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Approximately 600 years worth of rock art in northern Ephennos, in a sheltered outcrop along the Erubin river. In this timespan, this area has been occupied by Ephenni, West Rivers, and Cholemdinae peoples and all three groups have probably contributed to the art here.

This type of rock carving throughout this period is most commonly used for sympathetic magic or as a form of prayer (scenes of livestock are often at least partially this), or alternatively as a means of casting curses. It's also very frequently just art for art's sake created by travelers or bored herders (though ritual purposes aren't mutually exclusive with 'for fun' or aesthetic angles), or to denote a location's qualities, spirits, or history.

In probable chronological order:

-A viper.

-A bunch of horses.

-A lioness.

-A detailed drawing of a woman in a long dress with a bared breast, holding horns in each hand. The creation of this image was probably an act of prayer or otherwise sympathetic magic intended to bless adjacent farmland. There's a high chance that this is iconography of an imperial-era Burri goddess (or a figure syncretic with one), given the style of the dress and (mostly obscured) very tall cylindrical hat. The head was replaced with that of a cow at a later date.

-A chariot with two khait and a driver.

-A bunch of hyenas. One unfinished hyena is pierced by an arrow or spear. 

-Several solar wheels.

-A large battle scene depicting mounted archers fighting utosai cavalry, along with a dead man and khait impaled with arrows. This was probably drawn from living memory of a utosai, as more recent depictions tend to lack this relative accuracy in shape (most Wardi language terms for utosai were just ‘lizard-bull’, people going off that title and legendary descriptions alone tend to draw them as either a giant scaled bull with a crocodile’s tail, or a giant crocodile with hooves and horns). The text next to one archer identifies a name, which is probably Kuligan (which dead literally means 'wild cattle', can refer to aurochs/buffalo/bison) (the character on the left is an earlier variant of the Wardi 'wild cattle' pictogram, the one on the right is the person radical that was adopted from old Burri script, thus indicating that Kuligan is a human name).

-Another artist appears to have added their own rider to the fight scene at the top left around the same time.

-A drawing of an aurochs carrying a solar wheel, overlapping the hyenas and apparently placed there intentionally (one of its legs overlaps with that of a hyena, and another hyena appears to stand on its back).

-A herd of domestic cattle. The same artist probably left the unfinished cow head near the lioness' tail.

-Several gazelles.

-A person with a spear thrower, probably in contemporary men's clothing.

-Someone who is both literate and trained in writing has climbed up here to write “Achotas (is a) peerless cocksucker” in formal script. (‘peerless cocksucker’ is grammatically formatted as if it’s an honorific or title, more literally ‘PEERLESS COCKSUCKER ACHOTAS’)

-A probable young child has drawn a face, two human figures, and one khait. They also added their own mounted archer to the bottom right of the utosai fight scene.

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