Andon’s family, the first humans, lived in caves. [1]
During the vogue of a particular animal, crude outlines of it would be drawn on the walls of the caves, and later on, as continued progress was made in the arts, such an animal god was engraved on various ornaments. [2]
The ignorant and superstitious aborigines believed that caves led to the underworld, with its evil spirits and demons, in contrast with the mountains, where good spirits lived. [3] The Jordan poured forth from an underground cave. [4] Mithraics worshiped in caves. [5] Northern white race built dwellings; they never lived in caves. [6]
In the caves of western Europe may be found human bones mingled with the remains of both tropic and arctic animals, testifying that man lived in these regions throughout the later epochs of the advancing and retreating glaciers. [7] The southern Cro-Magnons generally lived in caves and grottoes. [8]