ABSTRACT
The cave, located in the Lot region, contains engravings, not paintings, and interest in Palaeolithic art, for a very good reason, focuses on paintings. Accessing the engravings is extremely difficult, rendering it impossible to enter not simply for visitors, but anyone except most expert speleologists. While 'monsters' can be found in other caves, their numbers and density in Room IV make Pergouset unique. While the engravings in the caves were transgressive, they were dedicated to the 'sources of life'. The engravings are expressed in three vulvas, which are extremely realistic and constitute a sequence. One, deep inside the cave, is schematic and incomplete; the middle one belongs to a young woman, probably at the early stage of pregnancy; the third, indicates several completed deliveries. Taking a step beyond Lorblanchet's identification of the cave as depicting a creation myth, we can connect it to the myth of Prometheus. That myth was about the origins of the human mastery of fire.
