Prehistoric cave paintings give us something to see.
Not to talk. The original myth comes within the plastic order. And not from the language order as Mr Lévi-Strauss presents it.

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""Consequently, what was the feeling of the first men with these paintings which have had among them a tremendous prestige, obviously without getting a sense of pride from it as it's not the same way with our paintings (so stupidly individual)? A prestige bound to the revelation of the unexpected, what ever people say. It's especially in this sense that we talk about the Lascaux miracle, because it is in Lascaux that the young humanity assessed the extent of her richness. Of her richness that is to say of the power she had to reach the unexpected, the fantastic. [...]