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The Cave Painters, 

The Shaman and Creation

Shaman enter dark places, caves, isolation chambers, inducing the sensory deprivation that leads them to hallucinations and enlightened understandings.  

They use mathematics, words, symbols, images and sculptures to describe what they see and what they understand from what they see. 

They describe what they do, in the way they do, because they have seen things and understood things that the uninitiated have not seen.  

Euclid, Aristotle, Peter, Michaelangelo, Galileo, Da Vinci, Shakespeare, Copernicus, Mozart, Newton, Bach, Picasso, Einstein, the cave painters, Shaman all. 

The cave wall is a membrane that separates the spirit world from the physical world.  On it, pictures are jumbled and superimposed one upon the other, animal bones and teeth forced into fissures and cracks in the rock, hand prints and fingers imprinted into soft clay as well as bulges in the cave wall incorporated into shape of the animal representation.  The painters are creating a bridge between the worlds. 

The family huddle at the mouth of the cave, looking in.  The noise is terrifying.

A huge cave bear is occupying their home.  They have nowhere else to go.  They have no choice.  They battle the cave bear and kill him.

They eat the bear and place the skull on a prominent rock in the middle of the cave. 

The Shaman paints pictures of the bear on the cave wall and creates the songs that celebrate the conquest so that the family are reminded that the bear can be killed and that they can do it again.

The Shaman improve their creations and teach others to create in order to demonstrate their superiority over other people, their own, and rivals.  In the case of the cave painters, the Neanderthal. 

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