2 The Legend of New Mexico’s Mysterious Shiprock
Rising up from the flat, dusty, New Mexico desert, it’s hard to miss the imposing and mysterious Shiprock. At over 7,000 feet tall, it’s no wonder that the strange formation (actually the remains of a 27-million-year-old volcano) attracted the wonder and curiosity of humans for centuries. The rock was sacred to the Navajo people, who called it the “Tsé Bitʼaʼí”, or “the rock with wings”. According to legend, it’s all that remains of the giant bird that carried the Navajo from the north to New Mexico.
