Inaugural Post

So.  This blog is on the internet as part of my Religious Studies class, which requires me to air some of my opinions in a semi-public forum.  That being the case it will deal with my thoughts on the class itself and religion in general.

First Impressions on the Lasceaux Cave Art:

The religious symbolism of the caves seems to be steeped in a great deal more mystery than contemporary spiritually, given its underground location and the inscrutability of the art.  There is a real sense of struggling to come to grips with a universe which is both large and unknowable.  The tiny size of the human figures next to the comparatively massive and detailed animals shows that any religious feeling attached to the caves would have been focused primarily on the the animals, not surprising given the importance hunting carried in hunter-gatherer societies.