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Animals and Religion: Challenging the Idea of Religious Faith in Animals?
Damien Marie AtHope’s Art ref, ref, ref Baboons greeting the sun: Hedjwer, the ancient baboon sun god Hedjwer was the earliest Egyptian baboon sun god, dating back to the early Dynastic period in Upper Egypt. Hedjwer was a solar deity and represented as a baboon, as...
Earliest Colonization of Europe: Aurignacian and Gravettian cultures, both with different Migration routes, and different Subclades of C1 Y-DNA
Damien Marie AtHope’s Art ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, refI received this message, and it inspired this blog post: "Hello Damien, I’m a Spanish follower of yours. I discovered your artistic work online some time ago, and recently, I found you on “X.” First...
Reincarnation/Rebirth in Indigenous Religions (Siberia, Americas, and Aboriginal Australians), Celtic druids, as well as “Indian Religions” such as Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism
Damien Marie AtHope’s Art ref, ref, ref, ref, ref Siberian/East Asian and North American Afterlife Beliefs, Mortuary Rituals, and Psychopomp Motifs, especially involving the Milky Way, Path of Souls of Deceased, Bird, Dog, Coyote or Wolf, and Reincarnation Version 2,...
Cosmic Hunt mythology motif of Northern Eurasia and the Americas yet absent in other parts of the World
Damien Marie AtHope’s Art ref, ref, refref"Petroglyphs of Lake Onega and the White Sea in Russia, Republic of Karelia. The World Heritage Site comprises 33 petroglyph sites in two clusters. The rock carvings were created from 7 to 4 millennia ago and represent a...
Burial evidence of Neanderthals and Homo sapiens sharing culture between 120,000 and 100,000 years ago?
Damien Marie AtHope’s Art refI have been guessing, from the available evidence, for years, that Neanderthals and Homo sapiens shared culture/burial/religion and that it likely happened between 120,000 and 100,000 years ago. As seen in my 2016 blog post, Did...
Archaeologist and Anthropologist Joseph A P Wilson addresses “Nazi” Fake/Pseudo-archaeology
Joseph Wilson, Department of Classics Lecturer at the University of Massachusetts Amherst: Link Joseph Wilson, researchgate.net/profile: Link Joseph Wilson, Twitter/X: @JosephAPWilson1 Joseph A P Wilson is a cool person and a skilled archaeologist in the Department of...