Re: Reading 758-27 (archive)

On 12.12.2024. 16:26, JTEM wrote:

 https://www.timesofisrael.com/earliest-worship-evidence-of-35000-year- old-prehistoric-rites-found-in-northern-israel/
 Evidence for spirituality, "Religious" beliefs goes back maybe
400,000 years. Mungo Man is older than is described here, and
his prepared burial certainly suggests spiritual beliefs, as
do all prepared burials.
 This isn't proof of but certainly evidence for...
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruniquel_Cave
 So what gives?

"Bulgars" aren't Slavs, "Bulgars are Turkic tribe, which conquered some Slav tribes (seven of them). Those Turks, just like a lot of other conquers which come from non-agricultural societies (lets say, Turks, Vikings) adopt language, culture and religion of conquered people. Why? Because they don't care much about their identity, their culture, their religion. Agricultural people care a lot about religion, their culture and identity. So, strong religion goes along with agricultural, hierarchical societies.