Startling Discovery: The First Human Ritual

LiveScience ^ | 11/30/06 | Robert Roy Britt

[ApplegateRanch]

I just FReepmailed Blam that I'd get this up sometime tomorrow, and that no one would beat us to it. ;'D

Optimist!

[null and void]

Yep.

[Luis Gonzalez]

"A document was found, written ca 1450 years ago, that has the older form, "schamman".

Jews?

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[Harrius Magnus]

Very strong Star Trek (The ONLY Series) post. Thanks.

[SunkenCiv]

There has to be an Alice Cooper joke in here somewhere...

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SACRIFIED TO THE PYTHON: The world’s oldest ritual ceremonies are twice as old as previously thought. More than 70,000 years ago in a small cave in Botswana, humans sacrificed spearheads to the python. Photo: Sheila Coulson

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[ASA Vet]

Here's an earlier ritual

[madison10]

I don't see the snake.

I see a duck, but not the snake.......The world's oldest Rorschach test.

[colorado tanker]

Oh, that's funny!

[Veto!]

cackle cackle

[firebrand]

You forgot the pole-dancing alert.

[Vicomte13]

I AM KEERAAAAK!!!

[B-Chan]

KIROK!

[Vicomte13]

That's what I'm talking about! The Great God Kirok!

"Behold a God who bleeds!"

(Who knew that Indians, on other planets, spoke like Shakespeare?)

[buck61]

And so it begins.

Kind of reminds me of our present congress!!!LOL