"Neither in body nor in mind do we inhabit the world of those hunting races of the paleolithic millenia, to whose lives and ways we nevertheless owe the very forms of our bodies and the structure of our minds. Memories of the animal envoys still must sleep, somehow within us; for they wake a little and stir when we venture into wilderness. They wake in terror to thunder. And again they wake with a sense of recognition, when we enter any one of those great painted caves. Whatever the inward darkness may have been to which the shamans of the caves descended in their trances, the same must lie within ourselves nighly visited in sleep."
The way of the Animal Powers-Joseph Cambell.
Pic: Rock art on the isle of Mull.
The way of the Animal Powers-Joseph Cambell.
Pic: Rock art on the isle of Mull.
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