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| Lions painted in the Chauvet Cave by HTO |
French Archaeologist
The first time I entered the Chauvet cave, I had a chance to get in during five days, and it was so powerful that every night I was dreaming of lions and every day it was the same shock for me, it was an emotional shock, I mean, I am a scientist, but a human too, and after five days I decided not to go back into the cave because I needed time just to relax and take time to...
Herzog
To absorb it?
French Archaeologist
To absorb it.
Herzog
And you dreamt not of paintings of lions but of real lions?
Herzog
Of both. Of both definitely.
Herzog
Were you afraid in your dreams?
French Archaeologist
No, I was not afraid. I was not afraid, it was more a feeling of powerful things and deep things, a way to understand things which is not a direct way.
From "Cave of Forgotten Dreams" by Werner Herzog
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