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To: Moominoid who wrote (23775)10/2/2002 11:15:39 AM
From: smolejv@gmx.net  Read Replies (2) of 74559
 
>> I would think that probably priests were appointed because people had too many other useful things to do like work in their fields. Specialisation of labor. << Religion / beliefs must have been already there before any specialisation of labor and/or social order came to being. If there was some sort of appointment, it was first of all some sort of ritual transition - into the group of elders / hunters / leaders / men (see bar mitzvah) bwdiw...

I am thinking about humans all the way back to paintings on the walls in Lascaux - or in AUS ("Then came the day when he was taken to the holy place the first time")

RegZ

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