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Our biggest mistake.

• anthk 3y ago
  The big three religions of Middle East were built around praising sun and wheat harvesting.
  • aitchnyu 3y ago
    Tuber farmers who can't do anything but eat the day's harvest get by on much simpler culture than grain farmers. Landlords with granaries? Tubers can't be stored, so the idiot building palaces is wasting time. Kings and armies marching to claim faraway fertile lands? Rich city ruling over neglected grain basket region? They can't eat anything from faraway land. Festivals, astrology? Those won't help for perennial crops. Accounting? Not helpful for food.
    • anthk 3y ago
      And that's how religions got spreaded over. Also, I think as bread was taken as "sacred", at least in Christianism, I think that could be related to the fungus (or mold) in some cereal/bread such as ergotism releasing hallucinations and "visions" of virgins/daemons and so on.