The Ever-unfolding Marriage of
Loewenmensch and the Venus of Hohle Fels
Tools and Weapons
The difference between a tool and a weapon is intention.
Very roughly, about 3 to 4 million years ago, tools were created. Over time these tools began to be honed and made more efficient to better fit the various purposes for which they were intended: hunting, foraging, cave-crafting. But it took, again very roughly, 2.5 to 3.5 million of those years, until 400,000 years ago, to arrive at the idea of being able to convert or re-craft those elementary tools into forms that could be specifically identified as objects intended as weaponry.
Still, until the end of the Ice Age (with some exceptions), approximately 12,000 years ago, people seem to have generally found ways to exist in relative harmony. It wasn’t until, because of the warming Earth (although other reasons are also being put forward), people began to preference agriculture over hunting, and to establish various forms of settlement: to gather into townships, and tribes, and colonies. It was at this time, subsequent to the reign of the mother-goddess, and within the time frames of the Egyptian Loewenmenschen, that mass confrontation began in earnest.
At this late time, weapons began to become increasingly more efficient at taking the lives of animals and people. For 3 to 4 million years weapons had very slowly become more efficient for their purposes, but after that time of 3 to 4 million years, it took only another 12,000 or so, relatively a moment, to escalate these rough tools and crude weapons into mechanisms that are capable of enormous destruction and mass annihilation.
Coincidentally, this is the era to which the term: “beginnings of civil(ization),” begins to be applied.
There is what we, at this present time in history, consider a dark aspect of the human psyche that, even now, seems to have little difficulty being able to justify the purposeful ending, or taking, of another life, or other lives. It has always been thus. But it is possible that the onset of accumulation in the new settlements: the storing of foodstuffs and other perishables, and the ensuing creation of economic imbalance and difference, rather than nourishing an inclination to share, might have intensified our inherent propensity toward, among other things, personal desire, selfishness and greed.