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John R. Hale · 2009
Hale's archaeology-of-religion course — prehistoric, ancient Mediterranean, indigenous. Developmental-theology / religion-history cluster.
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What this book knows
Archaeology reveals that ancient religions across cultures share obsessions with death, cosmos, and sacred landscape encoded in durable stone and ritual.
mortality
From the obvious care taken with his burial, Ralph concluded that these were people of compassion — pollen of seven flowering plants woven into garlands around the tomb.
ERR-RC-011He was obsessed with the idea of his own immortality — all concubines who had not produced children were put in the tomb.
GC-ERR-RC-019faith-and-doubt
The Great Pyramid of Khufu is pierced by two angled shafts; cultural astronomers see these as channels aimed at specific stars.
ERR-RC-064Medieval chronicler Geoffrey of Monmouth wrote that Stonehenge was a place of healing — people poured water over the bluestones and were cured.
ERR-RC-066Worship of Isis, Mithras, and demonic forces flourished below Rome's streets — Christianity forced underground by imperial persecution rises alongside them.
GC-ERR-RC-066mind-and-cognition
I became obsessed with the vestiges of ancient peoples — ancient artifacts turning up during construction or gardening sparked a lifelong inquiry.
ERR-RC-008Illuminates
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