I live in the Dordoigne in a house where there are archeologists as pets. Nearby there are lots of caves with prehistoric paintings in them which are about 22,000 years old.
Paintings of cave bears, bison, aurochs, deer and even cave lions. But no cats. Not a single one. Not even a little pawprint left on the sand.
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| Another bull but no cats |
Why? My humans are not interested in this but I find it upsetting.
Isabel La Chatte.
Dear Isabel La Chatte,
There is no need to get excited or downhearted by this omission. The answer is simple. These paintings were done by primitive men and women who lived a nomadic life. They had no houses, just tents covered with animal skins - or they sheltered below the rocks of the Dordoigne.
Imagine the sheer discomfort. Imagine the damp. The lack of sophistication among these humans! How could we possibly adapt to this kind of lifestyle. It is simply not up to our requirements. We adopted humans about 10,000 years later in the Middle East, when they had settled down into properly built dry houses - incidentally houses with mice.
Then at last they had achieved a level of technology and civilisation worthy of us. So we deigned to move in with them.
Yours
George.
Ma cherie Isabel, we were lucky there were no sketches with cats in the caves. The primitive humans living in caves were drawing the animal they wanted to hunt for food - drawing it they were invoking (energetically -you know... quantum physics :-)) its spirit to bring the real animal their way so they could kill it and eat it!
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DeleteWow! Diego, you really impressed me with your knowledge! Do you teach?
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