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Pascal found the stars terrifying in their infinitude. Perhaps that is why some humans turn away from them, in the end, and hold their ceremonies beneath ground, or cover them up with roofs, which they can control and decorate to their own taste.
At Catal Huyek men and women build themselves a village that lasted some 6 thousand years. Each family had its own enclosed living space, and on their walls they placed the heads of bulls, thrusting out into the rooms. They further decorated them with strange paintings, including enormous vultures, headless bodies and what may have been hunting scenes. They huddled together to shelter from the wild, and then brought the wild into their houses with them.
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