Creative Spirit (Petro-Person)

Creative Spirit (Petro-Person)Hands are a symbol of action, doing, making, and creating. Many cultures used the image of a hand to convey these ideas. This Petro Person comes with big hands, and has a hand in the middle, all of which conveys the idea of one being creative in multiple ways.

' These double dots would often point to other petroglyph panels

This Petro-Person comes with big hands

but in petroglyph language of the region such a symbol means war

' Up and down are indicated by the clockwise or counterclockwise trajectory of the swirl

and the symbol for journey and spring also occur

The image represents

It can either mean 'up

and literally in the form of buildings

They denoted the next direction someone could go to find something useful

The fire is at the middle of it all

This figure is 'letting go' or dropping that which brings it down

The swirl in petroglyph language means a lot of things