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

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