(August 13, 2023 at 11:48 am)Anomalocaris Wrote:(August 13, 2023 at 6:24 am)Boromir Wrote: In the language of the ancient Greeks, there was no word that denoted religion.
which seems quite natural for the general bronze age and early to middle iron age religious landscape on euroasia, prior to the widespread knowledge of the odd exclusionary sects like Judaism and later christianity, if you think about it.
religion was not seen as a separate thing with distinctive manifestations from other phenomenons observed in all parts of life, furthermore different people’s religionious practices are not seen as mutually contradictory or exclusive, they are all seen as grading into eachother, and grading into other phenomenon in life, so there is no such separate and distinct thing as religion.
It actually seems pretty odd, given that impiety was a crime. There was no word for ‘religion’ (in the modern sense), but being irreligious (again, in the modern sense) could get one into tonnes of trouble with the state.
Boru
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