-Nothing newBy Andreas Monty Freddie
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pproximately 32.000 years ago, in what today is referred to as the upper Palaeolithic period, or “stone age”, dating back to between 40.000 and 10.000 years ago, the Aurignacians started drawing on the walls of the Chauret caves in Aldéne in the south of France. Images of bison, aurochs, horses and women, the sun, moon, mountains and rivers. Not realistic, but true. There have been many theories of why; some explain it as hunting magic, some say it’s the result of adolescent fantasies. James David Lewis-Williams has studied contemporary hunter-gatherer societies, and explains the pre-historic drawings as the work of Cro-Magnon shamans, retreating into caves, where they would enter a state of trance, and then paint the images of their vision. Most of the drawings we know of today, are located
in caves deep below the surface of the earth, in remote and almost inaccessible areas of complete darkness. What where we up to? I doubt, that whoever did these drawings, ever felt uninspired, standing there, in the flickering light of the fire, charcoal in his hesitant hand, starring at that big blank piece of rock, trying to come up with something original that would impress the rest of the tribe. Or at least fulfill the need to express himself. I say; 32.000 years ago, man drew on that rock, in the name of co-existence.
For a few hours a day, Between hunting, eating, and making love. Rejoicing in the name of all-thereis, was, and will be. The Universe expressing itself. These drawings on rock Of Deer and Owl Mountains and Rivers Oak, and Larch Pictures of relatives.