RLG100Y1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Rigveda, Lotus Sutra, Common Era
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The stonehenge we know is what remains of a structure erected 3,500 to 4,000 years ago. But the site has already been used as a burial ground for centuries before that. These concepts are so old and so widespread that no one can say where or when they irst emerged. Historically humans around the world have imagined the world to consist of three levels: sky, earth and underworld. The uppermost level the sky, has typically been considered the home of the greatest deiies. Exactly to understand how this concept developed is impossible to understand. But can guess that the power of storms was one contribuing factor. The apparent movement of sun, stars and the planet across the sky was another. Varying paterns could well have led to early humans to believe that heavenly bodies were living eniies animated by individual spirts- in efect god, goddesses.
