Horse and Geometric Symbol 13,000 B.C.E, Cave painting, Lascaux, France.
This work of art is a paint of what looks like a horse with some other signs around it. The designs are pretty simple, primitve, which seems logical since this was made 13,000 years ago.
As we saw in the video, the artist painted a horse that he probably saw when being in a transe or jsut being in a cave. The confused geometric signs probably appeared to him too, as it is a reaction to the brain that appears to the human eye while unconscious or staying for too long in a dark place. Indeed, horses were assimilated to gods in the people's mind at this time because they were sacred to them and that is why they were the main animal painted, because they materialized to them in the first place.
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