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Divinity in the Paleolithic and axial age era
Human beings are diverse and the belief nature is deeply ingrained in our culture. Getting
to a street and randomly asking people why they are part of a particular belief system and where
it came from would get you different answers, some would be substandard hence dissatisfying
while others would be null. Being products of history and therefore evolution, it is important to
trace where human beings started interpreting nature and trying to find its place in it. The
Paleolithic age through the axial periods are well placed to help unearth this mystery. Today’s
society and religion are homogenous elements, it is very hard to take away one from the other.
Each religion on earth, at one point each religion is unique with diverse and definitive features
which makes it unique. Mostly, education systems will discuss religions, from as early as
kindergarten all the way up to college. Surprisingly, little effort is made in teaching the roots and
beginnings of such. In most instances, when discussing religion, the beginnings will be focused
on Judeo-Christian whose sources are derived from Egypt, ancient Rome, Greece and
Mesoamerica. It is important to understand that these religious concepts were not an overnight
thing and that they developed along while ago, refined to what it is today. As a result therefore,
, we are able to define religion as a “a set of beliefs based on a unique vision of how the world
ought to be, often revealed through insights into a supernatural power and lived out through the
community”
Paleolithic era
Initial incidences of divinity and where human beings started developing belief systems is
first documented during the Middle Paleolithic period. These ideas would evolve through the
upper Paleolithic period into the axial age to what it is today. The Paleolithic period recorded the
first incidence of religious practices. History researchers find this time hard due to lack of record
keeping or writings for the purposes of studying. However, it is during this period that modern
human being’s ancestors, relatives and forefathers started burying their dead. This act indicated a
belief in afterlife. Neanderthals, who are also considered relatives to modern day human beings
and also homo heidelbergensis have been documented to be one of the first early human being
species to have safely been disposing off their dead. In addition to this, at pontnewydd, it was
discovered that the Neanderthals had intentionally placed their dead, in a process known as
funerary caching.
In the middle Paleolithic period, the early man began burying their dead while leaving
material goods by their graveside. Strayer and Nelson (19) document that “corpses were buried
with stone tools and parts of animal, laid in holes in the ground and sometimes the corpses were
especially protected” In the upper Paleolithic period though, the goods increased in quantity and
value. However, it is hard to decode whether this was due to spiritual or religious shifts or it was
due to how things had changed. Moreover, such grave goods placed would also be used to
suggest the economic might or the social status of the deceased.
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Divinity in the Paleolithic and axial age era
Human beings are diverse and the belief nature is deeply ingrained in our culture. Getting
to a street and randomly asking people why they are part of a particular belief system and where
it came from would get you different answers, some would be substandard hence dissatisfying
while others would be null. Being products of history and therefore evolution, it is important to
trace where human beings started interpreting nature and trying to find its place in it. The
Paleolithic age through the axial periods are well placed to help unearth this mystery. Today’s
society and religion are homogenous elements, it is very hard to take away one from the other.
Each religion on earth, at one point each religion is unique with diverse and definitive features
which makes it unique. Mostly, education systems will discuss religions, from as early as
kindergarten all the way up to college. Surprisingly, little effort is made in teaching the roots and
beginnings of such. In most instances, when discussing religion, the beginnings will be focused
on Judeo-Christian whose sources are derived from Egypt, ancient Rome, Greece and
Mesoamerica. It is important to understand that these religious concepts were not an overnight
thing and that they developed along while ago, refined to what it is today. As a result therefore,
, we are able to define religion as a “a set of beliefs based on a unique vision of how the world
ought to be, often revealed through insights into a supernatural power and lived out through the
community”
Paleolithic era
Initial incidences of divinity and where human beings started developing belief systems is
first documented during the Middle Paleolithic period. These ideas would evolve through the
upper Paleolithic period into the axial age to what it is today. The Paleolithic period recorded the
first incidence of religious practices. History researchers find this time hard due to lack of record
keeping or writings for the purposes of studying. However, it is during this period that modern
human being’s ancestors, relatives and forefathers started burying their dead. This act indicated a
belief in afterlife. Neanderthals, who are also considered relatives to modern day human beings
and also homo heidelbergensis have been documented to be one of the first early human being
species to have safely been disposing off their dead. In addition to this, at pontnewydd, it was
discovered that the Neanderthals had intentionally placed their dead, in a process known as
funerary caching.
In the middle Paleolithic period, the early man began burying their dead while leaving
material goods by their graveside. Strayer and Nelson (19) document that “corpses were buried
with stone tools and parts of animal, laid in holes in the ground and sometimes the corpses were
especially protected” In the upper Paleolithic period though, the goods increased in quantity and
value. However, it is hard to decode whether this was due to spiritual or religious shifts or it was
due to how things had changed. Moreover, such grave goods placed would also be used to
suggest the economic might or the social status of the deceased.
