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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (136)	7/27/2000 1:30:27 PM
From: Druss	Respond to of 28931

Karen--My favorite books or Joseph Campbell are Occidental Mythology, Primitive Mythology and Power of Myth. Power of Myth is a series of interviews he did with Bill Moyers. I happened to catch the interviews on TV when aired and was really impressed with him. In primitive cultures much is explained by gods and spirits. And they are very real to them with constant evidence of their existence. People die with no wounds on them, just sicken and go, droughts, floods, lightning, and an infinite number of very powerful natural occurances. Primitives always look for ways to placate such power or to even claim to control it. When you don't have much beyond a spear, mate, and kids you start hacking body parts I guess. The Mayan ritual that was mentioned by another poster is another example of ritualized mutilation of the genitals. The king and queen set the example. They would drag a thorny vine though the penis or tongue (in the Queen's case). Part of the reasoning seems to have been to generate a large outpouring of blood, a very bloody minded religion. Their gods were always demanding hearts and blood, royal blood was just a powerful offering to add to the mix. All the Best Druss