70,000 year old snake god statue/carving found in Botswana
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70,000 year old snake god statue/carving found in Botswana
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Scientists find first known human ritual
archeologists found stone snake carved in cave in Botswana
A startling discovery of 70,000-year-old artifacts and a python's head
carved of stone appears to represent the first known human rituals.
Scientists had thought human intelligence had not evolved the capacity
to perform group rituals until perhaps 40,000 years ago.
But inside a cave in remote hills in Kalahari Desert of Botswana,
archeologists found the stone snake that was carved long ago. It is as
tall as a man and 20 feet long.
"You could see the mouth and eyes of the snake. It looked like a real
python," said Sheila Coulson of the University of Oslo. "The play of
sunlight over the indentations gave them the appearance of snake skin.
At night, the firelight gave one the feeling that the snake was actually
moving."
More significant, when Coulson and her colleagues dug a test pit near
they stone figure, they found spearheads made of stone that had to have
been brought to the cave from hundreds of miles away. The spearheads
were burned in what only could be described as some sort of ritual, the
scientists conclude.
"Stone age people took these colorful spearheads, brought them to the
cave, and finished carving them there," Coulson said today. "Only the
red spearheads were burned. It was a ritual destruction of artifacts.
There was no sign of normal habitation. No ordinary tools were found at
the site."
The discovery was made in a remote region of Botswana called Tsodilo
Hills, the only uplifted area for miles around. It is known to modern
Sanpeople as the "Mountains of the Gods" and the "Rock that Whispers."
Their legend has it that mankind descended from the python, and the
ancient, arid streambeds around the hills are said to have been created
by the python as it circled the hills in its ceaseless search for water.
That legend made the discovery of the stone python all the more amazing.
"Our find means that humans were more organized and had the capacity for
abstract thinking at a much earlier point in history than we have
previously assumed," Coulson said. "All of the indications suggest that
Tsodilo has been known to mankind for almost 100,000 years as a very
special place in the pre-historic landscape."
The scientists found a secret chamber behind the python carving. Worn
areas indicate it's been used over the years.
"The shaman, who is still a very important person in San culture, could
have kept himself hidden in that secret chamber," Coulson explained. "He
would have had a good view of the inside of the cave while remaining
hidden himself. When he spoke from his hiding place, it could have
seemed as if the voice came from the snake itself. The shaman would have
been able to control everything. It was perfect.”
The shaman could also have made himself disappear from the chamber by
crawling out onto the hillside through a small shaft, the scientists found.
Paintings in the cave appear to support part of modern San mythology.
While cave paintings are common in the Tsodilo Hills, inside the python
cave there are just two small paintings, of an elephant and a giraffe.
The images were painted at the exact spot where water runs down the wall.
One San story has the python falling into water, unable to get out. It's
saved by the giraffe. The elephant, with its long trunk, is often a phor
for the python in San mythology.
"In the cave, we find only the San people’s three most important
animals: the python, the elephant, and the giraffe," Coulson said. "That
is unusual. This would appear to be a very special place. They did not
burn the spearheads by chance. They brought them from hundreds of
kilometers away and intentionally burned them. So many pieces of the
puzzle fit together here. It has to represent a ritual." [link to
www.msnbc.msn.com]
The picture in the link sucks but i find this story to go along with
many of the reptilian story's that are found in many cultures maybe
david icke is right.
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