STANDARD BIO
Gary David has been intrigued by the Four Corners region of the United States since his initial trip there in 1987. The following year he spent six months examining rock art and indigenous ruins in northern New Mexico. This prompted a move to Arizona In 1994, where he began to study intensively the ancestral Pueblo People (sometimes misnamed the Anasazi) and their descendants the Hopi.
In late 2006 after more than a decade of independent fieldwork and research, his nonfiction book The Orion Zone: Ancient Star Cities of the American Southwest. It was published by www.adventuresunlimitedpress.com. This describes a pattern of Hopi villages and ruin sites that precisely mirrors Orion, with an ancient site corresponding to each major star in the constellation.
The sequel also published by Adventures Unlimited Press (2008) is titled Eye of the Phoenix: Mysterious Visions and Secrets of the American Southwest. The book deals with many diverse topics: the Ant People, Snake People, Dog Star People, Sedona Sanskrit, Arizona Knights Templar Crosses, Reptilian Round Towers, Frontier Freemasonry, Meteor Crater, Hopi Kachinas, Stone Tablets and the End Times.
His articles have appeared in Fate (see beginning of article at: www.fatemag.com/issues/2000s/2007-01article2.html), World Explorer, Atlantis Rising, Ancient American, and Four Corners magazines. He has been interviewed on national radio programs and has lectured at the MUFON chapters and elsewhere.
Mr. David earned a master's degree in English literature from the University of Colorado and is a former adjunct professor. He is also a poet, with numerous volumes published. In addition, he is a professional musician, publisher of Island Hills Books (an online showcase for the literature inspired by the spirit-of-place http://islandhills.tripod.com ), and executive director/webmaster for The Orion Zone http://www.theorionzone.com .
Gary lives with his wife and daughter in rural northern Arizona, where the skies are still relatively pristine.
AUTO-BIO: CONFABULUM VITAE
My
non-confessional stance notwithstanding, I countenance the following personae:
erudite rube, regionalist by choice, provincial by penury, lone lobo, lowbrow
Ohioan turned high desert rat, first of birth-family to graduate secondary school--sole
member to matriculate (B.A. Kent State, M.A. University of Colorado), refugee
from academia, ex-adjunct instructor, online editor/publisher/webmaster, poeta
non grata, factotum ex libris, iconoclastic iconographer, rock art critic, Anasazi
ruins rambler, mercenary musician, guitarist/vocalist barking amped blues for Buddha, journeyman
in the Bardo profundo.
For
over three decades I have worked as a wayward wordsmith. Volumes published: Eye
of the Phoenix (divagations in the mirages of the Southwest), The
Orion Zone (true stories of Hopi star cities), Tierra
Zia (lines & petroglyphs from New Mexico), Divining
the Eagle's Vision (lyric verse of the High Plains), A
Log of Deadwood (postmodern gold rush epic), The
Possibilities of Blue Sky (callow Dakota poems), several self-inflicted
chapbooks.
My residences or sojourns have included: Boulder, Santa Fe, Rapid City,
San Francisco, New Orleans, Lawrence (Kansas). During the past fourteen years I
have lived with my wife, daughter, and two cats in decreasingly rural northern
Arizona.
~Websites~
The
Orion Zone: http://www.theorionzone.com
Blog:
http://theorionzone.blogspot.com
Island
Hills Books: http://islandhills.tripod.com
facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1081596342
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STAR VISIONS OF THE AMERICAN SOUTHWEST
The nonfiction book "The Orion Zone: Ancient Star Cities of the American Southwest" and its sequel "Eye of the Phoenix: Mysterious Visions and Secrets of the Americna Southwest" both describe the pattern of ancient Hopi villages that reflect all the stars in the constellation Orion. As above, so below. For more info, go to www.theorionzone.com
THE ORION ZONE
