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Caves are interpreted as portals where humans call animals back into the spirit world, completing the cycle of life and death through ritual art.
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Caves are interpreted as portals where humans call animals back into the spirit world, completing the cycle of life and death through ritual art.
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Caves were sacred portals but not settlement sites because they were dark, cold, oxygen-poor, and unlivable; mountaintops and rivers could serve as livable sacred portals around which communities settled.
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"...world connect with the material world? Well, through caves, right, through portals, rivers, caves, mountaintops. And that's why these places were considered appropriate sites..."
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"If you didn't have them, then you would die off. So you dressed up like them in order to better communicate with them in..."
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"The stars, the caves are portals into the spirit world, and that's why you celebrate them, okay? And how are they painting the caves?..."
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"...actually a great question. Okay? Besides caves what are some other portals in the world? What are some other portals in the world that..."
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's dawn-of-humanity lecture: Darwinism becomes a rival theology, cave art becomes a portal, speech begins as song, and modern society is accused of socializing people out of empathy.
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