Case file · Sacred site
Sehlabathebe rock art
Rock shelters in Lesotho's Sehlabathebe National Park hold San paintings of rain animals, dances and trance figures; the park joined the Maloti-Drakensberg World Heritage Site in 2013.
2013 CE · -29.88, 29.08 · status: official
The account
San painters in the high Maloti and Drakensberg depicted the spirit world of healers, who in trance were believed to capture rain animals and lead them over the land.