Glossary
Neolithic ancestor practice that Jiang uses as evidence for living contact with the dead and spirit-world wisdom.
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cult of the skull
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...still able to give us his wisdom this is the cult of the skull which is what we found in most neolithic cultures okay..."
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A religious model where the skull maintains contact with ancestors or the spirit world.
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Jiang's ancestor-worship example in which decorated skulls work as portals to the spirit world for inspiration and luck.
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The practice of preserving skulls with clay and keeping them in houses for ancestor worship.
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Jiang identifies the skull cult as the beginning of ancestor worship: clay-covered skulls were kept in houses for worship.
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"...still able to give us his wisdom this is the cult of the skull which is what we found in most neolithic cultures okay..."
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"they could help you access the dead in the spirit world and and and draw wisdom and inspiration from them this is a book..."
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"...a bird in the sky and this might be a human skull okay so there's a very complex diverse mythology in place we don't..."
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"almost as a skull becomes a portal into the afterworld okay so you can draw on their wisdom you can draw on their spirit..."
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"...make sense? Okay? The third is the idea of the cult of the skull. So around this time and throughout the world, people practiced..."
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"...that was very important is they had something called the cult of the skull, okay? So, they probably worshipped animals, but they also worshipped..."
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"...make sense? Okay, so let's look at sort of pictures of skulls, okay? Okay? Because this was actually very common back then. Okay? So..."
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