Slartibartfast
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Is there some relevance to this question?
Which gods to you believe in
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did you wanna be the snake in dusk till dawn?
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It seems that many of the old gods were essentially nature gods. Passing on the stories of the gods as metaphor may then have been a way of passing on knowledge.
old gods
perhaps
if one of the old gods is still on earth
that god took up residence in the driftless area well over 3 glacial cycles ago---perhaps over 1 million years ago
over time, there were glaciers to the north of it, glaciers to the south of it, glaciers to the east of it, and glaciers to the west of it
and none visited the driftless area
coincidence?
or evidence of the presence of a god?
old gods
perhaps
if one of the old gods is still on earth
that god took up residence in the driftless area well over 3 glacial cycles ago---perhaps over 1 million years ago
over time, there were glaciers to the north of it, glaciers to the south of it, glaciers to the east of it, and glaciers to the west of it
and none visited the driftless area
coincidence?
or evidence of the presence of a god?
You would think that if he was really a god he would have gotten some decent waterfront property.
sculptor
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I'm saying imagination has as much relevance as does any other thought. It's all maya.
Oh please. All the cool gods were guys.
Since the bible
sculptor
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It seems that pre-agriculture the goddess was the dominant religious icon.
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meanwhile
Throughout the Pleistocene, a significant area of the US Midwest was periodically covered by a glacial ice sheet (up to 3,000 feet thick in the Chicago area) that obliterated every living organism. The last of these episodes, known as the Last Glacial Maximum, ended just about 18,000 years ago, leaving behind bare glacial sediments (known as “drift” or “till”). This means that virtually all the forests, prairies and native ecosystems we can see today in the area are the result of the colonization of plants and animals after the retreat of the ice sheet. Glaciations are compared to an ecological “reset button”.
There is a region in the upper Mississippi basin without deposits of glacial sediments known as the Driftless Area (DA); it encompasses part of the states of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa and Illinois. Geological evidence suggests that the DA was indeed not covered by ice during the most recent glacial episodes; it was, to a certain extent, like an island in an ocean of ice. The DA was what we call a glacial refugium where the populations of some species of plants and animals could survive during the glaciations. This explains why, today, we can find there several very unique species that are absent in the rest of the region or that only re-appear many miles up in the north. Some of those relictual populations have survived until the present; they represent an invaluable component of the natural heritage of the American Midwest.
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meanwhile
Throughout the Pleistocene, a significant area of the US Midwest was periodically covered by a glacial ice sheet (up to 3,000 feet thick in the Chicago area) that obliterated every living organism. The last of these episodes, known as the Last Glacial Maximum, ended just about 18,000 years ago, leaving behind bare glacial sediments (known as “drift” or “till”). This means that virtually all the forests, prairies and native ecosystems we can see today in the area are the result of the colonization of plants and animals after the retreat of the ice sheet. Glaciations are compared to an ecological “reset button”.
There is a region in the upper Mississippi basin without deposits of glacial sediments known as the Driftless Area (DA); it encompasses part of the states of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa and Illinois. Geological evidence suggests that the DA was indeed not covered by ice during the most recent glacial episodes; it was, to a certain extent, like an island in an ocean of ice. The DA was what we call a glacial refugium where the populations of some species of plants and animals could survive during the glaciations. This explains why, today, we can find there several very unique species that are absent in the rest of the region or that only re-appear many miles up in the north. Some of those relictual populations have survived until the present; they represent an invaluable component of the natural heritage of the American Midwest.
