There are other noteworthy characteristics of this rock art style: Anthropomorphs without headdresses instead sport horns, or antennae, or a series of concentric circles. Also prominent in many of the figures' hands are scepters--each one an expression of something significant in the natural world. Some look like lightning bolts, some like snakes; other burst from the fingers like stalks of ricegrass. Colorado Plateau rock-art expert Polly Schaafsma has interpreted these figures as otherworldly--drawn by shamans in isolated and special locations, seemingly as part of a ceremonial retreat. Schaafsma and others believe that the style reflects a spirituality common to all hunter-gatherer societies across the globe--a way of life that appreciates the natural world and employs the use of visions to gain understanding and appreciation of the human relationship to the earth. Typically, Schaafsma says, it is a spirituality that identifies strongly with animals and other aspects of nature--and one that does so with an interdependent rather than dominant perspective. To underscore the importance of art in such a culture, Schaafsma points to Aboriginal Australians, noting how, in a so-called primitive society, where forms of written and oral communication are considered (at least by our standards) to be limited, making art is "one means of defining the mystic tenets of one's faith.
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I remember playing in the kitchen, trying to get my mom to think I was d... AMY LEE I love my cats more than I love most people. Probably more than is healthy. AMY LEE I think the days of putting your feet up when you're pregnant are long gone. Women who are nine ... AMY POEHLER Bad people doing bad things is not interesting. What I find interesting is good people doing bad thi... AMY BLOOM Once you get to the Enlightenment, the way that powers get to be hyperpowers isn't just by conqu... AMY CHUA Get outside. Watch the sunrise. Watch the sunset. How does that make you feel? Does it make you feel... AMY GRANT My ideal meal varies, depending on the time of year. Lobster on a deck overlooking a beach at sunset... AMY BLOOM Cause I'm a musician, I'm not really good at posing and being a model, like, modeling. AMY WINEHOUSE These people are the air I breathe and the blood I bleed. They are my courage. I will not let them d... AMY EWING I think you can do anything you put your mind to AMY EWING It would be easier to forget you," he says to me, "and these past few weeks we've had together. It w... AMY EWING Violet’s eyes meet mine. I give her a look that tries to say, “What is wrong with these people? AMY EWING Hope is a precious thing, isn’t it,” she says. “And yet, we don’t really appreciate it until... AMY EWING Take everything easy and quit dreaming and brooding and you will be well guarded from a thousand evi... AMY LOWELL I’ve swapped disco lights for celestial lights but I’m still surrounded by dancers. I am orbited... AMY LIPTROT I feel like for me the lyric writing really comes from just what's going on in my heart and that... AMY LEE China cannot pull in the best and brightest from all over the world. It's an ethnically defined ... AMY CHUA In a recent Valentine's Day posting on her fan website, Britney Spears says that - oh, who cares... AMY POEHLER The days of waiting for an outer authority to sanction your life path are over. Follow what matters ... AMY MCTEAR It's when I compare myself to what other people are able to do that I run into trouble. It is a ... AMY PURDY After you play husband and wife on camera multiple times, it becomes easy to be husband and wife off... AMY YASBECK Over-the-knee socks remind me of the 1920s, silent films, and the stars of the era who wore the roll... AMY HECKERLING Look at Jane Lynch, another Chicagoan. She has a career I'd kill for. She does amazing work; she... AMY LANDECKER Now I think that going to the gym is the best drug. I go four times a week and it gives me the buzz ... AMY WINEHOUSE Golf isn't just about hitting a lot of drivers. I grew up playing on my front lawn, chipping and... AMY ALCOTT Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves. AMY BLOOM The modern rule is that every woman should be her own chaperone. AMY VANDERBILT Ceremony is-really a protection, too, in times of emotional involvement, particularly at death. If w... AMY VANDERBILT I am a journalist in the field of etiquette. I try to find out what the most genteel people regularl... AMY VANDERBILT Parents must get across the idea that "I love you always, but sometimes I do not love your behavior.... AMY VANDERBILT When I was growing up I actually was into Bon Jovi! AMY RYAN Politicians are very experienced - maybe too experienced - at using body language to signal power an... AMY CUDDY Body image - what we're supposed to look like - is made so unattainable that all girls are put i... AMY HECKERLING If a politician isn't doing it to his wife , then he's doing it to his country. AMY GRANT My mother would say it is literally ghost writers
who come to me
(Tan is the author of what became T... AMY TAN