So her journey is that of the reconciliation of the opposites. Yet she is forever and irrevocably changed. And as every hero, so does Ayla, goes on a hero's journey from caves of the people with whom she grew up, back to 'her' people. She carries information of two opposing worlds. She is born to Cro-Magnons, but raised by Neanderthals.
And at the intersection point of this, there is always a human change agent who has knowing, understanding, empathy and compassion of and for both. However, what really spoke to me was premise that innovation (be it social or technological), new ways of being, of understanding, new tradition, new culture is always born at the intersection of the two old traditions. I was mesmerized by the detail of every day life of prehistoric people and extensive description in which way Neanderthal and Cro-Magnons were different. My favourite stories have always been those in which different cultures and different traditions overcome their differences and co-exist, as opposed to perpetually conflicting one another. So here, I would like this commentary to be praise to entire series not just to The Land of Painted Caves. Hence, I set out to reread the first three books and to acquaint myself with the last three books of the Series. After checking out the book, I was surprised to learn that this was the final book in the Earth's Children Series and that there were two more books in the series of which I have not even been aware, The Plains of Passage (the fourth) and The Shelters f Stone (the fifth book in the Series). Then sometimes in the March of the last year, I happened to come by display of the newest book by Jane M. Auel: The Clan of the Cave Bear, The Valley of Horses and The Mammoth Hunters.
In the 1980s I had read the first three books of the Earth's Children Series by Jane M. The rituals themselves bring her close to death, but through them Ayla gains A Gift of Knowledge so important that it will change her world. But all the time Ayala has spent in training rituals has caused Jondalar to drift away from her. They are filled with remarkable paintings of mammoths, lions, and bears, and their mystical aura at times overwhelms Ayla. And there are the Sacred Caves that Ayla’s mentor takes her to see. Whatever obstacles she faces, Ayla finds inventive ways to lessen the difficulties of daily life, searching for wild edibles to make meals and experimenting with techniques to ease the long journeys the Zelandonii must take while honing her skills as a healer and a leader. Ayla has been chosen as an acolyte to a spiritual leader and begins arduous training tasks. As the story opens, Ayla, Jondalar, and their infant daughter, Jonayla, are living with the Zelandonii in the Ninth Cave. Auel brings her ice-age epic series, Earth’s Children®, to an extraordinary conclusion.
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