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Jacquetta Hawkes – A Land – The beauty of rock art
Identifier
021711
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
A description of the experience
Jacquetta Hawkes – A Land – The beauty of rock art
It was the hunters in France and Spain who created the paintings and sculpture that have been one of the most astonishing of all our recollections of the past. Here for the first time was consciousness receiving impressions from the exterior world and expressing them through the power of the imagination.
These projections, everything from the mammoth and rhinoceros to the delicate ibex, painted on cave walls, modelled in clay, carved in bone, stone and ivory, have a significance and a reality far greater than any reconstruction of these animals an anatomist might make from their surviving bones. In them already is something of man and his fleeting, tormenting apprehensions.
The source of the experience
The AncestorsConcepts, symbols and science items
Concepts
Science Items
Activities and commonsteps
Activities
Commonsteps
References
Great Hall of the Bulls. Lascaux, France. Paleolithic 15,000–13,000 B.C.E.
