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What if religion didn’t begin with belief—but with imagination, ritual, and the fear of death?
Long before temples or sacred texts, early humans carved strange beings into stone, buried their dead with ceremony, and danced in masks to drive out evil.
In this video, we explore the deep origins of religion—why nearly every culture developed gods, myths, and sacred traditions.

Drawing on the work of thinkers like Mircea Eliade, Carl Jung, Ernest Becker, Émile Durkheim, Pascal Boyer, Jonathan Haidt, and Joseph Campbell, we uncover how religion may have emerged from cognitive evolution, symbolic ritual, and our deepest need for meaning.

From prehistoric cave art and ancient burial rites to Romania’s New Year’s Bear and Goat dance, this is the story of the strange, sacred human—and why our need for the divine never really disappeared.

📚 Further Reading:
▶ The Sacred and the Profane by Mircea Eliade - https://amzn.to/465BtRf
▶ The Elementary Forms of Religious Life by Émile Durkheim - https://amzn.to/47uqPpA
▶ The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell - https://amzn.to/4lWU33N
▶ Man and His Symbols by Carl Jung - https://amzn.to/4lZ0kMg
▶ Religion Explained: The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought by Pascal Boyer -https://amzn.to/4lYqEGs
▶ The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt - https://amzn.to/3UXI5vX
▶ The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker - https://amzn.to/3UYTcor
▶ Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl - https://amzn.to/4neJ32N
▶ Darwin’s Cathedral: Evolution, Religion, and the Nature of Society by David Sloan Wilson - https://amzn.to/4mKX6NJ
▶ Religion in Human Evolution by Robert Bellah - https://amzn.to/4mIOTK1
▶ The Case for God by Karen Armstrong - https://amzn.to/4mMfLZs
▶ The Mind in the Cave: Consciousness and the Origins of Art by David Lewis-Williams - https://amzn.to/46mgYkq
▶ Shamans, Sorcerers, and Saints: A Prehistory of Religion by Brian Hayden - https://amzn.to/4g9oItB

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Aboriginal Art of Wandjinas on the Barnett River, Mount Elizabeth Station/ Graeme Churchard / CC BY 2.0

By Yvon Fruneau - This place is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, listed asCave of Altamira and Paleolithic Cave Art of Northern Spain., CC BY-SA 3.0 igo, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...

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