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Bernie Taylor’s Blog exploring ancient civilizations, archeoastronomy, art history, cave art, mythology, depth psychology, and what it means to be truly human.

Engraved inscriptions in bedrock from more than 36,000 years ago appear at the Gorham’s Cave on the southern extreme of the Iberian Peninsula where it meets the Mediterranean Sea. The lines on Gorham’s Etching are popularly attributed as the first known abstract art of Neanderthals. The cleaned panel tells us a different and far more interesting history of humankind.

Netflix Secrets of Neanderthals – Abstract Art at Gorham’s Cave?

Is the Gorham’s Cave so-called “hashtag” really of Neanderthal authorship? Let’s look at a clean image for […]

Sentinel Peak Drakensberg Mountains South Africa

December 2023

Rising Star Cave Engravings – Part II: The Terrestrial Plane

Cave of Bones saga followers navigating between widely dissenting beliefs on the who, when and what of the Rising Star Cave may find […]

September 2023 TORTOISE Addition Update

Rising Star Cave Engravings – Part I: The Underworld

Are the South African Rising Star Cave engravings of Homo Naledi or Homo sapiens? A closer look at the evidence […]

Albert Einstein Theory of Relativity

October 19, 2021

Journal of Geography Book Review The Knowledge Machine

Few topics exist that are off limits to the scientific community. Paramount among these taboos is the legitimacy of the scientific method, as any such interrogation places […]

Gobekli Tepe Pillars

June 1, 2020

Physics Today – “The Rich Past of Astronomical Discovery

Exploring the history of astronomy is a more challenging journey than one might expect. To understand how humans have viewed the stars, readers must be ready to grapple not only with astronomical concepts, but with […]

Pablo Picasso Guernica

May 29, 2020

Picasso’s Ice Age Inspiration for Guernica?

This is where Picasso would have stopped to raise his lamp closer to […]

Archetypal Mother Bear

May 19, 2020

The Archetypal Mother Bear

We may find that deeper connection with animal beings through our psychic and, less often, physical experiences with the bear. The psychotherapist Carl Jung found that the bear […]

May 13, 2020

The First Hero’s Journey?

We found all of the stages in this archetypal hero’s journey on the Gallery of Discs. We may include the crisis point where the hero faces […]

Hipparchus of Nicaea (c. 190 – c. 120 BC)

May 10, 2020

Precession of the Equinoxes Before Hipparchus?

There is no historical basis to gauge a culture’s body of knowledge by the maxim “if we can’t see (or understand) it today, then no one has seen (or understood) it in the past.” We have found […]

Bernie Taylor Quote from Before Orion: Finding the Face of the Hero

May 5, 2020

Myths are passed through the seasons of the night sky as constellations and stars, projecting man’s psyche into the cosmos. Characters that are light years from earth but still within the grasp of the human imagination. Bernie Taylor

Bernie Taylor Quote The gods of old are still watching

May 1, 2020

The gods of old are still watching as they continually remind us of our mortal frailties through the same psychological complexes that the ancients projected in their names through myth. Bernie Taylor

Bernie Taylor Quote from Before Orion: Finding the Face of the Hero

April 25, 2020

Fear is a story that has not happened. There are other versions that can be told. Bernie Taylor

Bernie Taylor Quote from Before Orion: Finding the Face of the Hero

April 20, 2020

We individually choose a vision for the world that we live in. Bernie Taylor

Bernie Taylor Quote from Before Orion: Finding the Face of the Hero

April 12, 2020

The one/us/me and the other is in the nature of all beings. Together they form the basic story lines of the anxiety consumed hero who is reluctant to answer the call and the equally anxious stranger on the other side of the door who are one in the same. Bernie Taylor

Bernie Taylor Quote from Before Orion: Finding the Face of the Hero

April 2, 2020

The idea of lost geniuses from deep in the Paleolithic is supported in the archaeological record where the most spectacular panels left to us, which were unmatched in ancient times, are in the caves of Altamira, El Castillo and Chauvet dating to more than 32,000 years ago. Bernie Taylor

Bernie Taylor Quote from Before Orion: Finding the Face of the Hero

March 25, 2020

When an archetype is encountered the story is evoked. Bernie Taylor

Bernie Taylor Quote from Before Orion: Finding the Face of the Hero

March 12, 2020

There is then a silence. The kind of silence when all that is appears to be listening intently for a revelation of all that will be. Bernie Taylor

More images and videos that explore ancient civilizations, archeoastronomy, art history, cave art, mythology, depth psychology, … can be found throughout the Before Orion site. Hang on. You may find out what it means to be truly human.