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Birthing Rock
This photograph is of an Indian petroglyph located a few miles from Moab, Utah.  The locals
have named this boulder "the Birthing Rock" and the scene, which is carved on all sides of the
rock, is thought to portray a birth.  The birth attendent ("midwife") in the carving is a large
anthropomorph (a non-human given human traits) wearing a ceremonial headdress and
necklace.  The birthing woman and emerging baby are just to the anthropomorph's left in the
carving.  Many footprints and scorpions are depicted.