The Chalice & the Blade: Our Past Our Future, by Riane Eisler
Breaking Down Patriarchy
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The Origin of Weapons in the Indo-European Religions
We also get the emergence of slavery at least slavery in an archaeological record keeping sense like that we know from that time period that that's happening. Weapons obviously represented the gods functions of powers and were worshipped as representations of the gods themselves. The sacredness of the weapon is well evidenced in the Indo-european religions no previous engravings or weapons images of weapon carrying divinities are known in the neolithic alpine religion so it pretty strong indication that we just don't have anything that's happening in that time period.
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