Verb-stones: recurrence, body and narrative

Abstract

Trying to establish the relationship between story, myth, and fiction, this writing is developed within the framework of ongoing research on the cave phenomenon as a vestige of performativity and theatricality, located in a specific study case which is the Great Mural, so-called because of its colossal proportions. This significant feature gives its name to this rock art style between the San Francisco and Guadalupe sierras in Baja California Sur (Mexico). The contribution of this research also lies in continuing to nurture the scarce and sporadic studies on theater and prehistory that have been done over time in terms of theater studies. I will focus on showing, from theater and a specific style of parietal cave art, that some rock bodies-footprints and their sedimentary support are stories and evidential and documentary records of remote experiences, mythologies, and more (than) human archetypes in situated performativity. The rock pictogram, as a story about the world, time, and boiling life (then and now), and this need for the story (to procure it, produce it, promote it, and activate it as a factor of social cohesion, among others) has roots that concern us, as well as probable mechanisms, intended repetitions, fictions, and cycles.