D: religion . continuesindifferentformsre:7-3-'04

WE
were entering
upon {another} new phase
in human culture!

neolithic
new stone age
as distinguished from
palaeolithic
old stone ...

cro-magnards
grimaldi-people
azilians and 'neanderthal'
and their like?

SLOWLY
these 'neolithic' people
spread over the warmer parts of the world
and the arts they had mastered
the plants and animals they had learned to use
spread by imitation and acquisition even more widely
than they did?

NOW
the ploughing of land
the sowing of seed
the reaping of harvest
threshing and grinding
may seem the most obviously reasonable steps to a 'modern' mind
just as to a modern mind it is commonplace
that the world
is round!

"What else could you do?"
people will ask
"What else can it be?"

BUT
to primitive man
of 20,000 years ago
{or even now?!}
neither of the systems of action and reasoning that seem so sure and manifest to {most of us!?} today
was at all obvious

he {& shi}
felt his {& her} way
to effectual practice
thru a multitude of trials and misconceptions
with fantastic and unnecessary elaborations and false interpretations
at every turn

SOMEWHERE
in the mediterranean region
wheat grew wild
and man may have learned to pound and then grind up its seeds for food
long before we learned
to sow?

WE REAPED
BEFORE WE SOWED
{just as we do still
now
in
myDi?}




AND
it is a very remarkable
thing that throughout the world
wherever there is sowing and harvesting there is still traceable the vestiges of a strong primitive association of the idea of sowing
with the idea of a blood sacrifice
of a human being?

the study
of the original entanglement of these two things
is a profoundly attractive one
to the curious
myDi-mind?

IT WAS
an entanglement
we must remember
in the childish dreaming mythmaking primitive mind
no reasoned process will
explain it

BUT
in that world
of more than 10,000 years ago
it would seem that whenever seedtime came round
to the neaolithic peoples
there was a human
sacrifice

AND
it was not
the sacrifice of just any mean or outcast person
it was the sacrifice usually of a chosen youth or maiden {!}
a youth more often who was treated with profound deference
and even worship up to the moment of his or her
immolation

HE/SHI
was a sort of sacrificial god/king/goddess/queen
and all the details of his/her killing had become a ritual directed by the old
knowing men/women and sanctioned by the accumulated
usage of ages

AT FIRST
primitive men
with only a very rough idea of the reasons
must have found great difficulty in determining
when was the propitious moment for the seedtime sacrifice
and the sowing

there is some reason
for supposing that there was an early stage in human experience
when men had absolutely no idea at all
of a year

the first chronology was in lunar months
it is supposed that the years of the biblical patriarchs are really moons
and the babylonian calendar shows distinct traces
of an attempt to reckon seedtime by taking thirteen {!} lunar months
ti see it round

this lunar {female?}
influence upon the calendar reaches down to
our own days

IF USAGE
did not dull our own sense of its strangeness
we should think it a very remarkable thing indeed that the christian church
does not commemorate the crucifixion and resurrection of christ
on the proper anniversaries but on dates that vary
year by year with the phases
of the moon

IT MAY BE
doubted whether the first agriculturists made any observation
of the stars?

IT IS
more likely that stars were first observed by migratory herdsmen
who found them a convenient mark
of direction!

BUT
once their use in determining seasons was realised
their importance to agriculture became
very great

the seedtime sacrifice
was linked up with the southing or northing
of some prominent star

a myth
and worship
of that star was for primitive man
an almost inevitable
consequence

liefdesverdrietgemeenverwardgaap!bah!nahnahverdrietigcool!erg vrolijkknipoogvrolijkverliefdvrolijkknipoogerg vrolijkcool!verdrietignahnahbah!gaap!verwardgemeenliefdesverdriet

{so maybe tomorrow
(friday the 25th of june 2004)
it will become more easy to see the utter importance of all those misty years of our own
ancestors?}
{I took my anti-hunger capsule &
anti-biotics and
have to eat & drink & rest now:
just another piece of magic
and make-believe,
knowledge &
practical use
...?!}
engel
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