(August 4, 2015 at 12:21 pm)Aoi Magi Wrote: Paleolithic humans too had leaders, something like shamans who invented the said spirits because having a powerful entity at your back with whom only you could communicate would put you at a superior pedestal compared to the rest of the "normal" folk in your...group!
I'm not saying that paleolithic tribes of humans didn't have leaders, I'm making the point that the evolution of human civilization/politics and the structuring of the pantheons of gods over time seem to mirror each other.
Yes, some paleolithic groups had shamans, but those groups did not (usually) worship that shaman as the god. Nor did they seem to worship their leader as a god. Worshiping rulers or leaders as gods or creating gods that acted as cosmic rulers seems to have arisen along with the hierarchic structure of ruler/ruled had developed among human populations.
Teenaged X-Files obsession + Bermuda Triangle episode + Self-led school research project = Atheist.
