https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/cave-figures-show-man-had-designs-on-deity-44-000-years-ago-w8htct0wt


https://www.opb.org/news/article/npr-44000-year-old-indonesian-cave-painting-is-rewriting-the-history-of-art/

https://news.griffith.edu.au/2019/12/12/indonesian-cave-art-overturns-thinking-on-the-roots-of-human-spirituality/


Archaeologists have discovered the world’s oldest figurative art: a 44,000-year-old hunting scene that may be the earliest evidence of humans edging towards religion.

The researchers who found the cave painting on the island of Sulawesi, Indonesia, believe it shows a group of human figures with animal features, including one with a tail. The imaginary beings, known as therianthropes, are hunting wild pigs and dwarf buffaloes with spears or ropes.

The researchers suggested that the 4m-wide frieze could be the oldest evidence found of a human ability to imagine the existence of supernatural beings. Professor Adam Brumm of the Australian Research Centre for Human Evolution said: “Therianthropes occur in the folklore or narrative fiction of almost every modern society and they are perceived as gods, spirits, or ancestral beings in many religions worldwide. Sulawesi is now home to the oldest image of this kind.”

Until now the earliest therianthrope was the “lion-man”, a 40,000-year-old figurine found in Germany. The oldest figurative cave art had been a 40,000-year-old painting of a wild cow reported last year in East Kalimantan, an Indonesian province of Borneo.

Professor Brumm, co-author of a paper published yesterday in the journal Nature, said: “Early Indonesians were creating art that may have expressed spiritual thinking about the special bond between humans and animals long before the first art was made in Europe, where it has often been assumed the roots of modern religious culture can be traced.”



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Very cool. Thanks for the links!

How old does TSCC say the Earth is?

https://answersingenesis.org/creationism/young-earth/young-earth-creationist-view-summarized-and-defended/

https://www.fairmormon.org/answers/Mormonism_and_science/Age_of_the_Earth



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Interesting that Fairmo' quotes BY, when he was quite often just speaking as a man. :-)

Speaking as a man started a very long time ago.

https://www.inverse.com/article/61634-dawn-of-speech-earlier-than-we-thought

Earworm for Beth.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCV6paTXyCU

Make my funk the P-Funk...

https://youtu.be/IyAEUWJlk1Q

Here it is straight from the horse's @ss:

D&C 77:6-7

6. Q. What are we to understand by the book which John saw,which was sealed on the back with seven seals?
A. We are to understand that it contains the revealed will, mysteries, and the works of God; the hidden things of his economy concerning this earth during the seven thousand years of its continuance, or its temporal existence.

7. Q. What are we to understand by the seven seals with which it was sealed?
A. We are to understand that the first seal contains the things of the first thousand years, and the second also of the second thousand years, and so on until the seventh.

They could be therianthropes or maybe just represent the classic tactic of hunters to disguise themselves as animals to get near their prey.

For example Native Americans as recent as the early 1800s would drape wolf or buffalo hides on themselves to get close to buffalo herds undetected.