Epstein Secrets

not be possible to know for sure that a culture wor- shipped gods until we can read their names—that is, until the literate societies of ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt, some 5000 years ago. Those early empires had both secu- lar and religious hierarchies, with priestly elites and some- times a god-king

dence of spiritual life: feasts with wild bulls, burials of ancestors beneath houses, and sometimes the removal and reintennent of skulls. And yet Hodder notes that separating "religion" from other activi- ties seems arbitrary, as it is not clear that the people of Catalhoyiik themselves separated t

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