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Sacred Symbols of the Stone Age
Posted On 15 Sep 2014
By : Ancient
Throughout the Palaeolithic era (50,000 BCE – 10,000 BCE), our distant ancestors often used cave walls and rock faces as a canvas to paint their thoughts and experiences upon. In a time dominated by hunting and survival, these images would often take the form of animals, warriors and ritualistic activity.
However, there are also a large number of strange symbols which appear repeatedly throughout Stone Age, in all areas of the world. Spirals, triangles, zig zags and hand prints were common motifs etched upon the cave walls of Europe, America, Asia and Indonesia. This begs us to ask the question, did our ancestors use symbols as a means of pictorial communication?
The oldest known geoglyphs ever recorded can be found in the Spanish caves of El Castillo and Altamira, dated to between 39,000 – 34,000 years ago. They include red ochre dots and club-shaped images known as claviforms. Genevieve von Petzinger, a cave art researcher, has recorded 28 significant symbols which appear repeatedly and consistently around the world.
It is not currently possible to determine what these ciphers mean, but their repetition across the globs suggest there was a common value encoded into each symbol. What we do know is that in most cases, these symbols are associated with animal imagery (suggesting the language of the shaman).
From anthropological studies of shaman today, we can get a glimpse into the minds of these spirit workers who practiced their magic craft tens of thousands of years ago. They were intimately connected with the spirit world, which was believed to permeate every object on Earth (living and inanimate).
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Sacred Symbols of the Stone Age
Posted On 15 Sep 2014
By : Ancient
Throughout the Palaeolithic era (50,000 BCE – 10,000 BCE), our distant ancestors often used cave walls and rock faces as a canvas to paint their thoughts and experiences upon. In a time dominated by hunting and survival, these images would often take the form of animals, warriors and ritualistic activity.
However, there are also a large number of strange symbols which appear repeatedly throughout Stone Age, in all areas of the world. Spirals, triangles, zig zags and hand prints were common motifs etched upon the cave walls of Europe, America, Asia and Indonesia. This begs us to ask the question, did our ancestors use symbols as a means of pictorial communication?
The oldest known geoglyphs ever recorded can be found in the Spanish caves of El Castillo and Altamira, dated to between 39,000 – 34,000 years ago. They include red ochre dots and club-shaped images known as claviforms. Genevieve von Petzinger, a cave art researcher, has recorded 28 significant symbols which appear repeatedly and consistently around the world.
It is not currently possible to determine what these ciphers mean, but their repetition across the globs suggest there was a common value encoded into each symbol. What we do know is that in most cases, these symbols are associated with animal imagery (suggesting the language of the shaman).
From anthropological studies of shaman today, we can get a glimpse into the minds of these spirit workers who practiced their magic craft tens of thousands of years ago. They were intimately connected with the spirit world, which was believed to permeate every object on Earth (living and inanimate).
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