Simbolismul și antropomorfismul arhaic
Archaic symbols and anthropomorphism

Summary/Abstract: The subject of the anthropomorphic symbol in the prehistoric culture calls on philosophical, anthropological, psychological and ethnological theories about the prehistoric man’s nature and his daily manifestations, mostly with regards to his spiritual side. Symbolism encodes the knowledge gained through the collective spiritual experience of generations. As for their function, the nature of the symbols in the primitive mentality leads to an essential consequence. Action on a symbol of a being or of an object means action on the being or the object in question. To express himself, man has reduced to gestural signs the significance of the representation of his thoughts about himself and the environment. This gesture semiology could provide the best definition of the rite, which is merely repeating an ancestral gesture. The symbolic behavior, quite complex in prehistoric art, is precisely the proof of the creativity of human communities, with certain elements of individual or collective spirituality.

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