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... King's word is right ; his utterances , like that of a god , cannot be changed . " These words resound with sickening familiarity in our present totalitarian states , whether ' democratic ' or ' communist . ' This dictum - the first ...
... King's word is right ; his utterances , like that of a god , cannot be changed . " These words resound with sickening familiarity in our present totalitarian states , whether ' democratic ' or ' communist . ' This dictum - the first ...
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... king who gave forth the original commands : the king who demanded absolute conformity and who punished even trivial disobedience . It was the king who alone had the godlike power of turning men into mechanical objects and assembling ...
... king who gave forth the original commands : the king who demanded absolute conformity and who punished even trivial disobedience . It was the king who alone had the godlike power of turning men into mechanical objects and assembling ...
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... king might also share this hope for immortality . In the Sumerian deluge myth Ziusudra , the king ( Noah's counterpart ) , is rewarded by the gods An and Enlil , not by a symbolic rainbow , but by being given eternal " life like a god ...
... king might also share this hope for immortality . In the Sumerian deluge myth Ziusudra , the king ( Noah's counterpart ) , is rewarded by the gods An and Enlil , not by a symbolic rainbow , but by being given eternal " life like a god ...
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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