All historic Asiatic mystery cult initiation rites can be traced to the "rite of the dark descent" of the shaman-sorcerer of the Paleolithic fertility cult. The parallels are evident. The descent into the Paleolithic cave-temple site at Altamira is especially steep and dangerous. Weston La Barre in his "Ghost Dance" remarked on the dangerously steep, precipitate of the drop into the Altamira "womb of the Earth."