The Birth of God (The Lion Man of Löwenmensch)

Описание

When did human's start to think about gods? Here we look at an evolutionary jump in the human mind's capability with the creation of the Lion Man of Hohlenstein-Stadel, a 40,000 year old zoomorphic figure of a half man half lion, and why it shows us that a change in human thinking allowed humans to conceptualize items in other contexts, and this in turn allowed us to think of gods.

References included:

Gabora, L. and Steel, M. (2020) ‘A model of the transition to behavioural and cognitive modernity using reflexively autocatalytic networks: A model of the transition to behavioural and cognitive modernity using reflexively autocatalytic networks’, Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 17(171). doi: 10.1098/rsif.2020.0545.

Evans-Pritchard. (1965) 'Theories of Primitive Religion'. Oxford at the Claredon Press

With thanks to Oldřich Kroupa who provides me with most of my museum grade replicas
Artwork: Mamontova (Fiverr)

Chapters
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0:00 Introduction
1:19 Proto-culture and cultural evolution
3:31 The need for protection driving beliefs
6:00 Why the Lion Man prove a leap in cultural evolution
9:44 How humans thought differently from this point
11:14 What could the Lion Man represent about beliefs?
16:30 What the lion man means to our ancestors and us