“Hunting Cult” (Cosmic Hunt) becomes “Herding Cult” Paganism in the Middle...
Damien Marie AtHope’s Art ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref “Hunting Cult” (Cosmic Hunt) becomes “Herding Cult” Paganism “Herding societies are nearly...
View ArticleBear Cults, Bear Worship, Bear Sacrifice, and the Cosmic Hunt
Damien Marie AtHope’s Art ref, ref, ref Cave Bear Hunting by Neanderthals 50,000 years ago 50,000 years ago, at least, Neanderthals were hunting the “now-extinct” and ferocious cave bears (weighing...
View ArticleLightning Bolts and Thunderbolts Associated in Religion and Deities
Damien Marie AtHope’s Art ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref “Proto-Indo-European mythology is the myths and deities associated with speakers of the...
View ArticleJebel Barkal in Sudan/Kush ancient Nubia, the Mound of Creation, and the...
Damien Marie AtHope’s Art ref, ref, ref, ref, ref Jebel Barkal “Jebel Barkal or Gebel Barkal is a mesa or large rock outcrop located 400 km north of Khartoum, next to Karima in Northern State in...
View ArticleSiberia as the Origin and Migration place of “Light Skin” genes SLC24A5 and...
Damien Marie AtHope’s Art ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref Two genes, SLC24A5 and SLC45A2, are most associated with lighter...
View ArticleAnimals and Religion: Challenging the Idea of Religious Faith in Animals?
Damien Marie AtHope’s Art ref, ref, ref Baboons greeting the sun: Hedjwer, the ancient baboon sun god Hedjwer was the earliest Egyptian baboon sun god, dating back to the early Dynastic period in...
View ArticleEarliest Colonization of Europe: Aurignacian and Gravettian cultures, both...
Damien Marie AtHope’s Art ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref I received this message, and it inspired this blog post: “Hello Damien, I’m a Spanish follower of yours. I discovered your...
View ArticleReincarnation/Rebirth in Indigenous Religions (Siberia, Americas, and...
Damien Marie AtHope’s Art ref, ref, ref, ref, ref Siberian/East Asian and North American Afterlife Beliefs, Mortuary Rituals, and Psychopomp Motifs, especially involving the Milky Way, Path of Souls...
View ArticleCosmic Hunt mythology motif of Northern Eurasia and the Americas yet absent...
Damien Marie AtHope’s Art ref, ref, ref ref “Petroglyphs of Lake Onega and the White Sea in Russia, Republic of Karelia. The World Heritage Site comprises 33 petroglyph sites in two clusters. The rock...
View ArticleBurial evidence of Neanderthals and Homo sapiens sharing culture between...
Damien Marie AtHope’s Art ref I have been guessing, from the available evidence, for years, that Neanderthals and Homo sapiens shared culture/burial/religion and that it likely happened between...
View ArticleArchaeologist and Anthropologist Joseph A P Wilson addresses “Nazi”...
Joseph Wilson, Department of Classics Lecturer at the University of Massachusetts Amherst: Link Joseph Wilson, researchgate.net/profile: Link Joseph Wilson, Twitter/X: @JosephAPWilson1 Joseph A P...
View ArticleChampioning Anarcho-Humanism and addressing its Enemies: Anarcho-Nihilism and...
Damien Marie AtHope’s Art Damien Marie AtHope’s Art Damien Marie AtHope’s Art Anarchism “Anarchists may be motivated by humanism, enlightened self-interest, or any number of alternative ethical...
View ArticleTAIRID (Time And Information Relative In Dimensions) theory by BumblingBard42
BumblingBard42: @bumblingbard42.bsky.social About BumblingBard42 “I am a 44-year-old factory worker. Over 20 years of experience optimizing production lines for efficiency. I dropped AP Calculus in...
View ArticleWill of the Free, Freeish will, or Will with some Freedom
Damien Marie AtHope’s Art We are emotional beings that only sometimes utilize the thinking strategy called “reason.” We are not rational beings, that only sometimes enjoy the amusement park of...
View ArticleLife-Death-Rebirth Deities: Osiris, Tammuz, Adonis, Attis, Zagreus, Dionysus,...
Damien Marie AtHope’s Art ref ” A dying-and-rising god, life–death–rebirth deity, or resurrection deity is a religious motif in which a god or goddess dies and is resurrected. Examples of gods who die...
View ArticleOrigin of Arcane Homo Erectus to Earliest Modern Humans
Damien Marie AtHope’s Art ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref I think that it is most likely that an arcane Homo (from Latin homō ‘human’), the last common ancestor of Homo sapiens/Modern humans, split off...
View ArticleMale Y-DNA and Female Mt-DNA haplogroups from the earliest beginnings in...
Damien Marie AtHope’s Art ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref Y-chromosomal Adam Mitochondrial Eve ref “The former-Adam is estimated to have lived around 202,000 years ago, the...
View ArticleJustine “That Woman” Warren: Egyptian Archaeologist and Anthropology Educator
Justine Warren has a BA in Anthropology and an MA in Near Eastern Art and Archaeology, focusing on Egypt, from the University of Chicago. Justine was ABD (all but dissertation) at Chicago when she had...
View ArticleHomo floresiensis or “Hobbit” on the island of Flores, Indonesia, until the...
ref, ref, ref, ref ref ref To me, Homo erectus is the only reasonable ancestor for Homo floresiensis, particularly to early Javanese Homo erectus. It is the only hominin/archaic human that inhabited...
View ArticleDirect Democracy and some of My Anarchist Socialist thinking
Direct Democracy? “Direct democracy or pure democracy is a form of democracy in which the electorate decides on policy initiatives without elected representatives as proxies. This differs from the...
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