From some perspectives, the emergence of Pleistocene art and the creation of rock art were linked to global changes, such as subsistence strategies, migration, and social organization. From our perspective, however, the cause is linked to climate and climatic changes that transformed into a nightmare requiring supernatural power to control. […]
Shamanism
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For Pliny the Elder, the elephant is a pampered animal. If you listen to it carefully, you discover that it loves elephants, and you feel that it once looked upon them standing under the grey moon, flapping their ears. Pliny would say to himself: This small furrow called Earth is […]
For thousands of years, humans have drawn and engraved on rocks, on shelter walls, and in the open air. Despite some objections to naming these engravings and paintings “rock art,” we believe it is the only possible name. For a symbol is something that represents something else through association, resemblance, […]
The Round-Heads are the most talked-about group in Saharan rock art, and no one knows precisely the extent of the excessive imagination associated with this group. Henri Lhote turned the Round-Heads group into a fog that covered the face of the world, and with his gentle voice, he presented a […]
In an article titled “Mankhwala, The Rainmaker”, the author, Paul J. Bann, states: “Mankhwala, whose name literally means ‘Mother of Children’ and, in essence, ‘Mother of All People’, was one of the most powerful rainmakers in Central Africa. Mankhwala presided over a rain shrine with influence extending over most of […]
In the southern Sierra Nevada region of the United States, a statement from an informant of the Western Mono tribe explained: “The healers, bohag… would draw their souls (anet) on the rocks to show themselves, to allow people to see what they had done. Among the Cosho Shoshone tribe and […]
**Some Similarities Between Rock Art in Libya and South Africa** Researchers have a sense that there is a connection between rock art murals everywhere in the world. However, these similarities found in rock art, which support the hypothesis of a universal connection, do not present themselves easily. Some scholars believe […]
1 In the early 1850s, the priest Avvakum was making his way to the land of the Evenki reindeer herders. As he walked, feeling the cold air fill his lungs, he climbed a small hill. The words of the Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church, exiling him to the heart […]