Help me if you can re: 4-3-'04 {I'mnotfeelingdown}


The first
true myDi-men?

The earliest
signs and traces
until recently known to science,
of a humanity which is indisputably kindred
with ourselves,
have been found in Western Europe
and particularly in France
and Spain ...

Bones,
weapons, scratchings upon bone and rock,
carved fragments of bone,
and paintings in caves and upon rock surfaces dating,
it is supposed, from 30,000 years ago
or more,
have been discovered in both these
countries:
Spain was the richest country in the world
in these first relics of
our real human myDi-ancestors
it seems!

Of course
those collections of these things
are the merest beginnings of the accumulations we may hope for
in the future,
when there will be searchers enough
to make a thorough examination of all possible sources
and when other countries in the world
now often inaccessible to archaeologists,
will have been explored
in more detail?

The greater part
of Africa and Asia has never even been completely traversed yet
by trained observers
interested in these matters and really free to explore,
and we must be very careful therefore
not to conclude that the early true myDi-men
were distinctly inhabitants of Western Europe or
that they first appeared and blossomed
in 'our'
myDi-region?!

In Asia, Africa or Australia
or submerged beneath the sea of today
there may be far richer and much earlier deposits of real human
myDi-remains
than anything that has yet
come to light?

I write in Asia, Africa and Australia,
and do not mention America
because so far,
except for a few teeth,
there have been no finds at all
of any of the higher 'primates', either of great apes,
sub-men, 'neanderthalers' nor of early
true myDi-men ...




This
development of 'myDi-life'
seems to have been exclusively an 'old world' development,
and it was only apparently at the end of the 'old stone age'
that real human beings first
made there way across the land connexion
that is now cut by Behring Strait,
into the American
continent?

These first
real humans we know of in Europe
appear already to have belonged to one or other of at least two
'very' distinct races .............
One of these races was of a very high type indeed;
it was tall and big-brained.
One of the women's skulls found
exceeds in capacity that of the average man
of today!?!

The physical type
resembled that of the 'north american indian' it seems.
From the Cro-Magnon cave in which the first skeletons were found
these people have also been called Cro-Magnards.
They were 'savages',
but savages of a 'high order'?
The second race,
the race of the Grimaldi cave remains,
was distinctly 'negroid' in its characters ...
Its nearest affinities
are the Bushmen and the Hottentots of South Africa!
It is thus interesting to find at the very outset
of the known human story,
that mankind was already 'racially divided'
into at least two main varieties;
and one is tempted to such unwarrantable guesses
as that the former race was probably brownish
rather than black and that it came from the East or North,
and that the latter
was more blackish rather than brown and
came from the equatorial
South?

And these
'myDi-savages'
of perhaps 40,000 years ago
were so human {almost like us?}
that they pierced shells to make necklaces,
painted themselves,
carved their myDi-images of bone and stone,
scratched their myDi-figures on rocks and bones,
and painted rude but quite often {like us?!} very able sketches of beasts
and the like upon the smooth walls of caves {their virtual world?} and
upon inviting rock
surfaces!

They made
a great variety of implements,
much smaller in scale and finer than those of the Neanderthal men;
we have now in our museums
great quantities of their implements,
their statuettes,
their rock drawings
and the like ...

The earliest
of them were hunters?
Their chief pursuit was the wild horse,
the little bearded pony of that time and place.
They followed it as it moved after pasture.
And also they followed the bison.
They knew the mammoth,
because they have left us strikingly effective pictures
of that creature?!
To judge by one rather ambiguous drawing
they trapped and
killed it
...

They hunted
with spears and throwing stones.
They do not seem to have had the bow,
and it is doubtful if they had yet learned to tame any animals?
They had no dogs
.............
There is one carving of a horse's head and one or two drawings that
suggest a bridled horse,
with a twisted skin or tendon round it
........
But the little horse of that age and region
could not have carried a fullgrown man,
and if the horse was domesticated it was probably used
as a led horse
.............
It is therefore doubtful and even rather improbable that they had yet
learned the rather 'unnatural' use of animal's milk
as food?

They do not seem
to have erected any buildings,
though they may have had tents of skins,
and though they made clay figures
they never rose to the making of pottery?
Since they had no cooking implements their cookery must have been
rudimentary or non-existent?
They knew 'nothing' yet of cultivation and also 'nothing' of any sort of
basketwork or woven cloth?
Except for their robes of skin or fur they were
'naked painted
savages'
...?

SEE
how far we have come
since then?
I'm
going to sleep
and dive into our subconscious deep
to peep
and creep and crawl and brawl to all about flying and dying,
lying and crying, sighing and tieing, singing and swinging and flinging
endless amounts of words and turds till it hurts and I wake up
in the morning, not mourning but yearning for learning
more about whatever seems to be
interesting
...
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