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... less than the truth , the whole truth , and nothing but the truth . If the only clue to Shakespeare's achievement as a dramatist were his cradle , an Elizabethan mug , his lower jaw , and a few rotted planks from the Globe Theatre , one ...
... less than the truth , the whole truth , and nothing but the truth . If the only clue to Shakespeare's achievement as a dramatist were his cradle , an Elizabethan mug , his lower jaw , and a few rotted planks from the Globe Theatre , one ...
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... less we see that colossal change against the millennial background of the sacred rituals . 6 : RITUAL , TABOO , MORALS From what I have just set forth , it follows that , though the discipline of ritual played an important , indeed ...
... less we see that colossal change against the millennial background of the sacred rituals . 6 : RITUAL , TABOO , MORALS From what I have just set forth , it follows that , though the discipline of ritual played an important , indeed ...
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... less cultivated but perhaps more fully human , was content to visit the most fiendish tortures upon himself ; and some of these mutilations turned out to be far from futile . What incited man to operate on his own body is hard to fathom ...
... less cultivated but perhaps more fully human , was content to visit the most fiendish tortures upon himself ; and some of these mutilations turned out to be far from futile . What incited man to operate on his own body is hard to fathom ...
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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