Urban Cave Art II

Found in a Downey, California parking lot:  Giraffe and Giraffe Huntress (with Spear).

AN AMAZON WITH A REALLY, REALLY  LONG SPEAR

Related Post:   Urban Cave Art I,  Urban Fossil I,  Urban Fossil II,  Devil On The Floor,  The Religiosity of Hadrosaurs,  Giant's Handprint, Wet Blue Bunny

Urban Cave Art I

Apparently, during the Upper Paleolithic period the Greater Los Angeles area was home to a species of mastodon with very short legs.  The suddenness of its extinction is attributed to predation by early humans.  Very probably, the unusually short legs prevented the creatures from effecting an efficient escape as hunters closed in.

As Below, So Above I

The clouds were dancing! Looks like a wild, Dionysian procession. That second 'figure' actually reminded me of the dancing 'sorcerer' from the Trois Frères cave in mirror image:


How intriguing that a 15,000-year old magic ritual depicted in a dim cave in neolithic Europe, should be echoed in the open skies over Southern California in the 21th century --

On the other hand, this IS Southern California we're talking about^.