4,500 year old pictograph ascending anthropomorph
This is an amazing pictographic panel that was painted in the Pecos River Polychrome Style on the wall of the very remote Brazos Fuerte Shelter that is in Val Verde County, Texas. This pictograph tells the story of transcendence into the trance state likely from use of one the many hallucinogenic plants in the area (datura, peyote, etc). The most left figure is in the natural real state, the middle is slightly above the first and is hollow (indicates partial transcendence) and has ecstatic hair and the most right is above the first two and has wings on both arms and is flying (fully transcended. We are just beginning to decipher these pictographs but we now know they tell and recorded stories and are part of the "Oldest Library in North America". Each individual shelter I visit is a different book in that library and I am trying to photograph and decipher their ancient stories told in 2,500 BC. Emile
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