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Was he driven to do so out of necessity?
Regardless, what your belief is of our ancient ancestors, there's a good chance that he probably didn't have a triple digit IQ. There's a good chance that his reasoning ability was limited to his immediate needs. He probably didn't put a lot of thought into what type of area he would live. He wasn't concerned as to what color to paint the walls or what type of curtains to hang. Instead, his dwelling was chosen based on security. Security from what or whom?
Judging from the intricate work, on numerous cave paintings, he spent a lot of time in his cave. Venturing out of this cozy habitat only to gather food or water. If one subscribes to an actual Caveman, living in a prehistoric period filled with dinosaurs, then such living arrangements would be totally understandable and may have played a part in his decision to live there. However, if he was under constant attack by dinosaurs, then surely his paintings would reflect these momentous events.
Today, if any of us were to encounter such a frightening and terrible encounter, providing we survived, the first thing we'd do is get on our laptop and post it to Facebook or Twitter. And since there's much truth to the old adage, "a picture is worth a thousand words", we'd probably click the "Photo" button, attach and share a few cell phone pics of the dino. Or of you had the foresight, you'd take video and end up with a viral video on YouTube. That's how we'd share our "Status" or "Tweet" with others, but since our ancestors did not have the ability to run down to "Best Buy" and pick up a Sony Vaio, they did the next best thing and used colored rock or burnt wood as their drawing medium.
This is where everything takes a weird turn. You would expect to find a lot of pictures depicting large beasts, maybe even a collage of pictures commemorating a successful hunt. While there are a few of those, it's the numerous other illustrations that make us wonder. Exactly what did these people see? What did they really experience? Perhaps by gaining an understanding to these questions, we can then discover why they choose caves to reside.
To answer this we need only look at the etchings immortalized on the stone walls of their refuge. The only historical records of a time that we may have misunderstood.
Who and what were they drawing? Apparently, this artist and historian took great pains in trying to show us what he had seen. Paying attention to detail, he attempted to preserve it as a historical event. The picture below shows an odd looking beings. With such detail to the arm and around the head, why is there such an odd-shaped mouth and large, dark eyes?
Could this have been part of the reason that he chose a stone cave to take shelter in?
Surely, the hunting would have been better in the flat lands, where he could find plenty of game and fish. Instead, he remained in the security of a stone cave. The cave would have been like a fall-out shelter is to us. A defendable access point to a heavily protected structure that would be capable of providing refuge from what he portrayed on his cave walls and concealment from an aerial view. So, what were these people afraid of?
The book of Genesis, Luke and even the book of Enoch, tell us of angelic beings that rebelled against God and followed a very powerful angel, named Lucifer, to earth, where they devised a plan to desecrate God's prize creation... man. They did this by taking human women as wives. The off-spring was later known as the Nephilum. Giants, standing 30-40 feet tall. In the eyes of the people, the Nephilim were half man, half god, children of mixed human-divine parentage, viewed as gods, but not fully divine.
In Homer's, Odessey and the Illiad, there is mentions of large beings, such as the famous Poseidon, and Cyclops. "Zeus was planning wondrous deeds, to mingle disorder on the boundless earth, for he already was hastening to annihilate the race of mortal men, as a pretext to destroy the lives of the demigods, [so that] the children of the gods [would not mate with wretched] mortals, seeing [fate] with their own eyes, but that the blessed gods [henceforth], as before, should have their way of life and their accustomed places apart from mortal man. (Hesiod's, Catalogue of Women)
"A Norse myth, which was not written down until over a thousand years after the Greek and Hebrew counterparts, might also be traceable to this common tradition; in it, three gods (Odin, Vili and Ve) kill Ymir, the father of the frost giants, whose blood flows so freely that it becomes a flood which drowns the other giants. Admittedly, the Norse example has little else to recommend it, as two giants do survive in a boat (like Noah) to perpetuate their race; and, at any rate, the line between giants and gods remained blurry at best in Norse mythology. (Crossley-Holland, p. 247).
It is interesting to note that there are similar written records from all parts of the earth. Ancient writings from India, African, Egyptian, Mayan, and Greek mythological writings all talk about the same kind of beings. Due to their great size, supernatural abilities, and the fear that they instilled in mankind, they were worshipped as gods.
The Bible tells of a race of large, giant beings known as Nephilum. The off-spring of the Ananaki or fallen angels (sons of God) and human women (daughters of men).
"And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose. There were giants [NEPHILIM] in the earth in those days; and also after that (at the time of Moses), when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown. And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them. (Genesis chapter 6)."
Could this explain why people used caves as a refuge? And could it explain what they were hiding from?
The paintings reflect beings of great importance. They were either beings that were worshipped of feared. In any case, they left such an impact on the cave-dweller that he chose to make a written record of it, the only way he knew how - to draw a likeness.
Since man decided to live within a solid rock fortress, it would appear that he feared these beings and what they could do. This drawing shows man and animal running from what looks like a flying saucer coming down from the stars.
Of course, this was long before Hollywood and the Sci-Fi Channel, so we can rule out an over-active imagination, on the part of the artist/historian. He painted what he saw and experienced.
What if this were to happen again? Is it possible?
In the book of Luke (17:26-27), it says, "As it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be in the days of the Son of man, They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all."
Who are "They"? For years we've been taught that this was referring to the people of that time, but what if this refers to the Nephilum and the Fallen Angels? If that is the case then "They" are returning again, because it says, "As it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be in the days of the Son of man" (the return of Jesus Christ).
So, perhaps we should start checking for local caves. Make sure you pack plenty of chalk, so that you can be the next artist/historian.
