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The pyramid is meant to dominate nature by controlling the moods of the gods and therefore the Nile, whose floods make Egypt's black earth the source of life and wealth.
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The pyramid is meant to dominate nature by controlling the moods of the gods and therefore the Nile, whose floods make Egypt's black earth the source of life and wealth.
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Jiang defines the Mother Goddess religion around unity: humans, animals, and plants share one life source, people must love each other and each other's children, and nature must be protected.
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The Amazonian religious world is presented as one in which every rock, waterfall, plant, and animal is saturated with meaning and belongs to one connected whole.
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In Turnbull's passage, the Pygmies' fearlessness comes from feeling themselves part of the forest and fearing only what is not of the forest.
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Jiang names the first major difference between modern and pre-modern minds as separation from nature versus belonging to nature.
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He diagnoses modern fear of nature as a fear of the unknown driven by obsession with control, contrasting zoo animals with forest animals.
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The Pygmy attitude is trust: they do not need to control nature because they believe the forest and its animals know them.
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The cave paintings are presented as an imaginative, interconnected depiction of nature rather than a search for strict realism.
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"The last thing is the domination of nature. So through divine inspiration, Egyptians are able to summon the Great Pyramid, and it shows God's..."
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"So it's very important for you to be able to control the moods of the gods, and that's what the pyramid is meant to..."
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"...as plants, okay? So we must do our best to protect nature. The farms allows us to eat food, but we should not destroy..."
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"We should protect nature because it's all the Mother Goddess, okay? We're all the children of the Mother Goddess. So we also believe in..."
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"So, what this is doing is explaining to you how everything started, okay? Where everything comes from. So, completeness is important. The last thing..."
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"Every rock and waterfall embodies a story. Plants and animals are but distinct physical manifestations of the same essential spiritual essence. Okay? We all..."
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"harmony okay okay so what I'll do now okay is come on over here and I'm going to give you a little bit of..."
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"sound might betray their presence to some person or thing not of the forest they stood there quiet and still and it struck me..."
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"mind is what we consider modern and their mind is what we consider pre -modern okay what's the first major difference between I okay..."
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"...so here's the first big difference why do we think that nature is dangerous why do they not think nature is dangerous what why..."
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"...okay? So, we're obsessed with control. Why aren't they afraid of nature? What's their attitude? What are the pygmy's attitude? We wanna control nature,..."
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"...lions, you see horses, you see rhinos, okay? It's almost like nature is one interconnected picture, okay? These are lions, okay? This is Lacolle..."
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A source-grounded reading of the Great Pyramid as Egypt's Manhattan Project: a divine battery, a state economy, and a wager that a sacred body could control the Nile, unify Egypt, and make peace eternal.
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Old Europe begins as a Mother Goddess world of agriculture, unity, women, peace, and art.
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For most of human history, Jiang argues, humans were peaceful, egalitarian, and artistic because the forest, animals, ancestors, and spirit world were not scenery.
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