THE SECOND LANGUAGE, THE SOCIAL LANGUAGE: ART.

By Edmund Dalpe, MFA., an excerpt from his latest work, Dream Duet © 2018

3.14: Altamira Bison, Standing Fetal. Dalpe © 2014-18

The earth’s Northern winds may huff and puff, … but, we’re not going to give in, by the hair of our chinny chin chins!

Before I delve deeper into the syntax of the Altamira cave, I first need to flesh out the metaphorical meaning of the images painted, for the same reason I just did with the Northern Horse (Canterinus Borealis) and Stag of Ages (Cervinus Ab Seclorum) from Lascaux. Because like our dreams, the metaphorical gives us the context.

3.15: Altamira Right Facing Bison Galactic. Dalpe © 2014-18. Photograph of Milky Way Widefield (s58y, 2012 (CC))
The array of bison are simply visual puns of the galaxy, and their unique characteristics are indicative of the specific times in which they were painted. The situation and setting of any specific time is understood by a bison’s aspect; left, fetal or right facing. The appearance of a bison can tell us the condition of the climate and character of the age. Obviously, the ice-bison to the right of the hind, in illustration 3.16 and illustrated larger in illustration 3.46, was painted during a harsh arctic period.

 

3.16: Altamira Right Facing Bison.  Dalpe © 2014-18

The most important measurements of a Galactic Cycle was determined by three elements. The first was the head of the bison, located near Deneb in illustration 3.15. The second was the tail, which expressed Orion. And the third was the Galactic Core, which I will get into in section 3.5.

The right facing bison, highlighted in illustration 3.16 and detailed in illustration 3.15 clearly shows the visual relationship of the bison to the galaxy. The head of the bison is located near the North American Nebula by Deneb, the chest is the Great Rift, the Anvil or Galactic Core, which they used to track the galaxy in concert with the tail, is the brightest and most distinctive part of the Milky Way. It is where the front legs meets the chest, and the tail is located in Orion at the opposite end from the head.

3.17: Altamira’s Three Pigs. Dalpe © 2014-18

The three pigs that frame the array of bison further clarifies the meaning of all of the bison in context to the pigs. As the pig has evolved its evolutionary trajectory in such a way as to know what is beneath the earth (truffles), the pig’s metaphorical meaning is knowledge of the earth. Looking at the pig on the far left facing right, the head in the very center, and the pig on the far right facing left, couldn’t be clearer in its meaning. The three pigs frame the various aspects of the galaxy, i.e., the many bison, in context to knowledge of the earth. IOWs they were inferring the galaxy has an affect on the earth’s climate and character.

3.18: Altamira’s Mare & Yearlings. Dalpe © 2014-18

The mare and her yearling are the metaphorical expressions of knowledge of movement, both old and new movement (parent and child). That’s why the horse was used in the cave of Lascaux to express the polestar and in Chauvet to communicate knowledge of movement.

The hind on the far left side of the same illustration 3.18 has always been a metaphorical expression of being in time. If we then understand the knowledge of old and new movement in context to the hind, which is knowledge of galactic time (hind + galactic core), we have the knowledge of the movement of galactic time from old to new. Then when we add the metaphorical expression of the three pigs, which are knowledge of the earth, that frame the array of bison, which are in turn expressions of specific time periods that reflect the character and climate of the various ages, we have the cave of historical knowledge of the earth’s climate and character over the course of a huge swath of time!

Thus, we understand the intention behind the entire Altamira cave project. The cave was a record of the galaxy in context to the earth’s climate and character during sub-ages of a Great Age. If I lived during a glacial period, I would definitely have a keen interest in such matters. The earth’s Northern winds may huff and puff, … but, we’re not going to give in, by the hair of our chinny chin chins!

Actually, we are currently living during the same Ice-Age as the Mousterians, the Pliocene-Quaternary. It’s just we are lucky enough to be born during an interglacial warming. But, that is not going to last very much longer (see chapter 5 for more details).

Besides the virtualization of our minds, another reason human beings of today can’t see what was expressed on the cave walls is we lack context. Metaphors, like the hind and horse are based on lived experiences. They lived in the actual world and laid under the stars, while telling stories to one and other about great adventures and discoveries. We lay in our beds being infected by myths from virtual machines written by social engineers. If you were fortunate enough to grow up in a rural setting and avoided mass media, you have a better chance of understanding the ancients, because you would have a shared context from which to relate. There were many times I would lay flat on my back in the pitch blackness of night and observe the stars as my mind wandered to untold realms.

As you can see, there was no sympathetic magical mumbo jumbo or silly thinking going on when the work was painted in the Altamira cave. That kind of hypothetical nonsense is only possible from Systematic Thinking, which they clearly did not engage in. That sort of mindset began with oligarchs like Thales, who was instrumental in transfiguring knowledge into a religion (section 2.2).

This tells us that Sir James G. Frazier, who wrote the Golden Bough, got it back to front. His overarching thesis infers that the magical, mythical mind, was the forerunner to the modern mind (Frazer, June 1922). However, the reality is the reverse. Today we are so super saturated in systematic mythical belief, that we have faith in an oligarch’s word that jet fuel can actually decimate a skyscraper (9-11). Talk about faith moving mountains -WOW!

Did I mention the sub-mind is made of titanium and thus impregnable to hypothetical horseshit?