<div class="gmail_quote">2012/1/13 Will Steinberg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:steinberg.will@gmail.com">steinberg.will@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Well, what do we know? The most popular world religions believe in a utopian past where humans and god were in direct contact. </blockquote><div><br>I am inclined to believe that this is a monotheism-polluted view. In hinduism or European paganism "gods" are the epithomes, and the memory, of "founding heroes". <br>
<br>Even as late as the Roman empire late emperors were considered to have achieved a post-mortem "divine" status owing to their period in office. :-)<br></div></div><br>-- <br>Stefano Vaj<br>