Re: Bear, a Magdalenian test case

On Aug 27, 5:51 pm, Harlan Messinger
<hmessinger.removet...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Because you, like the rest of us, lack magical powers that make past
reality conform to your imagination, the odds that reality matches your
fantastical inventions are, like the odds that reality matches anyone's
fantastical inventions, overwhelmingly small.

Reality is more phantastic than any invention.
Did you read about the bear ritual of the Ostyak?
Not even I could have invented such a thing.
And now I found wonderful evidence for the
hypothetical custom of laying a newborn on
a fur, and carrying it in a bag, namely in Marija
Gimbutas, The Civilization of the Goddess.
One Porphyrios described a custom of laying
a newborn on a bear fur in the third century AD;
and the same custom survived in eastern Slavic
regions until the twentieth century - here it was
the grandmother who laid the baby on a bear fur.
A Vinca figurine from around 4 500 BC shows
the divine mother or nurse wearing a bear mask
and holding a baby in her arms, while another
Vinca figurine from 4 500 - 4 000 BC shows the
divine mother or nurse wearing a bear or bird
mask, and, riding high on her back, a bag for
the baby ... We may then assume that also
the mothers living in the Ice Age carried their
babies in bags on their back, bags made of fur,
and preferably of the thick, longhaired, soft and
warm fur of a bear.

You don't get around intuition, in neither scientific
discipline, not even in mathematics. And there is
nothing mysterious or even esoteric about intuition,
it is just an easy and quick access to the deepest
layers of memory. Read what Andrew Wiles told
about his working technique. Pondering a problem
like Fermat's Last Conjecture (or, now, Theorem)
was like stumbling around in a dark room of a
mansion and bumping into furniture, by and by he
found his way, and finally the light switch, turned it
on, and moved on to the next room, where he found
himself again in the dark, so he bumped into the
furniture again, and so on. He also confessed
drawing doodles, subconscious doodles. Is this
a mathematical technique? No, but a psychological
one, enhancing intuition, and intuition is needed
in every scientific discipline.
.

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