“…Boreda quarry locations are associated with ancestors and chert is perceived to be formed by vital forces of earth and rain and proximity to sacred water and fig trees. Scholars and historic texts of other lithic practitioners refer to ‘the earth gestating the fetus stone’ (historic text from Mexico: Pastrana & Athie 2014, 96), ‘chert growing along watercourses ’ (Wola of Papua New Guinea: Sillitoe & Hardy 2005, 557–8), ‘breeding stone as in the case of a pregnant woman with young inside’ (Yolngu of Australia: Jones 1990, 27; Jones & White 1988, 61), ‘referred to cores as “the mother one” which was “cut” or “bled”’ (Gugadja of Australia: Cane 1992, 16), ‘when the world was made the stone came to Mt. Kagul … seeing a pleasanter place on the opposite of the Wahgi river, however, they moved across’ (Waghi of Papua New Guinea: Burton 1984, 260) and ‘when male and female stones were wrapped in a bundle they could reproduce … contain smaller stones that were regarded as offspring’ (Absarokee of United States: Irwin 1996, 224–5).…”