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... command might often suffice for present purposes , only a comprehensive language structure can recall the past , anticipate the future , or embrace the invisible and the distant . A general improvement in symbolic thinking was what ...
... command might often suffice for present purposes , only a comprehensive language structure can recall the past , anticipate the future , or embrace the invisible and the distant . A general improvement in symbolic thinking was what ...
Page 171
... command , on one hand , and priestly access to astronomical lore and divine guidance . In simpler societies these offices were long represented separately in a war chief and a peace chief . In both cases the magical attributes of ...
... command , on one hand , and priestly access to astronomical lore and divine guidance . In simpler societies these offices were long represented separately in a war chief and a peace chief . In both cases the magical attributes of ...
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... command of Anu , cannot be altered . The King's word is right ; his utterances , like that of a god , cannot be ... commands . The scattered villages took their orders from the control centers . On earth , only one who was appointed by ...
... command of Anu , cannot be altered . The King's word is right ; his utterances , like that of a god , cannot be ... commands . The scattered villages took their orders from the control centers . On earth , only one who was appointed by ...
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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