Jiang argues that the location of paintings in acoustically powerful cave spaces points to ritual use involving music, dance, and collective religious experience.
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Religious Festival
Jiang argues that the location of paintings in acoustically powerful cave spaces points to ritual use involving music, dance, and collective religious experience.
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Jiang proposes that hunter-gatherers visited Gobekli Tepe periodically for religion, feasting, social association, mate-finding, and reproduction.
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"...then, these hunter -gatherers would come into this cave for a religious festival where there's music, dancing, okay? And they are watching these paintings..."
"These T -shapes are animals, and you can see that they align, or they built this, this T -shape in a way that they..."
"To find husbands and wives to reproduce. And so, this sort of religious center, it's a great time to come and practice your religion,..."
"...what's happening in this time is that they would organize a religious festival um once or twice a year and people would have to..."
"...may even kill you, okay? So the pygmies are having a religious festival. And Colin Trimble says this, I was told, however, that everyone..."
"...you have some times of the year when you have these religious festivals where hundreds possibly thousands got together and you celebrated your god..."
"...ending of the back high goes like this um there's a religious festival in the mountains and these women are all drugged out okay..."
"For example, religious festivals, churches, masses. And all this money is being wasted on these religious festivals. And the third thing is monarchy. So..."
"...around you to support the community, usually by organizing feasts on religious festivals, okay? You were expected to share your wealth. If you had..."
"...animal spirit in us. And we believe that this is a religious festival. That they would have before they went hunting. And the evidence..."
"...animals. So, that was basically their religion. And coming together, the religious festival was about celebrating their relationship with these animals as well as..."
"...had a religious need that they came together to have these religious festivals. There were some charismatic leaders who were so brilliant that people..."
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