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Re: Seeing faces in rocks

Mar 10, 2006, 23:09

>I'm not sure that us seeing faces in rocks and trees is hard wired.<

Well I completely agree with you Peter. I've lived a lot of my life outside the influence of Western culture and know that the emphasis on 'self' is just not as strong in some non-Western societies - indeed that fact is even reflected in the language of those cultures. One such culture hardly uses the words I, me or you in normal conversation and questions such as, "Do you understand?" or, "Shall we go?" are simply rendered as, "Understand...?" and "Go...?" (with a rising tone). What is important in a question such as "Go...?" is the level of politeness with which the question is asked and that single verb may have several layers of politeness :-)

I mention this because it shows how different we (mankind) view the world. Each society, past and present, has placed emphasis on what it perceived as important. Which brings us back, yet again I'm afraid, to the fundamental question of this thread - what was important to the creators of rock art?

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