Christopher Vogler The Writers Journey
It makes a convincing theatrical illusion that the country's eternal fighting spirit is
slumbering but ready to return to action when needed. N o doubt the ancient people
felt the same awe as flickering torches and oil lamps made the giant horses and bison
gallop across the cave walls.
A feature of some commercial cave tours in the modern world is to turn off
the electric lights at some point so the visitors can get a sense of the pure blackness
of the lighdess cave. Perhaps our ancestors used a similar dramatic technique in their
cave rituals, putting out the oil lamps and torches so the young initiates could experi
ence the deep dark. For some it would be terrifying, for others, soul-expanding, and
some might be visited with visions that made them feel connected to the animals
or the powers that made the world. Perhaps the paintings are memorials of those
visions, amended and painted over by successive generations of initiates.
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