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Saturday, January 4, 2020
Nightmares I and II
The idea behind these images came to me when I read that Whites have significant Neanderthal DNA and it all came from Neanderthal males, indicating that it was Neanderthal men having sex with Cro Magnon women that introduced this genetic signature. And I thought that Neanderthals must have seemed frightening monsters to the humans entering the cold, dark northern woods, ogres and trolls who haunted the night and preyed on their encampments. I read where the larger eyes and noses of Neanderthals implied they were night hunters, and their powerful physiques suggested they closed with their prey and killed it much as a lion does, by brute force. As night hunters, their skin may have been dark for camouflage purposes and they may not have looked nearly as benignly human as many representations of them are but like the horrors that live in racial memory as expressed in myths such as the trolls of Scandinavian folklore.
So how would Cro Magnon women end up mating with such monsters? Perhaps, I thought, certain of them were sacrificed by the tribe, left as offerings for the night beasts, much as a goat is tied up and left for a Komodo dragon, or, as in the old King Kong movie, a woman is offered to satiate the dread beast. Perhaps the most beautiful maidens were selected for sacrifice and to be chosen was considered an honor. The Neanderthals, in their turn, may have left unmolested the human bands who offered them their finest young women.