Tsodilo won�t let me in the Python Cave, again

The Python Cave is mankind’s oldest known ritual site. A colossal discovery by Associate Professor Sheila Coulson, from the University of Oslo in 2006 revealed that the modern human, homo sapiens, performed advanced rituals at Tsodilo over 70,000 years ago. Up until Coulson’s sensational discovery, scholars had largely held that modern man’s first rituals were carried out just over 40,000 years ago in Europe.

In 2010 when I first entered Python Cave, I had no information about the significance of the cave and I did not follow proper courtesy to accordingly pay respects to this ancestry of human rituals. It was the year that I had walked to Tsodilo Hills from Samuchima near Shakawe, on a charity walk organised by Y-Care Charitable Trust. The walk was a grueling 40 kilometres that left me with sore muscles and gory blisters. I still vividly remember the pains and emotions when I reached Tsodilo Hills that evening before I collapsed due to what the medics diagnosed as low sugar levels. It was under such severe exhaustion that I first met these Mountains of the Gods.