Обожествената природа. Сакрализираните пещери като алегория на отвъдното
The Divine Nature. The Sacred Caves as Allegory of the Netherworld

Summary/Abstract: The cave in the collective consciousness is closely associated with the earliest shelters and origin of man, the memory of which causes permanent return to these earth wombs. The utilization of the deep cave galleries has provoked in the primitive man various magical ideas and scenes. Inspired by the phenomenal formations and reliefs, his mind has built different images that sometimes he further developed with drawings and engravings.It can barely be found an answer to the question when the cave was sacralized (the same is valid for the sacralization of the rock). In the animistic consciousness of prehistoric man it was part of the complex essence of spiritualized nature. Moreover, the cave had special significance because it was recreating most figuratively the human-nature interactions and originated the illusion of passing into another dimension related to ancestors.

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