Glossary
Jiang’s name for the steppe religious orientation toward conquest, destruction, horses, and cows, contrasted with mother-goddess harmony.
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Sky god
Jiang’s name for the steppe religious orientation toward conquest, destruction, horses, and cows, contrasted with mother-goddess harmony.
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Glossary
The male divine figure, exemplified by Ra, Marduk, Zeus, and Jupiter, associated with service to the gods, conquest, exploitation, discipline, and hierarchy.
diagnosis
The steppe mythology replaces mother-goddess harmony with a sky-god religion of conquest, exploitation, killing, and stealing.
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Steppe religion is described as worship of the horse, sky god, cow, war, courage, and bravery.
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The lecture's inversion sequence moves from animistic egalitarianism to mother goddess fertility, then to male sky-god domination, exploitation of earth and people, hereditary kingship, civil war, and bureaucratic takeover.
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"...So mother goddess, again, is the religion of agricultural people, the sky god. And the mother goddess wants you to be harmonious. Okay? To..."
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"...Okay? So these people, the steppes, they worship the horse, the sky god, the cow. They worship war. They worship courage and bravery. Okay?..."
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"...a lot of good food, okay? Now we go to the sky god."
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"And different societies have different sky gods, but they're basically the same concept. So in Egypt, they have Ra. In Babylon, they have Marduk...."
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"Okay, good, all right. So let's do the PPT. All right, so in this class, I want to talk about how, because of civilization..."
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"...female. Rather than worship the mother goddess, they now worship the sky god. And before, during the mother goddess, it was assumed that the..."
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"...that is pretty violent. Okay? After the world was made, the sky gods gave cattle to third men. The cattle were stolen by a..."
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"...so they inverted the mythology of the mother goddess. Now the sky god, who is Marduk here, kills the mother goddess to create the..."
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"...they elect a new champion called Murdoch, the Thunder God, the Sky God, to lead them into battle against Tiamat. And in the final..."
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s lecture on why the so-called barbarians repeatedly defeat civilization: empires turn innovation into bureaucracy, while the steppe turns geography, animals, inheritance, oath, myth, and violence into mobile social power.
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's lecture on civilization as temple economy, writing as hierarchy machine, Enuma Elish as sky-god propaganda, Gilgamesh as bureaucratic literature, and grain as the crop kings prefer because free pastoralists...
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