Cro Magnun.....NPR as I listened to NPR's segment of the difference between Neanderthals and the Cro Magnun ala a Dr. Brian Fagan, University of California, Santa Barbara professor, I am becoming happily steeped in my book research. The Cro Magnun, precursors to homo sapiens, were like modern people in terms of art, tradition, and social life. Since Atnarctica is central to the first part, Gowandalan (spelling?) was comprised on Antarctica, Africa, and South American--imagine the connection! It was thought that no humans or ancestors to the homo sapiens ever inhabited this super-continent with 6500 feet of ice sheet deep!
As far as the animism part goes, why do Anglo scholars find it so fascinating that the Original Inhabitants viewed animals as people and that humans and animals can be so engaged in a complex relationship? Observe any dog owner and this bond is unshakable...and I haven't even toughed on cats and their spiritually narcissistic tendencies liken to the humans they own. Okay, coming down off my soapbox now...
My character who is just taking shape is fishing for Patagonia toothfish and seeing the totem spirit of the woolly mammoth while he slips on the ice and proceeds to the fourth level; the first being the caverns under the ice of three levels; level one is for food storage and fish smoking, the second level is for habitation, and the third level is where the shaman live. The fourth level is visited only during times of rites of passage...what is this? A premonition, a message...from whom?
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