God's Evolution: 4000 – 1000 BC – The Sumerians: The gods that crea...

God's Evolution: 4000 – 1000 BC – The Sumerians: The gods that crea...: The Sumerian people arrived in the Mesopotamian region called Sumer around 4000 BC, they had a very complex society and carefully recorded...

4000 – 1000 BC – The Sumerians: The gods that created us.

The Sumerian people arrived in the Mesopotamian region called Sumer around 4000 BC, they had a very complex society and carefully recorded the history of their gods, which as absurd as it may be, it is not as absurd as the religions professed today.

Their concept of god was simple: aliens, yes you read correctly, aliens. They believed that aliens from the planet Nibiru came to earth and planted the seeds of humanity, we can interpret that as an alteration of the humanoids' DNA from planet Earth. Their gods were both male and female and their main god was Anu the sky-god, and lord of all spirits and demons. The Sumerians believed in a heaven and in a hell or underworld.

They believed that these aliens gave mankind the power of communicating, writing, and basically thinking. The first writings found were from the Sumerians and we can say that their culture created an official and organized way of worship and religion. They needed a justification for humans to be the only animals on the face of the planet capable of communicating and creating. In the absence of an explanation for that which had no answer they created gods, but at least for them these gods were not omnipresent or omnipotent… they were bigger, stronger and more intelligent beings from a far away planet, who the Sumerians adored, but were beings that lived longer than humans but who were not immortal.

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God's Evolution: The Gods of the Cavemen

God's Evolution: The Gods of the Cavemen: Even though there is no way to confirm that the cave art found from the “cavemen” that lived through the Ice Age over 35,000 years ago, w...

God's Evolution: 5500-4000 BC – the Badarian: The dawn of the gods...

God's Evolution: 5500-4000 BC – the Badarian: The dawn of the gods...: The Badarian were a nomad tribe from Africa located in Lower Egypt; and the forefathers of what later became of the greatest and most imp...

5500-4000 BC – the Badarian: The dawn of the gods.

The Badarian were a nomad tribe from Africa located in Upper Egypt; and the forefathers of what later became of the greatest and most impressive of all ancient history’s religions: the Egyptians.

There has been many debates about the Badarian beliefs and religious rites, nothing can be proven as the findings have not been too clear, however, among the things discovered is that the Badarian, even though they were nomadic, they buried their dead in a ritualistic manner – body pointing south, face pointing west. It is believed that mankind began burying their dead when they began to belief in an afterlife, trying to supply their loved ones with the necessary items for their journey to the afterlife, before they believed in life after death, humans did what other animals and few current tribes do: leave the bodies where they died. They buried their dead with ornaments representing animals, pottery and other amulets that coincide with some sort of spiritual/religious beliefs. The fact that the Badarian consistently buried their dead is enough to safely assume that they believed in the afterlife, but more concise proof is yet to be discovered. We can conclusively say that the Badarian were the predecessors of a systematic form of religion.

Humanity just created the afterlife, in an effort to comfort themselves for the loss of a loved one. The need to fill the void, left by their death, with the hopes of joining them in that journey later in their lives propelled mankind to use one of their most magnificent tools: their imagination, hence, creating life after death. The official birth of religion!

The Gods of the Cavemen

Even though there is no way to confirm that the cave art found from the “cavemen” that lived through the Ice Age over 35,000 years ago, were meant to be a religious representation, we can safely assume that it was the birth of some sort of religion.

Ancient men depended on hunting, they would feed their tribe with the meat of the animals they hunted and from the skin they would clothed themselves to get protection from the harsh environment they were living in, their mere survival depended on hunting; it is only logical to think that they drew on the walls of caves such as the caves in Lascaux, France and in Altamira, Spain in an effort to call on some sort of deity that will help them get the animals they were adorning the walls of the caves with and that were so important if they were to survive. I can imagine that if by chance they had a good hunting after making those drawing and perhaps chanting some sort of prayer, a ‘god’ was then born and, as animals often do, they passed that knowledge to their offspring perpetuating that god for generations to come, with the passage of time it acquired new and better powers until it evolved to the gods we know today. Those rustic drawings were the dawn of religion when cavemen gave birth to god into an inhospitable world and just as life evolved on the planet, so did god in all its manifestations.

We can say that god came to life around 35,000 years ago, perhaps even earlier!

God's Evolution: Welcome to my Blog

God's Evolution: Welcome to my Blog: Since the beginning of time, man has tried to justify the unexplained with the supernatural, a deity. These justifications have changed...

Welcome to my Blog

Since the beginning of time, man has tried to justify the unexplained with the supernatural, with a deity. These justifications have changed as mankind learns the causes of what up to that moment was a mystery for him. I am sure that the Homo Erectus thought of thunder as something provoked by gods or demons, in their ignorance on how lightning and thunder scientifically occurred. The belief that there was a god of Thunder – as laughable as it may seem today – persisted until only a few centuries ago. Once human beings learned that these phenomena were of no ‘divine’ nature, the Thunder god sadly died without much fanfare. The same can be said about almost everything, from the god of fire to the gods of the oceans… everything and anything for which man did not have an answer was either a god, a punishment from those gods or a creation of the gods, and of course, hierarchy existed even in the godly kingdom, so we had to have demigods, sort of angels by today’s definitions or demons, depending if these deities were good or bad to us…

The need of having an expiatory divine being to blame for everything that happens for which we have no control over or logical explanation, persists to this day. The nature of god has changed throughout history from an angry god to a loving god, to a vengeful god to all of the above, depending of whom is that god directly “communicating” with… In the age of technology it seems that the leaders of various religious affiliations have a special line that connects them to heaven and their own gods, and their god tells them, and no one else, why a disaster happened, why a political party is better than the other ones or simply to tell the people to follow them as they are the one and only that have the ability to speak to god. Yesterday, man was afraid of god and didn’t dare to claim any communication with the deity… today god must have a contract with a mobile company to keep in constant touch with his friends on this earthly dimension.

And of course, having a god for a buddy helps, and in more ways than one, as these leaders – no matter which religion they profess – all ask for donations from their followers in the form of money (no food, no clothing, no shelter… they want MONEY) and most live in the lap of luxury, squeezing as much as they can from their followers who, in contrast, live a humble life. These leaders all demand that their followers be unpretentious, benefactors of their church, and above all they should not question the designs of their god … or god will be very upset at them and severely punish them.

For centuries wars have been fought under the name of god. Men can’t seem to agree that there is one god, regardless of the name given to him, so if one group believes in God and the other in Allah, they’re willing to tear each other to pieces to prove that their god is the one and only god, the 'right' god. This absurd behavior persists up to this day.

This blog has the intention to scrutinize the evolution of god(s), since its inception and throughout history. To show the reader that the concept of god has evolved but that still remains the same – a justification for that we don’t comprehend.

Feel free to make comments and ask questions; I will try to answer them all.

-The inquisitive ape.