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<blockquote data-quote="Sepulchrave II" data-source="post: 9548563" data-attributes="member: 4303"><p>I think that this is an interesting question, but not one which is necessarily very easy to answer as I think there are lots of equally plausible solutions.</p><p></p><p>I would begin by examining the phenomena which humans encounter which can be said to be truly universal. These would include</p><ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Birth</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Death</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Sex</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">The sky (it’s up there)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">The earth (it’s under your feet)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">The Sun, Moon, planets and stars</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">The weather</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Hunting animals to eat</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Fire</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Darkness/the night</li> </ol><p>To this, you might add other environmental phenomena (the sea, mountains, desert, forest etc.) but these won’t be universal, and will be particular to a given geographical situation.</p><p></p><p>You’ve already run into problems because there is a certain desire to syncretize some of these phenomena, and the way in which they should be syncretized will be dependent on the particular stressors which apply in any given culture and environment. E.g. is it more reasonable to combine moon with birth, or with hunting animals?</p><p></p><p>Regardless, we would expect deities which embody or represent these phenomena to be the most universal or primal.</p><p></p><p>Assuming that humans adopt nomadic pastoralism and agriculture, and finally urban civilization, you wouldn’t be surprised to later encounter:</p><ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Deities which embody farming, wine, guarding herds or flocks, the hearth, fertility, war, social institutions such as marriage etc.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Deities which represent the arts, literature, commerce, other things associated with civilizational advances. Civilization itself.</li> </ol><p>The problem is that by the time you’ve reached this point, any number of plausible syncretisms between the layers of various phenomena are available.</p><p></p><p>So I guess the answer to your question is: I can’t.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sepulchrave II, post: 9548563, member: 4303"] I think that this is an interesting question, but not one which is necessarily very easy to answer as I think there are lots of equally plausible solutions. I would begin by examining the phenomena which humans encounter which can be said to be truly universal. These would include [LIST=1] [*]Birth [*]Death [*]Sex [*]The sky (it’s up there) [*]The earth (it’s under your feet) [*]The Sun, Moon, planets and stars [*]The weather [*]Hunting animals to eat [*]Fire [*]Darkness/the night [/LIST] To this, you might add other environmental phenomena (the sea, mountains, desert, forest etc.) but these won’t be universal, and will be particular to a given geographical situation. You’ve already run into problems because there is a certain desire to syncretize some of these phenomena, and the way in which they should be syncretized will be dependent on the particular stressors which apply in any given culture and environment. E.g. is it more reasonable to combine moon with birth, or with hunting animals? Regardless, we would expect deities which embody or represent these phenomena to be the most universal or primal. Assuming that humans adopt nomadic pastoralism and agriculture, and finally urban civilization, you wouldn’t be surprised to later encounter: [LIST=1] [*]Deities which embody farming, wine, guarding herds or flocks, the hearth, fertility, war, social institutions such as marriage etc. [*]Deities which represent the arts, literature, commerce, other things associated with civilizational advances. Civilization itself. [/LIST] The problem is that by the time you’ve reached this point, any number of plausible syncretisms between the layers of various phenomena are available. So I guess the answer to your question is: I can’t. [/QUOTE]
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