Just saw Spamalot, very silly, needless to say, but lots of fun.
--- Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> So, were the people who built this psychopaths? :)
>
> The Times December 02, 2006
>
>
> Python may have been the first sacred cow 70,000
> years
> ago
> Lewis Smith
>
> A rock shaped like an enormous python’s head,
> discovered in a cave in the Tsodilo hills of
> Botswana,
> puts back the date of the first known human ritual
> by
> 30,000 years, they say.
>
> Behind the rock, which was covered in man-made
> indentations, was a chamber that the archaeologists
> believed was used by a shaman who could have spoken
> without being seen, giving the impression that it
> was
> the snake speaking.
>
> “The shaman would have been able to control
> everything. It was perfect,” Sheila Coulson, from
> the
> University of Oslo, said.
>
> She said that she was astonished to find the rock
> when
> she first walked into the cave this year. “You could
> see the mouth and eyes . . . it looked like a real
> python.”
>
> Dr Coulson said that sunlight gave the indentations
> the appearance of scales, while at night firelight
> made the snake seem to move.
>
> Buried in front of the rock were 13,000 human
> artefacts, including red stone spearheads that
> appeared to have been burnt. The researchers believe
> that they were an offering to the snake.
>
> “It was a ritual destruction of artefacts,” Dr
> Coulson
> said. “There was no sign of normal habitation. No
> ordinary tools were found at the site.”
>
> She said the find meant that humans were more
> organised and had the capacity for abstract thinking
> at a much earlier point in history than assumed
> previously.
>
>
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13509-2482418,00.html
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