RLGB10 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Medicine Man, Vedas, Hidden Places
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Romans celebrated the winter solstice in december as an annual rebirth of the sun (saturnalia) Christmas was combined of roman midwinter festival (feasting, giftgiving, and general merriment) with mix of celebration of the coming to earth of a deity incarnate. Many concepts shared with all religions: powerful gods, sacred places, a life of some kind of after death. Humans believed that our world consists of three levels: sky. Considered the home of the greatest deities. Observing the varying patterns of the sun, star etc could have led humans to believe that the heavenly bodies were living entities (gods, goddesses) Higher deities in the sky were named sky father, creator, or king of heaven (this deity was the main belief of a monotheistic religions) the belief of one god only: earth. Intermediate level where humans lived: underworld. Mostly spirits of serpents etc lived in the underworld.
