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These
are five caves exhibiting the traces of rupestrian art made
by the Cuban aborigines. According to experts the best preserved
are the Number One and Number Two. They are located in the so
called south area of the Isle of Youth, a practically
virgin territory where anthropologic action has not been as
determining as in the north.
In
1922, Fernando Ortiz, eminent anthropologist and researcher
called it "the Sistine chapel of rupestrian art in the
Insular Caribbean"
Number
One deserves a description. It shows a lunar calendar formed by 56
concentric circles: 28 in red and 28 in black, and the nine
planets of the solar systems. On June 22, day of the summer equinox the
first rays of sunlight shine on the image. There is also the Cruz
Pinera, pointing the four cardinal points and images
representing phallic symbols, human fecundation and a sort
of rattlesnake. This has left speleologists rather
meditative concerning the origin of the authors of such
pictographies, since there never were in the Cuban fauna such
species, which dwell in the south of the United
States
and
Mexico
.
There
is a tunnel of about 13 meters. While digging remains of
fossilized human beings and fragments of utensils were found.
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