3 Quotes Tagged: Mythology

Elsewhere Lankford reiterates that this belief system was by no means confined to the Plains, the Eastern Woodlands, and the Mississippi Valley. It is better understood, he argues, as part of 'a widespread religious pattern' found right across North America and 'more powerful than the tendency towards cultural diversity.' Indeed, what the evidence suggests is the former existence of 'an ancient North American international religion ... a common ethnoastronomy ... and a common mythology. Such a multicultural reality hints provocatively at more common knowledge which lay behind the façade of cultural diversity united by international trade networks. One likely possibility of a conceptual realm in which that common knowledge became focused is mortuary belief [and] ... the symbolism surrounding death.

Demon” means “knowledge” in Greek. “Science” means “knowledge” in Latin. A jurisdictional dispute is exposed, even if we look no further.

Connecting the great universal myths of cataclysm, is it possible that
such coincidences that cannot be coincidences, and accidents that cannot
be accidents, could denote the global influence of an ancient, though as
yet unidentified, guiding hand? If so, could it be that same hand, during
and after the last Ice Age, which drew the series of highly accurate and
technically advanced world maps reviewed in Part I? And might not that
same hand have left its ghostly fingerprints on another body of universal
myths? those concerning the death and resurrection of gods, and great
trees around which the earth and heavens turn, and whirlpools, and
churns, and drills, and other similar revolving, grinding contrivances?