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Caves were sacred portals but not settlement sites because they were dark, cold, oxygen-poor, and unlivable; mountaintops and rivers could serve as livable sacred portals around which communities settled.
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Caves were sacred portals but not settlement sites because they were dark, cold, oxygen-poor, and unlivable; mountaintops and rivers could serve as livable sacred portals around which communities settled.
Jiang says agricultural settlements formed around mountaintops and rivers, not caves, because caves were sacred but unlivable.
"...connects our world and spirit world and these places would be mountaintops. Right? Mountaintops. Guess what? Goblee Tepe was on a mountaintop. Okay? Where..."
"...when they settle down and build agriculture they did so on mountaintops and they did so around rivers. Okay? Does that make sense? But..."
"...the material world? Well, through caves, right, through portals, rivers, caves, mountaintops. And that's why these places were considered appropriate sites for religious ritual,..."
"...be with their true God and so when they reach the mountaintop then their real God will recognize their faith and create and kill..."
"...the Zionist are working hard to build this road to the mountaintop then they can provide financing for this road also when this road..."
"...their budget. And so this Christian Zionist project to reach the mountaintop provides the justification. They can say okay well you know what if..."
"...their relationship with each other. They're all interested in reaching that mountaintop for different reasons. But once they reach that mountaintop then they'll have..."
"...We humans, we're all standing in line to go onto a mountaintop. The mountaintop, everyone respects you. You make a lot of money. You..."
"How this game works is people on the mountaintop have to fall off and die in order for other people to climb up. Does..."
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