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“There were details like clothing, hair styles and the fragile objects that hardly ever survive for the archaeologist—musical instruments, bows and arrows, and body ornaments depicted as they were worn. â€� No amounts of stone and bone could yield the kinds of information that the paintings gave so freely.”
― Mary Leakey

“The Australian Aboriginal cave paintings, from this period, are the first hints of religion that humans have as proof of religious behaviour. The caves in which the paintings are found date to 50,000 years ago through forensic geology and carbon dating. Most of the images found in their religious stories and ceremonies are depicted in these caves. We also have confirmation from the aborigines themselves that these images are their religious images. These paintings also are likely to be significant evidence for linking the use of Amanita Muscaria to its use 50,000 years ago. This is because 50,000 years ago was when humanity entered Australia and also because Amanita Muscaria produces religious like experiences.”
― Leviak B. Kelly, Religion: The Ultimate STD: Living a Spiritual Life without Dogmatics or Cultural Destruction

“To reach the farthest chamber of Lascaux, it's likely a man had to snuff out his light, lower himself down a shaft with a rope made of twisted fibers, and then rekindle his lamp in the dark so as to draw the woolly rhinoceros, the half horse, and the raging bison there. A long spear transfixes that bison, and entrails pour from its side. Beneath its front hooves lies the one painted man in all of Lascaux: prone, spindly wounded, disguised behind a bird mask. And below him, until its discovery in 196o, lay a spoon-shaped lamp carved of red sandstone ... Hold it again as it once was held, and the animals will emerge out of darkness as you pass. Nothing stays still. Shadows nestle in the cavities; a flicker of light across pale protruding rock turns a hoof or raises a head. One shape recedes as another emerges, and everything lingers in the imagination.”
― Jane Brox, Brilliant: The Evolution of Artificial Light

“L’évocation qui cache évoque ; c’est cela une paroi.
Une autre vie est pressentie ; ou une terreur inimaginable est défiée.
Cauchemars, rêves, fantômes régurgitent une espèce de corps sur la paroi. C’est-à-dire
sur la limite de notre condition. C’est-à-dire sur la frontière séparée, sexuée,
endeuillée. Cauchemars, rêves, fantômes font buter «l’image» contre la paroi
infranchissable � qui ne se franchit que silencieusement, dont on ne revient pas.
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Bois, cornes, canines, griffes, fourrures, odeurs, sauts, cris stridents,
marmonnements sourds, où êtes vous?”
― Pascal Quignard, ´¡²úî³¾±ð²õ

“Nous sommes la première civilisation qui dispose d'un passé devenu immense. En 1940
personne ne connaissait les grottes de Lascaux et de Chauvet. En juillet dernier des chercheurs
ont découvert un crâne vieux de sept cents millions d'années. La profondeur du temps a
remplacé les dieux.”
― Pascal Quignard