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Sometimes it takes many photos under many different conditions during many different times of day to understand the pictographs found on these stones. It is this narrative that seems to make the most sense.
On the left quadrant of this stone there is a left facing figure painted on the stone with a whitened-ochre quartz based composition.
Moving down to the pure white pictograph in the lower right corner the narrative becomes a little more complex.
The small full-standing right-facing man seems to have arrived from some distant location accompanied or observed by many, as shown with the brown ochre figures in the lower right corner of the stone rising up the mountainside.
The white full figured man is no longer standing in the lower right quadrant at the very bottom of the stone, perhaps indicating the individual passed away in the location shown on the stone, or this mound.
The outer surface of the stone indicates the sacred mountain of this region.
After the man passed away, his spirit rose to the top of the mountain into the sky as shown with the line of small pictograph images rising to the sky. His spirit was accompanied by many larger symbolic images as can be seen in a cloud of gray/blue pigment images with an ochre based background. The upper portion of the stone shows the a landscape portrait of the twin peak mountain range in this region with a small whitened symbols floating in the ochre sky over the line of mountains.
It seems that this culture believed their spirit would be resurrected as their spirit traveled up the sacred mountain to the point where the sun touched the mountain peak with the morning sunrise; North America, culture unknown.
Quadrant, Class 106. PHS ID 11147 D
"Heads Up--Faces in the Woods"
Deer -- Karan Rogers, Beverly Rogers, Our Garden Club of Philadelphia and Vicinity
Rock and Gem Show
Jefferson, Wisconsin
October of 2024
I started with an original "Quadrant Kaleidoscope" and further manipulated the image with the GIMP software, using Filters --> Distorts --> Kaleidoscope. I vary the preset settings to achieve a different effect with 4 or more reflections.
The English style garden of the Château has an old vegetable patch that has been transformed into a stylized garden organized into 'rooms' formed by hedges. Regrettably I neglected to take a picture of the entirety. In each of these quadrants all the flowers are of the same colour. There is a lovely broken stone path that winds through each quadrant, a pleasing twisting and curving which contrasts with the square perfectness of the hedges.
