[metmom]

Researchers at National Museums Scotland, where the Viking-Age vessel is being conserved, think the receptacle was probably used for religious purposes.

Yeah, because according to archeologists, EVERYTHING someone did in the past was for “religious purposes”.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Yep.

Personally I would have gone for face cream jar.

[Flick Lives]

You might enjoy a book called “Motel of the Mysteries”. It hypothesizes a distant future where archeologists uncover a 20th Century motel room they mistake for a burial chamber. They come up with all sorts of religious ceremonial ideas to explain the mysterious items they find like a shower cap or toilet brush.

[PIF]

Yeah, because according to archeologists, EVERYTHING someone did in the past was for “religious purposes”.
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People back then were way way far more ‘religious’ than today.

Interestingly, the Ancient Egyptians did not have a word for ‘religion’ - indicating they saw the world as a natural process with various forces which they symbolically named and represented as what we call ‘gods’ ; this symbology is how they thought and lived their daily lives - logic and reason were not used for the most part, because to them they were too cumbersome.

Here’s an example : in geometry, we say ‘hypotenuse’; the Egyptians said “Horus on the horizon’. Both mean the same thing, but both are conceptualized differently.

Modern progression is not necessarily progress, as it simplifies everything by omitting what used to be very significant parts. This is true from the underlying principles of scientific thought to the underlying principles religious thought today.