(March 30, 2012 at 9:09 am)Rhythm Wrote: Human motivations are often sadly lacking in the archaeological record. "Ambition and intention do not fossilize well".
True that.
As far as I am aware, we can trace so much of the OT to Babylon and the sagas of Gilgamesh, stories from Zoroastrianism and Persia, Some inflections from Hindu culture.
Awww Fuck let's face it ...the Abrahamic cults are just a patchwork of previous cultures and superstitions from OTHER cultures at that time period and are certainly no "word of god"...... more like a fucking brain fart!
But I do like investigating primitive cultures and their deities trying to work out just WHERE they got their silly ideas from.
"The Universe is run by the complex interweaving of three elements: energy, matter, and enlightened self-interest." G'Kar-B5