The Rupture“This is where we should look for the

earliest origins, long before the age of metals, because it was about 300,000

years ago that the “fire pit” was starting to be utilized with some stone, wood

and bone..Silo - 2004

Paleolithic

The term Paleolithic refers to the « Old Stone Age » The Paleolithic period begins with the first evidence of human technology (stone tools) more than three million years ago, and ends with major changes in human societies instigated by the invention of agriculture and animal domestication.

3 Million +10,000 BCE

Paleolithic, Lower, Middle and Upper

the Upper Paleolithic, c. 45,000 to 12,000 years ago, marked by the arrival of anatomically modern humans and extending throughout the Last Glacial Maximum

Lower Paleolithic 3 Million + - 300,000 BCE

Middle Paleolithic 300,000 – 40,000 BCE

Upper Paleolithic 45,000 – 12,000 BCE

the Lower Paleolithic, from the earliest human presence (Homo antecessor and Homo heidelbergensis) to the Holstein interglacial, c. 1.4 to 0.3 million years ago.

the Middle Paleolithic, marked by the presence of Neanderthals, 300,000 to 40,000 years ago

The Aurignacian Period – 40,000-28,000 BCE • The Aurignacian cultural tradition is generally

accepted as the first modern humans in Europe.• During this period an explosion of sudden and

innovative changes take place. People begin to use musical instruments which indicates possible ceremony, ritual and dance. Plus all forms of art appears at this time which signifies the full emergence of modern symbolic expression.

• The most significant development in stone tool making is the refinement of the manufacture of blades struck off conical cores or nuculi. Many different types of tools were made from these long narrow flakes of stone called blades.

• This biological and cultural changeover occurred against a background of dramatic climate change.

Climate Changes – 40,000-10,000 BCE• Much of Northern Europe was slowly invaded by enormous ice

sheets moving down from northern Scandinavia. • As the ice accumulated, sea levels subsided, exposing vast coastal

areas; in certain areas these took the form of isthmuses that, for a time, connected islands to the continent.

• A maximum low temperature was reached during the last ice age, between approximately 22,000 and 18,000 years ago - the Last Glacial Maximum

• This cooling period had a marked effect on the societies of the time: in order to survive over the course of the millennia, human beings had to adapt.

Last Glacial Maximum – 22,000 BCE

Venus of Hohle Fels 40,000-35,000 BCE• The Venus of Hohle Fels is an

Upper Paleolithic Venus figurinemade of mammoth ivory that was unearthed in 2008 in Hohle Fels, a cave near Schelklingen, Germany.

• It is dated to between 35,000 and 40,000 years ago, belonging to the early Aurignacian, at the very beginning of the Upper Paleolithic.

The figure is the oldest undisputed known example of a depiction of a human being. In terms of figurative art only the lion-headed, zoomorphic Löwenmensch figurine is older. The Venus figurine is housed at the Prehistoric Museum of Blaubeuren

Venus of Willendorf 28,000-25,000 BCE• The Venus of Willendorf is

a Venus figurine estimated to have been made sometime between 25,000-28,000 BCE.[1] [2] It was found in 1908 at a paleolithic site near Willendorf, a village in Lower Austria near the town of Krems.[5][6] It is carved from an oolitic limestone that is not local to the area, and tinted with red ochre. The figurine is now in the NaturhistorischesMuseum in Vienna, Austria

Venus of Dolní Věstonice 29,000-25,000 BCE • The Oldest Known Ceramic Artifact• The Venus of Dolní Věstonice was adroitly

crafted and made from a single piece of clay• It clearly resembles the other Venus figurines

from the Paleolithic era, whose findings stretch all the way from Europe into Eurasia.

• Archaeologists had also discovered a range of other figurines in the area, including that of bear, lion, mammoth, horse, fox, and owl.

• All of these specimens were made from burnt clay that was possibly fired at relatively ‘lower’ temperatures of 932 to 1,472 degrees Farenheit.

Venus of Moravny - 22,800 BCE

The Venus of Moravny is made of mammoth tusk ivory and is dated to 22,800 BCE, which places it in upper Paleolithic times. Discovered in Slovakia in 1930

European Climate – 20,000 BC

Last Glacial Maximum – 22,000 BCE

Mesolithic

In the Mesolithic period, the successors of Paleolithic humans adapted to the RAPID GLOBAL WARMING that constitutes the beginning of our present interglacial period, circa 10,000 BCE ago. Their lifestyle nonetheless continued to be based on hunting, fishing and gathering until the arrival of the Neolithic farmers-breeders around 8,000 BCE

10,000 BCE8,000 BCE

The Rupture

• The last 10,000 years show the rapid change in uses, habits, customs, and ways of life… this is fine but in the origin of this new cycle a rupture occurred that could never be transferred, that could never be filled…

• What needs to be done is to unblock and transfer collective contents from the matriarchal substrate and make them available to the collective.

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Neolithic

The Neolithic period, which corresponds to the first farming societies, extended from 8,000 to 2,200 BCE. During this time, the nomadic way of life was replaced by a sedentary one. Ceramic technology was used to make pottery and some stone tools, such as axes, were polished.

8,000 BCE2,200 BCE

The Acceleration of the Neolithic Era• What I am saying is that the

acceleration of the Neolithic era (which covers the last 10,000 years) has given us ceramics , glass and melted metals.

• All of this is thanks to the oven, but it was the “fire pit”, from hundreds of thousands of years ago, that prepared the whole stage necessary so that later, one by one, appeared the different historical actors from the Neolithic era…

Silo - 2004The Fire Pit, Qesem Cave, Israel, 300,000 years

Seated Woman of Çatalhöyük – 6,000 BCE• Concerning the matriarchal divinities, when

the picture is complete animals are never missing and the newly born are always insinuated.

• Sometimes she appears in a direct manner, such as a tectonic mother (from the depths) who is giving birth while seated on a throne accompanied by two lions, one on each side.

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Hacilar Goddesses - 5,600 BCE

• Hacilar is an early human settlement in southwestern Turkey,

• It has been dated back 7,040 BCE at its earliest stage of development.

Vinca Culture – 5,500 – 4,500 BCE

• The Vinča culture, is the oldest Neolithic culture in South-eastern Europe,(Serbia) dated to the period 5,500–4,500 BC.

Bronze Age

After Prehistory, which includes the Paleolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic, the Bronze Age is the first period of « Protohistory », also called the « Metal Ages ». Marked by significant technological and social advances, the Bronze Age was an important step in the evolution of European societies. It is characterized by the use of bronze metallurgy, to create this alloy mainly composed of copper and tin.

3,000 BCE800 BCE

Minoan Snake Goddess – 1,700-1,400 BCE• The figurines are made

of faience, a technique for glazing earthenware and other ceramic vessels by using a quartz paste. After firing, this produces bright colors and a lustrous sheen.

• This material symbolized the renewal of life in old Egypt, therefore it was used in the funeral cult and in the sanctuaries.

Iron Age

The Iron Age, which corresponds to the second part of Protohistory, extends from 1,200 BC to the end of the first century AD. During this period, the regions corresponding to present-day France were gradually frequented by populations with a prolific written language (Greeks and Romans). The local populations (Celts, Gauls, Ligures, Iberians, etc) had little or no writing, on the other hand. Most of our knowledge of these human groups is therefore provided by archaeology, along with a few Greek and Latin texts.

1,200 BCE100 AD

Artemis of Ephesus – 125-175 BCE• The Ephesian Artemis, the

"great mother goddess" also mentioned in the New Testament (Acts 19), was extremely popular in the ancient world, as we might deduce from the fact that copies of her cult statue have been excavated in many parts of the Roman Empire.

• She is related to other Anatolian mother goddesses, like Cybele.

Antiquity

The Roman civilization, which existed for twelve centuries in Italy, from the 8th century BCE to the 5th century AD, was constantly nourished by outside influences and borrowings. It extended outside of Italy as early as the 3rd-2nd centuries BCE.

800 BCE500 AD

The Rupture“I only wanted to point out the historical

antiquity and the profundity of the matriarchal caves where the sacred fire shines, the base of every civilization and

all spiritual progress”

Silo - 2004