#Cave Carvings

[askspidertrain]

Wait did you lay the egs???

[allaboutyoupostnthings]

"The Angel's Trumpet: Unlocking Mysteries in Ancient Landscapes"

Daily writing promptYou have three magic genie wishes, what are you asking for?View all responses Walking through a sandy, arid desert with my trusty two-humped camel named Horace, I wanted to find something special to remember my trip to the far eastern edge of Turkey, near Cappadocia. The scenery is sprinkled with caves and underground caverns. I knew that within this area there had to be…

[claypigeonpottery]

lascaux-inspired cave painting deer

[letmeinimafairy]

Available miniatures for sale

I'm a bit (a lot) cash-strapped, so here's what I currently have at hand. All these are pendants, I can add necklace/cord/chain/whatever to each. Reblogs would be very much appreciated, thank you

[viagginterstellari]

Snake - Htat Eian Cave, 2017

[marejadilla]

Tom Bagshaw, "Carved Inside", 2017, digital painting. Bagshaw was born in Bath, England.

[moodboardmix]

"Promenade" Wine Cellar, Cordoba, Argentina,

Interior design: Christian Schlatter,

Photography: Gonzalo Viramonte

[ech0foxtrot]

Happy Halloween!

rat pumpkin

[kodapear]

Really need to work on my backgrounds cause I'm not too proud of this one, but at least it's better than the original lmao

[terebelli]

Hand-carved cave by Ra Paulette. Abiquiu, New Mexico.

[rrcraft-and-lore]

The Kailasa temple in Maharashtra India is a rock cut temple (one of many) and this one in particular is carved out of one single rockspace. It is in fact the largest rock cut (a whole Indian style) one out of the thirty-four in Ellora Caves -Just the grandeur, skill, and size of all this is awing.

Peak of Indian rock cut architecture.

[bonefall]

Thinking about that one post about the 5000 year old teenager girl found buried with her collection of 180 sheep ankle bones but specifically the addition of how ankle bones were used as dice back then and she was a gamer.. what I'm getting at is: would clan cats make bone dice and Are They Gaming

First let me teach you a little bit about Knucklebones: The Game.

You probably know one of its variants better as Jacks, that game you play with a rubber ball and little metal spikes. There's a version of Knucklebones in nearly every culture, where the basic idea is to throw an object up in the air, pick up as many of the smaller objects as possible, and then catch the larger object before it hits the ground.

In cultures with a lot of access to livestock, usually the hand and ankle bones of sheep would be used. Places that don't have them might use rocks, seeds, shells, whatever. It was Ancient Greece that had such an extreme take on the game that it eventually evolved into dice-throwing-- a totally chance-based game where you would just throw the biggest foot bone of a sheep (the astralagus; equivalent to the talus in a human) and see how they landed.

So the girl they uncovered in Kazakhstan with the 180 sheep bones wasn't really buried "with dice," make sense? It's more like being buried with jacks. Central Asia is actually jam-packed with knucklebones-types games. Mongolian Shagai is recognized by UNESCO.

And it makes a TON of sense, because those regions are grasslands absolutely ideal for raising sheep.

SO. CLAN CATS.

There's two major considerations here;

ONE: The access to, and size of, sheep bones.

Clan cats don't kill sheep. TRIBE cats actually have access to sheep and kill one or two a year! I would actually like to give them a bunch of special uses for various parts of the sheep. I think the eagle-killing thing in canon is actually pretty ridiculous for several reasons

BUT THAT SAID, an astralagus is the size of a cat's paw.

[ID: A human holding an astralagus in the tips of its fingers.]

You'd need to play a different sort of game with this. It's more like a square softball to a cat than a little rubber ball.

Boar also have bones like this, though. A muntjac probably produces bones that are sized properly for a cat. Hares and rabbits are probably the BEST bet here though, which, somehow feels right. I'm not sure why, but WindClan seems like the gamerclan Clan that would think up these sorts of cute games.

Something about it fits their whole savvy culture, tunneling, emphasis on trade and invention pre-Heatherstar. ShadowClan and WindClan share a cultural value of innovation, but ShadowClan seems more... chemical and competitive.

Hard to explain it. ShadowClan invents flax retting and WindClan invents the drop spindle. There's overlap but it has a bit of a different flavor between them.

TWO: Range of motion

I've made BB!Cats have the same range of motion as the cats in canon, which is higher than a real cat. They're able to WEAVE, you can't do that without a basic pincher grasp. They're also able to mix herbs, wrap things up in leaves, and apply bandages.

I haven't actually given my reworked cats much more ability than they already had, I just codified rules based on what we already see.

But that said, they DO have less range of motion in their hands than humans. They have little thumbs and a better ability to grab, but can't twist their paws completely upwards. There's no way they can toss an object straight up, then catch it again.

So any games they do play would need to accommodate that. So far I've got Scratchstone, Teeterstrike, and an unnamed rhyme game. The bone game would need to look more like a game of marbles than jacks. Or, maybe more modified to accommodate swipes and strikes, somehow? Or a two-person game of catch?

Gotta think about it.

[claypigeonpottery]

sold

[letmeinimafairy]

I literally can't stop making these things. Now working on desert and Arctic landscapes

[troytiwari]

Ellora Caves

Shiva as Kala Bhairava with flaming eyes and in a state of frenzied excitement, with the Saptamatrika at his feet.

[t1meslayer]

Obsidian

~ Happy Halloween ~

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Fandom: Pokemon

Summary: A d̶a̷r̵k̵ cave. A mysterious c̸̩̝̮̹̆̃̑̉͒͐̊͗̀r̵̡̲̖̝͔̹͊̈́̽̈̽̎ͅe̸̜̗̙̥͛ͅa̴̧̡̘̻̥͕͙͋̈́̐t̵̘͕̥͉͙͌ȕ̴̞̼̻͝ȑ̵̤̜̑͒̍͘ẹ̴̛̥̼̱̤́̄̌͛̕͝͝. Just another adventure for the E̶͚͇͗̒͛́̀̄̇̇͐͒̔͠v̴̧̧͉̱͈̬̄̊͑̋̾̃́̀͂́͝ȩ̵̛̦̞̱̭̝̭̎̐̆͐́̆r̸̯͎̖̣͉̓̑̿͂ G̶̜͈͉̼͎̭͙̺̯̤̯̼̥̮̈́̓͆̏̍̈́̃̃͛̓͐͌̾̃̋͘r̵̖͚̜̳̰͍̅̈́̉̒̋̅̉̿̅͒̀̃̌͜a̸̧̛̮̝̹̯̩̻̳̝̋͌̀́̒̏̿͠͝ͅn̶̞͖͕̍̆d̶̨̡̛͙̳̤̲̪̤̮̳̖̙͓̻͎̓̉̿̅̽͜e̸̢̧͈̭̺͆̇͂̓̓͂͑̚͠͝͠ R̷̨̧͙͉̩̳̜͖͕͉̕o̶̪̜̰̻͛̇́̂̐̓͆̆̈͗͂̽̓̅͛̚ç̴̧̧̫̲̯̝̝̹̙͔̯̤͈͇̾̓́͆͊̀͗̂͋͋̀̈́̔̂̚̕k̴̰͉̦͔̳̲͖̞̬̠̼̻̐̓͒̒̂̏̀̑̔͂̚͝͠ ̸̢̧͇͖͎̞̪̰̗̤̤͇̥̯͋̊̂́̃̕ͅÇ̶̭̼̞͔̖̞̼̥̜̪͙̤̩͔̱̈̅̓͗̓̓̓̇̉͝l̶͎̜͇͋͛̿̌̈́̆̏ṷ̸̩̙̏̇ḃ̶̧͉̟͇͙̻̱̩͔̜̗͖̐͂́̍̿̽̄̉͐̊. 

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It's hopeless to tell where the opposite wall of the cave might be. It's at once impossibly far away and closing in faster and faster with every heartbeat.

An earthy musk of carbon dust and death permeates the surroundings, seeping into one's DNA with every breath.