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1. Early Religion Even in prehistoric times it was thought that images have power. By drawing objects, one could achieve control of them, for example, in the picturing of animals that were to be slain (such as in the cave paintings at Altamira, Spain, ca. 15,000 b.c.; Magic). The divine was encountered at first in objects that had not been fashioned or in natural phenomena (stones, trees, etc.). Higher religions then had cultic images in animal or human form. These figures were always three-dimensional, were the focus of care and ceremony, and were clothed, a…