Humans have had a strong connection to horses for a very long time. The horse was first depicted in art about 32,000 years ago on the cave walls of southern France and northern Spain. Though archeologists disagree as to whether the paintings are realistic depictions or symbolic markings, many concur that they are both. Perhaps our ancestors applied a numinous meaning to the horses and the symbols painted on those ancient cave walls.
Horses were domesticated in the western Eurasian Steppes about 5,500 years ago. New evidence places the domestication of the Arabian horse at 9,000 years ago in current day Saudi Arabia. Culture and the movement of peoples was forever changed with the domestication of horses. Hunting, herding, migration and warfare were all greatly heightened after the horse was brought into the human fold.
Worldwide the horse has come to symbolize power, grace, beauty, freedom, nobility and strength. The horse is emblematic of the life-force imbued with spirit.
Read more about horse and its symbolic meaning to the Celts, the Greeks, the Romans and more on my post at the Feminism and Religion Blog.
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Sometimes I think that ‘archaeologists’ can’t even agree on the Giza pyramids being pointy! 😀 … I’ve noticed recently that as more and more technology advances are made the ‘start dates’ for a great many things archaeological are being pushed back further and further.
Widdershins, I’ve been following those discoveries also and it’s amazing how much further back the whole timeline of “civilization” is being pushed. Gobekli Tepe is really intriguing, right.