POLS 2600 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Middle Ages, Impermanence, Asita
18 Jan 2017
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Construct monuments, ensure their dead are buried, etc. Provides an ethical code to live by. Human spirituality has been influenced by several transformative factors, shaping it like waves shaping the sands at the beach. This is just one way of describing the changes that have occurred. Each wave piles on top, building rather than eliminating older ones. Not someone who is full time engrained in spiritual matters. Guy in the neighbourhood when you call on an as needed basis. Heals, using powers of good spirits against the diseases brought by the bad. Intuits the location of animals to be hunted: very important when the hunt is what determines the survival of the village. Conducts souls of dead to the other world . Neolithic era: build large ceremonial centers. Religious leaders who claim to speak on behalf of a god, goddess, spirit. New religions arise around the leadership and memory of a great prophet: abraham, zarathustra, so many others.
