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Re: Intercourse /vs/ Offspring
E Douglas Kihn (vivacuba@ix.netcom.com(E)
13 Dec 1996 00:25:53 GMT
In <58ppd8$rqv@news.sdd.hp.com> geroldf@sdd.hp.com (Gerold Firl)
writes:
>
>In article <58oe8a$f0j@dfw-ixnews3.ix.netcom.com>,
vivacuba@ix.netcom.com(E Douglas Kihn) writes:
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>|> In <58kj57$qu3@news.sdd.hp.com> geroldf@sdd.hp.com (Gerold Firl)
>|> writes:
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>|> >Depictions of copulating animals in the cro-magnon cave paintings
also
>|> >suggests an earlier comprehension of the connection between sex
and
>|> >procreation.
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>|> But rock paintings showing animals copulating (and having a
heluva
>|> great time) doesn't make that connection at all. It merely
suggests
>|> that pre-technological humans recognized a good time when they saw
it!
>|> Now, if there was a rock painting that showed animals copulating,
and
>|> then in the next picture the same species giving birth, wouldn't
that
>|> be a HOOT!
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>Indeed - one might go so far as to consider that *proof* of
>understanding the connection.
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>The art of the cro-magnon caves has often been interpreted as hunting
>magic, ensuring not only that the hunt will be successful, but that
>the herds will not diminish as a result. Of course, such
>interpretation is speculative, but there are clear parallels with
>modern hunter-gatherer ideology, which makes such a view quite
>plausible. See campbell, _masks of god_, for examples.
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>If we accept the postulate that the animal scenes are part of ritual
>observances which help to preserve the herds, then the presence of
>animal copulation scenes would support the notion that ice age man
>understood sexual conception.
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Possible, but pretty speculative though, and in no way constituting
any kind of proof. I would need to see some BABIES in that scene to go
beyond wild speculation.
Dr. Doug
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