“Natural Wonders” from “Remembering Eternity”
“Angled rock faces formed immense rusty nuggets. Low, shallow formations could have been Aztec pyramids. A Parthenon in red ochre stretched far across a mini-plateau. Talus-skirting fringed great tables of sandstone. A sphinx figure towered over what looked like an ancient city’s battlemented walls. One of the most unusual carvings showed a Chinese warrior with his long, thin beard and top-knotted hair. Paired with this soldier was a helmeted Spanish Conquistador facing in the opposite direction. A box-shaped, golden-ochre butte had at each of its corners a telamon in the form of a saint with crossed arms and benefic smile. One skyscraper-sized and pinnacled monolith had wheaten horizontal stripes and must have stood over a thousand feet tall.”