LANDSCAPE AS LUNDSCAPE

                                                                             pic  satish sharma 

The Land  Stripped  Bare   by her  New Lords .   

or 

                                    White Fella   Dreaming   Downunder .

In The Birth of the Gods and the Origins of Agriculture, 2000, the French archeologist Jacques Cauvin,  argues that  the emergence of personified divinities dominating humanity ‘from above’ and the emergence of the bull as symbolic of a masculine anthropomorphic god, led to an alienated sense of self and the will to transform wild landscapes into agricultural resources. Coincidentally, the imposition of a linear geometry on dwellings is similarly associated with the bull cult of masculine virility and a more conscious expression of self inscribed upon the landscape.