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Symbols of the wool industry in Nevada,
at site #Cl-5, Lost City, southern Nevada, discovered by Professor Julian
Steward in 1929, on the east bank of the Muddy River. Here a spun woolen thread loops about a
bighorn sheep and then coils to form the ogam letters that spell "wool." The letters UI-L-Ñ = Gaelic olann, Old Irish oland,
Old Welsh gulan, =
"wool." The site has numerous petroglyphs
depicting sheep and shepherds and other aspects of the wood trade. On the right is the hieroglyph cas, a foot, that is always found
associated with inscriptions relating to spinning wool, because cas is also the verb "to spin" in
Gaelic. [Also see Petroglyph list] |
