RE: The dawn of civilization
December 13, 2018 at 12:56 pm
(This post was last modified: December 13, 2018 at 1:01 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
It's hard to overstate the place of supplication for people who had very little control over so much as the daily circumstances of their lives. Whether a person prays to a god or asks the rain to fall the success rate is the same, and the same as it is now..but it doesn't hurt to ask and it may at least comfort the afflicted.
It's entirely unlikely that the earliest forms of supernatural observance had much in the way of negative connotation that they do now..for simple lack of a context. For example, we can see that a trend of ethnocentrism cropped up by the early ancient era....but proto agriculturalists would likely have had no Other with which to compare themselves. They may have considered themselves The People, and perhaps even The Chosen People (by sheer virtue of their existence, lol)....but it would take contact and conflict with others to contextualize both of those relatively innocuous beginnings into religious xenophobia.
It's entirely unlikely that the earliest forms of supernatural observance had much in the way of negative connotation that they do now..for simple lack of a context. For example, we can see that a trend of ethnocentrism cropped up by the early ancient era....but proto agriculturalists would likely have had no Other with which to compare themselves. They may have considered themselves The People, and perhaps even The Chosen People (by sheer virtue of their existence, lol)....but it would take contact and conflict with others to contextualize both of those relatively innocuous beginnings into religious xenophobia.
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