RLG210Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Animism, Gnosis, Stone Age
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-> tools, language, hnting and gathering history and diffferent cultures are sources of showing things have been done in different ways, in diffeent imes and places. The more history you learn, you see your own history is quite peculiar. With the sstudy of reliigon, its iimportant to know how far we can go back to understand how releveant things are to us now starting point is the emergence of our species. 4 million years ago, astralopithecines hese thinsg stated o set off the revoulitionary homo sapiens emerged in africa and went out from there. Forces of nature are not just natural forces but are divine and sacred. We find ancestor cults treating heir dead as if hey are not gone and a part of the cult. We begin to see symbols where the group is devloping ists sacred imagery and revoling heir rituals aaround that. Prehistory is harder to figure out than history cause not enough maerials.
