Irrespective from the hardship to decide when and who might have been the 'first' Mummy to tell tales and WHAT those tales might have been to develop into later (religious?) tales, the 'Mummy' is an adult who was already subject to 'religious' stories of the powerful for subjecting folks to their own rules. This is an involved cultural history of political power development.
May I reverse your quetion: Where did the first 'interpreter' get *his* story to tell - and I am not asking about present religious stories. Fear and fantasy, greed, etc. etc. the basic human and late animal amotions construed fairytales of the 'supernatural' to be told. Nothing tangible and/or of proving power. Nothing of a 'Supernatural' being's "communication" - yet believed to be understandable(?) by a primitive human (-ignorant!) mind. Told as a story, later even written(?) into the 'Holy Books'. Then came the adjustments to the 'understandable' formats etc. etc. All that I place in the several millennia before we talk about religion(s) at all. Anyway: I am not a religious student. John Mikes On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 7:20 AM, Samiya Illias <samiyaill...@gmail.com> wrote: > Where did the first Mummy get the tale from? > > On 18-Sep-2015, at 1:39 am, John Mikes <jami...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Samiya,* "forever"* is NOT a timespan, it is the *infinite* (maybe > without an > end, or without a beginning?) so your 'to live forever' may mean: > IT IS OVER WITHIN THE INSTANT IT STARTED. > (Or: it may indeed mean a duration without an end, as you suggest). > > THE 'HARD WIRED WITHIN' is natural in an environment of many many > generations educated into a belief system from all around. The content > may come from Mummy's eary fairy tales for the baby - and completed > by studies later on from 'smart' books and 'smart' teachers galore. > None has a reasonable evidencing base. > JM > > > On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 1:05 AM, Samiya Illias <samiyaill...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Is the 'belief in an afterlife' natural? Perhaps it's something hard >> wired within, such that even atheists hope to live forever! >> >> Samiya >> >> On 13-Sep-2015, at 11:26 pm, Evgenii Rudnyi <use...@rudnyi.ru> wrote: >> >> Neuroscience as a new messiah. People's belief in an afterlife will never >> go away. Especially in our enlightenment age. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Everything List" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Everything List" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
