Original subtitles

(music)

(thunder and lightning)

(raining noise)

This shelter will have to do until the storm's over.

Better take your wet things off and make yourselves

- as comfortable as possible. - Whew.

Hello, there!

Who's there?

I'm sorry if I startled you.

We were lost in the storm and I...

hardly expected to find a place like this.

Welcome.

Welcome, to the hospitality afforded by the home

of an ancient people.

Thanks.

Say...

Do you mean that at some time a primitive people

made this cave their home?

Of that I'm quite sure.

Well, what in the world leads you to believe that?

These markings...

hidden for many centuries...

which I have been able to uncover.

Am I to understand that there's a meaning to these marks

that you can decipher?

Not only a meaning,

but a complete story as well.

On this wall...

a learned man left his saga.

- Well, that's amazing. - Yes.

My friends and I are most interested in things of this kind.

May I have your permission to bring them in

so they can see this unusual place?

Well, by all means, invite them in.

And while they're waiting for the storm to pass,

to entertain them I...

I'll be glad to give my interpretation

of the simple story that's left here.

Oh, thanks.

This will make losing our way really worth while.

These strange figures and forms were carved here many years ago

before any record of our present civilization.

They speak the message of an intelligent man.

You mean there were people of intelligence that long ago?

Intelligence, my friend, is inherent.

Education and culture are acquired.

Civilization of course has brought complications,

but here are the same thoughts,

the same emotions,

the same struggles with the problems of life and death

that...

we of today experience.

I've always thought of of those ancient people

as animals rather than humans.

In order that we can have a better understanding

of this story,

will you first give us some idea of what they look like?

I don't know.

I never thought of it.

It never seemed important to me what they looked like.

Suppose we assume that they were just...

human beings like you people sitting here.

A story concerns a young hunter of one tribe...

and a young girl of another.

Maybe the girl resembled this young lady.

The boy might have looked like this young man sitting here.

Perhaps, he was just the same age.

The saga concerns two tribes.

To avoid confusion,

suppose we say the boy...

belonged to the rock people

and the girl...

to the shell people.

Our story opens...

with the rock tribe.

And the young hunter we'll call...

Tumak.

His, was a cruel tribe.

Pity and compassion played little part in the existence

of those people.

Who ate only what they could kill.

They depended solely upon their ability to kill for sustenance.

They despised weakness, worshiped strength!

They ruled by the power of might.

The strongest was their leader.

Well, we first find them over here in search of food.

Animals were abundant.

None of them had learned to fear man,

which made the hunter's life most hazardous.

(narrator) These people lived

in the highlands.

A country denied natural beauty

by lava rock

and glacial flow.

Their home is a cave on the crags,

hollowed by the convulsions of a young earth.

Here, in the bleak mountains, the mighty mastodon

roamed at will.

The saber-toothed tiger stalked giant deer

and the vulture forever followed the shadow of the hated hyena.

Here, life lived hand in hand with death

and compensation

came only to the strong.

They hunted,

as primitively as they lived,

knowing no weapons except a crude staff

which responded only to brute strength.

Akhoba, their leader was the mightiest hunter of them all.

(growling)

Tumak,

son of Akhoba,

begged for the right to his first kill.

(growling continues)

(animal screaming)

(animal growling)

Eee!

Agh!

Ahh!

(sounds of animal in pain)

(animal growling)

(animal's painful cry)

Matoyak!

Decca.

Ketufay!

Matoyak!

Benta! Benta!

Yatona!

(painful utterance)

Akita.

Akita!

(mumbling)

Yatona!

- Ohh! - Ugh.

(faint painful utterance)

(vulture sounds)

Yatona!

Dah!

Mucan!

(coughing)

(bone striking rock sound)

Gat!

Akhoba! (screaming)

- Akhoba. - Giyet paw!

Gitdon! (whimpering)

Gitdon!

Gitdon! (crying)

(growling mastodon sounds)

(mastodon trumpet sounds)

(roaring mastodon sounds)

(tree cracking sounds)

(wildlife sounds)

(seashell alarm call)

Ahlua!

Tana.

(unintelligible)

Michu.

Yehu.

Anuna.

(soft children's laughter)

Loana.

(soft children's laughter)

Maletu.

(clanging dish sound)

(hammering stone sound)

(splashing sound)

(dog barking)

(animal snorting sound)

Yifaw.

Yifaw!

(angry mastodon trumpet call)

(Akhoba screaming)

Galhi!

Dalpha!

(animal growling)

Neecha!

(seashell alarm call)

Neecha!

- Neecha! - Neecha!

Neecha!

Neecha wapu!

Tumak!

Tumak.

Tumak?

Tumak!

Loana.

Loana?

Loana.

Tumak!

Tumak.

Anuna.

Anuna, Loana!

Ocasu.

Lusho.

(dropped dish sound)

(faint chatter)

(laughter and chatter)

(children's laughter)

Wanitu, Tumak.

(seashell whistle sound)

(Loana humming)

(humming in unison)

Uhh!

(Loana singing)

Ohtao.

(children's noisy excitement)

(laughter)

(laughter continues)

(Tumak laughing)

(Loana joins in laughing)

(splashing water)

(splashing water continues)

(children laughing)

Pamo Tumak.

(animal growling)

(screaming)

(animal roaring)

Neecha!

(seashell alarm call)

(animal growling continues)

Neecha.

Neecha!

Neecha, Tumak!

(screaming)

Loana!

Ohtao!

- Neecha! - Neecha!

(animal growling)

Neecha!

(screaming)

Neecha!

(loud screaming continues)

(loud roaring and growling)

(loud screaming)

(soft utterance)

Sari!

Kanuna.

Noh!

Magu!

(shouting)

Magu!

(shouting)

Magu!

(animal howling)

(night creature sounds)

(animal growling)

(lizard groaning sounds)

(lizard hissing sounds)

(loud growling)

(bird chirping sounds)

(animal howling)

(night creature sounds continue)

(animal growling)

(night creature sounds continue)

(loud animal growling)

(animal growling continues)

(animal screeching and growling)

(animal growling)

(cracking sounds)

(animal growling continues)

(low guttural growling)

Neecha!

Neecha luke!

(shouting)

(lizard hissing)

(animal growling continues)

(loud screeching)

(loud roaring and growling)

(labored breathing)

(lizard breathing heavily)

(distant splashing sounds)

(seashell alarm call)

Skakana!

Duh!

Git!

Soh! (screaming)

Atee danks!

Kata!

Doh!

Kata!

Haych!

Tumak!

Hap!

Nata! Tumak, Tumak, nata!

Apouni, Tumak!

Makena dark!

Tumak!

Ocasu?

Ocasu.

Lusho?

Lusho.

Patezal!

Patakov!

Hiyo!

Atak!

Mata! Mata!

(spitting sound)

(laughter)

Tana!

Qwak!

Sur!

Tana!

Loana.

Tumipaw, Tumak.

Tumata, Tumak.

Loana.

(distant rumbling and bubbling)

Kuno.

Wandi.

Neen.

Wandi.

Tumak!

Wandi!

Dapoti!

Wandi!

(loud volcanic eruption)

(earth shifting sounds)

(crumbling rock sounds)

(lava spewing sounds)

(volcanic explosion)

(loud falling rock sounds)

(bubbling and spewing lava)

(lizard growling)

(loud animal sounds)

Wandi!

(small child crying)

Nupondi!

(loud screaming)

(small child crying)

(lizard growling)

(lizard roaring)

Loana!

(lizard roaring and growling)

Loana!

(music)

(seashell alarm call)

Loana!

Loana!

Ohtao!

Tumak!

Loana!

Loana.

Loana?

Tumak!

Neecha.

Neecha!

- Oww! - Nata!

Wat?

Neecha!

Kitoya!

(lizard growling and roaring)

(shouting)

(distant mastodon trumpet sound)

(lizard growling)

(loud lizard barking sound)

(small child crying)

Kasumata.

Neecha.

(lizard softly growling)

(lizard roaring)

Natal,

Tumak!

Natal,

Tumak!

(lizard roaring loudly)

Tana!

Aditek!

(lizard growling continues)

Tumak!

Ohtao!

Tumak.

(loud roaring and growling)

(screams)

(roaring and growling continues)

(screams)

(loud screaming)

Tumak!

Tana!

Exef!

Tana!

Exef!

- Exef! - Tumak!

Neecha!

(lizard roaring)

(lizard barking loudly)

(lizard roaring loudly)

(lizard growling and roaring)

(rock avalanche sounds)

(lizard growling and roaring)

(singing)