ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses the six rock art motifs are intelligible as rationalisations and manifestations of and interactions with the tiered shamanistic cosmos. It refers to the possible Plains or Pueblo an influence: without more detailed chronological resolution, it is difficult to determine which representations or manifestations of horns in the rock art of the Trans-Pecos are indigenous and which indicative of an intrusive group. Another specific motif connected with somatic transformations is the projectile point-human conflation found in the two Alamo Canyon sites in the western Trans-Pecos. Depictions of deer adjacent to anthropomorphic figures with weapons, in the Trans-Pecos and elsewhere, have often been referenced in attempts to bolster the ill-fated hunting magic hypothesis. In the Trans-Pecos, there are plumed serpents at Storyteller, Jaguar Cave, and Hueco Tanks. Anthropomorphic Tlaloc-like motifs with a trapezoidal or rectangular head above a similar-shaped and limbless body, which often incorporates geometric blanket' designs are found in the western Trans-Pecos rock art corpus.
