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RE: Faces beneath my feet

in OCD5 years ago

You're not alone in this. Pareidolia is very typical for human beings. Even the Upper Palaeolithic artists used pareidolia when creating pictures: Altamira is a cave in northern Spain where have been found a lot of paintings and drawings oft he Upper Palaeolthic. There is no agreement on the dating, probably anytime between 33,600 and 11,000 before Christ.

facealtamirasm.jpg

This face is only seen after going to the end of the cave, and starting back. It looks like a natural feature of the walls, but was known to the painters, and no doubt had great significance. One »eye« of the face has been outlined in black.

Source of qutation and picture:
https://www.donsmaps.com/altamirapaintings.html

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These are cool. Don't you find it interesting how hardwired we are and how unchanging over large periods of time?

It's very intersting. My impression: Man came into being rather suddenly (with art like in Altamira), and has remained the same until today. This thesis could perhaps be tested one day.