ive tried to search for this shit on google but it only shows results for oldest religions. Which ancient religions we have the most knowledge about? i was taking a look at mithraism and what the actual frick, we really dont know what it was? how is this even possible
Ancient fallen angel worship before the flood. There are only stories of people doing it - not exactly what they did or tenets they followed. Supposedly before the flood the fallen angels gave humanity technology. What the time looked like exactly we only have scattered information. We know that there was rampant degeneracy, there were rampaging giants, they had high technology, and humans lived for much longer than they do now.
Nvm I misread the title as what is the oldest known religion.
What if it's all cyclical?
We are the fallen angels
We are developing the technology to pass on right now
We will become the rampaging giants
The world will continue to warm and the flood will come
What technology are you creating for future generations?
Nothing, I mean our civilization is, collectively
The average man only contributes to that abstractly by sustaining the economy to allow governments and private entities to hire brilliant people to advance knowledge.
Ancient Hindu like really early on Vedas and stuff. and maybe Sumerian religion
https://satanslibrary.org/666BlackSun/Origins-of-Satanism.html
judaism
>judaism
This, but only after the Babylonian exile where they collected their records and legends and merged them together. It was like what the Council of Nicaea did for Christianity. Before that, Judaism was different and was forcibly changed by intolerant kings and some priests with private armies. God had a wife until a king outlawed her worship. Baal was part of the israeli pantheon until his priests were murdered. Long before the Philistines became the israelites' enemies, they were allies. And one of the israeli tribes was massacred by the others because they refused to go to war against the local Canaanites for bullshit reasons. You have to read the documentation with knowledge that this crap was going on and the writers may have had agendas to push it in one or another direction.
Imagine that they've wandered through the ages stealing a little bit from their superiors. Hitler was perfect for them, because his control over the public is all open source.
I personally believe the Semites were directly involved in the collapse of the Bronze Era and were the ones who coordinated, or at least incentivized the boat peoples into war, whom I theorize were tribes they traded with them and whom had some knowledge of sea faring. That basically how most ancient semites empire ran their shit, especially Carthage, of which a huge part of their armies were mercenaries from neighboring tribes they traded with.
Without a doubt the #1 is Yahwism/Christianity/Israelite Religion/whatever you want to call it. It's the only religion for which we have both reams of documentation in its own culture as well as from every nearby culture for several thousand years.
The second would almost definitely be Hinduism since it has a preserved history of texts, followed by the Egyptian religion and one of the Semitic regional religions- maybe Sumerian or Babylonian.
But Hinduism / Buddhism predate Christianity?
i read up on Draccon
DRACCON DEEZ NUTZ ACROSS YO FACE
repeat his name enough times and he'll come tell you
Vedic hinduism is ridiculously old. Rama lived at least 7000 years ago and Krishna at least 5000 years ago.
+25000
Rama, the leader of the coalition from the asian region led his people in a war against the people from the Atlantic region and fought them down to a stalemate. He, his people and his country died once both sides used weapons of mass destruction.
Sumerian gods are the only true ones.
I suspect, based on my studies of Mayan archaeology, that at some point in the very distant past (well before the Mayans and Olmecs), that there probably existed a Jaguar Worship Cult/Religion. I do realize the Mayans and the Olmecs worshipped and respected the jaguar in many ways, but I don't know if you could call it specifically a Jaguar Religion. Based on the widespread importance and spread of jaguar imagery in both Mayan and Olmec societies, and the ties between the jaguar and Olmec and Mayan shamans (the werejaguar image), that an actual Jaguar Worship Cult/Religion of central importance existed before the Olmecs.
Isn't the Jaguar in meso-american mythos of Aztec and etc roots the being that will devour the current sun/lord of this era and usher in the new age? Or maybe im mixing up with another mythos.
Euclidean Geometry. Get the green lion press edition.
All religion originates from a single belief
Picrel
Wonder how animism worked
basically anthropomorphize animals behavior as patrons for us to follow and inspire ourselves from, ie the courage of the eagle as he plunge from the sky to strike his prey, the temerity of the boar against all odds, the pride of the lions in ensuring the supremacy of its lineage no matter the cost (to others lions), shit like that. Would probably be heavily defined by what animals are present there, wouldn't be surprised others religions started to sprout when we started to actively hunt them and see them less as forces of nature but just pretty dangerous beats we could still defeat if given the right tools and some cleverness.
This picture reminds me of my childhood
have you ever heard of the deity Bophades?
BOPHADES NUTZ
Guess it depends on how old counts as Ancient but probably Roman/Greek paganism.
There are hints from cave painting that meditation using the lotus pose has been around since at least 16 000 bc, and since meditation always had spiritual connotation, it wouldn't be a stretch to say primordial hindus knew about it and has some sort of reverence for the act. Neanderthals were known to bury their dead under piles of rocks to prevent scavengers from eating them, so they probably had some sort of spiritual belief of the afterlife.
People already mentioned Vedism.
We also know a lot about the Ancient Egyptian religion and Greco-Roman Hellenism.