Bernice said:
Cave paintings? Did the friend say where on the planet these might be?
Bee
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... I said "cave paintings", and there are lots of cave paintings and a lot of them are very old. And between them are lots of animals. And there are only 150 psalms.
For this reason: The Bavarian animal Tarock is the origin, maybe overcome only by those "hidden at the Easter islands", from which Rosanne assumes, that they don't exist, but I would assume, that they exist and they are only hidden, cause the humans love mysteries and like to research them.
Well ... they are a little bit unusual. They have a round oval form and they're 3-dimensional, often colorful painted, sometimes packed in paper, which looks a little bit like silver and sometimes they are simply brown and sweet. The motifs vary.
The inhabitants on this islands have the custom to train their children in early youth on research for these objects, usually in spring (mostly April, it depends on the fool moon) and the children are searching for these caves and mostly they find them and they're happy ... well, some were not found.
If one of these objects is not found, it's becomes sensitive, feels a little depressed and starts to develop a sign, that it was forgotten. Then slowly, slowly, very slowly, maybe it can can take some 100's of years, a big stone head grows from the ground and at rather calm days one can hear the whispering ... "I had been overlooked".
Some of the overlooked objects:
Although it was only whispering, it became a little bit noisy with the time.
So the inhabitants made a 2-man-canoe-expedition, exploring, if anybody in the big wide world might help them. The two guys got some special caps, that they shouldn't get cold ears during the journey, so actually they looked a little bit funny, the caps had two extensions, which looked like two long ears.
Maybe 500-600 years ago they reached Italy. Some Cathars in Southern France claimed to have seen them already before, but ... it seemed, they wanted to see the pope, cause they had heard this might be a wise man, so, surely somehow ... Italy.
Nobody knows, what really happened, but when they returned, they told the stone-heads, that they had engaged some researchers elsewhere and the whispering slowed down to 0.01 dezibel. They could live with that.
Since then Europe has a well running commercial system for Easter egg productions. Other legends tell, that the moon hare brought the Tarot cards.
Others, a little more realistic, speak of men with long ears ...
Some, very fantastic, deliver this idea ...
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