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I am an Axiological Atheist, Antitheist, Antireligionist, Ignostic, Secularist, Humanist, Rationalist, Writer, Artist, Poet, Philosopher, educated in Psychology and Sociology. AtHope is an Axiological Atheist, or constructive, atheism rejects the existence of gods in favor of a "higher absolute", such as humanity and the science of value in formal axiology. Blog by Damien Marie AtHope.
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Endogamy
“Endogamy is the cultural practice of mating within a specific social group, religious denomination, caste, or ethnic group, rejecting any from outside of the group or belief structure as unsuitable for marriage or other close personal relationships. Its opposite, exogamy, describes the social norm of marriage outside of the group. Endogamy is common in many cultures and ethnic groups. Several religious and ethnic religious groups are traditionally more endogamous, a ..read more
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Yana (river)
“The Yana is a river in Sakha in Russia, located between the Lena to the west and the Indigirka to the east. The Yana freezes up on the surface in October and stays under the ice until late May or early June. In the Verkhoyansk area, it stays frozen to the bottom for 70 to 110 days, and partly frozen for 220 days of the year. The river begins at the confluence of the rivers Sartang and Dulgalakh in the Yana-Oymyakon Highlands. It flo ..read more
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Kofun
“Kofun (古墳, from Sino-Japanese “ancient grave”) are megalithic tombs or tumuli in Northeast Asia. Kofun were mainly constructed in the Japanese archipelago between the middle of the 3rd century to the early 7th century CE. The term is the origin of the name of the Kofun period, which indicates the middle 3rd century to early–middle 6th century. Many kofun have distinctive keyhole-shaped mounds (zempō-kōen fun (前方後円墳)).” ref
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Mal’ta–Buret’ culture of Siberia near Lake Baikal
“The Mal’ta–Buret’ culture is an archaeological culture of c. 24,000 to 15,000 years ago in the Upper Paleolithic on the upper Angara River in the area west of Lake Baikal in the Irkutsk Oblast, Siberia, Russian Federation. The type sites are named for the villages of Mal’ta, Usolsky District, and Buret’, Bokhansky District (both in Irkutsk Oblast ..read more
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“Shaman Wearing a Jaguar Pelt”
Photo credits for the second Pic come from an Ecuadorian book about Valdivia.
shape-shift·er: one that seems able to change form or identity at will. especially: a mythical figure that can assume different forms (as of animals) ref
Shapeshifting
I made this article on shape-shifting beliefs, and how I see them likely emerging out totemism as well as shamanism, and then often adopted when deity beliefs emerged into paganism beliefs.
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People reached Lake Baikal Siberia around 25,000 years ago. They (to Damien) were likely Animistic Shamanists who were also heavily totemistic as well. Being animistic thinkers they likely viewed amazing things in nature as a part of or related to something supernatural/spiritual (not just natural as explained by science): spirit-filled, a sprit-being relates to or with it, it is a sprit-being, it is a supernatural/spiritual creature, or it is a great spirit/tutelary deity/goddess-god. From ther ..read more
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Lake Baikal
“Lake Baikal is a rift lake in Russia. It is situated in southern Siberia, between the federal subjects of Irkutsk Oblast to the northwest and the Republic of Buryatia to the southeast. At 31,722 km2 (12,248 sq mi)—slightly larger than Belgium—Lake Baikal is the world’s seventh-largest lake by surface area, as well as the second largest lake in Eurasia after the Caspian Sea. However, because it is al ..read more
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People don’t commonly teach religious history, even that of their own claimed religion. No, rather they teach a limited “pro their religion” history of their religion from a religious perspective favorable to the religion of choice.
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Do you truly think “Religious Belief” is only a matter of some personal choice?
Do you not see how coercive one’s world of choice is limited to the obvious hereditary belief, in most religious choices available to the ch ..read more
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North America Area (with Deities/paganism and Shamanism/or “medicine people”)
Eskimo–Aleut or Inuit–Yupik–Unangan languages
Na-Dené, Athabaskan–Eyak–Tlingit languages
The Algic: Algonquian–Wiyot–Yurok languages
Siouan–Catawban languages
Uto-Aztecan languages
Salishan languages
Muskogean languages
Mesoamerica Aera (with Deities/paganism and Shamanism/or “medicine people”)
5. Uto-Aztecan languages
8. Mayan languages
9. Chibchan languages
South America Area (with Deities/paganism and Shamanism/or “medicine people”)
Chibchan languages
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Intersex people can identify their Gender as: Male, Female, Trans, third gender, Genderqueer, Non-binary, Etc.
“Being non-binary is also not the same as being intersex; most intersex people identify as either male or female.” ref
Intersex people can identify their Sexual orientation as: heterosexuality, homosexuality, bisexuality, pansexual or polysexual, asexuality, Etc.
“Androphilia describes sexual attraction to masculinity; gynephilia ..read more