The Hunter

Fear and hunger

Before the session Clive told me that he had always been in fear of heights, and that he couldn’t understand why. We decided to find the answer.

”I am a man with long black hair and a long black beard, standing by a cliff. A woman has fallen over the cliff…she fell when we were hunting….I can’t get down to her and she is dead. I feel a lot of fear but also a loss of her as part of the group,” he said.

The woman was a member of a small group of hunting people living in a cave with a fire as their most important asset. They had two to three children, and there were about 8 – 10 people inside the cave. The group didn’t have any language, and it seems they were communicating by almost grunting to each other. It was far back in the distant pre-historic, and Clive thought it was 10 – 20 000 years ago. Through the winter the group moved east. Every day was fight for survival.

“I don’t think there actually was any Mediterranean Sea at this point”, Clive suddenly said.

The group lived somewhere along the Mediterranean Sea, in a harsh landscape without much vegetation. Clive described how he could see volcanoes in the far distant.

“We had to fight and kill members of other groups since they were competing about the animals. There weren’t animals enough to feed us all. Killing someone from another group was no more difficult than killing an animal. We regard them as animals. We use smell to find animals and other humans. Most of all, we fear animals, other groups and hunger. You see the life was very free and definitely not one of the worst I have had”, Clive continued.

“Do you hunt by using bow and arrow”, I asked.

“No, I don’t think it has been invented yet”, answered Clive.

He thought all this had something to do with the natural evolution of man on planet Earth. The air was crisp and clear but when they were close to a volcano they could sense the bad smell of poisonous gases coming out.