Word: cavernness
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...cave, religion and family life begin again. Today the ambiguous thunder talks above every great city of the earth, and the shelters are crowded, and a civilization, if it is ending, is no less surely germinal. In one great warning work of literature after another, meanwhile, a similar mental cavern is retreated to and explored (Joyce's was a Dedalean Labyrinth). Levin quotes St. John's "Except a grain of wheat fall into the earth and die, it abideth by itself alone, but if it die, it beareth much fruit." That, says he, is "the burden...
...pictures appearing on these pages -published for the first time outside of France-are from the walls of a cavern near Montignac, Dordogne, a limestone region where many similar, though less splendid, prehistoric finds have been made...
Several months ago the Montignac cavern was discovered by five striplings whose archeological adventuring had been encouraged by a retired schoolmaster named Laval. Its entrance was a vertical shaft which had long ago been filled so that cattle would not fall in. Townsfolk, as usual, were skeptical and hoax-wary over the boys' reports...
...decorate his home. The pictures are most often in inaccessible crags or in the remote recesses of inhabited caves. Nor did he make them from sheer love of beauty, for the pictures are often so superimposed, retouched and crowded as to be quite unesthetic. His motive was religious. The cavern murals are a form of sympathetic magic: depicting an animal gave the hunter power over it, made the kill easier. In the eerie, torchlit, painted chambers, professional sorcerers led the hunters in ceremonial dances before the chase. Sometimes they hurled their spears at the painted beasts or pictured...
Married. Martha Rave, 25, cavern-mouthed cinemasinger; and Neal Lang, 38, Florida hotelkeeper; she for the third time; in Las Vegas...