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Does anyone know what the very first religion was?

 amazondebs posted 10 months ago
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Cinders said:
The oldest recorded religion is quite possibly the Paganist beliefs of the people in Sumer and the Mesopotamian region around 5400 BC. Actually, I think Ancient Egypt developed religion about that same time period.

But as far as prehistoric history goes (before things were written down), there is also evidence of Neolithic religious ceremonies. In fact, the oldest known indicator of religion reaches way back to 300,000 years ago in the Paleolithic Era, which is the mark of the rise of Homo sapiens. This comes in the form of ritualistic burial, the first signs that our species began recognizing death as significant, and giving homage to something larger than ourselves with burial goods and flowers.

So it is, quite literally, since the dawn of man that he looked up at the stars, and wondered...

And 300,000 years later, we're still wondering.

Hope that helped. :o)
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posted 10 months ago 
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That's awesome! It's great you knew that! I can't believe that!
j1edwardcullen7 posted 7 months ago
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actually they say hinduism is the oldest..though the bible does mention the egyptians religions..and i believe that was b4 christ was born..truth b told, i have no idwea and am just going by the book..though..well i'll tell u l8r
2annayjacob posted 6 months ago
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Which book? The Bible? Because... I'm going with anthropology. Though Hinduism did grow out of the polytheistic religions of prehistory, so I suppose if you want to talk oldest extant religion, it would be Hinduism. But Debs' question was first religion EVER.
Cinders posted 6 months ago
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Well Paleolithic people believed in a Mother Goddess, then the Mesopotamians and Egyptians developed Polytheistic beliefs. Also the Indo-Aryans brought Hinduism to India when they invaded. The native Harappan society had a polytheistic religion as well.
lion_and_wolf posted 1 month ago
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