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A large Turkish settlement Jiang uses as evidence of religion permeating settled life, with houses functioning as places of worship.
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Catalhoyuk
A large Turkish settlement Jiang uses as evidence of religion permeating settled life, with houses functioning as places of worship.
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Catalhoyuk is presented as a religious settlement where each house is a temple and people accepted a harder life to be with their gods.
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Jiang presents Catalhoyuk as a large Turkish settlement around 7500 BCE, with roughly 8,000 people at its height and an egalitarian structure without a separate worship place or government.
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Jiang says Catalhoyuk's living rooms functioned as temples, making it one of the first religious communities where religion permeated everyday life from birth to death.
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Jiang says Catalhoyuk's religion was sophisticated because it could explain everyday life and align social existence with religious meaning.
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Jiang says one interpretation of Catalhoyuk hunting images is animal tribute: dancing with or respecting animals before killing them to maintain harmony with nature.
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"Does that make sense? Right, so this is kind of this is the religion of the mother goddess, okay? And accompanying the mother goddess..."
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"All right, this is another image rendition of Kataikoyak. Okay, as you can see, each house is, is a temple unto itself. And they..."
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"But they just had a different set of beliefs. Okay? All right. So the last place I want to look at is Kanahoyak. Okay?..."
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"The living room is basically a temple unto itself. It was a place of worship and religion. Okay? Meaning that the first, like Kanahoyak,..."
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"I'm sorry I have to kill you. But hey, we're only taking your meat. Your soul. Right? Is still going to be reborn. Or..."
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"Again, by the way guys, a theory. Okay? But right now, the most useful theory that we have about this place. Any questions before..."
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's lecture on temples, pyramids, farming, ritual ecology, and the modern inability to build wonders: people once organized around heaven on earth; now the religion is capitalism.
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A source-grounded reading of the lecture's central reversal: agriculture was not an obvious leap into progress.
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