Thread:User talk:WaitingforGodot/Free book/reply (7)

And I'm not saying I believe or don't believe this. I have a hard time thinking you carve elaborate stautes like at goblke tepe "just cause". But i think you HAVE to bring that option to the table, when talking about what something "might be for" "might mean".

I do think religion is often our best guess, but i don't think it "must" be the answer, the way I see it most often talked about. My gut reaction for why i suspect most things are religion, even paintings on walls, is that every so called "primative" culture we know of or have studied, who survived into our western "modern" world, did indeed mystify most things, to some levels. but at the same time, not necessarily to the level we think. buffalo are sacred, as they are part of the natural world, but they were not gods to be worshiped. The earth (in native lore) was not "mother earth", that term was imported by the west, and adopted INTO modern new-traditional cultures.