To: blam
Cave men painting for the gods? Not necessarily. Sir James Fraser, the great anthropologist postured that primitive beliefs center around two overriding principles: like begets like and contagion. With the former, if you jump up and down while planting your seeds, the plants are liable to grow very tall; if you draw a picture of an animal you are accustomed to hunting and place a spear in a critical area of the pictured animal, you'll have an equal measure of success in the actual hunt.
9 posted on
03/06/2005 3:49:33 PM PST by
Mr Ramsbotham
(Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
To: Mr Ramsbotham
if you draw a picture of an animal you are accustomed to hunting and place a spear in a critical area of the pictured animal Hm. Thought I was the only one to do that.
15 posted on
03/06/2005 4:15:56 PM PST by
RightWhale
(Please correct if cosmic balance requires.)
To: Mr Ramsbotham
if you draw a picture of an animal you are accustomed to hunting and place a spear in a critical area of the pictured animal, you'll have an equal measure of success in the actual hunt.
A good possibility IMHO.
41 posted on
03/08/2005 11:27:28 AM PST by
SunkenCiv
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