“In a cave you are as if in a womb, safe in the darkness of the earth’s belly. And it wa
“In a cave you are as if in a womb, safe in the darkness of the earth’s belly. And it was almost certainly in caves that the very first magical rites were conducted, with initiates emerging into the light of dawn or beneath the panoply of stars, having undergone various ordeals and preparations for their next phase of life.”-Philip Carr-Gomm, The Book of English Magic (2010)Image: Mariano, Hands at the Cuevas de las Manos upon Río Pinturas, near the town of Perito Moreno in Santa Cruz Province, Argentina. -- source link
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