英文摘要
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Deity-Worshiping Cultures and religion have been affecting the human society for an extremely long time, Not only can the effects of it be traced all the way back to the ancient era of the Modern Homo sapiens, they can also be seen during the time of the Hunting and Gathering Era when the Neanderthals practiced the tradition of burying their dead relatives (also called "The Age of Worshipping Ancestors." After this era, humans evolved to collective worshipping natural phenomena in fear of and due to the respect of the supernatural power that was believed to have the ability to control the weather, which led to the notion of polytheism - a religious discipline which believes in multiple different deities including the God of the Sky& Land, the God of the Moon, and the God of the Rivers - and the notion of monotheism. Humans are gregarious animals, and the meaning of being gregarious is that people from different families and of different blood can be able to unite as a whole and work toward a common life goal together, so that the living qualities can always be improved and the human life civilization can be everlasting. People within a society where worshiping ancestors is the main core have different religions and life goals, which makes it hard for people to flock together to form a united body. People within a society where worshiping ancestors is the main core have different religions and life goals, which makes it hard for people to flock together to be linked as a whole. We have come to the conclusion that the emergence of group worshipping of deities established a common belief among people and linked different families of different blood strains and religions together as a whole, which enabled the efforts toward common life goals and the creation of an outstanding civilization. In other words, group worshipping is the key that drives forward the evolution of civilization and also the foundation of global civilization both before and after the rise of regional culture; take agricultural society with the shamans in the European and Asian areas shared the common magical features of psychism, exorcism, and etc. Accordingly, this research starts off from the Neanderthals; body-burying tradition induced by the notion of reincarnation and the ancestors of the modern humans- the Homo sapiens; further conceptualization and ritualization of the souls, and then follows through with the heir movements toward the European, Asian, and other regions as well as the Shamanism period during the Hunting and Gathering Era (during which the Homo sapiens had gotten out of the life of starvation and entered a time of half-hunting, half-farming life style with a stable food source sufficient for daily consumptions. Then, this research covers the following era during which the main contributors, the females of the society were deified as the God of Earth Mother, and follows through the evolution of the settled village-style society to thoroughly analyze and to demonstrate, from a humanitarism perspective, that human civilization does not divide over geographic locations as a factual proof for the preliminary study of establishment-tracing of contemporary urban cities.
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