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Returning to the images on this stone helps clarify the narrative of the images helping to better understand the complexity of this ancient culture.
*The center of this image field shows a gathering of individuals on the peak of an angular mound or mountain.
* It appears that the pictograph images on this stone read from the center, moving left (west), and then to the right (east) based on the intensity and size of the pictograph images defining past (center to the left) and to the present right .
*The image field in the center indicates that sometime in the past, beyond the present tense when the stone image field was created; a large group of many different kinds arrived from the Northern region above the location of this mound (above, north).
*The image field, based on the size of the red ochre figures, traveled with these individuals down river to this mound location (lower center).
*The red ochre figures get slightly larger and less faint on the far left; indicating a group of individuals, painted with red ochre, traveled further west to a distant mountain range.
*During this trip/journey blue pigments illuminated these individuals/group perhaps indicating that a union developed marked with blue pigment representing fertility, a woman, and perhaps created a family with larger numbers of red ochre figures.
*The image field indicates this person with his family unit traveled back to the original destination in the middle of the image field.
* The final image narrative indicates the person or family unit finally traveled eastward where this person ultimately separated from his mate and family unit; perhaps with a disastrous end that ended in fire. (cremation?)
* A line larger red ochre images once again rising to the sky, perhaps referring to resurrection narrative; or returning to the original destination. The pictograph image field is clarified based on the intensity and size of the ochre image defining past and present; North America, culture unknown.
DSC_5731
Returning to the images on this stone helps clarify the narrative of the images helping to better understand the complexity of this ancient culture.
*The center of this image field shows a gathering of individuals on the peak of an angular mound or mountain.
* It appears that the pictograph images on this stone read from the center, moving left (west), and then to the right (east) based on the intensity and size of the pictograph images defining past (center to the left) and to the present right .
*The image field in the center indicates that sometime in the past, beyond the present tense when the stone image field was created; a large group of many different kinds arrived from the Northern region above the location of this mound (above, north).
*The image field, based on the size of the red ochre figures, traveled with these individuals down river to this mound location (lower center).
*The red ochre figures get slightly larger and less faint on the far left; indicating a group of individuals, painted with red ochre, traveled further west to a distant mountain range.
*During this trip/journey blue pigments illuminated these individuals/group perhaps indicating that a union developed marked with blue pigment representing fertility, a woman, and perhaps created a family with larger numbers of red ochre figures.
*The image field indicates this person with his family unit traveled back to the original destination in the middle of the image field.
* The final image narrative indicates the person or family unit finally traveled eastward where this person ultimately separated from his mate and family unit; perhaps with a disastrous end that ended in fire. (cremation?)
* A line larger red ochre images once again rising to the sky, perhaps referring to resurrection narrative; or returning to the original destination. The pictograph image field is clarified based on the intensity and size of the ochre image defining past and present; North America, culture unknown.