[MD] Distinguishing Levels

[david buchanan]

Lila, chapter 30:
"...anthropological studies of contemporary primitive tribes suggest that 
stone
age people were probably bound by ritual all day long. There's a ritual for
washing, for putting up a house, for hunting, for eating and so on - so much
that the division between "ritual" and "knowledge" becomes indistinct. In
cultures without books ritual seems to be a public library for teaching the
young and preserving common values and information.

These rituals may be the connecting link between the social and the
intellectual levels of evolution. One can imagine primitive song-rituals and
dance-rituals associated with certain cosmology stories, myths, which
generated the first primitive religions. From these the first intellectual 
truths
could have been derived."

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