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Re: Hardwired
Mar 10, 2006, 18:34
Now that is where we can agree. I may be wrong, but I think I read somewhere that shaman type beliefs and so-called "primitive" religions, like those of the remaining hunter/gatherers such as the San Bushmen and Amazonians, do not have deities as such... They have spirits and totem animals who are aids to healing and wisdom, but not all powerful gods.
Now that is something I can understand and wonder if that kind of belief system was once shared by our hunter ancestors. I suspect that things began to change with the adoption of a more settled lifestyle and observance of the agricultural cycle. The whole thing went to pot with the emergence of priestcraft and civilisation. Then we get dogma, dependence on divinity, sacrifice, pampered priests, control, reward and punishment....plus temple circles and extravagant monuments to the dead.
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