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... cities participated in these feats of power , these wonders of art , daily witnessing a life that was entirely beyond the reach of the humble peasant or herdsman . Even for the distant villager these monumental struc- tures served as ...
... cities participated in these feats of power , these wonders of art , daily witnessing a life that was entirely beyond the reach of the humble peasant or herdsman . Even for the distant villager these monumental struc- tures served as ...
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... cities The steadfast house the pickaxe builds ... The house which rebels against the king , The house which is not submissive to its king , The pickaxe makes it submissive to its king . Once the cult of kingship became firmly ...
... cities The steadfast house the pickaxe builds ... The house which rebels against the king , The house which is not submissive to its king , The pickaxe makes it submissive to its king . Once the cult of kingship became firmly ...
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... cities en- joyed privileges and exemptions with respect to the king and his power . . . . In principle , the inhabitants of the ' free cities ' claimed with more or less success , depending upon the political situation , freedom from ...
... cities en- joyed privileges and exemptions with respect to the king and his power . . . . In principle , the inhabitants of the ' free cities ' claimed with more or less success , depending upon the political situation , freedom from ...
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PROLOGUE | 3 |
THE MINDFULNESS OF MAN | 14 |
IN THE DREAMTIME LONG AGO | 48 |
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abstract achieved activities agriculture ancient animal anxiety Aurignacian became beginning Bertrand Gille brain Bronze Age bureaucracy Çatal Hüyük cave cave paintings century cities civilization collective command complex consciousness creature cultivation daily destruction divine domestication dream earliest economic effective effort Egypt Egyptian environment established esthetic evidence existence fact functions gods human machine hunter hunting images institution interpretation king kingship Kurt Goldstein labor language later Lower Egypt Magdalenian magic Marduk means megamachine ment merely mesolithic Mesopotamia military mind mode modern myth nature neolithic Oakes Ames observation once operations organization original paleolithic performed physical plants play possible practice primitive production pyramid of Djoser rational religion ritual sacred sacrifice Sargon of Akkad sexual significant social speech stone Sumer Sumerian survival symbolic technical thousand tion took tool-making traits turn village watermill weapons whole words York