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Mercuræn Buddhist
Now that I think about it, In Jean M Auel's book Clan of the Cave Bear, the Neanderthals were born with ancestral memory (with different lineages, I might add) and only had to be "reminded" about it to activate the skills lurking there. While this was probably all speculation on Ms Auel's part, it does seem to appear that she might have started off with the Bodhisattva model to build her model of the Neanderthal psyche, {or it might be a coincidence.}