² Mr Jackson Knight writes: ‘Proserpina, queen of the dead, was thought to mark for death all who died, by cutting a lock of their hair as hair is cut from animals to mark them for sacrifice’. Proserpine, that brings with her the spring, stands for death in general, so then for that particular death, indeed particularly for that death which is ‘shown forth’ and ‘recalled’ in the eucharist. Further, in the rite of the fourth-century Egyptian bishop, Serapion, the eucharist is regarded as a recalling of all the dead: ‘We entreat also on behalf of all who have fallen asleep, of which this (i.e, this action) is the recalling’. Here ‘all who have fallen asleep’ refers to the departed members of the Christian community in Egypt and throughout the world, because no institution can, in its public formulas, presume the membership of any except those who have professed such membership. But over and above these few there are those many, of all times and places, whose lives and deaths have been made acceptable by the Same Death on the Hill of which every Christian breaking of bread is an epiphany and a recalling.

With regard to the Upper Palaeolithic South Welshman buried in Paviland, it would seem that Theology allows us to regard him among the blessed by forbidding us to assert the contrary.