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Jiang says Gobekli Tepe was probably a place of religious worship led by shamans, religious leaders who helped bridge the human, animal, and spirit worlds.
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Religious Worship
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...just about sex. Sex, at its fundamental level, is really about religious worship, right? But as you read this book, what you recognize is..."
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"...are shamans. Okay? And so, Gobekli Tepe is a place of religious worship. Now, what's interesting about Gobekli Tepe is that the religious site..."
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"...just about sex. Sex, at its fundamental level, is really about religious worship, right? But as you read this book, what you recognize is..."
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"...and motivate you to do certain actions okay to engage in religious worship but really any temples so that's one form of capital another..."
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"...remember, here in the modern god civilization, the main instrument of religious worship are fertility cults run by women. Well, now that war has..."
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"...go to a cave and to meditate as a form of religious worship and while he was at the cave the angel gabriel appeared..."
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"...these mystery cults. Mystery cults were the most popular form of religious worship which meant they were just like small groups of people who..."
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"...Remember, the temple is important because it is the site of religious worship for the Jewish people. It's the equivalent of Mecca today. So..."
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"...And the reason why is, remember, in the second temple period, religious worship is centered around the second temple. But in 70 CE, the..."
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"...rabbinical Judaism. In other words, the Bible becomes the center of religious worship in Judaism before it was a temple. Now it's the Bible...."
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"...had to make changes to religion, basically change the sites of religious worship. In 586, the Babylonians came and destroyed Judah and they burned..."
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"...inside caves. And we discussed these paintings were a means of religious worship, of bringing the spirit world into our world, connecting the two,..."
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"...research, you will know that this is basically a place of religious worship. You can see that they constructed this place so that there..."
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