___Further
west, and accessible only by desert dirt road, is a focal point of the Anasazi
- the old cliff dwellers and town makers.
___If
some future culture of man were to attempt to decipher our vanished society
merely from examining our long abandoned and ruined churches and temples,
or our empty building walls and the traces of our long uprooted roads, they
might not be able to form a cogent vision of our complex lives. This is
what it is like to come into Chaco Canyon.
___Pueblo
Bonito, a World Heritage Site, still stands here, and if you listen with
your head turned sideways and look with a narrow and numinous gaze, you
can hear the echo and sense the shadows of the Anasazi priests and clansmen
who once made this unlikely nexus the very center of their universe.