After delivering the baby, Ayla travels to the Summer Meeting. She spends the next few days recovering from her experience and helps deliver a friend's baby. Outside are people from her Cave who were worried about her absence, and it is discovered that Ayla miscarried. She allows Wolf to lead her out of the cave, but not before finding a bag hidden there by Madroman, an unskilled acolyte who faked his Calling, and who has had a deep-seated hatred of Jondalar since adolescence. Wolf wakes her from her visions, and she finds herself in the dark cave. Ayla puts down her drink and runs along a river into a cave, where she spends the next three days hallucinating. If an acolyte is Called, then she will be tested by the Zelandonia, and initiated into the Zelandonia if the Calling is true. One night Ayla makes some mint tea, actually the dried herb mixture given to her in the second part of the book, and is Called. During this time she takes care of Marthona, her mother-in-law, as well as the others in her Cave.
However, most of her Cave leaves for the Summer Meeting, but Ayla stays behind until Midsummer so she can finish her observation of the celestial bodies. One night she is distracted and decides to share Pleasures with Jondalar, starting a baby. In the third part of the book, Ayla is marking the passage of the sun and moon's phases as part of her training as an acolyte. Ayla also discovers that the Clan visit some of the sacred caves as well. Ayla meets many other Zelandoni and one of them gives her a pouch of dried herbs smelling faintly of mint.
In many of the Sacred caves the Ancients, the people before the Zelandonii, left drawings. The second part is mainly about the caves they visit. Jondalar, Jonayla, their animals and many others decide to travel. Ayla and the First decide to start Ayla's Donier Tour - a tour of the sacred caves in the wider region. In the first part, Ayla is at a Summer Meeting and she begins to learn what an acolyte does. The third part of the book contains most of the action of the story and plot line. Most of the first and second parts of the book involve Ayla's acolyte training to become Zelandoni. In this three-part book, Ayla is 20 (in part 1), about 23 (in part 2) and 26 (in part 3) and is training to become a spiritual leader for the Zelandonii.
It describes Ayla's life among the Zelandonii, and her training to become one of their spiritual leaders. It is the sequel to The Shelters of Stone – published 9 years earlier – and is the sixth and final book in the Earth's Children series. The Land of Painted Caves is a historical fiction novel by Jean M.
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