Polytheism

The Neolithic agricultural revolution occurred when hunter-gatherers learned how to farm crops and it changed women and men daily lives. The Neolithic agricultural revolution did not suddenly occur, Pathologic hunters and gathers had already grown crops to supplement their traditional source of food. “The Mesolithic Age was when there was a transition from a food-gathering and hunting economy to food-producing one. Systemic agriculture developed independently in different areas of the world.” (p…

child it was especially important to me to have a figure that I could relate to in a way that did not make me feel uncomfortable with all of my flaws. I needed imperfections in entities that held equally immense power and I found it in cultures with polytheism. It started with Greek myth—Zeus, Hades, Aphrodite—and moved on to many others that caught my eye through various media. Amaterasu, goddess of the sun in Shinto religion, is one of the gods I am rather fond of. I came across her through…

Log—Feb. 2—6 This journey in which we are about to embark will be enriching to me personally. As a minister it is relevant and important to see Islam with a different perspective. The book start by saying that we need to see this particular set of believes with a different set of lenses. We cannot see Islam with the same point of view we’ve always seen them with. Our own believes, mind sets and even culture will only get in the way of looking at them with the eyes that God would want us to see…

With the rise of polytheistic Hinduistic ideology beginning in South Asia around 2000 BCE, during a time of hunting and gathering and the start of rice cultivation, the process of envisioning a faith and establishing a solid following proved to be difficult. The Indus River Valley civilization in northern India was populated by a diverse community, one group being Indo-European peoples known as the Aryans, who of which founded Hinduism. Acknowledging the large variety of people and beliefs,…

of moral reflection. Therefore, Christian worldview helps in assessing culture and people’s position in the society. In a similar manner, worldview shapes the people 's view of life and world differently regarding materialism, naturalism, deism, polytheism and many unseeing manners (Dockery& Thornbury, 2002). Seeing things in these perspectives provides direction and bearings when faced with different situations and challenges of new age, spirituality, secularity and pluralistic approaches to…

Akhenaten, the son of Amenhotep III, was an Egyptian king of the 18th Dynasty who brought many cultural reforms to Egypt during his reign. It is generally thought that Akhenaten acted through his reign without any precedent or foreshadowing. However, it has also been speculated that he may have drawn his ideas from the rule of his father. Akhenaten, with his revolutionary focus on Aten and being the first Egyptian king to truly embrace monotheism coupled with henotheism, revealed the importance…

The development of the “seeds” of modern society can be first found in Ancient Greece but Grecian civilization was greatly impacted by the societies that came before it. First the Mesopotamians, and then the Egyptians, moved from an agricultural and herding based culture to a new form of culture called civilization. This new culture was “marked by the appearance of urban centers, the mastery of smelting and with it the techniques for making metal tools and weapons, and the invention of…

Hindu is a pagan religion espoused by the people of India and Nepal, was formed through a long march from the fifth century BC to the present. It is a religion of spiritual and moral values as well as legal and regulatory principles taken several gods, according to related works, for every area of the god, and every act or phenomenon there a God for it. There is no specific founder for Hindu religion and most of their books they don’t know who the authors, the religion as well as the books have…

Athens and Sparta Ancient Greek rivals, the city-states of Sparta and Athens, were separated geographically by the Aegean Sea and a swath of land on the Peloponnese peninsula. Their respective locations on the map-landlocked Sparta and seaside Athens- influenced these two poleis in many ways and their differences are a result of this geography. The mountainous terrain made traveling and correspondence troublesome. As a result, each city-state developed independently and different from one…

One such revelation was that Muhammad, and his followers, were given permission to fight and shed blood in order to spread Islam. Muhammad became very well recognized in Medina. When the leaders found themselves in the midst of a terrible civil war Muhammad, being so well known for his wisdom, was asked to mediate the situation. Medina was the first Muslim community that Muhammad established. With Muhammad’s power growing in Medina the Meccans felt threatened. There were many small…