If my memory serves me correctly, the letter D arose from the delta.
Here's a video that goes into 32 symbols that are used throughout Europe's caves:
http://www.ted.com/talks/genevieve_von_ ... ver_europe
PhilX
The symbols of language
Re: The symbols of language
Gracias.Philosophy Explorer wrote:If my memory serves me correctly, the letter D arose from the delta.
Here's a video that goes into 32 symbols that are used throughout Europe's caves:
http://www.ted.com/talks/genevieve_von_ ... ver_europe
PhilX
Brilliant research and a sweet lady.
She had to crawl deep into the earth to Discover.
She discovered that someone else had to go a crawlin, back when crawlin deep into the earth was in vogue for short and brutal lives that somehow shared the same graphic vocabulary. Maybe she discovered what a She was a doin down there.
Why did they do it? Like the Lady in the video, was it to discover? Was it to create, to preserve, to communicate? To commune, perchance to dream?
We can say with fair certainty, then and now the audience for whom the artist moved the body to commune with, or communicate to, was anyone who like themselves, also had to crawl deep down into that dark place.