Unexplained Mystery Of Giant Face Found Carved Into A Mountain On A Remote Island In Canada
MessageToEagle.com – This mysterious and intriguing giant face of unknown origins has been discovered carved on a remote island in Canada.
Was it created and left as a message by one of Tseshaht tribe ancestors or is it a natural formation?
The face is almost 2m-tall and was found Hank Gus, a beachkeeper from the Tseshaht tribe that owns the land.
It was first spotted in 2008 and Hank Gus has been searching for it ever since. Now he finally found it.
Karen Haugen, Parks Canada First Nations Program Manager, sent an email to Tseshaht First Nation quoting a kayaker named Sandy Floe, who was visiting from Washington State.
“I went in closer to shore……..through kelp to explore a small gap in the rocky shore on the southeast side of Reeks Island.
Suddenly I saw what you see in the picture. A face! I almost fell out of the kayak!” said Floe in an email to Parks Canada.
But the area in which the ‘face’ is located is treacherous.
Floe writes that she navigated her kayak through a ‘chute’ between the reefs and the island to get a closer look at the face, but it was too dangerous to get out of the kayak to climb the cliff.
Mr Gus said he is not sure whether the curious face is an optical illusion created by Mother Nature or a message from his ancestors, Ha-Shilth-Sa reports.
In spring 2008, archaeologist Denis St. Claire was sent to the ‘face’ to examine it further and, hopefully, make a determination as to whether the feature is natural or manmade. But the rugged shoreline prevented any close examination and St. Claire was unable to say how the face in the rock came to be.
In an email to Ha-Shilth-Sa, St. Claire wrote “It is difficult to access and it would be necessary for very calm water for someone to jump from a boat and climb to get close. This would need to be done to determine whether it is a natural formation or man-made… it certainly looks purposefully made, but nature can play tricks on us and that is why a very close-up viewing is necessary to see if there were tell-tale signs of rock modification.”
He said if a close examination indicates that it is not man-made, “since from a boat it does appear to be so, over the centuries many Tseshaht may have treated it as something very special and so it would have been, regardless of its origins. In my years of working with many elders during the 1970’s and 1980’s none of them ever referred to a rock face carving.” There are no recorded or oral histories in Tseshaht lore that refer to a carved rock face, but the hidden face bears a resemblance to a carving on the modern Tseshaht Administration building showing a wind spirit.
Tseshaht artist Gordon Dick said the carving is “Carrying the words of our Ancestors, yu’i sends the voice of encouragement and love urging us to preserve our culture, which anchors our language, songs, and our identity.”
The Reeks Island face appears to be blowing wind from its mouth, according to Mr Gus.
Tseshaht First Nation is an amalgamation of many tribes up and down Alberni Inlet and in the Alberni Valleyof central Vancouver Island in the Canadian province of British Columbia.
Today, there are 1103 Tseshaht and their main reserve community is located in Port Alberni, British Columbia. They became the area’s dominant tribe through historical warfare. The Tseshaht First nation is one of 14 that make up the Nuu-chah-nulth culture. Their language is a member of the Wakashan family.
Ancient legends from the region tell about a Sea God who blew up terrible storms to stop the pale faces from coming to Vancouver. When they arrived, he was turned to stone.
See also:
Remarkable “Lady Of Mali” – Giant Ancient Rock Sculpture In Guinea, West Africa
The Face Of The Amarakarei – Remarkable Enormous Face Caved Into Stone Cliffs In Peru
Mysterious ‘Rock Herd’ With Rock Carved Animal Heads Found In Sliven, Bulgaria
“It was all rock and dense forest, and unpeopled; only wild animals and seabirds sought the shelter it provided from the terrors of the West Wind; but he drove them out in sullen anger, and made on this strip of land his last stand against the Four Men.
The Pale-face calls the place Point Grey, but the Indians yet speak of it as ‘The Battle Ground of the West Wind.’
All his mighty forces he now brought to bear against the oncoming canoe; he swept great hurricanes about the stony ledges; he caused the sea to beat and swirl in tempestuous fury along its narrow fastnesses; but the canoe came nearer and nearer, invincible as those shores, and stronger than death itself.
As the bow touched the land the Four Men arose and commanded the West Wind to cease his war-cry, and, mighty though he had been, his voice trembled and sobbed itself into a gentle breeze, then fell to a whispering note, then faded into exquisite silence.
Oh, you evil one with the unkind heart,’ cried the Four Men, ‘you have been too great a god for even the Sagalie Tyee to obliterate you for ever, but you shall live on, live now to serve, not to hinder mankind.
You shall turn into stone where you now stand, and you shall rise only as men wish you to. Your life from this day shall be for the good of man, for when the fisherman’s sails are idle and his lodge is leagues away you shall fill those sails and blow his craft free, in whatever direction he desires.
You shall stand where you are through all the thousands upon thousands of years to come, and he who touches you with his paddle-blade shall have his desire of a breeze to carry him home.'”
Was this mysterious stone face perhaps made in memory of the great Sea God?
For now the face remains an unexplained mystery.
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