecency that offended his daughter, who then killed them. Mastamho directed the cremation and mourning ceremony for his father and, when completed, strode up the Colorado River Valley. When he got to the top Mastamho created the river by plunging a cane of breath and spittle into the earth, allowing the river to pour forth. Riding a canoe down the waters to the ocean, he created the wide river bottom by twisting and turning the boat. He returned from the ocean with his people, the Mojave, taking them in his arms to the northern end of Mojave country. There he piled up earth, creating the mountain Avlkwa'ame, and built himself a house on it. There too Mastamho plotted the death of Sky- Rattlesnake, an evil spirit and the source of dark powers. Mastamho killed Sky-Rattlesnake by cutting off his head, with his spilt blood becoming noxious insects. Mastamho then gave land to the different tribes and taught them to farm. Finally, Mastamho turned himself into a fish-eagle and flew off into oblivion. The importance of this cosmogenic myth to rock art is two folds. Known as the "Shaman's Tale," it was precisely this myth that the shaman "dreamed" to obtain his supernatural powers: In Yuman fashion, the shaman was believed to re-experience and witness these mythic events of creation in the supernatural world and, from them, obtain his power. As the anthropologist Alfred Kroeber wrote in 1925, "It is of [Mastamho's] house that shamans dream, for here their shadows were as little boys in the face of Mastamho, and received from him their ordained powers, confirmed by tests on the spot." It is at the foot of Spirit Mountain that the important Grapevine Canyon petroglyph. Grapevine Canyon is Atastamho's House, where the Mojave shaman went to witness, in his dreams, the creation of the world. Grapevine Canyon is the biggest petroglyph site in southern Nevada. As at other Colorado River locales, representational or figurative motifs are rare at the site; they are heavily outnumbered by entoptic designs, many of which are deeply and widely engraved. The depth and width of these engravings reflect the fact that Yuman petroglyphs were studied and examined by initiates, and sometimes repecked by them. Still, considerable variation in the degree of revarnishing is evident at the site, indicating that Yuman shamans used this locale probably for many thousands of years. Recent accounts, on the other end of the time scale, tell us that it continued to be used into this century. Many of the entoptic engravings at the site are complex combinations of geometric forms; enclosed grid and netlike patterns and shield like motifs are particularly common. On some panels the dense overlay of engravings itself creates an almost uninterpretable, complex geometric motif, individual engravings can only be identified through careful examination of the dense palimpsest of Petroglyphs. There are some familiar motif types present at the site, however, such as occasional human figures (including a few "patterned-body anthropomorphs"), and even a few panels of bighorn sheep. Whether these represent Yuman Petroglyphs or instead were created by non-Yuman shamans is unknown. Avikwa'ame was widely renowned as a place of great supernatural power, so it is entirely possible that shamans from different cultures came here for their own types of vision quests. As implied above, the Petroglyphs at Grapevine Canyon apparently represent shamans' visionary images of Mastamho and the creation of the world. Clearly, though, these images do not comprise narrative depiction's of the different events in the creation myth, as I have noted in a similar vein concerning the Petroglyphs at McCoy Spring. Instead, they are signs of the mythic event and, in this fashion, perfectly parallel the verbal descriptions of the creation that shamans included in their mythic song cycles. As anthropologist Alfred Kroeber noted in 1957, although the Mojave may dream a mythic event or series of animal spirits pertaining to a song cycle, they do not say that they dream the events or spirits, per se, but instead claim that their vision is of the pattern of the myth or spirit. Just as their graphic depiction's of the creation of the world were expressed simply as entoptic designs, so too the verbal accounts in their song cycles were often simply a combination of a few words or lines that lacked any obvious narrative information. In both cases, this resulted because everyone and the songs knew the actors and events in the myth and petroglyph motifs were just the idiosyncratic signs of the mythic events and required no detailed illustration or recitation. This page was taken from A Guide to Rock Art Sites of Southern California and Southern Nevada by David S. Whitley. John has bought this book at www.amazon.com and thinks it explains some of the mysteries of some petroglyphs. -
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