It’s not the: “How was it done” but the more intriguing and viscerally tied to us as humans… “What is the reason we did these things?” What were our ancestors trying to say? What message did they want to travel through time? What can we learn from it all today?
Ancient Egypt has long been known of. Plato’s writings of Solon’s visits there, Alexander the Great, even Leonardo da Vinci may have visited Egypt. Our understanding of an ancient civilisation in Egypt has been growing for a long time. The experts told us of evidence of civilizations there dating back to around 4000 BCE… (And emerging evidence suggests this could be out by a factor of 10).
The Sumerian Civilization (Mesopotamia) was discovered in the 1800’s… a civilisation with significant urban development, known for the earliest writing system (cuneiform), city-states, advancements in mathematics, irrigation, not to mention monumental architecture. Suma is also dated around the 4th millennium BCE.
Then, in the early 20th century the ‘Illustrated London News’ announced the discovery of the Indus Valley civilization… an ancient civilizations flourishing in the Indus River Valley (modern-day northwest India and Pakistan) from around 3300 BCE… with evidence of settlements from 7000 BCE. The Indus Valley civilization is known for its well-planned cities, advanced sanitation systems, large public bathing complexes, agriculture, trade networks, unique seals and scripts (with writings that have still yet to be deciphered)…
Then things got older, in the 1980’s extensive research began on a site, which although discovered in the 1960’s it hadn’t been thoroughly explored before… the date was now pushed back to 7000 BCE for the ancient civilisation of the Jiahu Culture in China.
And, also discovered in the 1960’s but not really explored until the 1990’s, GÖbekli Tepe came along… now the date moves all the way back to 10,200 BCE. With he sister site Karahan Tepe discovered in 1997 and dated at around 11,400 BCE.
We can go back further in time… ancient art was 17,000 BCE with the Lascaux cave paintings, then the Siberian cave of a 40,000-year old piece of art and recently possibly over 50,000-year-old painting in Leang Karampuang cave on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi.
Before all of this Anamistic practices appeared tens of thousands of years ago… everything has an essence, a spirit. Later Animistic practices became the basis for Shmanic systems. Then the Gods appear…
Religion builds up around the appearance of the Gods. Polytheistic at first, later becoming Henotheistic (picking one from many to worship, acknowledging the others) and monotheistic (only one God) in some areas… while Shamanistic practices continue to be a path for many people still today. We can go all the way back to:
The Pre-linguistic Mind, 200,000 years into the past… And the Animistic Fire Gazing Meditation
Fire gazing meditations played a pivotal role in shaping human cognition. Strengthening neural-pathways associated with Working Memory and symbolic thinking… this cognitive leap may have paved the way for the development of language and complex thought processes.
Throughout history and across cultures the human experience has been searching for new ways to understand this thing we call reality…
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