religious roots in- & output re: 9-3-'04
myDirootsofreligions
NOW
after all
it is more easy to see
how important the woman and man
of knowledge and experience,
the ones who knew about the blood sacrifice and the stars,
became in our early neolithic
world?
the fear
of uncleanness and pollution
and the methods of cleansing that were advisable
constituted another source of power for
the knowledgeable men
& women
for there have always been
witches as well as wizards and priestesses
as well as priests
the early priest
was really not so much a religious man
as a man of applied science
his science
was generally empirical
and often bad
he kept it secret
from the generality of men
very jealously
but that does not alter the fact
that his primary function
was knowledge
and that his primary use was
a practical use
more than
10,000 years ago
in all the warm and fairly well-watered parts
of the old world
these neolithic communities
with their class and tradition of priests and priestesses
and their cultivated fields
and their development of villages
and little walled cities
were spreading
age by age
a drift and exchange of ideas went on
between these communities
we could use the term
heliolithic culture
for the culture of these first agricultural peoples
'sun & stone'
is not perhaps the best possible word to use for this
but until scientific men
give us a better one
we can use it
originating
somewhere in the mediterranean and western asiatic area
it spread age by age eastward and from island to island
across the pacific until it may even have reached
america and mingled with the more primitive ways of living
of the mongoloid immigrants
coming down from
the north
wherever
the brownish people
with the heliolithic culture went
they took with them all or most of a certain group of
curious ideas and
practices
some of them
are such queer ideas
that they call for the explanation
of a mental
expert
they made pyramids
and great mounds and set up great circles of big stones
perhaps to facilitate the astronomical observation
of the priests
they made mummies of some or all of their dead
they tattooed and circumcised
they had the old custom
known as couvade
or sending the fatherto bed and rest
when a child was born
and they had as a luck symbol
the well-known and by now detested
swastika
if we were
to make a map of the world
with dots to show how far these grouped practices have left their traces
we should make a belt along the temperate and subtropical coasts
of the world from stonehenge and spain
across the world to mexico and
peru
but africa below the equator
north central europe and north asia
would show none of these dottings
there lived races who were developing along
practically independent lines
and even though 'worldculture' is spreading out almost everywhere today
we can still find remnants of such different attitudes
among some fiercely independent
peoples all around
the world
old &
young
bask irish
albanian hungarian
finish jewish berber nepalese tibetan japanese to name a few depending on which criteria we use as far a 'religion' language culture etcetera
are concerned?
and what about the remaining amazonian 'indian' tribes papuas and aboriginals pygmee & bushmen?
...
after all
doesn't every group and individual sometimes {?} like to distinguish
him- or herself from 'the rest'
we the dutch jewish black brown yellow red green blue and white?
we 'americans' 'wasp' & 'latin'
we 'christians' 'moslims'
africans asians
women &
men
dumb
& devious
stupid & clever
disgusting & holy
enemies and friends?
and what are we going to do about this once we start deciding about
who has power and who doesn't: in palace or prison
heaven or hell
well
I'm still at
the beginning
without the end being
in sight at all!?
OR
we'll see {or we won't}
I'm very curious &
longing for the
answers
NOW
after all
it is more easy to see
how important the woman and man
of knowledge and experience,
the ones who knew about the blood sacrifice and the stars,
became in our early neolithic
world?
the fear
of uncleanness and pollution
and the methods of cleansing that were advisable
constituted another source of power for
the knowledgeable men
& women
for there have always been
witches as well as wizards and priestesses
as well as priests
the early priest
was really not so much a religious man
as a man of applied science
his science
was generally empirical
and often bad
he kept it secret
from the generality of men
very jealously
but that does not alter the fact
that his primary function
was knowledge
and that his primary use was
a practical use
more than
10,000 years ago
in all the warm and fairly well-watered parts
of the old world
these neolithic communities
with their class and tradition of priests and priestesses
and their cultivated fields
and their development of villages
and little walled cities
were spreading
age by age
a drift and exchange of ideas went on
between these communities
we could use the term
heliolithic culture
for the culture of these first agricultural peoples
'sun & stone'
is not perhaps the best possible word to use for this
but until scientific men
give us a better one
we can use it
originating
somewhere in the mediterranean and western asiatic area
it spread age by age eastward and from island to island
across the pacific until it may even have reached
america and mingled with the more primitive ways of living
of the mongoloid immigrants
coming down from
the north
wherever
the brownish people
with the heliolithic culture went
they took with them all or most of a certain group of
curious ideas and
practices
some of them
are such queer ideas
that they call for the explanation
of a mental
expert
they made pyramids
and great mounds and set up great circles of big stones
perhaps to facilitate the astronomical observation
of the priests
they made mummies of some or all of their dead
they tattooed and circumcised
they had the old custom
known as couvade
or sending the fatherto bed and rest
when a child was born
and they had as a luck symbol
the well-known and by now detested
swastika
if we were
to make a map of the world
with dots to show how far these grouped practices have left their traces
we should make a belt along the temperate and subtropical coasts
of the world from stonehenge and spain
across the world to mexico and
peru
but africa below the equator
north central europe and north asia
would show none of these dottings
there lived races who were developing along
practically independent lines
and even though 'worldculture' is spreading out almost everywhere today
we can still find remnants of such different attitudes
among some fiercely independent
peoples all around
the world
old &
young
bask irish
albanian hungarian
finish jewish berber nepalese tibetan japanese to name a few depending on which criteria we use as far a 'religion' language culture etcetera
are concerned?
and what about the remaining amazonian 'indian' tribes papuas and aboriginals pygmee & bushmen?
...
after all
doesn't every group and individual sometimes {?} like to distinguish
him- or herself from 'the rest'
we the dutch jewish black brown yellow red green blue and white?
we 'americans' 'wasp' & 'latin'
we 'christians' 'moslims'
africans asians
women &
men
dumb
& devious
stupid & clever
disgusting & holy
enemies and friends?
and what are we going to do about this once we start deciding about
who has power and who doesn't: in palace or prison
heaven or hell
well
I'm still at
the beginning
without the end being
in sight at all!?
OR
we'll see {or we won't}
I'm very curious &
longing for the
answers
25 jun 2004 - bewerkt op 06 jan 2008
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