Colombian Rock Art Motifs: Some Ideas for Interpretation
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Description: This article posits that religious and political leaders probably painted or engraved rocks that are scattered throughout Colombia today.
COLOMBIAN ROCK ART MOTIFS: SOME IDEAS FOR INTERPRETATION Colombian rock art motifs: some ideas for interpretation During the Spanish conquest of Colombia, most shamans, and other persons (chiefs or caciques, zipas, zaques, and jeques) that had been indoctrinated into secret societies, were killed before anyone bothered to ask about the meanings of the rock art motifs found in nearly all areas of Colombia. These religious and political leaders were probably the unknown artists who painted or engraved rocks that we find scattered throughout Colombia today. Most likely the jeques or high priests were the painters of the majority of the works we see today. They were the ones who could predict the future, talk to the spirits of dead ancestors, change themselves into animals, go on shamanic flights, control the movement of the sun, bring rain, stop floods, balance the cosmos, and heal the sick.
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