In 1940 four schoolchildren accidentally stumbled upon the hidden entrance of a cave system when, apocryphally, their dog got stuck in a hole. These children became the first humans in 17,000 years to set eyes upon the cave paintings that were depicting prehistoric beautiful paintings of animals. The paintings are estimated between 13,000 – 15,000 BC.

These caves are located southwestern part of France holding one of the oldest womens shamanic cave art called “Lascaux” with walls and ceilings decorated with approximately 1,500 engravings and 600 paintings of horses, stag, deer, goats and bison. On one wall of this gallery the early art consists of a series of markings along the apparent path of a horse, Thirteen circles, like moons, representing the Lunar Moontime calendar of womens bleeding cycle with the 13 moons of the natural earth year.

Another wall has a roaring red deer (Cervus elapus) that walks on a row of the lunar women’s path of 13 moons followed by a rectangle. Markings totaling the number 13 are seen with other animals at Lascaux and its amazing that archeologist’s are just not familiar or schooled about women’s studies of the lunar goddess, the thirteen moon cycles and the shamanic nature of her relationship to animals. Its as if women must rewrite all current study into a more correct origin from her remembrance. Another set of 13 moons flanks an engraved 6-½ foot high red deer, called “The Major Stag” with Stag being one of the main animals totems of the female shamans ancestor line and the rituals that went on in caves that the elder grandmothers would call their ancient ancestoral grandmother spirits. As a shamans I know such wisdom for a fact from experience.

Most texts suggest the works were a mixture of magic, ceremonial art, rituals and trances. A common belief is that the Ice-age women painted the animals so as to harness the spirit of her totem and to also communicate with the animals as women seers for the men in the clan who would hunt, giving them information from both spirit of the animal and the goddess in which they would have had to ask permission and then done ceremony to thank the goddess.

Blood or Moon Time provides evidence that these large mammals are timed by the rhythms of light and darkness, as cued by the movements of the sun and moon, and that these and other works at Lascaux are Ice-age lunar calendar that was in perfect alignment to woman’s menses cycles would inform the men where to hunt. Tribes in North America count the lunar cycle in this manner as well when grandmothers were chiefs, hunt to the phases of the moon.

I guess I showed my ignorance in the geocentric model Admittedly, I have not studied Galileo or Copernicus, but I believed that these men brought scientific thought into the study of the “heavens” and disproved the explanation of geocentrism.

I wasn’t aware that you were more or less addressing natural selection on that basis. I read it as an attack on natural selection in its entirety. I am in complete agreement that the common interpretation leads to placing human beings at the top. The misconception that natural selection has bred this super species (humans) doesn’t seem much different than the idea of special creation in His image. Either way you look at it, it is human arrogance and centrism that leads to this line of thinking.

In the end, it appears that we agree.

I didn’t suggest the theories were ’scientific’, only ‘man-made’. But, even so, there is a lot of question over whether evolution can be regarded as science, simply because it is inherently unprovable. Also, the only ‘evidence’ for the theory we have to date is the fossil record, which contains such a large margin of error it has to be regarded as, at best, questionable.

Similarly, the Geocentric model would definitely have been regarded as ’science’ in its time, in the absence of better evidence. It certainly wasn’t ‘religion’ anyway.

And, yes, I’m aware of the more sophisticated interpretations of evolutionary theory, but that’s not really my point. It’s what people believe that bothers me. Rational minds know that we’re not descended from two nudists and a talking snake, but that doesn’t stop it still being the most widely held Western belief system. The common interpretation of evolution is that it occurs on the anthropological level, and that it places Mankind at the top of the hierarchy – which is wrong, but is much more satisfying than whatever the real story might be.

There is no pinnacle of evolution by natural selection. Read current literature in the Evolutionary scientific journals and you’ll see that it is not centered around H. sapiens. We pale in numbers to many species of insects and microbes. If you want a “perfectly adapted” organism, look at the cockroach. Humans are a mere blip on the map in the grand scheme of things. Humans can make evolution by natural selection seem centered around themselves, like you have in this post. The theory says nothing of the sort.

It takes an extraordinary combination of arrogance and ignorance to come up with this list.