She knew that most rock art was found behind cliff dwellings. Sloane nodded. “A dozen or so pictographs. Including three reversed spirals.” Nora looked up in surprise to meet the woman’s glance. Holroyd caught the look. “What?” he asked. Nora sighed. “It’s just that, in Anasazi iconography, the counterclockwise direction is usually associated with negative supernatural forces. Clockwise or ‘sunwise’ was considered to be the direction of travel of the sun across the sky. Counterclockwise was therefore considered a perversion of nature, a reversal of the normal balance.” “A perversion of
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