Crescent, Hand and Star Anasazi petroglyph in Chaco Culture National Historical Park, otherwise known as the Supernova Pictograph. Contributed by Meredith Moseley via Google Maps.
U.S. National Park Service website says:
Pueblo Bonito is the most thoroughly investigated and celebrated cultural site in Chaco Canyon. Planned and constructed in stages between AD 850 to AD 1150 by ancestral Puebloan peoples, this was the center of the Chacoan world. That world eventually covered a vast area of the present-day Southwest, including the San Juan Basin of New Mexico, and portions of Colorado, Utah, and Arizona. For over 300 years, Chacoan Culture united many diverse peoples within its sphere of influence.
Here’s other vertically oriented crescents, or horns, a hand, or wings:
Dimensions: 4.8 cm (1 7/8 in.)
Medium or Technique: Silver-gilt
Curved sides. Thick, high foot. Inside carved in relief and gilded with designs showing the Moon-god, Mah, within a crescent moon, seated above the caonopy mounted on the chariot drawn by four zebus with two driers. Mah is enthroned like a Sassanian king with ceremonial axe, spear and cushions. The figure below is possibly Tishtrya, the first aspect of the constellation, as a young man. below Tishtrya is the tree of life. © The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
