That Ol’ Time Religion – Shamanism

… wasn’t much of a religion. At least, not by today’s standards. Religion has become incredibly strange in the hands of agricultural humanity.  It’s far removed from what is visible and far removed from nature. The primal ancient religion of humanity was basically a kind of nature worship, called animism, where everything was alive and [...]

Gobeckli Tepe: The Hunter Gatherer Temple in Eden

Some key links to the archaeology of Gobeckli Tepe, the Temple built in Eden by hunter gatherers, before the advent of agriculture: Do These Mysterious Stones Mark the Site of the Garden of Eden? Digging for History in Gobeckli Tepe, Turkey Gobekli: Your Questions Answered Wiki link to Gobeckli Tepe I don’t know how it [...]

Would You Build a Temple

… if you were a hunter gatherer? Hunter gatherers did, 13, 000 years ago in Turkey, the true cradle of human “civilization”, which is to say:  agriculturally based society. How funny and sad.  While it shows how hunter gatherers were more than capable of building the kind of edifices “civilization” is known for I have [...]