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Re: Natural or Induced?
Aug 26, 2012, 09:16
bladup wrote:

Ha Ha, Thats the thing people took up farming because they could actually see the benefit of it, food sorted, more healthy people therefore means they had the time and strength to build the big monuments , a lot of other beliefs offer things after death, so could be wrong and would be seen as a big gamble, people must of always have liked to have seen some sort of proof , the food from farming could be eaten not just seen.


Not quite sure how this thread became dominated by mushrooms - we'll never really know if mushrooms were used as hallucinogens but we do know before farming Stone Age people hunted and foraged so they must have developed a good knowledge of which berries and fungi where edible, which killed and which provided hallucinations.

Most of the pagan observances seem to be around the farming year - e.g Winter Solstice brings the knowledge that winter is on the wane and the spring equinox approximately correlates with planting and sowing time. As Sanctuary has pointed out - we know the Egyptians and the Judaic tribes believed in an After-Life so it is quite possible those beliefs filtered through to these islands - after all Christianity did 2000 years ago (hijacking all the pagan festivals with it).
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