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>every ancient civilization no matter how disconneted from the others instinctively knew that leaders as kings all wear crowns of some type.

>almost every ancient civilization had some mythos about dragons or flying serpents, including ones with no dinosaur fossils in their regions

>every ancient civilization no matter how disconnected saw gold as valuable, silver as second-value, and copper as third even though they got more use out of copper

>most ancient civilizations say that learning how to make fire was taught by the gods

>every ancient civilization no matter how disconnected concluded that we have souls. Not a single one of them concluded that we're just bags of meat like animals

Someone explain this
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Souls are easy. It is just ancient concept of mind. You don't need to be genius to invent this.
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>>747810
>>747818
first four points are tru, it shows trhat humans all belong to one race.
last one is bullshit. "soul" is not a universal concept
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>>747810
nothing beats silly hats for demonstrating that you are in charge
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>>747810
Tuareg found silver more important than gold and Copper was of greater value than gold in the Mississippian cultures.

Crowns aren't universal, dragons and flying serpents aren't universal.
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There was ancient race of flying serpents. They were free to moving around the world. They taught people about concepts of souls and fire. People was blinded by their newly acquired knowledge. War is started. Only gold, silver and bronze weapon could hurt monsters. Gold was the best, silver was okay and bronze is for when you are desperate. Hats was our only protection from attacks from above. After thousand years of war serpents was completely destroyed. Knowledge of this bloody war was lost but some things like importance of hats survived in cultural traditions.
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>>747810
>silly headgear to make you different
>great monster and flying thing (maybe comet or something)
>ohhh shiny!
>lightning make fire, therefore lightning taught us to make fire
>let me tell you about the ideal version of ourselves
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>>747810
While there are some good points to suggest the possibility of antediluvian civilization (to some degree), those are not one of them senpai.
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>>747810
>every ancient civilization no matter how disconneted from the others instinctively knew that leaders as kings all wear crowns of some type.

Not all headwear is a crown. It makes you look taller, though, and tall people are pretty much universally better than manlets.

>almost every ancient civilization had some mythos about dragons or flying serpents, including ones with no dinosaur fossils in their regions

Wrong. The vast majority of shit called "dragons" by Westerners are completely different creatures that are named for superficial similarities. Most cultures had mythical reptiles, oh wow. Most of them had mythical humanoids and mammals too. Taking an existing creature and enlarging or hybridizing it is one of the laziest ways to make a new monster.

>every ancient civilization no matter how disconnected saw gold as valuable, silver as second-value, and copper as third even though they got more use out of copper

Well, that's a matter of scarcity. Breaks down when you consider how stupidly valuable aluminium was in the past - even shit like dyed cloth, books, spices etc.

>most ancient civilizations say that learning how to make fire was taught by the gods

Not really. Half the shit you're talking about was local to the Mediterranean or Eurasia.

>every ancient civilization no matter how disconnected concluded that we have souls. Not a single one of them concluded that we're just bags of meat like animals

What? Many cultures believed animals had souls. Plenty even said that mountains and rivers have souls. It's just anthropomorphic projection applied to theory of mind. This bullshit doesn't even really apply to ideas like Egyptians "souls" which had 2 components or Aztec "souls" which had 3.
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>>747810
>every ancient civilization no matter how disconnected concluded that we have souls. Not a single one of them concluded that we're just bags of meat like animals

Humans are made of meat. How is this any more retarded than believing humans were fashioned from dirt and some dude's rib?
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Dont forget the universal swastika
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Carl Jung at some point travelled around and noted all these synchronisations, forgot the name of the book sadly.
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>>747865
I can add an idea of my dad's, years ago.

>typical village, village mentality
>village experiences a two foot snake that can spit poison a foot
>tomorrow it's a six foot snake that spits poison ten feet
>next week it's a thirty foot dragon that breathes fire

And that's how legends and myths are made.
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>>747917
>unironically eat dogs when not in famine
I don't think they count as actual humans. A parallel kind of race, sure, just close but no cigar.
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>>747929
White people ate dogs, too. It was a delicacy in ancient Greece.

inb4
>Greece
>White
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Boy, it's almost as if we're all related. As if all humans share a common ancestor way back, at an earlier point in time.
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>>747937
>inb4ing your own post
Well at least you're not the OP.
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>>747929
Except there's only a specific breed of dog (namely: a mongrel) that gets eaten.

Chinese don't eat hunting/toy dogs like Chows, Tibetan Mastiffs, Pugs or Shih Tzu's.
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>>747948
Looks tasty
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>>747929
>People have different food cultures.
Oh no, your Anglo sensibilities are offended? Are you gonna get prissy about people eating horses now?
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>>747955
I'd say
>eating noble beasts
but we grind smarter animals than dogs up into franks. It's really just an emotional connection.
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>>747955
Funny thing about horse cultures.

You'd think the likes of Mongols and Turkics are the last people to eat horses but they fucking do. Specially when some Khan wants to show off how rich he is.
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>>747942
Go back to /b/, faggot. Nobody cares about your gay rules.
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>>747810
I remember reading that a lot of ancient civilizations also saw most of the constellations in the sky as the exact same shapes.
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Fun fact: "cuckold" almost ubiquitously translates to horned or horned man in other languages.
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>>747810
>>almost every ancient civilization had some mythos about dragons or flying serpents, including ones with no dinosaur fossils in their regions
Maybe some primal fear.
Fuzzy inherited memory of how something large and scaley is very dangerous.
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Gold is rare (show of wealth) and easily malleable (easy to use in jewelry and statues)
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Now we have shitty jew/arab cults

enjoy ;)
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Crown symbolizes the Sun/Halo.
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>>747832
this
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>>747955
I thought eating predators was bad for you. don't toxins accumulate the further up the food chain you go?
I always thought that's why I instinctively get grossed out by the idea.
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>>747862
>but some things like importance of hats survived in cultural traditions.
*tips fedora*
This is what a true historian gentleman looks like, you wannabe hacks.
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>>747828
Humans are not one race.
Learn to spell.
Go to school.
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This called diffusion and it's beat observed through mythology. Notice that literally almost all religions have a flood myth. A myth where gods erased the world and set it right again. Then notice that almost all religions have an apocalyptic myth. A myth where are day of judgement will come

Historians theorize that through diffusion, whether it be relocation diffusion or stimulus diffusion, these ideas spread. It's an interesting look at the globalization of the ancient world.
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We're all equally dumbasses.

Scarcity = value

Where are all your sources faggot? I don't think the indians indigenous to my area (Choctaws) had any dragon stories.
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>>748218
Only in a world with lots of toxins and pollution
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>>747810
We're all one big family, and we've all seen the same things.
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>>747911
Take all the dirt and meat you want, and fashion a human being out of it. We'll wait.
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>>748529
Winged serpents like Quetzalcoatl count.
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>>748551
>>748218
*More so* in a world full of toxins and pollutants, but even in an all natural environment specific minerals and vitamins will build up to toxic levels for humans.

A better known example is that eating the livers of huskies will result in Vitamin A poisoning, which causes physical symptoms and temporary madness that can end in death when it's cold.

Considering that the liver is one of the best and most calorie dense parts of any animal, this is a good reason to not waste calories hunting a dog when you can hunt a deer or pig.

>>747970
found the newfag

>>747955
>>747948
>eternal Anglo
I am no shipfucker. It doesn't matter which breed gets eaten, dogs are literally man's best friend.
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>>747810
The norse valued silver over gold and only took to valuing gold when the cultures they traded with valued it over silver. still good points though
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>>748177
>>747810
Most of all, gold is unalterable. People went ape shit about a metal that can never rust nor tarnish
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>>748567
>implying Abbos, Pygmies, Inuit et al could ever reach these heights. I don't share any relation with stone age non-Neanderthal bred "humans".
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>>748602
That's your ancestors who did that. You, on the other hand, can't fathom when to stop greentexting
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Ancient aliens
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>>748617
kek
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>>748602
Only a tiny minority of intelligent people are capable of building such things. Even if the proportion among aryans is 0.01% while the proportion among abbos is 0.001%, the vast majority of humans are stupid animals and about as worthless as each other so we can't really complain.
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>>748602
>taking pride in something you never participated in
I bet you are a new-worlder, no culture or heritage so you steal from people you are not even related to
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>>748702
>peoples lives are not a continuation of those before them
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>>748767
>you can take pride in something you were not involved in
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>>748774
>your life of continuation of those before you is not involvement
Lmao
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>>748575
You can't make an animal either
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>>748776
>being beholden to ghosts
Sounds like you got memed on.
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>>748819
>being beholden to ghosts
>sound like you got memes
Sterner is a meme.
And you've moved goalposts
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>>747810
as someone with a mystic backround
>crowns represent the final chakra, the literal crown chakra associated with the immaterial. it denotes mastery over oneself, and mastering yourself means mastering the world.
>crowns were usually made of gold, and inlaid with precious stones. these materials in magic-spiritual traditions are known to be conductive and harness, emit, and/or focus subtle energies and vibrations, empowering the astral body of the wearer.

>the serpent is a symbol of vibration, of waves, and ultimately of energy. the winged serpent in christian mythos, the rainbow serpent in australian abo mythos, the feathered serpent in meso-american mythos, the giant serpent in norse mythos. the kundalini energy well known in yogic practice is described as a an entwining, ascending twin serpent force, much like the double helix, that rises through the chakras of the balanced human being. buddha a many headed cobra was also associated with buddha.

>fire is described in the corpus hermeticun as the "Master Workman." it is a transformer of elements, a purifier, and a renewer as well as a destroyer. the current age of metal would have been inpossible without the mastery and understanding of the fiery principle, of heat and the energy associated with it. fire is sacred because of it's warmth, it does not commonly occur in nature, and in the distant past where ice covered most of the world, fire was a powerful life spirit
>the big bang, the sun, and light, all the handiwork of the master workman

The soul is a basic truth known by our more honest forebears. They also knew that it's perxeption is based on the animality of the individual. "To the pure, all things are pure." Not everyone thinks they have a soul, because not everyone is human enough to know it's reality. Evolution in the human being isn't rooted in physicality, but consciousness. Plato himself described three types of men that walked the earth, the animal man, the mental man, and the spiritual man.
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>>747810
>>every ancient civilization no matter how disconneted from the others instinctively knew that leaders as kings all wear crowns of some type.

This one is easy. Manlets will never, ever, forever learn.
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>>747810
>every civilization has a concept of soul, we are not a bag of meat like animals
This is wrong however. I can remember at least one people described by Levi-Strauss that has no concept of soul or separation between men and animals
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>>748644
This
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>>747924
really? were you there when they made the myths?
>>747907
"flying snakes imparting knowledge", while far from universal, is still eerily shared by distant civilizations
>>747923
modern man in search of a soul
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>>750170
Fuck you m8, it's no secret that all myths and legends are exaggerations and distortions of actual events, or were even just made up by somebody from imagination and spread around as though true.

>>748872
>chakra
I really hate that word.
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>>748581
Mongols and some Native Americans would disagree.
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>>750287
you don't know how those stories originated, what they are based on, what the context they emerged in was, etc, and neither do i
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>>747810
>every ancient civilization no matter how disconneted from the others instinctively knew that leaders as kings all wear crowns of some type.
it's a cool hat

>almost every ancient civilization had some mythos about dragons or flying serpents, including ones with no dinosaur fossils in their regions
dinosaurs, and words travel

>every ancient civilization no matter how disconnected saw gold as valuable, silver as second-value, and copper as third even though they got more use out of copper
LOOK AT THE SHINY

>most ancient civilizations say that learning how to make fire was taught by the gods
because fire is cool and shit

>every ancient civilization no matter how disconnected concluded that we have souls. Not a single one of them concluded that we're just bags of meat like animals
that's because consciousness is confusing and is difficult to be explained
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DNA is probably alien technology
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>>747810
I think the easiest explanation would be they weren't as disconnected as it would seem. Trade is only half of the story, because even if you know someone exists, there has to be goods that both sides desire from one another to establish trade, not to mention logistical and geographical impediments. Ideas have no logistical issues. When you look at how fast the wheel and Indo European language spread, I would have to say that ideas were much more frequently exchanged than we previously realized.
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>>747810
The concept of dragons originates in the fear of snakes not in fossiles
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Animals genetically engineered by the Hwan Empire explain the dragons.
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>>750170
>"flying snakes imparting knowledge", while far from universal, is still eerily shared by distant civilizations

Medieval dragons didn't impart much knowledge at all, they were considered satanic. You're so vague and overreaching with your non-examples. How fucking retarded can you be to imply that this shit actually happened?
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_unconscious
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>>747810
Selection Bias

There is a reason religions burned all the knowledge of the people they conquered.
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>>747970
newfag jej
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>>748581
>>751767
>anonymus is leegun xd
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>>748551
>world with lots of toxin and pollution
which is China.
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>>748581
>dogs are literally man's best friend.
To specific hunting/gathering societies.

Its theorized that East Asians did not need dogs that much due to reliance on early farming practices. Some people say its due to crisis but when there's records of ancient Chinese kings listing as part of their livestock "dogs" when bragging about their wealth you know this is bullshit.
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>>747810
>every ancient civilization no matter how disconnected saw gold as valuable, silver as second-value, and copper as third even though they got more use out of copper

The Chinese thought Jade & precious stones was high value, silver second, and gold third.

India as well, though for India silver is the most valuable.
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