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Re: "Sacred" as a prehistoric adjec...

Aug 08, 2005, 12:29

I too have difficulty with finding words that are appropriate and adequate. The problem is that we don't have a clear insight into the mindset of these past peoples and to what extent their "religion" interacted with their secular lives. Even the word "religion" could be inaccurate. I think it's fair to assume they had a narrower outlook on life, not having had the benefit of our modern wide ranges of education and experiences, and would have presumably been closer to the soil (more modern jargon – sorry) Would this have brought a greater immediacy of their need for contact with the higher powers for help in fertility etc? I think the closest analogy is the case of the Australian Aborigines. Although they didn't build megaliths, they link their current world with the spirit world and with their ancestors and with the Earth's origins and present typography, all joined together in the Dreamtime.

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