[ExI] RES: Eden, deep memes, exodus from the Ape God

[Stefano Vaj]

On 16 January 2012 13:38, Henrique Moraes Machado <
cetico.iconoclasta at gmail.com> wrote:

> But monotheism is a later development. Polytheism precedes it by some
> thousands of years. And even anthropomorphic gods are a later development.
> The first gods were more abstract constructs like forces of nature and
> such.
>

I suspect that all "humankind" generalisations for the period including,
and subsequent to, the neolithic revolution depend on a lack of
perspective, that is, on an inclination to re-interpret the data according
to one's own biases and not to the relevant cultural context, so that even
the "god" concept is too easily applied to vastly different representations.

-- 
Stefano Vaj
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