VIEW OF THE LOVE IN THE COURSE OF THE HISTORY

VIEW OF THE LOVE IN THE PREHISTORY

The cultural expressions of sexuality along the humanity history have been a lot. However, available information is too scarce before the year 1000 BC. Between the oldest examples are the Venus and the Palaeolithic graffiti of Abri Castanet’s caves. There are other examples like Chinese sex manuals from 5000 years ago.

                            

In the first cave communities, the sexual conduct was executed for the immediate gratification of the impulse. At that time, survival was the absolute priority. People lived a day and their houses were transients.

In the sexual contacts the male courted to a free lady (without other male). The sexual ritual began with a rhythmic dance and pats on animal’s skulls.

During the Palaeolithic period begins the differentiation between human sexuality and animal sexuality. In this period the people embraced and spoke like ingredients of sexual contacts.

In prehistoric period there were two main stages: the first was called natural monogamy, in this stage the human practised a regulated sexual life by periods, like animals.

Thanks to the agriculture and the livestock, tribes were sedentary and private property began to be popular because of that and, at the same time, humans discover pregnancy. All these factors transform social relationships and interaction between racers and begin a new period f time where sexuality is considerate fundamental for the civilisation and its monogamy.

On the other hand, humans began to represent the genitalia in art: like phallic dances in the paintings. However, people didn´t realised that from an erotic perspective, they did it like a symbol of fertility. It has been passed down generation after generation.

         Women were identified like the being who gives life and fruits. And in time, it was born a cult to the Great Goddess (to the female sexuality), but it was also few centuries later eliminated by monotheistic religions (Judaism, Christianity and Islam). Matriarchy was the dominant form of social organization. And there wasn’t paternity proofs, the mother's role was crucial and was becoming the head of the household.

         When our ancestors became farmers, the cult to the sun and others male gods were more decisive than female gods (it is revealed by studies of Celtic monoliths Hedge stone).

Agriculture changed the frequency of childbirth amongst women, who no longer had to carry the single child as in nomadic or hunter gather societies. For that reason second and third children came sooner. This would have helped to create faster unions between the husband and wife, who had mutual property and could sleep together in the same place night after night surrounded by their possessions. We can speculate that first arranged marriages between a man who wanted a wife and the ability to exchange something with her kin took place. The concept of the offering came into existence as compensation to the family for an able worker’s loss.

Ritualised and official marriages began in the Neolithic period, which show us the earliest joint burials. Neolithic marriage would take place at holy sites, such as stone circles.

Magic powers of the stones could bless a marriage and phallic stones could bring fertility to the marriage.

In 2007, a pair of late Neolithic skeletons were found in Mantua, in Italy, the male skeleton locked in an embrace with the female- two lovers with eternal affection.

                      

With the bronze’s discovery (between one and two thousand years before Christ) weapons were invented; the first wars started and imposed definitely male dominance in the West. At the end, with the destruction of the mummy of Nefertiti, all marks of the reign disappeared, and the cult to the male god that imposed with the Pharaoh, in the XIV BC century.