La Llorona in the Stones, and the Water Distribution design of the Ancients.

I encountered the design in my own backyard. I picked up a female figure that made her way through the design as it described her life and her contributions to the survival of the human species. It has not been easy to enlighten folks who minds are already set, but I have made some good headway. My most recent discovery took some convincing. It is the story that includes a walk to the cliffs off the shore of Terceira Island. I have worked with the Portuguese in understanding what Lithic Literature has to offer. I have included below an article from the newspaper that describes my efforts. It is in Portuguese of course and I have translated it in a previous article.

https://medium.com/@karolabryant/the-crone-and-the-stone-94fca705635f

The local folks refer to this smaller monument a hop and a skip from the top of the caldera over looking Ribeirinha, as the weeping woman. I did find a female that matures in place. She also presents her offspring as a proper Madonna. She appears to be beside a spring bathing, drinking and washing her hair. At a point you could say she appears to be mourning over her loss and what was a spring, is instead tears 😢 . I can step up the image to a more recent expression of the Pieta and have a recent publication that brings in the Renaissance art .

https://medium.com/@karolabryant/the-stone-and-the-pieta-the-mona-lisa-and-melancholia-a-story-from-lithic-literature-d74356ad9fb1

The young mother takes the time to bath herself and her child in the clean spring water from the top of the incline providing water. Please take time to see how water is not only spring water but also collection and distribution of rain water.

Please note the figure on the far right drinking from the water above. The figure on the right can be understood as posturing to defecate. The right of the water design takes into account that drinking and bathing water must be separated from sewage. You can use your skills acquired using Lithic Literature to note that there are elements of agriculture such as planting and sowing as the nutrient rich waters flow down the right side of the design.

During my stay on the Azores, I spent a lot of time working up on the rim of the caldera. I approached the top from many angles from my rental apartment in the town of Ribeirinha to the rim to study the stones. Here I am looking down to the shore from my rental. My apartment is a point on a line straight between the top the rim and the shore cliffs. You can follow the path of water from the top of the caldera to the cliffs below.

The map below has an arrow showing the direction and approximate location of the path.

I made an effort to follow the path of the water on one of my excursions up to the rim.

The picture above shows the ancient manmade spring dressed in a stone age style found up above the town of Riberinha.

I was able to trace the water up to this ancient spring that was dressed with ancient masonry. When I turned around, I could see the path of the water as it made its way down the path of least resistance flow right past my apartment. I have found that following the water will also expose the stones. I figured if I followed the path of the water down to the sea, it would also give me the path of the earlier humans, and from looking at this early manmade spring, they were definitely here. The Stone Age bridge work shown below is not far from the spring and uses the same stone age architecture.

The trip down to my apartment is a wonder run juggernaut style. There is a main road that runs along the coast partly seen and heard from my bedroom window. My plan was to cross the main street and follow the water.🥰follow the water.

From above you can easily predict the path of least resistance as the water carves its way.

Below is an arial view of the actual location. You can see the groin form from above. I am thinking it is a manmade groin created to calm the waves coming from the SW for a possible boat landing. I am so happy to have this opportunity to see this for myself and share with you.

After getting across the main route and I started my way down towards the cliffs the whole mood changed. In many ways I felt more human at a basal level. Although the town itself was old, the area I was entering was designed by humans at an even earlier time.

The patch of bamboo is a good indication of human occupation. Bamboo was an important resource for tools, weapons, weaving, as well as protection from predators, especially from above. It attracted other prey looking for the protection the the bamboo patch enhancing hunting opportunities. Bamboo is also waterproof and practical for utensils, housing, and water vessel construction. With some simple cutting tools you could design anything you needed in a bamboo patch.

I continued down the ravine, passing ideal pools and waterfalls for washing and bathing all under the umbrella of the bamboo patch. The water torrents from the storm the night before had exposed the artifacts used by these earlier inhabitants.

Below I have minimally highlighted the larger version of the Venus, whom I have begun to notice as a pattern echoing the Pleiades star cluster which I will cover in a following article. The artifact is the same as the one pictured above in the collection and it is lovely.

Please take a moment to process the female elephant handler in red and elephant forms in black. The elephant and her handler are an ancient team of civil architects that hold the key to a practical water distribution design applicable to most geographical incline.

The old fishermen would have been upset to see me taunting the ocean. I wish I had walked around the other side and taken pictures from more angles. The water was rough and I kept imagining a sudden rogue wave slamming me suddenly. I am still trying to make out if it is basalt or actually black obsidian.