Sir, you mentioned the cave paintings in France in the religious forum.
Have you any theory's on how they came to exist and the meaning behind them.??
I have long been fascinated not with the depiction of the game animals but the full hand prints in the same area.
It seems likely to me at least that the painters wanted their gods to know them in the only way they knew of as----Human and individuals separate from other humans.
Question is, how did they know that all humans have different finger and palm prints.
There are also the mystifying spots or dots near each hand,
Could they have been meant to show,
Each time they visited the cave,
The number of animals they have killed,
I sort of came up with the following idea at work one day when 3 men in their 60's came to work through a Temp agency. They came from South East Asia and I being a Tattoo lover asked them about the tattoos on their upper arms that were dots of ink in a half circle. Some had a dozen or so and one had a good 3 dozen marks.
I was told they were kill marks, the number of Communists they had each killed. [ POL POT?]
Could it be possible these were to show the number of enemy's they had dispatched also.???
Human nature does not really change, everyone wants their God to recognise them from out of the pack of others.
Christians of all types and some Buddhists have painted in caves that we find every few years, they paint in secrete from those that wish to destroy them, their culture, their faith.
Questions galore here, there may have been hundreds of caves painted in same mannor that did not have the conditions to preserve the art work.
The hand prints are the only kind of that age, anywhere in the world we have found so far that I know of. The art work is spectacular we can today recognise the breed of animal they painted, hunted or admired.
What Mr. Bunny are your ideas, am I way off base here, ????
When the young child ran from the cave yelling TORO, a new and fascinating page of history opened into the past.
