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  • This pictograph carries multiple meanings.  ONe is a stylized figure of a dwelling in the form of a man; the dewelling resembles a Teepee.  The pictography is done in a technique called Pisanitsy using ocher.  It dates to the Eneolitic period in Kazakhstan (c. 4,000  to 3,000 B.C.) between the stone and the bronze ages.  It was found at Akbaur Grotto in Eastern Kazakhstan.
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  • This ocher pictograph depicts a ram.  Rams and mountain goats have both been used in many cultures over the centuries as symbols for fertility.  They also smbolize purity and a connection between heaven and earth, in part because they climb so high in the mountains where the air is pure.  It is also from the Eneolithic period at Akbaur Grotto
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  • Akbaur Grotto is inside a granite hill that resembles a pyramid.  A climb up 20 fee of natural, step-like folds symbolized stairs that connect the physical realm to the supernatural realm.  A natural opening in the grotto resembles the Shangiraq roof opening of a yrt.  As the sun makes its daily course across the heavens.  It rays enter the grotto and illuminate the 80 Pictographs depicting ancient Kazakh mythology and cosmology.
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