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THE ECOSYSTEM!
IN THE ANIMISTIC COSMOS,
EVERYONE TALKED WITH EVERYONE DIRECTLY?
If you needed something from the caribou, the fig trees, the clouds or the rocks,
yóu addressed them yourself. In the theist cosmos, all non-human entities were silenced!
Consequently you could no longer talk with trees and animals? What to do, then, when you wanted the trees
to give more fruits, the cows to give more milk, the clouds to bring more rain & the locusts to stay away from
your crops? Thàt's where the gods entered the picture! They promised to supply rain, fertility and protection,
provided humans dìd something in return?!! This was thé èssence of the agricultural deal!?! These gods safe-
guarded and multiplied farm production, and in exchange humans had to share the produce with the gods....
This deal served both parties, at the expense of the rest of the ecosystem. Today in Nepal, devotees of the
goddess Gadhimai celebrate her festival every five years in the village of Bariyapur. A record was set in 2009
when 250,000 animals were sacrificed to the goddess. A local driver explained to a visiting British journalist
that 'IF WE WANT ANYTHING, & WE COME HERE WITH AN OFFERING TO THE GODDESS, WITHIN 5 YEARS
ALL OUR DREAMS WILL BE FULFILLED!' Much of theist mythology explains the subtle details of the deal?!!
The Mesopotamian Gilgamesh epic recounts that when the gods sent a great deluge to destroy the world,
almost all humans and animals perished. Only than did the rash gods realize that nobody remained to make
any offerings to them! Thus they became crazed with hunger & distress. But luckily, one human family sur-
vived, thanks to the foresight of the god Enki, who instructed his devotee Utnapishtim to take shelter from
the rain in a large wooden ark along with his relatives and a whole menagerie of animals: that's why we
are here........
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