This set of figures was an intentional portrait of a King and God "symbolic pair", and his name was probably associated with Pan, Panos, or Faunos. Other extremely faded figures surround these two main shapes. I can almost guarantee that this is not a weather erosion coincidence, and I have isolated and enhanced the two figures to distinguish them from the heavily weathered background landscape. There are many "accepted explanations" of the lower figure, almost all of which discount its human portrait meanings, claiming, "It is a naturally occurring land feature". There is a slight chance that the primary figure is Apollo himself, the Sun God, with the association with Pan representing the "dawn". "Badlands", the East Berlin version, Radrennbahn, Berlin Weissensee, Germany.Īs a non-academic researcher, I am very intrigued by the fact of what appears to be two figures, a King or God figure below and a devil figure with horns perched above in the crown area, very similar in shape to the Pan of Greece, Green Man, Dionysius, Faunos of Rome, and several other mythologies. I would like to dedicate this Lynn Hickox's discovery, and my re-capture on Flickr, Google Earth, and Adobe Photoshop, a tune from one of the many prophets of our day. “It ain’t no sin, to be glad you are alive!”
Ukraine Emergency, can music change the world? This figure was found by Lynn Hickox on or before 2008 using Google Earth software. Badlands are found in several areas of North America.Theory of the "Badlands Guardian" of Medicine Hat, Alberta, with "Pan" in his Crown, discovered by Lynn HickoxĢ7 miles at 95 degrees from Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada, is another group of human facial portraits, the most vivid is called the "Badlands Guardian". The constant erosion of the light sedimentary soil and clay means that there are many unique and strange geomorphic features and topographies which have intrigued people since the arrival of the First Nations. Winds and heavy rains carve channels in the rocks relatively quickly. The effect of wind and water on these landscapes means that they are constantly changing. They were formed during the end of the last Ice Age when glacial meltwater created valleys and steeps slopes out of the sedimentary rock and clay soil. The Badlands are desolate terrain of gullies, chasms, sinkholes, and hills. The location of the geological wonder is very remote, in an area that has been traditionally the home of the Siska First Nation People, often known as the Blackfoot tribes. The Badlands’ Guardian is near Medicine Hat in the south-east of Alberta and not far from the border with the USA. It is listed as the seventh of the top ten Google Earth finds by Time magazine. They altered the suggested 'Guardian of the Badlands' to become Badlands Guardian. Out of 50 names submitted, seven were suggested to the Cypress County Council. In 2006 suitable names were canvassed by CBC Radio One program As It Happens. It has sparse vegetation and soft, clay soil. It receives little but intense showers of rain. The area covered by the Badlands Guardian is an arid land. The precise location of the Badlands Guardian on Google Earth is at the coordinates (50° 0'38.20"N, 110° 06' 48.32"W). The Guardian is regarded as one of Google Earth’s most remarkable finds. The feature was discovered in 2005 by Lynn Hickox during the Google Earth project when they used satellite imagery and reproduced them in 3-D which led to the identification of the natural world. Its age is estimated to be in the hundreds of years at a minimum.
Although the image appears to be a convex feature, it is actually concave – that is, a valley, which is formed by erosion on a stratum of clay, and is an instance of the Hollow-Face illusion. The 'head' may have been created during a short period of fast erosion immediately following intense rainfall. The arid badlands are typified by infrequent but intense rain-showers, sparse vegetation and soft sediments. The head is a drainage feature created through erosion of soft, clay-rich soil by the action of wind and water.