Intrigued by Petroglyphs and Pictographs in the ruins of Anazasi pueblos that show eerie creatures with spindly bodies, large eyes, and bulbous heads, sometimes with antennae. The figures are frequently shown in a "prayer stance" with elbows and knees positioned at right angles, similar to the ant's bent legs. Tell of many legends in Hopi and Mayan culture that tell of the Ant People. The Hopi God of death is named Masai. Meaning "grey". His image much like the greys we are familiar with. Tells of many connections between Hopi and Egyptians.
 

Gary A. David has been intrigued by the of the Four Corners region of the United States since his initial trip there in 1987. The following year he sojourned in northern New Mexico where he studied rock art and indigenous ruins. In late 1994 he moved to Arizona and began an intensive research of the ancestral Puebloans and their descendants the Hopi. This has resulted in a work in progress entitled The Orion Zone: Ancient Star Cites of the American Southwest. Recently his articles have appeared in Ancient American and Atlantis Rising magazines, and on the CD Rom magazine Duat.
 

His degrees include a Bachelor of Arts from Kent State University and a Master of Arts in the literature of the American West from the University of Colorado. He is the author of a number of books, including A Log of Deadwood: a Postmodern Epic of the South Dakota Gold Rush (North Atlantic Books, Berkeley, 1993) and Tierra Zia: Poems and Petroglyphs from New Mexico (nine muses books, Winston, Oregon, 1996), both available from Amazon.com. David is also editor, publisher, and webmaster for Island Hills Books.

David has worked as a college instructor of English and creative writing, a traveling ambassador for the South Dakota Arts Council, and a professional guitarist and singer. He currently lives in rural northern Arizona where, thankfully, the skies are still relatively pristine.

Gary A. David is an independent researcher and writer living in rural Arizona. He is currently finishing a book entitled The Orion Zone: Ancient Star Cities of the American Southwest, which discusses an Orion correlation of Hopi villages and Anasazi ruins in the Four Corners region of the US.

Mr. David has recently published essays,

• in the CD ROM magazine Duat http://www.duatmagazine.com/issues.html

• in Ancient American magazine http://www.ancientamerican.com

• in Atlantis Rising magazine http://www.atlantisrising.com

For more articles on "The Orion Zone," go to the web site of the same name: http://www.theorionzone.com/

You may contact Gary David by E-mail: islandhills@cybertrails.com .