The Scene of the Dead Man
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| - | '''''The Scene of the Dead Man'''''[http://jahsonic.tumblr.com/post/145952717/via-thespiritfoundation-com-shaft-of-the-dead-man] is a [[cave painting]] found in a side chamber in the [[Caves of Lascaux]], the only painting in the Lascaux caves which depicts a [[human figure]].The [[human figure]] (drawn as a [[stick figure]]) appears to be a [[dead man]] lying [[prone]] in front of a [[bison]]. The man has an [[erection]]. The bison is wounded with its [[entrail]]s hanging out and next to the scene is a broken [[spear]]. There is also a fleeing [[rhinoceros]]. | + | '''''The Scene of the Dead Man'''''[http://jahsonic.tumblr.com/post/145952717/via-thespiritfoundation-com-shaft-of-the-dead-man] is a [[cave painting]] found in a side chamber in the [[Caves of Lascaux]], the only painting in the Lascaux caves which depicts a [[human figure]].The human figure (drawn as a [[stick figure]]) appears to be a [[dead man]] lying [[prone]] in front of a [[bison]]. The man has an [[erection]]. The bison is wounded with its [[entrail]]s hanging out and next to the scene is a broken [[spear]]. There is also a fleeing [[rhinoceros]]. |
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| The bird motif is found twice among the depictions. First in a stick with a bird on the top, lying to the left of the spear, and more significantly, the head of the man also appears to be bird-shaped. | The bird motif is found twice among the depictions. First in a stick with a bird on the top, lying to the left of the spear, and more significantly, the head of the man also appears to be bird-shaped. | ||
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The Scene of the Dead Man[1] is a cave painting found in a side chamber in the Caves of Lascaux, the only painting in the Lascaux caves which depicts a human figure.The human figure (drawn as a stick figure) appears to be a dead man lying prone in front of a bison. The man has an erection. The bison is wounded with its entrails hanging out and next to the scene is a broken spear. There is also a fleeing rhinoceros.
Bird motif
The bird motif is found twice among the depictions. First in a stick with a bird on the top, lying to the left of the spear, and more significantly, the head of the man also appears to be bird-shaped.
Erection of the man
Some have debated the actuality of the erection of the dead man. But most recently William Irwin Thompson in The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture (1981) has argued that:
- "The ithyphallic bird-man is the climactic, ecstatic, instantaneous male principle confronting the enormous, slow, bovine, and enduring principle of the eternal feminine in her epiphany as the bison."
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