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@kr, can you possibly contact Anita Posch to let her know we're doing a fundraiser for her, and we'd like to zap her SN wallet? @k00b suggested that you might be able to contact her. I don't want to direct lots of sats her way if she never checks her wallet. If she doesn't want to do this, I'll just make the donation to her site, but I don't want everyone to have to trust me. I like the idea of directly donating to her right here.
https://m.stacker.news/64136
The tradition of the Sleepy Head Day traces back to the Middle Ages, when the belief was that the person in the household who slept late on this day would be lazy and non-productive for the rest of the year.In the old days, the last person sleeping in the house (also dubbed as the "laziest") could be woken up by using water, either by being thrown into a lake or the sea, or by having water thrown on them.
wind took mine yesterday, but got another one after tipping some posts. Seems like you can get another by tipping certain amount per day, but still experimenting with exactly how you keep from losing your hat.
I finished the first few chapters of Mircea Eliade's "A History of Religious Ideas Vol. 1: From the Stone Age to the Eleusinian Mysteries". The book starts with the earliest clues we can guess at with regard to prehistoric man, and then briefly explores each successive development as religious ideas and impulses are brought forth in subsequent civilizations.
Prehistoric men were hunters following the game. Their sense of spirituality centered around hunting, contemplating where their prey came from and therefore where man himself came from. I found the suggestion interesting that they purportedly felt a kinship with the animals they hunted and went to great lengths to honor and verify the remains of the animal, presumably under the fear that the animal might exact vengeance on them from the afterlife. To me, this presages some early awareness of karma, or cause and effect of killing. My favorite part about prehistoric religion is that they the deification of all this was wrapped into a archetype or figure named "The Lord of Wild Beasts". Awesome.
From there, you have the slow transition to agricultural society and the subsequent emergence of the oldest known civilization in Sumer. Like the hunters, man worships what he spends his time on; getting food. While growing food and paying dependent attention to the cycles in nature, man develops an awareness of the continuity of life after death. Crops dying in winter are reborn next season. This model gets applied to human life and presages later concepts of reincarnation. Society also shifts more feminine with greater emphasis placed on cycles, continuity and working/worshipping the natural world. The Sumerian myth of Inanna descending into the underworld to die and be resurrected, as well as her husband, Dumuzi, undergoing a periodic banishment seems to set the early tone for later figures of resurrected gods like Jesus. You've also got Gilgamesh and the quest of man to find immortality and be free of death.
Later, you've got the Egyptians, where preparing for death becomes a literal science. Also important is the emerging belief of an incarnated deity in the form of the pharaoh god-kings. Presently, I'm reading about the subsequent influence spread over Europe with all the stone monoliths like Stonehenge, which also seem to be contemplative of death. Perhaps stone was imagined to capture the soul and immortalize the deceased, resulting in the modern day gravestone?
Anyway, cool shit (to me). I've been loving the opportunity to chime in on my current read each weekend on this site. Makes me feel like I'm doing a book report in elementary school. Hopefully others find it half as interesting as I do.
Picture of the "Lord of Wild Beasts" below.
https://m.stacker.news/14750