The Ever-unfolding Marriage of
Loewenmensch and Venus of Hohle Fels
Hohle Fels and Mensch set themselves atop the party table as the Earth trembled and the world as they had known it broke apart.
It was about 2,000 to 2,500 years ago that people in disparate civilizations began slowly piecing together a process of thinking that was paradigmatically different from how they typically assessed the world. Even Bes, nee Leowen, standing at a distance overlooking the god’s daily party, couldn’t believe his eyes. The world had cracked, and logic had entered the domain of hominids.
Some like to say that the study of logic began in southern Europe, specifically Greece. But as we have seen with so many other societal changes, practically none of them occurred in isolation. There is evidence that similar thinking had also occurred and been shared by Mesopotamians and Indians and Egyptians – and even in the short-lived Moist school in China, though Chinese philosophers, primarily following Confucius, developed a sense of morality based on tradition rather than logic.
It is truly difficult to imagine the immensely threatening and cataclysmic change in approach to lives that this idea brought to civilizations immersed in the belief and faith that omnipotent beings and non-beings would provide appropriate answers for their critical situations. The conflict between faith in primarily utopian or chimerical entities, and decisions based on deductive logic, is one that still rages over 2,000 years along; and continues to instigate and engage civilizations and cultures, factions within cultures, and individuals in sometimes violent opposition.