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...Euphrates, the Chalcolithic people were building the first large city-states -- Uruk, Ur and Eridu Larsa -- in what is now southern Iraq. All grew to be thriving and fiercely competitive commercial centers. City life was centered around a ziggurat, or temple, that served as both a place of worship and a storehouse for surplus food. For the first time people were divided into several distinct social classes according to status and occupation...
...northern Chile, the Chinchorro used woven fishing nets and hooks made of cactus thorns, shell and bone to harvest a rich diet from the sea. The Chinchorro, who were savvy hunters, developed elaborate mummification techniques some 2,500 years before the Egyptians, probably as a sacrament in ancestor worship. After removing internal organs and drying the cavf mdavers, they stuffed the remains with feathers, grass, shell, wool and earth. Then the bodies were covered with clay, fitted out with wigs and propped up in family- like groups. The Chinchorro then took care of their mummies, judging by evidence of frequent...
...bleating, squawking, cooing. At the back of the house, in a white-tiled, surgically clean room, sits an old woman in a white dress. She will remain there for an entire week, eating and resting and praying. The remainder of her initiation into the priesthood of Santeria -- literally, "saint worship" -- will take an entire year, during which she must wear only white, remain celibate and eat only prescribed foods...
...annual ritual performed by all Muslims, and has been a part of African animistic religions as far back as records exist. Santeria's spiritual roots reach back 4,000 years to the Yoruba tribe in southern Nigeria. In the 18th and 19th centuries, the slave communities of Cuba blended worship of Roman Catholic saints with their ancient African rites...
...synthetic pantheist, neopagan, nature- love and New Age groups that were the rage early in the 21st century. The triumph of feminist religion caused many Christians and Jews to shun references to God in personal terms (no more Lord or Heavenly Father). This in turn strengthened the groups that worship a mysterious nature-force or seek to deify the self. Today's variegated religious revival is partly the result of a need for effective moral commitment to protecting the environment...