The first places I spoke to you were in the darkness of caves below the earth. The first apparitions were like the paintings that took shape in the rocks by rush and tallow light. Before that I spoke through shamans, who could speak to Me anywhere. With the paintings something different happened and anyone could see Me and speak with Me. Anyone could know My name.
The problem came when those chambers were constructed above ground and whole peoples were organized around them. Even then, so long as the chambers moved, as with tents and tabernacles, the dangers were not great. When cloth and hide became stone and mortar, that was when your endless troubles began. I tell you this now because I am returning you to the spirit of the caves. I am restoring to you the animals who first bore witness to My human form.
Even now, you are surrounded by your animal ancestors. Even now you ARE your animal ancestors. The world is all one circle. All one Mother. All one lifetime, repeated endlessly, in an unbroken circle of time.
[Paleolithic art from Rouffignac Cave in the Dordogne, France]