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Ancestor skulls, Ice Age cave paintings, and early temples become evidence of a broad human pattern: religious worship builds portals that connect the spirit world and this world.
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Cave Painting
Ancestor skulls, Ice Age cave paintings, and early temples become evidence of a broad human pattern: religious worship builds portals that connect the spirit world and this world.
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Jiang reads prehistoric monuments, animal-human pillars, figurines, flutes, and cave paintings as evidence that early religion was celebrated through art, music, and shamanic animal imagery.
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Jiang interprets cave paintings as tribute and apology to animals whose bodies nourish humans and whose souls might otherwise seek vengeance.
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He links animal-shaman transformation to prehistoric dolls, cave paintings, and the belief that shamans can become animals to communicate with animals.
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Jiang links cave paintings to agriculture: cave paintings expressed religion; after the Ice Age, settled communities formed to celebrate religion, and that gave rise to agriculture.
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"And so the answer is this. Let's think about for the past thousand years. The most impressive buildings in the world are usually churches...."
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"...common idea at that time. All right? And then you have cave paintings. So remember way back, way early in the semester, we looked..."
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"Okay? Including in China, including in Europe. This is Gopalatepe. And you can see that this is a teal pillar. And it's meant to..."
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"...sense? It's like paintings. Okay? So, remember, they also have these cave paintings where they're celebrating the mother goddess. And they're celebrating the fact..."
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"...or harpy eagle okay it's something that we discussed in the cave paintings why did they spend so much time painting these animals and..."
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"not themselves what they celebrate are the animals because it's the animals that give them life that give them nourishment and meat okay does..."
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"...to better communicate with the animals and this explains all the cave paintings and how forty thousand years ago they were creating dolls of..."
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"...about? Do you see how all this connects together? Okay? The cave paintings is what started it. Cave paintings is the expression of a..."
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"...of doing this by ourselves. And examples of course are the cave paintings that we discussed, as well as these religious settlements, Goplataple, Karahoyak...."
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"...we're all stupid, it's hard to explain how we did the cave paintings, how we built Cabelo Tepe. How we did Catahouya. It assumes..."
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"...run through of human history today. So last class we did cave paintings and what I will do from now on is I will..."
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"...maintain harmony. All right, and this is no different from the cave paintings, okay? So you go way back to the dawn of humanity,..."
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