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The Arrow and the Animal
Section 1 — The Day the Word Knelt
Did worship and language start together?
Night wind pressed its mouth to the cave and breathed. The fire answered with a lean and a hiss. A child, hair stuck to her forehead with smoke, lifted her cheeks to the gust and shaped it back with her lips—hoo—then laughed because the sound moved when she moved. An elder raised a palm, not to hush her, but to address the wind—as if the air were a someone. The band watched his hand hover in the wavering light. Another reached for ochre and dragged a short red line across a flat stone, not a picture of anything, just…
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