[MD] Distinguishing Levels

[David M]

Hi DMB

do you not see any intellect involved in the creation of these
myths/rituals? Where do they come from prior to becoming
repeated?

DM


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From: "david buchanan" <dmbuchanan at hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [MD] Distinguishing Levels


>
>
>
> 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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