Uncover the Myth of Hoodoos in Bryce Canyon, Utah 3/16/2022
A hoodoo, which is also called fairy chimney, is a tall and thin rock that stands out of a badland of desert. The height of hoodoos range from the height of an average human to heights exceeding a 10-story building. Bryce Canyon National Park in Utah is famous of a gorgeous view of hoodoos as shown below:
One of the most popular hiking trail in Bryce Canyon is called Queens Garden, which starts from the Sunset point going down to the bottom and then turn left to find the wonderland of hoodoos, as shown below:
It was one of the most mythical hike I ever had. No need to search for Rock Heads, almost every rock around you looks like a vivid human figure. In fact, the name of Queen's Garden was given because there are many hoodoos along the trail looking like the statue of Queen Victoria. It is said you can find at least 10 Victoria figures. Besides the obvious one shown in the cover picture, which is at the top of the trail end, I did find a few of others along the trail as shown below:
In addition, I also found a vivid statue of the queen's husband Albert, as shown below:
After I am back from my trip, I studied about Hoodoo and found with a big surprise that the hoodoos of the Queen's Garden was related somehow to Lake Victoria which was the source water of Nile River and nearby the great rift valley of Africa where our paternal ancestor came from.
The name Hoodoo came from African Hoodoo spirituality practice. the practitioners of Hoodoo are called root-workers or root-doctors, which was believed to heal the soul by connecting to the roots of human ancestors. Hoodoos spread to United States through the historical period of slavery trade.
Hoodoo spirituality origins from the practice of African Bantu peoples based on Kongo Yowa Cosmogram as shown below:
the horizontal line represents the division of the living people (above) and the dead of the ancestors (below), the lowest point is the "root" of life while the highest point is the heaven of god. the practice means to connect the current life and the soul with the root of ancestors.
It's interesting to find the name "Bantu" means "people" or the "true People", and the majority of Bantu people came from the Great Lake area around the Great Rift Valley, including Lake Victoria.
Not only I found the contour of Lake Victoria looks like the portrait of the Queen, when I enlarge the satellite view of Lake Victoria, I found many "hoodoos" surrounding the lake, just like these hoodoos in the Queen's Garden of Bryce canyon. Following is a few images from google earth:
Now, I see the "roots" of Lake Victoria in Africa appears at the "tops" of Queen's garden is America. It's not a meaningless coincidence. It is an evidence that the ends of life will resemble the beginning of life, just like what we see from an old tree: the end branches will look like the roots, or even grow into the ground and becomes roots.
Just like Hoodoo's belief of the Kongo Yowa Cosmogram, the end of life connects with the roots and forms endless cycles of life.
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