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Every house is haunted. In each episode of Family Ghosts, we investigate the true story behind a mysterious figure whose legend has followed a family for generations. Grandmothers who were secretly jewel smugglers, uncles who led double lives, siblings who vanished without a trace, and other ghostly characters who cast shadows over our lives in ways that might not be immediately obvious. We are all formed in part by our familial collections of secrets, intrigues, and myths. By engaging with ...
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(episode 3.7 is part 1)
“People did not ‘invent’ two-dimensional images; nor did they discover them in natural marks. On the contrary, their world was already invested with two-dimensional images...The first two-dimensional images were thus not two dimensional representations of three-dimensional things in the material world, as researchers have always assumed...For the makers, the paintings and engravings were visions, not representations of visions – as indeed was the case for the southern African San and the North American shamans...They were not inventing images. They were merely touching what was already there.”
-David Lewis-Williams
From far, from eve and morning/
And yon twelve-winded sky,/
The stuff of life to knit me/
Blew hither: here am I./
Now—for a breath I tarry/
Nor yet disperse apart—/
Take my hand quick and tell me,/
What have you in your heart./
Speak now, and I will answer;/
How shall I help you, say;/
Ere to the wind's twelve quarters/
I take my endless way.
~A.E. Housman
Rock art links to explore: https://old.reddit.com/r/DilettanteryPodcast/comments/y1i1x6/rock_art_threads/
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