The Ever-unfolding Marriage of
Loewenmensch and Venus of Hohle Fels
By 1500 BP (before present) a total population of about 200 million people was spread around the Earth. The night, when it was clear, was lit only by the moon – and the infinity of stars that spread across the unfathomable black sky. There was fire by this time, but it took little to light a room or a pit. The fire had no effect on one’s ability to explore the evening cosmos.
What, when one was awake, did one do to pass the time during these dark hours? The food time was finished. There were yet no books – even for the few who were able to read. One could watch the moon, for hours, as it traversed its visible limits. They could peruse the stars – these flickering dots of light that spread above them in a panoply of sizes and colors. They could connect dots, imagine patterns; give names to those shapes, and create fables and narratives that they used to help model their lives.
As the villages grew into towns, then into small cities; evening social life increased, but the ability to view the omnipresent heavens was little diminished and no less fascinating. They learned to use the lights in the sky to tell time, to form calendars, and to guide themselves, in boats, across the oceans to other lands, where they began to form new civilizations.