Forwarded from Aureus' Sylvan Bush-Arcadia
The inhabitants of Atlantis became a 'spiritually ugly race' and for that reason Zeus and the gods destroyed them by letting the island be swallowed up by the sea.
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Evolution of religion around the world. Not the most in-depth (or correct) resource on our particular myths but still useful in reconstructing the development of spiritual thought. Of especial interest to the topics of this channel is the connection between Finnish/Sámi (read: Hyperborean) myths to Germanic/Baltic/Slavic myths, as well as the complex inter-relations between Hellenic thought/Gnosticism and the solar cults of Atenism/Zoroastrianism/Mithraism to the development of Christianity.
` Paleolithic Eurasia `
To begin to piece together the past, one must begin with context. Our ancestors lived on the icy shores of Europe as well as the vast tundra of the Eurasian Plain, which for 100,000+ years was a practically a continuous ecosystem which stretched from Central Europe through Asia, over the theorized land bridge, and across North America. Broadly they ate mammoth, other meat, fish and seafood, and only foraged for berries and mushrooms when the seasons allowed. They did not survive off any roots or grains at this time. Through the Ice Age there were warmer periods where forests expanded and less snow covered the land, and cooler periods when mammoth herds proliferated and migrations were necessary to find scarcer food.
To begin to piece together the past, one must begin with context. Our ancestors lived on the icy shores of Europe as well as the vast tundra of the Eurasian Plain, which for 100,000+ years was a practically a continuous ecosystem which stretched from Central Europe through Asia, over the theorized land bridge, and across North America. Broadly they ate mammoth, other meat, fish and seafood, and only foraged for berries and mushrooms when the seasons allowed. They did not survive off any roots or grains at this time. Through the Ice Age there were warmer periods where forests expanded and less snow covered the land, and cooler periods when mammoth herds proliferated and migrations were necessary to find scarcer food.
There was a large number of now-extinct or -endangered species in this environment. Large herds of huge mammoths, a large lion (small lions survived in Europe until Antiquity), a rhinoceros, bison, as well as the deer/elk, bears, and wolves we still strongly associate with the boreal landscapes today. There were perhaps lost species of the berries, herbs, and mushrooms we enjoy today also.