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Ancestors, the - Art - Blood, Red ochre, Bhimbekta and the Red Lady of Paviland
Identifier
021698
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
A description of the experience
Blood as symbol
The use of blood and the corresponding extensive use of red ochre is a feature of these early peoples. Blood and red ochre are symbolically ‘spirit’ or spirit input. Thus any drawings in red ochre indicate a spiritual being or a person imbued with spirit and thus either seen in spiritual experiences or one having an experience. Many shamans shown on cave paintings are ‘flying’, whether this is a figurative Out of body experience or actual levitation we may never know.
Burial also used red ochre to indicate – gone to the spirit - The male skeleton found in Pavisland Cave on the Gower peninsula, known as the Red Lady of Pavisland, for example, had been reddened with ochre
Red Lady of Pavisland
The source of the experience
The AncestorsConcepts, symbols and science items
Concepts
OransScience Items
Activities and commonsteps
Activities
Commonsteps
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