On the Symbolism of Stone
C.G. Jung, on the Animation of Stone
Very early in history, men began trying to express what they felt to be the soul or spirit of a rock by working it into a recognizable form.
In many cases, the form was a more or less definite approximation to the human figure — for instance, the ancient menhirs with their crude outlines of faces, or the herms that developed out of boundary stones in ancient Greece, or the many primitive stone idols with human features.
The animation of the stone must be explained as the projection of a more or less distinct content of the unconscious into the stone.
Man and his Symbols