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While most anthropologists generally agree that the brain of homo sapiens today is essentially the same as that of the primitive beings who first mastered fire around 100,000 B.C., Jaynes claims mankind did not become conscious until the second millenium B.C. If humans were not conscious until then, what were they like? How did they function...
...important for the study of ancient African civilizations as Greek and Latin are for ancient European civilizations. It should also be noted that Egyptian preceded every European language, including Greek, in written form and holds greater importance for our understanding of the whole ancient world before the first millenium B.C. than any other known language with the exception of Akkadian and Sumerian. It is indeed incomprehensible that Harvard does not have a professor of Egyptian language and literature. It is equally puzzling that a serious study of Ge'ez literature is disregarded in this university; literally hundreds of thousands...
Perhaps the best place to begin is with the special exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts called The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nation's Millenium General Assembly. It's difficult to describe this work; some call it "primitive art," others just attribute it to sheer madness and leave it at that. The Throne is a series of chairs, tables, little altars and tablets, all elaborately decorated in tin foil. It was created by James Hampton, a black, Washington D.C. janitor who apparently saved all of the tin foil he found on the job to construct...
...Puritan Origins of the American Self, they found that meaning in their stubborn and persistent identification of America as the New Jerusalem--a land of the elect that was itself elect, whose history was sacred history, and whose (inevitably successful) struggle for redemption would usher in the Millenium. For Bercovitch's Puritans, New England history and the individual's striving for grace are closely intertwined. Since public and private salvation are symbolically inseparable, history assumes the character of individual sanctification and the would-be saint in turn relies on the redemptive quality of first the Puritan community and later...
...even "obscene," but I, as a member of the heathens to whom it is directed, find it absolutely enchanting. With no regard for cost, this gentleman kept up the display into January. But even after it was taken down and packed away for the next pursuit of the millenium, the traffic signs the police department had thoughtfully placed remained. To avoid accidents caused by gawking motorists, Christians and heathens alike, the yellow diamonds read "Caution Slow Christmas Display Ahead." Perhaps they are there still, stopping cars well in advance of next year...