The impact of our beliefs on the evolution of humanity
Résumé
In 1900, six naturally mummified human bodies were exhumed by an English Egyptologist near Gebelein (40 km south of Thebes). They had been buried in the foetal position, at a shallow depth in the sand. Two of the bodies (a man and a woman) are now in the British Museum. The dates of their deaths have been estimated between 3 351 and 3 017 BC. Recently, using new technology, scientists discovered a tattoo of horned beasts on the man's arm, four 'S' symbols on the woman's upper shoulder and an 'L' on her abdomen. In our view, this could be a cultural code whose iconography reflects age-old beliefs, in which the feminine was associated with the snake and the masculine with the horned beast. According to Marija Gimbutas' theory, these beliefs, common to a very large area (known as a 'common cultural horizon'), persisted over a long period of time.
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