#cave paintings
children leaving hand prints with paint is the same as cave paintings from millions of years ago..
“In a cave you are as if in a womb, safe in the darkness of the earth’s belly. And it was almost certainly in caves that the very first magical rites were conducted, with initiates emerging into the light of dawn or beneath the panoply of stars, having undergone various ordeals and preparations for their next phase of life.”
-Philip Carr-Gomm, The Book of English Magic (2010)
Image: Mariano, Hands at the Cuevas de las ManosuponRío Pinturas, near the town of Perito Moreno in Santa Cruz Province,Argentina.
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Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola – Scientist of the Day
Don Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola, a Spanish jurist and amateur archaeologist, died June 2, 1888, at the age of about 57.
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spelldealer: THIS is the bear cave painting I was talking about, the line weight, the proportions, the fine details around the face, and the fact that this all had to be drawn from memory, idk man, it’s incredible to me. If I could meet one person from history it’d be the person that painted this bear 30,000 years ago.
Henri Breuil (French, 1877-1954)
Watercolors based on Prehistoric Cave Paintings
- Licking Reindeer, Font de Gaume, Dourdogne, France
- Bison, Mammoths, Reindeer, and Horses, Font de Gaume, Dourdogne, France
- Crouched Bison, Altamira, Spain
- Mooing Bison, Altamira, Spain
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