Pubic triangle engravings

The island of Gran Canaria holds inland treasures such as one of the greatest concentrations of rock art engravings that represent the female pubic triangle. They are always represented on the walls of artificial caves, in outstanding spots such as Risco Caído, Cuevas del Caballero, Roque Bentayga and, particularly the Cueva de los Candiles, a cave whose walls are completely covered in these representations.
These cultural manifestations have been historically and anthropologically interpreted from an iconology perspective as elements bound to beliefs and cults revolving around human and ecological fertility, regenerating the necessary resources for existence in agropastoral societies; this all picks a schematised female pubic triangle as its main iconographic element, with or without representation of the vulva.