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            2114 Images & Collections results for Bethlehem

            RARI RSA SKA1 58
            RARI RSA SKA1 58
            RARI RARI-RARI-RSA-SKA1-58.jpg · Item · 16/07/1998
            Part of RARI
            Schaapplaats I 1785
            RARI RSA SKA1 59
            RARI RSA SKA1 59
            RARI RARI-RARI-RSA-SKA1-59.jpg · Item · 16/07/1998
            Part of RARI
            Snakes.

            Depictions of snakes are not uncommon in rock art.Often it is difficult to detect the head because the snake is entering or leaving a crack or step in the rock face. On close inspection, it is noticeable that most are not depictions of real snakes at all.
            Moreover, bushman beliefs about snakes throw light on these puzzling features. It is believed that shamans used burnt snake powder to assist them in the control of their levels of trance. Like snakes, shamans go underground and then surface again when on out-of-body travel, and this probably explains why painted snakes often seem to slither in and out of the rock face.             Schaapplaats I 1785
            RARI RSA SKA1 6
            RARI RSA SKA1 6
            RARI RARI-RARI-RSA-SKA1-6.jpg · Item · 01/09/1993
            Part of RARI
            Schaapplaats I 1785
            RARI RSA SKA1 60
            RARI RSA SKA1 60
            RARI RARI-RARI-RSA-SKA1-60.jpg · Item · 16/07/1998
            Part of RARI
            Schaapplaats I 1785
            RARI RSA SKA1 61
            RARI RSA SKA1 61
            RARI RARI-RARI-RSA-SKA1-61.jpg · Item · 16/07/1998
            Part of RARI
            Snakes.

            Depictions of snakes are not uncommon in rock art.Often it is difficult to detect the head because the snake is entering or leaving a crack or step in the rock face. On close inspection, it is noticeable that most are not depictions of real snakes at all.
            Moreover, bushman beliefs about snakes throw light on these puzzling features. It is believed that shamans used burnt snake powder to assist them in the control of their levels of trance. Like snakes, shamans go underground and then surface again when on out-of-body travel, and this probably explains why painted snakes often seem to slither in and out of the rock face.             Schaapplaats I 1785
            RARI RSA SKA1 62
            RARI RSA SKA1 62
            RARI RARI-RARI-RSA-SKA1-62.jpg · Item · 16/07/1998
            Part of RARI
            Schaapplaats I 1785
            RARI RSA SKA1 63
            RARI RSA SKA1 63
            RARI RARI-RARI-RSA-SKA1-63.jpg · Item · 16/07/1998
            Part of RARI
            Schaapplaats I 1785
            RARI RSA SKA1 64
            RARI RSA SKA1 64
            RARI RARI-RARI-RSA-SKA1-64.jpg · Item · 16/07/1998
            Part of RARI
            Schaapplaats I 1785
            RARI RSA SKA1 65
            RARI RSA SKA1 65
            RARI RARI-RARI-RSA-SKA1-65.jpg · Item · 16/07/1998
            Part of RARI
            Schaapplaats I 1785
            RARI RSA SKA1 66
            RARI RSA SKA1 66
            RARI RARI-RARI-RSA-SKA1-66.jpg · Item · 16/07/1998
            Part of RARI
            Schaapplaats I 1785
            RARI RSA SKA1 67
            RARI RSA SKA1 67
            RARI RARI-RARI-RSA-SKA1-67.jpg · Item · 16/06/1998
            Part of RARI
            Hollmann, Jeremy