Many of you I’m sure
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Have heard the saying that
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Mythology is other people’s religions
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Now I am going to ask you
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To put yourself in other people’s shoes
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And have a look at your own
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As mythology
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As mythology
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What is this mystery?
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That makes the
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Human species bow
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Before some sign of mystery?
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What is this mystery?
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That makes the
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Human species bow
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Before some sign of mystery?
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Nietzsche
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Has said;
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«This is the age of comparisons.»
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It works on all levels
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And in the realm of
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What I’m calling «mythology», which many people call «religions»
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There are cross-influences
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Operating today
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That would have been thought
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Impossible
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A hundred years ago
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Furthermore, it is good to recall
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To remember
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That our cultures
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And our races
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Are very, very late arrivals
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In the history of the human species
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And we already have
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Very interesting
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Evidence
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Of religious, or mythological practices
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In races long antedating
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Ours
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For instance
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In the high Alps
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There were discovered in the (19)20s
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In
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Very small caves
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Right below
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The ice level of the glaciers
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Little shrines
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Containing the skulls of cave bears
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Now during the course of the last glaciation, the Würmglacial period
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Those caves were covered with ice
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No one could have gone there
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And after The time of that glaciation, there were no cave bears in the world
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So these little shrines
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With these cave bear skulls
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And little fires
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And
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Little
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Instruments of
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Showing that there had been worship practice there
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Date from 200,000 years ago
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200,000 years ago
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What is this mystery?
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That makes the
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Human species bow
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Before some sign of mystery?
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What is this mystery?
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That makes the
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Human species bow
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Before some sign of mystery?
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What is this mystery?
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What is this mystery?
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Each of us
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Has been brought up
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In some tradition
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That has its imagery
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Of that mystery
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But the point I want to
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Start out with
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Is that in the human heart
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And in the human mind
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No matter what
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The race
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The culture
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The language
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The tradition
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There is this
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Sense
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Or at least the possibility of experiencing the sense
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Of a mystery
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And an awesome mystery
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And a very
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Terrifying mystery
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Inhabiting the whole
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Universe
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The very
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Mystery
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Of being
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Itself
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And here in these very early little signs
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These very early shrines
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We have the evidence
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Of man 200,000 years ago
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Bowing
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And asking for something
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And devoting themselves to something
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In this way of religion which we continue
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To know
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In this aspect
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That inflection
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And that other
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Throughout the world today
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What is this mystery?
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That makes the
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Human species bow
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Before some sign of mystery?
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What is this mystery?
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That makes the
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Human species bow
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Before some sign of mystery?
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What is this mystery?
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That makes the
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Human species bow
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Before some sign of mystery?
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What is this mystery?
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That makes the
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Human species bow
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Before some sign of mystery?
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What is this mystery?
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What is this mystery? |