Very cool and other-wordly. What's lighting up the orange rocks in the foreground? A reflection?

I've never understood why this is a surprise. Neanderthals were probably just as sexy as humans late at night by the campfire ... a little fermented this and that, a little Marvin Gaye.

Nietzsche was a romantic at heart. Read him for his prose if you're having trouble understanding his world view.

Thus Spake Zarathustra is mind blowing. "And how could I endure to be a man if he were not also poet and reader of riddles and a way to new dawns?"