The Subversive Intellect

… And I remember it was then, for the first time, that I watched the gods. They danced among transparent red flames over a resinous wooden torch, at a place where mountains pursue other mountains. It happened more than fifty years ago, when I was fourteen and hiked with my grandfather the majestic mountainsides of the Pyrenees. We were inside a cave inhabited by man in the Upper Paleolithic some thirty-five thousand years ago. In a masterly, apparently chaotic and unorthodox rock painting-the gods were present… 

That one anonymous and incipient Homo sapiens, in the midst of the inhospitable glacial age, making a huge effort to write analogically, ideographically, without words, had left on that rock all of his abstract ideas about spirits, demons, nature and, especially about the gods. 

Without a doubt, he believed he was strong enough to subdue those higher powers, he had acquired an awareness of his own ken and faculty of observation which he invoked to perform extraordinary deeds, to master the elements and even to change the paths of the stars.   

Illustrious Ulysses from the land of thoughts… [+]
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