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CharlieZ · 70-79, M
Ok.
I may joke.
I may not be, I´m not at all, a religious fundamentalist.
But THIS one and others are metaphors, not descriptions, but symbolic examples of wisdom.
A man taking responsability and care for the weaker ones around when bad times come.
May be we all should also care about our Planet.
I may joke.
I may not be, I´m not at all, a religious fundamentalist.
But THIS one and others are metaphors, not descriptions, but symbolic examples of wisdom.
A man taking responsability and care for the weaker ones around when bad times come.
May be we all should also care about our Planet.
CharlieZ · 70-79, M
@Quizzical I´m not at all thinking on christianity.
And the Flood Myth is even older.
Documented as Sumerian, some thousands of years earlier, not only a hundred.
Again, I do not believe in the material description of the world from religious sources.
Everyone knows I don´t.
But I can still find in the symbolic history of our species some things to think about, regarding human behaviour.
This, of course, can´t be equated to replace a scientific worldview with myths.
And the Flood Myth is even older.
Documented as Sumerian, some thousands of years earlier, not only a hundred.
Again, I do not believe in the material description of the world from religious sources.
Everyone knows I don´t.
But I can still find in the symbolic history of our species some things to think about, regarding human behaviour.
This, of course, can´t be equated to replace a scientific worldview with myths.
CharlieZ · 70-79, M
@Quizzical Sumerian civilization was the first one that may be qualified as such.
Earlier by some millenia to any other (an alphabet, first written literature, first numbers, astronomy, some technology).
What makes frequently think them as being more recent is that a much later civilization, Babylonians, was placed in almost the same geographical área.
Earlier by some millenia to any other (an alphabet, first written literature, first numbers, astronomy, some technology).
What makes frequently think them as being more recent is that a much later civilization, Babylonians, was placed in almost the same geographical área.
CharlieZ · 70-79, M
@Quizzical Civilizations, sometimes, replace the earlier ones along time. And inherit, sometimes, part of their cultural stuff. Frequently in a distorted way, adapted to them and their times.
As an example, the "Babel Tower", atributed to Babylonyans, in fact was the zigurath (a kind of academic facility) of the Sumerian city of Uruk. A pair of thousand years before Babylonians.
As an example, the "Babel Tower", atributed to Babylonyans, in fact was the zigurath (a kind of academic facility) of the Sumerian city of Uruk. A pair of thousand years before Babylonians.