ose her buried sil

ica. And although h
is hea d was empty, the indenta
tions in the rock

all around him gave him a precise expression in which the light made subtle changes as it advanced. This right arm stretched forward and edged by a ray of light did not indicate an ordinary direction . . . and I was looking for what he was announcing! It was not quite noon when I came upon this vision; I was on horseback and I was moving quickly. However, I was able to observe that what I was seeing was not sculptured forms but a certain phenomenon of light which was superimpo

sed on the relief pattern of the rocks. This figure was known to the Indians; it seemed to me by its composition and structure to obey the same principle that underlay the whole of this mountain of truncat

ed forms. In the line of the arm there was a village surrounded by a girdle of rocks. And I saw that the rocks all had the shape of a woman's bosom with two perfectly delineated breasts. I saw repeated eight times the same rock which projected two shadows on the ground; I saw twice the same animal's head carrying in its jaws its effigy which it devoured; I saw, dominating the village, a kind of enormous phallic tooth with three sto

nes at its

• summit and four hol
• es on its outer face
• ; and from their beg