Archeologists now believe the oldest religion might have
been located in Botswana, South Africa, 70,000 years ago,
and their temple was a cave in the Kalahari Desert. Inside
the cave there is evidence that group rituals were
performed. Church members wor****pped a 20-foot-long python
carved of stone.
The play of firelight on the scales of the s**** at night
gave the illusion the s**** was moving. Scientists found a
secret, hidden chamber behind the python carving that could
have been used by a shaman to project his voice and make it
appear the s**** was talking. There was also paintings of an
elephant and a giraffe on the wall. Could that have been
their version of a holy trinity? The images were painted at
the exact spot where water runs down the wall. What did the
water represent?
One can only wonder what a clever shaman might have used
this religious temple for. Assuming human nature hasn't
changed much in 70,000 years, my guess would be money, power
and ***, except in those days they didn't have money. So,
perhaps they substituted food or animal skins, for example,
for money.
http://sci.tech-archive.net/Archive/sci.anthropology.paleo/2006-12/msg00218.html
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=offerings-to-a-stone-s****
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