graywolf wrote: > And interesting, but related, aside: We think of forests as resources > and recreational areas. To prehistoric (before metal tools) man they > were a real threat slowly encroaching upon their tiny fields and their > hunting areas driving them into the recently melted glacial tundras > along with the game they depended upon. For many thousands of years > mankind was caught between the retreating glaciers and the advancing > forests. The evil forest of folktale was very real. And that long slow > war may be the cause of the rise of modern man as the dominant species.
So we should never have left the trees in the first place, then. :-) When mankind came out of the woods, it was onto the African savanna, not the tundra. Folktales are different in different habitats, and the notion of evil inside the forest is far from global. Jostein -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
