Deep in the painted dark, the wounded animal becomes one of humanity’s first sacred images. This episode explores how prehistoric hunters saw animal death as hunger, danger, gratitude, guilt, and gift bound together in a single body. From cave walls to later sacrificial altars, the wounded beast reveals a severe truth: before religion built temples, it stood over blood, breath, and the fallen majesty of the animal world.
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The Wounded Beast
Hunting, sacrifice, animal death, and the strange holiness of injury
The Grand Vision Podcast
A podcast about the history of religious art.
A podcast about the history of religious art.
