I love art, science, mathematics, the universe, the extraordinary, ancient lost cultures, and I love mythology that ancient cultures possessed.
Before today's most common monotheistic religions existed, man believed in the sun, the stars, spirits, demons, and had various gods. Every culture today has its own ancient mythology. Today these mythologies live only in books and are almost forgotten legends. Many mythologies of the different cultures often even resemble each other or have similarities. Over the years I have come to the conclusion that there is more to mythologies and legends than one thinks.
I'm talking about the beginnings of humanity, when man moved across steppes in tribes. Thousands of years back. Or the ancient mythologies of the Greek, the Scandinavian, the Germanic, the natives of america, middle Asia, Indian etc.
As an example, Native Americans have symbols that are also used by Natives from Australia. They even have the same meanings. The same can be found in words. Natives of South America have a linguistic affinity with tribes from the Ural and Altai areas in Russia. How does this come about? This kinship, which is overflowing continents? Kilometers and miles away people used similar or the same words, symbols and had also partly the same rituals and traditions.
What connected them all? Was there a primeval culture from where everything spread? But one wonders again how these primeval men, who had hardly developed real shipping, could cross the oceans? In the best case these former humans had been fishing and had small boats.
Science can't really explain it. There are many approaches and theories, but they are only theories and attempts at explanation. In reality nobody knows how to explain it. It is since years an unanswered question and it remains a mystery.
If one grows up with the religions of today and is not open for new things, then the whole, what was before the religions, will not interest one any further or will not notice it at all - the person will not ask what was before. Because religion says that the earth and everything that exists is only 6000 years old. Is that really true?
I for myself believe in a God. To no god who sits on top of a cloud and watches us humans on earth. No, for me there is no person or entity. For me God is the life, the energy, the spirit, the universe, all this together, all this working indescribably.
If you ask a religious person about God today, his religion will be equated with God. One will very quickly realize that his religion has been burned into his brain for years. So you can't accuse this person for believing in a religion and because he is hardly holding on his believes.
Religions also set boundaries. They forbid you to explore the unknown. Everything that religions do not understand, they set with the devil equal. Anything that does not fit into the world view of religions is demonized and propagated as evil.
This also happened to all things that existed before the religions. Religions destroyed whole cultures, only so that one religion could prevail. Tradition and knowledge were thereby lost. As an example one can take the library of Alexadria in the old Egypt. The knowledge of the old world was burned and destroyed because of religious intentions. Or a few years ago fanatical Islamists in northern Iraq and Syria destroyed ancient Sumerian and Babylonian palaces and temples and all the konwlegde in it, because they thought it was evil.
There are countless such deeds.... unfortunately...
Just as the religions in the Middle Ages called science and medicine as magic and so as devil's work. People were hunted, burned and hanged.
And so people were forced to believe in a religion. Whoever believed in something else was either an outsider or was executed. This happened with the Christian Crusades and Islamization in the Middle East. Before that people were free in their believes and free in their doing.
I definitely don't want to attack anybody in his believes and religions and i definaly dont want to attack any religion. Please dont misunderstand me. At the core all religions preach love and peace. But unfortunately it is exploited for the bad. This things happened in the past and happen still today, in a time where we think we are civilized. Nothing has changed...
And of course, before the religions exists and ruled the world, people were also hunted because they didn't believe in the sun god or moon god and there were human sacrifices etc.. I don't want to speak the one well and the other badly. I just want to show that people are only free when they are free in their believes.
Today more people believe in religions. In former times it was different. Earlier people believed in different things, in spirits, in demons, in the sun and they were free. Free in their minds. They could think about everything. They were more open to things, that they didnt know.
And perhaps they had knowledge from a past world that we now regard as fairy tales.
But what if these stories and legends are not inventions at all, but became partly mythological? What if all these stories have a core of truth?
