- The Course of Human History (XIII)
The Neolithic Age, about 10,000 years ago, was indeed a new era, and humans not only mastered new production techniques, learned to cultivate and domesticate, but also spread widely.
For modern people, ploughing, sowing, harvesting, drying, grinding, a series of production processes, normal and simple; but for primitive people more than ten thousand years ago, it was obtained after thousands of years of continuous failure.
Therefore, whenever the sowing and reaping, especially the sowing, are in need of blood sacrifice. And there is a high probability of using living people, such as virgin boys and girls. Today it looks bloody and cruel, but in primitive tribes, under the auspices of the elders, it is an incomparably sacred ritual.
It is especially difficult to determine the time of sowing and sacrifice. Our primitive ancestors did not yet have the concept of seasons, and they were first calculated according to the profit and loss of the moon, such as the Babylonian calendar.
The study of astrology should begin with nomadic peoples, who, after all, need to constantly discern directions. From this, not only did we know the four seasons, but we also found that the time of sowing and sacrifice was related to a certain star, and myths and legends arose.
The witches and wizards of the primitive tribe were definitely not clergy, they were experts in practical knowledge of the tribe, and although most of the knowledge was wrong, their words and deeds were quite mysterious in order to keep their "patents".
This European culture spread as far as the Americas, blending with the more primitive ways of the Mongol race there.
The brown race, which was deeply influenced by this culture, even elsewhere, observed the celestial phenomena for priests, built pyramids and huge tombs, set up Stonehenge, made mummies, and liked tattoos.
However, in Africa and northern Asia, south of the equator, and especially in the north-central part of Europe, which is close at hand, it has not been affected in the slightest.