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^	CAVE ART AND THE BIRTH OF LANGUAGE
ESKU=HAND (LEARNING TO SPEAK)
THIS ART WAS CREATED NOT JUST AS A FORM OF WRITING BUT AS A TOOL OF LEARNING
SPEECH, THESE MEN OF SANTIMAMIA, LASKAO, ALT1MIRA, ORRIO, SARA...AND OTHERS,
THE CULTURAL CAPITALS OF PRE-HISTORIC MAN IN EUROPE. THESE MEN WERE CREATING NOT JUST CAVE ART BUT THE FABRICATION, STYLE AND FASHION OF TOWNS, MODERN MAN
AND CIVILIZATION.
BULL llORN
SPEECH IS BORN
CAVE MEN GIVE BIRTH TO THE BASQUE VOCABULARY
IRRINTZ1-THE WAR CRY
LIKE THE SONGS OF THE BASQUES, THE PAINTINGS OF THESE CAVEMEN ALSO TELL A STORY, THE CAVEMEN HERE DISCRIBE FOR US HIS WORLD AS SEEN THROUGH HIS EYES, DEPICTED HERE ACCORDING TO EARLY MAN?S IMAGINATION
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EACH ONE OF THESE TABLETS DENOTE THE MAN?S PROFESSION, A CARPENTER SHOWS HIS TOOL ON HIS, A BLACKSMITH HIS, THE MINER A SHOVEL, THE WHALER A HARPOON, THE FISHERMAN A FISH, AND THE SHEPHERD A LAMB IS ENGRAVED ON HIS STONE. THE MOON ALSO MAKES HER APPEARANCE- THE SYMBOL OF ?KAIKA? THE ANCIENT GODDESS OF THE NIGHT IS STILL ALIVE ON THESE STONES. THESE EARLY MEN SEEM TO OFFER THEM TO US AS A TESTIMONIAL TO THEM, THEIR PRESENCE AND ACHIEVEMENTS IN HISTORY, A
MEMORIAL OF THEM TO US.
MARITXOLA, OLENTZARI, UZKARE AND KAIKA ARE A FEW OF THE NATURE GODS / GODDESSES OF THE ANCIENT BASQUES. THESE SCULPTURES REPRESENT DIETIES, MEANT TO PRESERVE AND PROTECT THE BASQUE COUNTRY, AS WELL AS TO PRESERVE A LANGUAGE ALREADY PERSECUTED FOR ITS EX1STANCE..
(THE ARTIST OTEIZA?S PRE-HISTORIC BASQUE MAN) HE CREATED THIS MODERN TRIBUTE TO THE FIRST BASQUES, THE CRO-MAGNON CAVERN DWELLERS OF THE PYRENEES. IT WAS ALSO THE ARTIST INTENTIONS THAT HIS SCULPTURES BE A CALL TO ESTABLISH A BASQUE UNIVERSITY FOR BASQUE ARTISTS, MUSICIANS, WRITERS,, TEACHERS, ATHLETES, COOKS, AND BUSINESSMEN, WORKING TOGETHER FOR ONE NATION, ONE PEOPLE, ONE LANGUAGE.
NOON IN BASQUE COUNTRY (A MOMENT OF REFLECTION)
WASHING THE ABOVE GROUND CEMETERIES LABORDES / THE FARMERS FAMILY STYLE DINNING
THE ?TXALAPARTA? AN ANCIENT INSTRUMENT BELIEVED TO BE THE INSTRUMENT USED BY NOAH THE GRANDFATHER OF THE BASQUES, TO CALL THE ANIMALS TO THE ARK.
FATHER XABADOR URRIATEGUI UNIVERSITY OF BASQUE FOLK CULTURE UNITED FROM BOTH SIDES OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY BY FRATERNAL LOVE, DEEPLY GROUNDED IN TRADITION, AS IF SONS OF THE SAME VILLAGE, SPEAKING THE SAME LANGUAGE, IN REMEMBERANCE OF THE ANTIQUITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY, WHILE GIVING IT?S YOUTH VITALITY WHILE RENUING AND SUSTAINING THE YOUTH. TXURITA, URDARRAEGUL FERNAND BIZCATARRA, EMBEYTA AND BAXARDI WERE A FEW OF Its GREAT ALUMNI, ALONG WITH OTHERS; ALL FAMOUS ARTIST, SINGERS, MUSICIAN EXPRESSING THE SOUL OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY. PEOPLE HAVE COME FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD TO SEE A PERFORMANCE OF ANTIQUITY AND ART PERFORMED IN THIS OUTDOOR THEATRE WITH A SOUL OF A BASQUE VILLAGE, IN FACT IT HAS BEEN SAID THAT THIS UNIVERSITY IS LIKE UNTO A HOUSE IN LABUKDl ( FR.) THIS UNIVERSITY IS EUZKADl CULTURAL FOUNTAIN, ITS TREE BEARING FRUIT A FIRM AND ONE WELL GROUNDED (IN TRADITION) . Its TRUNK IS FIRM AND STRONG, ABLE TO REACH EVERY BRANCH AND STEM; TO ENLIGHTEN EVERY
BASQUE sum in EUZKAPIAKD ABfiCWD