Thread:User talk:WaitingforGodot/Free book/reply (5)

Back when I was 10 or so, and first started "studying" (as it were for a 10 year old) ancient myths - egypt, "classical mythology", aztecs - I used to wonder "what if we got it all wrong, and none of it is about gods." That, and I'd look around at the real world we live in today and say "and what if we walked into Denver from 2000 years in the future, and found structures, random selections of the variety of writings that we would ahve to deciper. But we walked in assuming that we were a people beholden to gods and highly religious, and the line "religion was part of every day life, you could not seperate one from the other" as we say so often now.

If we had that preconception, does that mean we would be clouded and call the Bronco's stadium a "temple?" Would we point out the big giant horse and say "oh, look, a fertility god!"

I had my kids write about this every year, so they could understand how easy it is to bias what you see with what you think you will see. I still am not convinced that the pyramids are not just giant mathmatical objects used to teach kids their shapes.