On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 10:06 AM, Srini RamaKrishnan <[email protected]>wrote:
> Temples weren't invented here or only here obviously, though this > became the land of temples. They go afaik much further back than > proto-Abrahamic - hard to find any standing so it's all debatable. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prehistoric_religion Stonehenge goes back to circa 2200 BCE. The precalssical Maya and the Olmec built religious structures around 1000 BCE (with no contact with any Old World religions for millennia). I think worshipping, celebrating, sacrificing as a group goes way way back, possibly to Neolithic or Stone Age times. What gave rise to temples built with more permanent materials whose remains remain, IMO, is the birth of agriculture, cities and a non-peripatetic existence. Thaths -- Homer: Hey, what does this job pay? Carl: Nuthin'. Homer: D'oh! Carl: Unless you're crooked. Homer: Woo-hoo!
